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At Suvla Bay Ch. iii: ‘Kitchener’s cowboy! Isn’t he lovely!’ ‘Bejazus! so-it-is!’ ‘Come an’ see [...] by-the-holy-sufferin’-jazus!’.at bejazus!, excl.
At Suvla Bay Ch. iii: ‘Kitchener’s cowboy! Isn’t he lovely!’ ‘Bejazus! so-it-is!’ ‘Come an’ see [...] by-the-holy-sufferin’-jazus!’. At Suvla Bay Ch. i: At the station they had to have another ‘wet’ in the refreshment room, and by the time the train was due to start a good many were ‘canned up.’.at canned, adj.
At Suvla Bay Ch. iii: This man ‘came up’ in bell-bottomed trousers and a pea jacket.at come up, v.1
At Suvla Bay Ch. ix: Gordlummy, look at the d---d flies!at cor lumme! (excl.) under cor!, excl.
At Suvla Bay Ch. v: He could pour forth a continual flow of oaths for a full five minutes without repeating one single ‘cuss.’.at cuss, n.2
At Suvla Bay Ch. xiii: The other seven men came crawling out of the bushes to light up their ‘woodbines’ and fag-ends.at fag end, n.
At Suvla Bay Ch. iii: ‘’E never goes to church parade.’ ‘No; ’e was a fly one – ’e was.’.at fly, adj.
At Suvla Bay Ch. ix: The ‘graft’ (work) was fearful. All day long we were at it.at graft, n.1
At Suvla Bay Ch. xxiv: One of my ‘lance-jacks’ (lance-corporals) had been missing for a good long time.at lance-jack, n.
At Suvla Bay Ch. xx: ‘You ever hear of Rabindranarth Tagore, Johnnie?’ I asked him.at johnny, n.1
At Suvla Bay Ch. ix: Hawk and I ‘kipped down’ (slept) together on a sandy stretch overlooking the bay.at kip, v.
At Suvla Bay Ch. ix: Some of us would get ‘put out of mess,’ no doubt, but this waiting about to get killed was much worse than plunging into the thick of it.at lose the number of one’s mess (v.) under lose, v.
At Suvla Bay Ch. xi: The smell of human blood soaking its way into the sand from those two ‘stiffies’ on the beach.at stiffy, n.1
At Suvla Bay Ch. xx: The Indian whallahs go up to the hills; ‘Jhill-o! Johnnie, Jhill-o!’.at wallah, n.
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