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A Handful of Ausseys choose

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[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 175: A couple uv privates wot been adrift — a.w.l. — for nearly six muns.
at A.W.O.L., adj.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 201: I ’eard about the stunts some uv our blokes work [...] so they can be sent out to Aussie [...] if yer inject iodine inter the knee [...] and tap it with yer fingers for a few hours — these things all make yer knee get big [...] an’ the M.O. don’t know but what yer got sine-vitas, which means Aussie.
at Aussie, n.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 203: You cold-footed blankin’ crimson crawlin’ blankers, yez.
at blank, adj.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 199: Yer wayback, silly blanker [...] that bloke’s wax.
at blanker, n.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 217: ’Ad some wine — vin blong.
at vin blong, n.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 110: ‘How’re things?’ ‘Up to — no blanky bon, diggers; this messing round and friggin’ about with the blanky pack-up.
at no bon, adj.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 269: Big stuff’s [i.e. large calibre shells] no bon — finney — na poo — alley toot-sweet fer a bloke.
at no bon, adj.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 200: We all went an’ ’ad a drink, — the boozers was just opened.
at boozer, n.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 203: When the train pulls out, they leans out uv the carriage an’ ‘pokes it’ at the Jacks. ’Struth! they seem ter like jeerin’ an’ pokin’ borax and those blokes.
at poke (the) borak (v.) under borak, n.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 296: With his bayonet point at the charge, ‘Come on Ausseys!’ he yelled joyfully, ‘Come on, you loves, an’ stick ’em, you boshker boys!’.
at bosker, adj.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 163: Just a quid ter carry me on sarge. I’m broke to the wide, dinkum.
at broke to the wide (adj.) under broke, adj.1
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 249: This war’s a b—!
at bugger, n.1
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 256: A number of Tommies who strolled over ...] to buzz some cigarettes from us.
at buzz, v.1
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 114: Wot, is concription a cert, then, for Aussie?
at cert, n.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 175: I chips a bloke I knew and arsts ’im all abaht it.
at chip, v.1
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 87: Got a Woodbine, chum?
at chum, n.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 249: It seems so lorng [sic] since I left me civvie job.
at civvie, adj.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 19: Out of it quickly, before I shove you in the clink!
at clink, n.1
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 114: Hey, cock, the Boche doesn’t shoot if yer’ve got tailor-made clothes — he does a swap.
at cock, n.2
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 23: He is a philosopher, this coolie, and stolidly withdraws from the somewhat unequal fray.
at coolie, n.1
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 203: You cold-footed blankin’ crimson crawlin’ blankers, yez.
at crimson, adj.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 29: Cornstalks — New South Welshmen — and Crow-eaters — South Australians — eyed him [...] with impotent fury.
at crow-eater (n.) under crow, n.2
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 163: Coul yer lend us [...] a deena, cobber?
at deener, n.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 163: Just a quid ter carry me on sarge. I’m broke to the wide, dinkum.
at dinkum, adv.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 272: Yer ain’t askin’ that question dinkum, are yer?
at dinkum, adv.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 174: Fair dinkum, that cove [...] fair reminded me uv a calf we ’ad once.
at fair dinkum!, excl.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 179: Well, ’e’ gives me a knock-down to ’is tart.
at knock-down, n.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 272: Oh, shut yer face an’ give yer mouth a chance, you hungry-gutted coot.
at shut one’s face (v.) under face, n.
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 201: An’ yer might overdo the stunt an’ fix yerself fer life, or even peg out.
at fix oneself (v.) under fix, v.1
[Aus] C.H. Thorp Handful of Ausseys 110: ‘How’re things?’ ‘Up to — no blanky bon, diggers; this messing round and friggin’ about with the blanky pack-up.
at frig about (v.) under frig, v.
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