1915 Honk! 4 Jan. 6/2: If the O.T. could only get two square feet of Mother Earth under him, he would be happy as ‘Knock out’ in a two-up school.at happy as..., adj.
1915 Honk! 30 Sept. 1/1: There’s awful blanky argyments, / But they finish up still mates.at blanky, adj.
1915 Honk! 18 Jan. 7/2: ‘Bli’me, guv’ner!’ said the would-be soldier with a look of disgust.at blimey!, excl.
1915 Honk! 30 Sept. 1/1: They don’t know what they’re gassin’ of, / No more’n me bloomin ’at.at blooming, adj.1
1915 Honk! 18 Jan. 10/2: We don’t as a rule ‘blow’ (most of us); but one thing I am sure of, that we shall deserve the compliment [...] ‘Well done, Australia!’.at blow, v.1
1915 Honk! 4 Jan. 4/2: Have you heard about the paper / I presume its newly born [...] And its coming very shortly, / But I hope it don’t go plonk, / And its going to be a bonza.at bonzer, n.
1915 Honk! 30 Sept. 2/1: We have heard that Sapper Mallett of Signals has done is dash and is always dotty!at do one’s dash (v.) under dash, n.4
1915 Honk! 28 Jan. 2/2: One gor blime Lieutenant tried to throw our bosses boomerang away but the bloomin thing came back.at gorblimey, adj.
1915 Honk! 18 Jan. 10/2: Their Hutch in Sunny climes they’ve left / To fight the heathen Turk.at hutch, n.
1915 Honk! 28 Jan. 2/1: Long hair on a ‘nut’ / Is excusable, but / On a soldier is simply infernal.at knut, n.
1915 Honk! 4 Jan. 4/2: Have you heard about the paper / I presume its newly born [...] And its coming very shortly, / But I hope it don’t go plonk, / And its going to be a bonza.at go plonk (v.) under plonk, adv.
1915 Honk! ix. 5: If you wear a sling, people put their arms around you and weep, but if you have a couple of bullets in your liver and nothing to show them you must be a scaler [AND].at scaler (n.) under scale, v.2
1915 Honk! 18 Jan. 10/2: One thing I am sure of, that we shall deserve the compliment [...] ‘Well done, Australia!’. Anyhow it’s up to us to deserve it, each and everyone; no ‘skites’.at skite, n.
1915 Honk! 28 Jan. 2/1: A D.A.P. who swanks as a ‘nut’ in the ranks / Has no chance of becoming a ‘Kernel’.at swank, v.
1915 Honk! 29 Aug. 2/1: A couple of Australians at an adjoining table decided they were not going to allow themselves to be out-swanked.at swank, v.