soger - What does it mean?

Noun

(en-noun)

(dated) A poor or lazy hand on a sailing vessel.

* {{quote-book|1834||Two Years Before the Mast

|passage=The captain called him a "soger ," and promised to "ride him down as he would the main tack;" and when officers are once determined to "ride a man down," it is a gone case with him.}}

* {{quote-book|a. 1900|chapter=Hanging Johnny|title=Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors|editors=Ivan Walton et al. citation

|passage=I'd hang a lazy soger / The same as any other.}}

* {{quote-book|1902|Louis Becke|The Jalasco Brig citation

|passage=Come aft, you lazy soger , an' see what de captain has to say 'bout dis," cried Worcester, pushing the man, who still grasped his knife, before him

(chiefly|Scotland)