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[UK] United Service Mag. (London) 327: [T]he heat during the day reflected from the rock was scarcely supportable, and was no doubt the reason why we were so soon visited by the cholera (facetiously called in the army Corporal Forbes).
at Corporal Forbes, n.
[UK] Surgeon Dartnell ‘The Campaign in the Hills’ in United Services Mag. Oct. 201: A few chairs and tables (left for the next tenant) were scattered oolta-poolta (topsy-turvy) about the room, a log of wood was smoking in the grate.
at oolta-poolta, adj.
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