1812. J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., Swoddy or Swod-gill, a soldier.
1828. Sporting Mag., XXIII. 176. In one of his journies from Lewes, Tom picked up some swaddies.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Swaddie, a discharged soldier.
1908. A. N. Lyons, Arthur’s, II. vii. 165. Up comes a swaddy in a red cap…. That’s a policeman—military policeman. Don’t you ’ave no larks wiv ’im.’
