Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chocolate soldier

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.17 in modern English

Syllables: choco-late -sol-dier
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Someone who is unwilling to fight.

noun

The butterfly Junonia iphita, the chocolate pansy.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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.""
"I thought he was a chocolate soldier which was probably unfair—everyone said he had done the “right thing” in the Canada campaign."

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

chocolate soldiers (plural)

Derived Forms

choc

Questions

What does chocolate soldier mean?: Someone who is unwilling to fight.
Where does chocolate soldier come from?: Military sense popularized by George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play Arms and the Man.

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