Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Confederate soldier | Yes | No | No | No |
greyback | Yes | No | No | No |
Confederate soldier (noun) | greyback (noun) |
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a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War | a dowitcher with a grey back |
a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | |
`Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms |