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Goodbye to All That choose

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[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 79: I take you to my sister. She very nice. very good jig-a-jig.
at jig-a-jig, n.
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 125: ‘Tomorrow’s going to be a glorious balls-up.’ [Ibid.] 127: ‘What’s happened?’ I asked. ‘Bloody balls-up.’.
at balls-up, n.
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 82: A lance-corporal dictated a letter home [...] ‘This war is a booger.’.
at booger, n.2
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 84: The silly booger takes one of them new issue percussion bombs.
at booger, n.2
[UK] (con. 1913) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 50: ‘Case’ meant a romance, a formal coupling of two boys’ names, with the name of the elder boy first.
at case, n.1
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 111: We inclined more to the ‘cosh’, a loaded stick.
at cosh, n.
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 87: Graves, you lie down and have a doss on that bunk.
at doss, n.1
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 72: ‘Pig’s ear’, which is rhyming-slang for beer.
at pig’s (ear), n.
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1995) 79: The Bandmaster, who was squeamish, reported it as: ‘Sir, he called me a double-effing c—.’.
at effing, adj.
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 164: A new gas-helmet, popularly known as ‘the goggle-eyed booger with the tit.’.
at goggle-eyed, adj.
[UK] (con. 1917) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1995) 79: The Bandmaster, who was squeamish, reported it as: ‘Sir, he called me a double-effing c—.’.
at double-fucking (adj.) under fucking, adj.
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 155: The Turco used to say: ‘Tommy, give Johnny pozzy’.
at johnny, n.1
[UK] R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1995) 97: They allowed the work we’d done in the trench to go to ruin and left the whole place like a sewage farm for us to take over again. We were sick as muck.
at as muck (adv.) under muck, n.1
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 155: Oh la, la, Johnny, napoo pozzy tomorrow!
at napoo, adj.
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 158: He said that the niggers (meaning the Indians) [etc.].
at nigger, n.1
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 121: Copy out all this skite on the back of your maps.
at skite, n.
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 184: The other wounded men cursed him, telling him to stow it and be a man.
at stow, v.
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 164: A new gas-helmet, popularly known as ‘the goggle-eyed booger with the tit.’.
at tit, n.2
[UK] (con. WWI) R. Graves Goodbye to All That (1960) 132: You’re the bloody trench-mortar wallah, aren’t you?
at wallah, n.
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