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[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 20: ‘Chubbarow, Abie! [...] Leave the pore bleeder alone’.
at Abie, n.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 136: ‘Fice ’urt w’ere old Ishkabibble pushed it?’.
at Abie Kabibble, n.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 22: ‘You wretched, half-sized, measle-brained little abortion!’.
at abortion, n.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 19: Hon all sides, wot did the soldjers see? ’Y, sweet Fanny Adams!
at sweet Fanny Adams, n.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 129: ‘Nothing over there?’ [...] ‘Fanny Adams! ’cept sand’.
at fanny adams, n.2
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 118: ‘A bleedin’ ketch-as-ketch-can huggin’-party with a lot of all-me-eye rules made up on the spot’.
at all my eye, phr.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 41: ‘You shut y’r north [...] You’re an iggerunt bum’.
at north (and south), n.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 138: ‘Wot the stinkin’ ’ell’s the good of gettin’ pipped an’ leavin’ the old trouble to fend for ’erself an’ the boy?’’.
at trouble and strife, n.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 44: ‘He went buttocks over tip’.
at arse over tip under arse, n.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 95: ‘Don’ go so bald-headed at it, you sailor!’.
at bald-headed, adv.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 231: Can’t be much longer now . . . An’ then the balloon goes up’.
at when the balloon goes up under balloon, n.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 45: ‘They all [...] wants licenshus detail [...] Bibis, bibis, an’ more bibis’’.
at bebee, n.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 71: [of a dead soldier] ‘Why the — hell [...] should he click before a — like that choot of a Jew-boy, or that tin-faced Bible-thrasher?’.
at bible-basher (n.) under bible, n.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 55: ‘We’re done [...] Bitched!’.
at bitch, v.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 138: But it’s this war biz, that’s wot gets me’.
at biz, n.1
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 57: ‘I’ve been hearing you blinding and cursing’.
at blind, v.2
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 136: ‘If we on’y had some rum I’d make yer blind. Do yer an ’elluva lot of good’.
at blind, adj.1
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 164: ‘I got four blood-spitters an’ ’bout a halfounce o’ twist’.
at blood spitter (n.) under blood, n.1
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 33: ‘Swelp me!’ Hale said.
at s’elp me bob!, excl.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 105: ‘’E may be a bleedin’ Buckle, but ’e can scrap’.
at buckle my shoe, n.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 198: ‘Buddoo in front; bloodthirsty bughouse wallah in the rea . . . Nice party we’re havin’’.
at bughouse, adj.1
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 92: Strike me a flarin’ ruby . . . ’E’s bugs . . . abserlootely moost!’.
at bugs, adj.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 41: ‘You shut y’r north [...] You’re an iggerunt bum’.
at bum, n.3
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 218: ‘’s good a bunch o’ guys as you’d find’.
at bunch, n.1
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 42: ‘That lead confetti you buzz out of cane-handled shovels . . . it stings like rain in hell’.
at buzz, v.3
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 85: ‘So can it, Israel! ’F yer must spout, do it in yer tit-fer’.
at can, v.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 72: ‘There was some that said she was chee-chee [...] She thought her gran was a Chink . . . that’s all’.
at chee-chee, adj.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 39: ‘Shert up! [...] We’ve chewed the bleedin’ rag abaht it all the bleedin’ day’.
at chew the rag, v.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 72: ‘There was some that said she was chee-chee [...] She thought her gran was a Chink . . . that’s all’.
at Chink, n.
[UK] (con. WW1) P. MacDonald Patrol 22: ‘You sawn-off, chirpy, slab-sided dumble!’.
at chirpy, adj.
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