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Rising Sun 25 Dec. 3/3: When this blasted war is over and we gets off home / You’ll always find a welcome if out there you chance to roam.at blasted, adj.1
Rising Sun 25 Dec. 3/3: When this blasted war is over and we gets off home / You’ll always find a welcome if out there you chance to roam. Rising Sun 25 Dec. 8/1: The jawin’ of the sergeant nearly drives a bloke insane / It’s pick this up, and bury that, and shift yer bloomin’ pins.at bloke, n.
Rising Sun 25 Dec. 8/1: I ain’t a bloomin’ navvy, and I ain’t a bloomin’ mule, / But I’m just a blessed soldier, what ’as been a bloomin’ fool.at blooming, adj.1
Rising Sun 25 Dec. 8/2: Our biscuits, now, for mending roads [...] Or armour plating round the Tanks — / They’d make a bonzer scheme.at bonzer, adj.
Rising Sun 25 Dec. 8/2: Why waste all that ration jam [...] add a little fat— / And we could use it well, / In killing off the chat.at chats, n.2
Rising Sun 25 Dec. 8/1: I sneaks along to barricks, and I tries to dodge the guard, / When I hears a voice say, ‘Who goes there,’ I says ‘It’s me, old pard.’ / He takes me to the sergeant who shoves me in the klink, / And all because I dallied with a bit of skirt in pink.at clink, n.1
Rising Sun 25 Dec. 8/1: While the jawin’ of the sergeant nearly drives a bloke insane / It’s pick this up, and bury that, and shift yer bloomin’ pins.at jawing, n.
Rising Sun 25 Dec. 3/1: Yer fought like struggling demons and the price yer made us pay, / Though we wiped yer out in hundreds on that glorious August day.at wipe out, v.
Rising Sun 25 Dec. 3/2: Yer fought us square with baynit, and with rifle bomb and gun, / And didnt use no gasses, like your rotten pal, the Hun.at rotten, adj.
Rising Sun 25 Dec. 8/1: The jawin’ of the sergeant nearly drives a bloke insane / It’s pick this up, and bury that, and shift yer bloomin’ pins.at shift, v.
Rising Sun 25 Dec. 8/1: I sneaks along to barricks, and I tries to dodge the guard, / When I hears a voice say, ‘Who goes there,’ I says ‘It’s me, old pard.’ / He takes me to the sergeant who shoves me in the klink, / And all because I dallied with a bit of skirt in pink.at bit of skirt (n.) under skirt, n.
Rising Sun 25 Dec. 3/2: Yet yer wouldn’t chuck the sponge in so yer had to lose yer lives.at chuck up the sponge (v.) under sponge, n.
Rising Sun 1 Feb. 4/2: ‘Our Old Tin Hat’ [...] It’s uses they are many; / It will cook some fine burgoo, / Or make a bonza dixie / For some soup or bully stew.at bonzer, adj.
Rising Sun 4 Jan. 1/2: ‘Yes,’ added the out-backer, ‘’Tis a bosker band all right, but they ’ad that blanky tune at the Tiv’ in Bourke Street before we ever come over here.’.at bosker, adj.
Rising Sun 1 Feb. 1/2: Awake! for Brummy has the fire alight [...] And put the hard word on a chum for beers; / To-morrow, why to-morrow I may be— / In Blighty.at Brummy, n.
Rising Sun 1 Jan. 4/1: Diary of an Anzac [...] 2 p.m. Afternoon Parade. Given ‘bucsheesh’ picket for commenting audibly on Parade on general rottenness of things.at buckshee, adj.
Rising Sun 8 Feb. 3/2: K is for Kobber, Australian for friend.at cobber, n.2
Rising Sun 8 Jan. 1/1: Look where we sleep — this little shanty ’ere [...] we can proudly point to this, ‘Our digs’.at digs, n.1
Rising Sun 4 Jan. 1/2: I s’pose yer think yer the only ryebuck dinkum gravelcrusher in this muddy country, think yerself blinkin’ funny, doncher?at gravel-crusher (n.) under gravel, n.
Rising Sun 8 Jan. 3/2: He sprang to his post and let fly / And we were the blokes who got gyp.at get the gyp (v.) under gyp, n.1
Rising Sun 8 Feb. 1/1: For that incurable disease / A sup’rabundance of V.C.’s; / For nervous breakdown, shrapnelitis, / Toothache, acute malingeritis [...] Are cured by that all-searching PILL.at -itis, sfx
Rising Sun 8 Feb. 4/2: I heard all the factory whistles [...] blowing their ‘knock-off’ call.at knock-off, n.
Rising Sun 5 Feb. 1/2: He gets the roughest tucker; and lice infest the frame — of the Pongo—the blessed Pongo!at pongo, n.1
Rising Sun 8 Feb. 4/2: Does the O.C. ever go off pop, if your boots are not cleaned?at go pop (v.) under pop, adv.
Rising Sun 8 Feb. 4/2: Do you get roared up if you don’t fold your blankets in four?at roar up (v.) under roar, v.
Rising Sun 1 Jan. 3/2: Now Infantryman and Artilleryman, / Both wallow in Picardy mud. [...] His ‘scrano’s’ the same as the Infantry tuck, / And both dodge the 8-inch ‘dud’.at scran, n.
Rising Sun 22 Jan. 3/2: He spun some snifters when he got going.at snifter, n.3
Rising Sun 4 Jan. 1/1: A regulation ‘soup plate’ at the ‘erase’ angle partially concealed a mop of hair.at soup-plate (n.) under soup, n.
Rising Sun 4 Jan. 1/2: ‘Yes,’ added the out-backer, ‘’Tis a bosker band all right, but they ’ad that blanky tune at the Tiv’ in Bourke Street before we ever come over here.’.at Tiv, the, n.
Rising Sun 5 Feb. 3/1: Y is yearning for Australia so fair; / Z’s the zack-bits for the drinks when we’re there.at zac, n.
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