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soap-dodger

soap-dodger is the alternative form of soap dodger.

Meaning of soap dodger

Noun

soap dodger (plural soap dodgers)

  1. (humorous, slang) A dirty person; one who does not bathe often.
  2. (Australia, slang) An Englishman; a Briton; a person of British descent. Supposedly borne from the historical canard that the English only bathe once a year.

Forms of soap-dodger

pluralsoap-dodgers

Questions about soap-dodger

What is soap-dodger the alternative form of?
Soap-dodger is the alternative form of soap dodger.

Words near soap-dodger in the dictionary

  1. soap up
  2. soap-bubble
  3. soap-bubbles
  4. soap-dispenser
  5. soap-dispensers
  6. soap-dodger
  7. soap-dodgers
  8. soap-dodging
  9. soap-making
  10. soap-opera
  11. soap-operas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soap-dodger (page history and authors); soap dodger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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