soger

soger (plural sogers)

1. (dated) A poor or lazy hand on a sailing vessel.
   • 1834, Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast:

     The captain called him a "soger," and promised to "ride him down as he would the main tack;" and when officers are once determined to "ride a man down," it is a gone case with him.

   • a. 1900, “Hanging Johnny”, in Ivan Walton et al., editors, Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors‎, published 2002, page 66:

     I'd hang a lazy soger / The same as any other.

   • 1902, Louis Becke, The Jalasco Brig‎, page 82:

     Come aft, you lazy soger, an' see what de captain has to say 'bout dis," cried Worcester, pushing the man, who still grasped his knife, before him […]

2. (chiefly Scotland) Eye dialect spelling of soldier.

soger (third-person singular simple present sogers, present participle sogering, simple past and past participle sogered)

1. (dated) To shirk; to neglect one's work.

• Geros, Grose, Regos, goers, gores, gorse, ogres, regos

soger f

1. indefinite plural of soge