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The Honk! — The Voice of the Benzine Lancers (Divisional Ammunition Park, Motor Transport) choose

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[UK] 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.
[UK] Honk! 30 Sept. 1/1: There’s awful blanky argyments, / But they finish up still mates.
at blanky, adj.
[UK] Honk! 18 Jan. 7/2: ‘Bli’me, guv’ner!’ said the would-be soldier with a look of disgust.
at blimey!, excl.
[UK] Honk! 30 Sept. 1/1: They don’t know what they’re gassin’ of, / No more’n me bloomin ’at.
at blooming, adj.1
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] Honk! 29 Aug. 5: NEWS FROM ‘DOWN UNDER’.
at down under, n.
[UK] Honk! 28 Jan. 2/2: My hand is dead sore from ‘ringing dookes with ’em’.
at duke, v.1
[UK] Honk! 30 Sept. 1/1: Furst Tiny Wilson ’as er go, / Then Tom Coyle ’e opes ’is gob.
at gob, n.1
[UK] 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.
[UK] Honk! 18 Jan. 10/2: Their Hutch in Sunny climes they’ve left / To fight the heathen Turk.
at hutch, n.
[UK] Honk! 28 Jan. 2/1: Long hair on a ‘nut’ / Is excusable, but / On a soldier is simply infernal.
at knut, n.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] Honk! 28 Jan. 2/2: Girls is scarce out here, and the boys is growlin summat.
at something, adv.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
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