recruity

plural recruities

1. colloquialdatedA military recruit.

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

   1918, Horace Annesley Vachell, The Soul of Susan Yellam, page 83

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   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 […]

   2016, Jon Frauley, C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination, page 166

   "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?"

   2003, S. M. Stirling, David Drake, Conqueror