"recruity" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: recruities [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} recruity (plural recruities)
  1. (colloquial, dated) A military recruit. Tags: colloquial, dated
    Sense id: en-recruity-en-noun-H639YkGF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1918, Horace Annesley Vachell, The Soul of Susan Yellam (page 83)",
          "text": "Master Lionel be hot-foot for Winchester, to drill recruities."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Jon Frauley, C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination (page 166)",
          "text": "He will not tell the \"recruity\", the street Arab, or the Elmira inmate how he is managed. He will address himself to those who administer the moral capital of society – to teachers, clergymen, editors, law-makers, and judges, who wield the instruments of control […]"
        },
        {
          "text": "2003, S. M. Stirling, David Drake, Conqueror\n\"Ye peon-witted dickehead recruity!\" the corporal said. \"Why ain't ye in t' fukkin' infantry? Ye want one a' them pigstickers up yer arse?\""
        }
      ],
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        "A military recruit."
      ],
      "id": "en-recruity-en-noun-H639YkGF",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, dated) A military recruit."
      ],
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        "colloquial",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "recruity"
}
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    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1918, Horace Annesley Vachell, The Soul of Susan Yellam (page 83)",
          "text": "Master Lionel be hot-foot for Winchester, to drill recruities."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Jon Frauley, C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination (page 166)",
          "text": "He will not tell the \"recruity\", the street Arab, or the Elmira inmate how he is managed. He will address himself to those who administer the moral capital of society – to teachers, clergymen, editors, law-makers, and judges, who wield the instruments of control […]"
        },
        {
          "text": "2003, S. M. Stirling, David Drake, Conqueror\n\"Ye peon-witted dickehead recruity!\" the corporal said. \"Why ain't ye in t' fukkin' infantry? Ye want one a' them pigstickers up yer arse?\""
        }
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          "recruit"
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        "(colloquial, dated) A military recruit."
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