"squaddie" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "squad",
        "3": "ie"
      },
      "expansion": "squad + -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From squad + -ie.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "squaddies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "squaddie (plural squaddies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Commonwealth English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ie",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Occupations",
          "orig": "en:Occupations",
          "parents": [
            "People",
            "Work",
            "Human",
            "Human activity",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "squaddie-proof"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 117:",
          "text": "He'll turn out to be a squaddie— a Muslim squaddie. Exactly the kind of victim they're looking for.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 164:",
          "text": "Hard men from the high flats and off-dutie squaddies threw back their pints shoulder to shoulder in its spartan public bar.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A private in the army."
      ],
      "id": "en-squaddie-en-noun-KOw80xCZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "private",
          "private"
        ],
        [
          "army",
          "army"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A private in the army."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "squaddy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Commonwealth",
        "Ireland",
        "UK",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskwɒd.i/",
      "tags": [
        "British"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-squaddie.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9e/En-au-squaddie.ogg/En-au-squaddie.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/En-au-squaddie.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒdi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "squaddie"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "squaddie-proof"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "squad",
        "3": "ie"
      },
      "expansion": "squad + -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From squad + -ie.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "squaddies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "squaddie (plural squaddies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "Commonwealth English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms suffixed with -ie",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒdi",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒdi/2 syllables",
        "en:Military",
        "en:Occupations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 117:",
          "text": "He'll turn out to be a squaddie— a Muslim squaddie. Exactly the kind of victim they're looking for.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 164:",
          "text": "Hard men from the high flats and off-dutie squaddies threw back their pints shoulder to shoulder in its spartan public bar.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A private in the army."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "private",
          "private"
        ],
        [
          "army",
          "army"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A private in the army."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Commonwealth",
        "Ireland",
        "UK",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskwɒd.i/",
      "tags": [
        "British"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-squaddie.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9e/En-au-squaddie.ogg/En-au-squaddie.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/En-au-squaddie.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒdi"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "squaddy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "squaddie"
}