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chocolate soldier

chocolate soldier noun: someone who is unwilling to fight.

Noun

chocolate soldier (plural chocolate soldiers)

  1. (Digger slang) Someone who is unwilling to fight.
    • To the maids across the way he was Julia's beau, and if not quite Beau Geste, a gent and well dressed. Obviously he was a chocolate soldier, a bouquet boy.1932, Warwick Deeping, Old wine and new, A. A. Knopf, page 152
    • He described him as "a political corpse whose ghost has returned to haunt us," adding that he was "a chocolate soldier, ... a man who never faced an enemy nor successfully faced an issue."1965, Joseph Rosner, The haters' handbook, Delacorte Press, page 195
  2. The butterfly Junonia iphita, the chocolate pansy.

Forms of chocolate soldier

pluralchocolate soldiers

Origin of chocolate soldier

Military sense popularized by George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play Arms and the Man.

Words formed from chocolate soldier

Questions about chocolate soldier

What does chocolate soldier mean?
Chocolate soldier means someone who is unwilling to fight.
What part of speech is chocolate soldier?
Chocolate soldier is a noun.
What is the plural of chocolate soldier?
The plural of chocolate soldier is chocolate soldiers.

Words near chocolate soldier in the dictionary

  1. chocolate pansy
  2. chocolate point
  3. chocolate points
  4. chocolate pot
  5. chocolate queen
  6. chocolate soldier
  7. chocolate soldiers
  8. chocolate spread
  9. chocolate spreads
  10. chocolate starfish
  11. chocolate starfishes

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