soap-dodging

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English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

soap-dodging (comparative more soap-dodging, superlative most soap-dodging)

  1. Dirty.
    • 2011, Julian Cole, Felicity's Gate, page 89:
      Bloody cyclists! String the lot of them up, the inconsiderate bastards. Sweaty too, no doubt, the soap-dodging free-wheelers.
    • 2014, Rebecca Chance, Bad Brides:
      Cynical, and just a little soap-dodging, bless them.
    • 2018, Chris Anderton, Music Festivals in the UK:
      The Criminal Justice and Public Order bill was opposed by many involved in what had become known as the 'crusty' subculture of the free festival/free party crossover, which the NME jokingly defined as Travellers, urban squatters and 'soap-dodging, army surplus, 16-hole, dreadlocked, folk-punk devils' (NME, 1993).

Usage notes[edit]

Used both literally to mean habitually dirty, and figuratively as a general term of approbation.

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