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[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Marshal Neigh, V.C.’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 18: Little Abdul’s quite a fighter, ’n’ he mixes it with skill.
at Abdul, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘In Hospital’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 22: I’m modest, too, / When dividin’ a can of swill / With a Algy boy from the wilds iv Kew. [Ibid.] 26: There are Percies, Algies, ’n’ Claudes I’ve met / Who could take it ’n’ come agen.
at Algie, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Bricks’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 33: When Ulrich stopped a Port bookay he rolled his alley in.
at toss in the alley (v.) under alley, n.3
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Bricks’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 33: Haynes bust a Prussian’s almond, took the bay’net where he stood.
at almond, n.2
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Bricks’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 31: Son pussied on his bingie [...] and he slugged a tubby Hun.
at bingy, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Bricks’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 32: You couldn’t ’ope to miss it, pickled, paralysed, ’n’ blind.
at blind, adj.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Hello, Soldier!’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 87: Singin’ people on the sand / Makes a boshter Happy Land!
at boshter, adj.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘How Herman Won the Cross’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 81: Then arm in arm through No Man’s land we does a social bunk.
at do a/the bunk (v.) under bunk, n.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Mickie Mollynoo’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 42: He’s sargin’ now, a vet’ran; I’m a newchum and a mug.
at new chum, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Hello, Soldier!’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 87: Cantin’ up me bloomin’ cady, toyin’ with a cig.
at cig, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Marshal Neigh, V.C.’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 19: Here it is that Artie takes it [i.e. a bullet] good ’n’ solid in the crust.
at crust, n.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Hello, Soldier!’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 85: ‘Cri, it jumbo.’ ‘Have a beer.’ / ‘Wot-o, Anzac; you’re a dear.’.
at cry it (v.) under cry, v.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Repaired’ ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 95: In me Darby Kell a rip / Settn’ up a cool sensation / Like excessive ventilation.
at darby kelly, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘The Moralist’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 92: A dollar or a deener for the pore hafflict dear.
at deener, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Mickie Mollynoo’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 44: He’s back in twenty minutes, with a dillied German crew.
at dillied, adj.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Out of Khaki’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 99: Fair dink, I loved the uniform!
at fair dinkum!, excl.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘How Herman Won the Cross’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 81: He’s out to do his div. in, / ’N’ don’t care if he don’t go home till daylight doth appear.
at div, n.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 31: He slugged a tubby Hun, Then choked a Fritzie with his dukes, ’n’ pinched the sooner’s gun!
at duke, n.3
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Bricks’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 31: He slugged a tubby Hun, Then choked a Fritzie with his dukes, ’n’ pinched the sooner’s gun!
at Fritz, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Weepin’ Willie’ ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 49: But his jills would sniff ’n’ shiver in the mother of a fright.
at his gills (n.) under gill, n.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Hello, Soldier!’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 86: Back at Grillo’s where the nigger googs his whitey eyes.
at goog, v.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Joey’s Job’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 76: Providence began this war to find a grip for Jo!
at grip, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Marshal Neigh, V.C.’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 🌐 But the parsons and the poets couldn’t teach him to discourse / When it come to pokin’ guyver at a pore, deluded horse.
at poke guiver (at) (v.) under guiver, n.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Mickie Mollynoo’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 43: I’m roughin’ it all-in with Hans. He sock me such a bat.
at Hans, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Bricks’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 31: It was fare-the-well to Herman with a bullet through the bone.
at Herman, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Mickie Mollynoo’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 39: A shine John Hop is Mollynoo. A mix-up / with the push Is all his joy.
at john hop, n.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Hello, Soldier!’ ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 86: ’Ello, Jumbo, how is it?
at how is it (there)?, phr.
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Mickie Mollynoo’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 44: We creeps a thousan’ yards or so to jigger up a gun / Which seven Huns is workin’.
at jigger, v.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Peace, Blessed Peace’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 52: Me oath, the mess of stuff and blood / Would give a slaughterman the joes!
at joes, n.1
[Aus] E. Dyson ‘Hello, Soldier!’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 85: ‘Cri, it jumbo.’ ‘Have a beer.’ / ‘Wot-o, Anzac; you’re a dear.’.
at jumbo, n.
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