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in Adventure Nov. 186: I was filling a hyp [sic] with a new solution.at hype, n.2
in Adventure Nov. 186: I was filling a hyp [sic] with a new solution.![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom")
Adventure Nov. 47/2: ‘Nuts!’ he said in deep scorn. ‘This regiment won the battle!’ [OED].at nuts!, excl.
Adventure Apr. 958: A Gigantic Hog-Killing. We have Inside Information of a Long Shot that should Win To-morrow at 10 to 1 [HDAS].at hog-killing (n.) under hog, n.
Adventure Jan. 446: I saw a mardi-gras suit of clothes that might have been ofay on a negro minstrel.at ofay, adj.
Adventure July 476: I thought you had your old hat-rack all ready to gallop to Burke’s? [HDAS].at hat-rack (n.) under hat, n.
diary 29 Apr. in Phillips et al. Great Adventure (1988) 38: I should be sorry to think that my men wanted ‘Dutch Courage’.at Dutch courage, n.
letter in Phillips, Boyack & Malone Great Adventure (1988) 20 Mar. 260: I will be out of bed in a day or two now and am feeling fit as a fiddle.at fit as a fiddle (adj.) under fit, adj.
Gallipoli diary in Phillips, Boyack & Malone Great Adventure (1988) 19 May 51: There were about seven Naval Officers, ‘middies’ or ‘snotties’ as they are endearingly called by Captains and Lieutenants.at middy, n.
letter in Phillips, Boyack & Malone Great Adventure (1988) 10 Nov. 163: I think I should go clean off my nut if a day should pass without a word from you.at go off one’s nut (v.) under nut, n.1
diary in Phillips, Boyack & Malone Great Adventure (1988) 14 July 123: Left camp this morning after a breakfast of bangers.at banger, n.3
letter in Phillips, Boyack & Malone Great Adventure (1988) 17 Mar. 237: You should have seen what a mess we made of it. Rafferty Rules was the order of the day and our company which was once the best in camp were all over the place.at Rafferty’s rules, n.
letter in Phillips, Boyack & Malone Great Adventure (1988) 1 Jan. 110: I am still a bit shaky, and if I had to return to the line immediately would be a bit windy I’m afraid. [Ibid.] 12 Mar. 4/2: The cookhouse, which the windy Babbler had well dug in out of reach of Fritz’s hate-stuff.at windy, adj.2
picture caption in Phillips, Boyack & Malone Great Adventure (1988) 2 Feb. 247: New Zealand ‘limbies’ at Brockenhurst. [Ibid.] 250: A promise made to us by General Richardson that limbies would be accomodated in specially fitted vessels.at limbie, n.
letter in Phillips, Boyack & Malone Great Adventure (1988) 22 Jan. 249: There is a species of male known locally as a ‘Queenie’ who is talking to a Y.M.C.A. girl and making me sick.at queenie, n.
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Adventure 44 105/2: ‘It’ll put hair on your chest!’ ‘But — ’ pleaded Edgar, desperately. The captain lurched around the table and shoved the glass into his son's hand. ‘Drink, me hearty!’.at put hair(s) on one’s chest (v.) under hair on one’s chest, n.
Adventure 43 105: The squad started to the chow line by the most direct line. ‘Hey! Git outta there; we come ahead of you guys!’.at chow line (n.) under chow, n.1
Adventure 10 Aug. 131: Joe, with an old hobo’s deep-rooted aversion to sleeping in a ‘scratch-house,’ [etc.].at scratch house (n.) under scratch, v.
Adventure 10 Dec. 106: We run on to a 77 th’ Germans had beat it away from —bent for breakfast [HDAS].at hellbent for breakfast (adv.) under hellbent, adj.
‘The Notched Gun’ Adventure 15 Nov. 🌐 But she had sense. Close mouthed like most ’breed women.at breed, n.
Adventure 22: He called me Nipper, which is Limejuice for kid or punk.at lime juice, n.
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