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The German Prisoner choose

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[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 33: What are you afraid of [...] There’s buggerall here now’.
at bugger all, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 14: We can’t arse about here much longer.
at arse about (v.) under arse, v.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 33: ‘I’d like to backscuttle the bugger.’ ‘Go ahead,’ shouted O’Garra.
at backscuttle, v.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 15: ‘When is that bastard in front going to do something?’.
at bastard, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 14: I think they get a bug on the brain sometimes.
at bug, n.4
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 28: ‘The bugger of it is, my watch has stopped.
at bugger, n.1
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 33: ‘The last time I fell asleep I did it in my pants’.
at do it, v.2
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 20: ‘We fairly fanned his backside’.
at fan, v.1
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 27: ‘Ah! uck you,’ growled O’Garra.
at fuck you!, excl.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 8: These funkin’ bastards at the back; you never know what game they’re up to [Ibid.] 10: One of his unckin’ observation balloons at work.
at fucking, adj.
[UK] J. Hanley German Prisoner 8: He had been known as [...] a pimp — a shit-house — a toad — a sucker — a blasted sod — a Holy Roller .
at Holy Roller, n.
[UK] J. Hanley German Prisoner 12: Took it off a Jerry who crashed.
at Jerry, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 25: ‘If you try that on again I’ll cut the rollocks out of you’.
at Johnnie Rollocks, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 15: ‘Has that soft runt gone mad? He’ll get one bloody quick himself’.
at one, n.1
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 19: ‘You lump of shite [...] When you’ve learned to piss in your cap, you sucker, you’ll have room to talk’.
at piss, v.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 17: ‘I feel rotten tired’.
at rotten, adv.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 15: ‘Has that soft runt gone mad?’.
at runt, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 36: ‘I hate this thing [i.e. a German corpse] so much now I want to shit on it’.
at shit, v.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 19: ‘Shit on you. Get forward [...] You bloody cowards’.
at shit on you! (excl.) under shit, v.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 19: ‘You lump of shite [...] When you’ve learned to piss in your cap, you sucker, you’ll have room to talk’.
at shite, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 27: ‘Where the funkin’ hell are you, O’Garra?’ [...] ‘In a bloody mad-house. In a shit-hole’.
at shithole, n.
[UK] J. Hanley German Prisoner 8: He had been known as [...] a pimp — a shit-house — a toad — a sucker — a blasted sod.
at shithouse, n.
[UK] J. Hanley German Prisoner 8: He had been known as [...] a pimp — a shit-house — a toad — a sucker — a blasted sod.
at sod, n.1
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 32: ‘I wish to Christ this soddin’ fog would lift’.
at sodding, adj.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 29: ‘We both went out in the evening, souveniring’.
at souvenir, v.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 19: ‘You lump of shite [...] When you’ve learned to piss in your cap, you sucker, you’ll have room to talk’.
at sucker, n.3
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 29: ‘Are you tapped, or what [...] What the funkin’ hell are you thinkin’ of, you loony’.
at tapped, adj.
[UK] J. Hanley German Prisoner 8: He had been known as [...] a pimp — a shit-house — a toad — a sucker — a blasted sod.
at toad, n.
[UK] (con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 25: There was something terrible stirring in this weasel’s blood.
at weasel, n.
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