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Observations of Orderly 225: A man’s arm is his ‘false alarm’.at false alarm, n.2
Observations of Orderly 225: A man’s arm is his ‘false alarm’. Observations of Orderly 228: The new army more feebly dubs them ‘almond rocks’.at almond rock, n.
Observations of Orderly 225: A man’s arm is his ‘false alarm’; [...] his hand, ‘German band’.at German bands, n.
Observations of Orderly 223: ‘A blighty wound,’ or simply ‘a blighty’ an injury sufficiently serious to cause the victim to be invalided to England.at Blighty, n.
Observations of Orderly 230: The words for drunkenness are innumerable — ‘jingled,’ ‘oiled,’ ‘tanked to the wide,’ ‘well sprung,’ ‘up the pole,’ ‘blotto’, etc.at blotto, adj.
Observations of Orderly 209: Every Bluebottle had taken first-aid classes and passed examinations at which most of the mockers would have boggled.at boggle, v.
Observations of Orderly 229: A few other slang words which I have come across in the hospital, and which seem to me to bear the mark of the old army as distinct from the new are: [...] ‘burgoo,’ porridge.at burgoo, n.
Observations of Orderly 225: A man’s arm is his ‘false alarm’; [...] his face ‘chevvy chase’.at chevy (chase), n.
Observations of Orderly 229: A few other slang words which I have come across in the hospital, and which seem to me to bear the mark of the old army as distinct from the new are: [...] ‘chips,’ the pioneer sergeant (carpenter).at chips, n.1
Observations of Orderly 65: Some of the M.P. members brought influence to bear, and the War office was choked off.at choke off, v.
Observations of Orderly 229: A few other slang words which I have come across in the hospital, and which seem to me to bear the mark of the old army as distinct from the new are: [...] ‘chucking a dummy,’ being absent.at chuck a dummy (v.) under chuck, v.2
Observations of Orderly 225: A man’s arm is his ‘false alarm’; [...] his boot, ‘daisy root’.at daisy roots, n.
Observations of Orderly 222: I could see he knew I’d clicked a packet, square dinkum, this trip (‘Square dinkum’ or ‘dinkum’ is an Antipodean verbal flourish, which broadly approximates to the American ‘Sure enough’ or the English ‘Not ’arf’).at dinkum, adv.
Observations of Orderly 222: I could see he knew I’d clicked a packet, square dinkum, this trip.at fair dinkum!, excl.
Observations of Orderly 228: The socks [...] might have vanished in the night – in which case there had been ‘hooks about’ (pilferers about).at hook, n.1
Observations of Orderly 226: ‘Round the houses,’ for example, being both a rhyme to and synonym for ‘trousis.’.at round me houses, n.
Observations of Orderly 225: A man’s arm is his ‘false alarm’; his nose, ‘I suppose’.at I suppose, n.
Observations of Orderly 229: A few other slang words which I have come across in the hospital, and which seem to me to bear the mark of the old army as distinct from the new are: [...] ‘jammy,’ lucky (and ‘jam,’ any sort of good fortune).at jammy, adj.1
Observations of Orderly 83: All Scots are ‘Jocks’ in the army.at Jock, n.
Observations of Orderly 222: To get your ‘plates of meat’ frostbitten wasn’t such a ‘cushy wound’ as it was cracked up to be.at plates (of meat), n.
Observations of Orderly 230: A verb which I never met before I enlisted was ‘to spruce.’ This is almost, if not quite, a blend of ‘swinging the lead’ and ‘doing a mike’.at do a mike (v.) under mike, v.
Observations of Orderly 227: There is a sardonic tang in the army’s condemnation of one who has been telling a far-fetched story: he has been ‘chancing his arm’ (or ‘mit’).at chance one’s mitt (v.) under mitt, n.
Observations of Orderly 227: The N.C.O. or officer who administers a reproof (‘ticks him off’), and does so in angry terms, ‘goes off at the deep end.’.at tick off, v.1
Observations of Orderly 229: A few other slang words which I have come across in the hospital, and which seem to me to bear the mark of the old army as distinct from the new are: [...] ‘oojah,’ anything (similar to thingummy or what-d’ye-call-it).at oojah, n.
Observations of Orderly 222: I could see he knew I’d clicked a packet, square dinkum, this trip.at cop a packet (v.) under packet, n.
Observations of Orderly 230: The words for drunkenness are innumerable — ‘jingled,’ ‘oiled,’ ‘tanked to the wide,’ ‘well sprung,’ ‘up the pole,’ ‘blotto’, etc.at up the pole, adj.1
Observations of Orderly 229: A few other slang words which I have come across in the hospital, and which seem to me to bear the mark of the old army as distinct from the new are: [...] ‘push,’ ‘pusher,’ or ‘square pusher,’ a girl.at square pusher (n.) under pusher, n.
Observations of Orderly 230: The words for drunkenness are innumerable — ‘jingled,’ ‘oiled,’ ‘tanked to the wide,’ ‘well sprung,’ ‘up the pole,’ ‘blotto’, etc.at well-sprung, adj.
Observations of Orderly 229: The ‘swagger’ tunic for walking-out occasions.at swagger, adj.
Observations of Orderly 222: When I went sick the doctor thought he’d rumbled me swinging the lead.at swing the lead (v.) under swing, v.
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