Meaning of recruity | Babel Free

Definitions

A military recruit.

colloquial, dated

Examples

“Master Lionel be hot-foot for Winchester, to drill recruities.”

“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 […]”

“"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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