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Tommy Cornstalk 10: When he mets Tommy Atkins he wins this gentleman’s admiration.at Tommy Atkins, n.
Tommy Cornstalk 10: When he mets Tommy Atkins he wins this gentleman’s admiration. Tommy Cornstalk 2: Because the popular banana finds the climate of Queensland suitable [...] the inhabitants of that Colony are dubbed ‘Banana-landers’.at Bananaland (n.) under banana, n.
Tommy Cornstalk 123: It had found ‘Brown Bess’ very useful in the past; it had done much with the muzzle-loading rifle.at brown bess, n.
Tommy Cornstalk 188: Sometimes, at night, neighbours would drop into your marquee. And there had come one who was a ‘bleeder’ – at any rate that is what he of the Fourteenth said of him. It seemed to be a pet name for a typical low-class Londoner – a slum-dragger, one of the very much ‘submerged tenth’.at bleeder, n.
Tommy Cornstalk 152: The medical officers, though morally certain that a man might be shamming, were too disgusted to take the necessary steps towards ‘bowling him out’.at bowl out (v.) under bowl, v.
Tommy Cornstalk 205: ’E comes bowlin’ in, ’s chippy ’s if ’e’d bin to a bloomin’ dawg-fight.at chippy, adj.3
Tommy Cornstalk 2: To the early South Australians, means of subsistence came not easily [...] they are called ‘Crow-eaters’.at crow-eater (n.) under crow, n.2
Tommy Cornstalk 96: [H]e wanted to give one of our hosses to his darned Jim Crow coon! We couldn’t ’low that, so we hunted him an’ his darned son of a sweep away.at Jim Crow, adj.
Tommy Cornstalk 64: As an afterthought, he enjoins upon you the necessity for ‘looking slippery’. Your single swear-word speaks volumes. [...] You will mount and ride again, and above all you will look forward joylessly to a night without food or fire, and an interrupted sleep. This again is the Dead Finish. / There are few colloquialisms more expressive of wearisome disgust, dissatisfaction and discontent than is ‘Dead Finish.’ It is almost synonymous with ‘the Last Straw’.at dead finish (n.) under dead, adj.
Tommy Cornstalk 72: I carn’t make out w’y the English Government gives these drivers on our transport four-ten a month w’en they could get ’em for a quid, an’ dust ’em down over that too. ’Y mus’ keep niggers down.at dust, v.3
Tommy Cornstalk 70: Fortunately [...] Boers do not often attack. When they do, there is usually no ‘get away’.at getaway, n.
Tommy Cornstalk 2: Jealous of Victorian prowess in eucalyptus cultivation [...] the other Australians refer to the Victorian people collectively as ‘Gum-suckers’.at gum-sucker, n.1
Tommy Cornstalk 94: Now, I’ll jes’ tell yew boys what one of those something French’s Scouts had the darned hide to do, or rather to try to do, during the day. I reckon he had a pretty con-siderable section of real, slap-up cheek, too.at hide, n.
Tommy Cornstalk 192: In a barn was a great heap of unthreshed Kaffir corn.at kaffir corn (n.) under kaffir, adj.
Tommy Cornstalk 97: There is also, of course, considerable danger of what a certain member of the much-quoted Canadians termed ’darned lead-poisoning’ – meaning thereby, the chance of going under to a bullet.at lead poisoning (n.) under lead, n.
Tommy Cornstalk 64: As an afterthought, he enjoins upon you the necessity for ‘looking slippery’. Your single swear-word speaks volumes.at look slippery! (excl.) under look, v.
Tommy Cornstalk 108: There were, of course, signs and omens that might point to an engagement, as, for instance, when the ‘Pick-me-ups’ (ambulance wagons) followed close up to the firing line. But, as a rule, it was never safe to prophesy an action until the first Boer shell came howling overhead.at pick-me-up, n.
Tommy Cornstalk 53: ‘One hundred and fifty,’ said the corporal, ‘if she’s a day!’ – and indeed she looked it. A white-headed ‘Uncle Ned,’ who was probably her grandson, strolled about near her. Little niggers swarmed all round.at Uncle Ned, n.2
Tommy Cornstalk 88: When a column halts in the afternoon in order to bivouac for the night, one of the first things infested men do is to squat down on the ground, pull off their shirts, and seek what they may find. [...] ‘Scots Greys,’ or ‘Roberts’ Horse,’ as they have been almost universally termed, like the poor, are always with you. [...] The ‘Greys’ of the veldt are certainly ‘second to none’.at Scotch greys (n.) under Scotch, adj.
Tommy Cornstalk 188: Sometimes, at night, neighbours would drop into your marquee. And there had come one who was a ‘bleeder’ – at any rate that is what he of the Fourteenth said of him. It seemed to be a pet name for a typical low-class Londoner – a slum-dragger, one of the very much ‘submerged tenth’.at slum-dragger (n.) under slum, n.2
Tommy Cornstalk 142: And old ‘spider’ – a four-wheeled wagonette, commandeered from some farm – had been left behind, and, with a couple of debilitated mules as motive power, the various kits and possessions of the dismounted men who remained were to be carried into Pretoria on it.at spider, n.
Tommy Cornstalk 11: To be a ‘toey’ seems to him almost to amount to degradation. He thanks God that he is not an infantryman [...] because it is in his nature to look down upon the man who walks.at toey, n.1
Tommy Cornstalk 8: To be ‘slim,’ to ‘verneuk’ his neighbour, is, with the Boer, a by no means bad failing.at verneuk, v.
Tommy Cornstalk 225: Their dashing actions, cool ferocity, quiet ‘slimness,’ and guileless ‘verneukery’ [...] rendered them famous.at verneukery (n.) under verneuk, v.
Tommy Cornstalk 172: Bloemfontein we came to in the ‘wee sma’ ’ hours of the next day, and were immediately taken from our trucks, given a drink of hot milk and bovril, and placed in the bell-tents of the big canvas hospital.at wee small hours (n.) under wee, adj.
Tommy Cornstalk 95: Bymbye, up comes a leftenint of French’s Scouts, with a yaller boy ridin’ behind him, a-leadin’ his pack-horse.at yellow, adj.
Tommy Cornstalk 120: Oh! but it must have been grand to see the Zarps – the slim, patrol-getting Zarps.at zarp, n.
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