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All Abaht It - Journal of the 10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps choose

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[Aus] Field 26 Dec. n.p.: To trifle with this innovation means a certain purler [F&H].
at purler, n.
[Aus] Field 12 Dec. n.p.: The utterly exorbitant rents that Scotch proprietors ... have managed to screw out of sportsmen in the last few years [F&H].
at screw out of (v.) under screw, v.
[Aus] Field 4 Apr. n.p.: It was a desperately close shave [F&H].
at shave, n.
[Aus] Field 27 Feb. n.p.: Dusting her hare about half a dozen times up to the fence, where puss escaped [F&H].
at puss, n.1
[Aus] Field 25 Sept. n.p.: Mr. Laidlay won with six, and squared matters [F&H].
at square, v.
[Aus] Field 16 Jan. n.p.: The man who wants a pair of steppers [F&H].
at stepper, n.
[Aus] Field 20 Mar. n.p.: Economy’s understandings having given way soon after, he knew the silk no more [F&H].
at understandings, n.1
[Aus] Field 25 Feb. n.p.: Park foozled his second stroke [F&H].
at foozle, v.
[UK] Field 25 Feb. 295/3: In three days I could drive him any ‘clip’ I chose by just talking to him [OED].
at clip, n.3
[Aus] Field 11 Mar. 347/1: It will be said I am dreadfully ‘on the crab’, but I believe what I have written is only the simple truth.
at crab, n.2
[Aus] All Abaht It Nov. 10: We have a full-blood ‘Abor,’ / Throws the boomerang real well.
at abo, n.
[Aus] All Abaht It Nov. 14: He’s got the biz down to a T, / Has Captain R —.
at biz, n.1
[Aus] All Abaht It Nov. 13: He’s proved himself a boshter, / Has Major J.P.
at boshter, n.
[Aus] All Abaht It Nov. 24: The bogey will be picqueted and lit in time for the ‘Bot’s fatigue’.
at bot, n.1
[Aus] All Abaht It Nov. 10: There’s a melancholy Private / With his chest upon his back, / Who tells the London damsels / He’s a DINKIE DIE ANZAC.
at dinky-di, adj.
[Aus] All Abaht It Nov. 11: Then there’s our long ’un, Alfy J., / Who’s fond of Bass’s fizzy.
at fizzy, n.
[Aus] All Abaht It Nov. 11: There’s our little baby Jappy, / Whom the girls think really nice.
at Jappy, n.
[Aus] All Abaht It Nov. 13: We have our Doc from Corio Bay [...] He lobbed here months afore us, / Did Robert George —.
at lob in (v.) under lob, v.
[Aus] All Abaht It Nov. 11: Then there’s our long ’un, Alfy J., / Who’s fond of Bass’s fizzy.
at long ’un (n.) under long, adj.
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