– A –
A BEER UP
a drinking session
A BRADBURY
an English pound note
A RAINBOW
one who joins up at the time of armistice, or after the storm
A RAT AND FOWL
a shilling
A STEADY LAPPER
a hard drinker
A WASHOUT
a failure
A WIND-BAG
a braggart
ABOUT TURN
a village of Hebuterne
ACKETY-ACK
a full stop
ACK-I-FOOF
an A.I.F. man
ADJIE
adjutant
ALLEMAN
German soldier
ALMOND ROCKS
socks
ANY MORE FOR ANY MORE?
Cook’s cry denoting that although every man had been issued with his rations there was still some more food going begging
ANZAC WAFERS
hard Army biscuits
ARCHIE
anti-aircraft shell, said to be derived from a music-hall song with a catch-phrase “Archibald, certainly not” and is a suggestion that the guns seldom succeeded in hitting aircrafts
AUSSIE
wounded soldier to be sent back to Australia
AWSC
Australian Women’s Service Corps
– B –
BAB, BABBLER
an army cook – from “babbling brook”
BEACHY BILL
Turkish gun which rained shells on the beach at ANZAC Cove
BEER-SWIPER
drunkard
BIG BERTHA
German gun which bombed Paris
BIG NOISE!
a staff officer
BINT
any girl or young woman, adapted by the Australians from Arabic
BLIGHTY
serious wound warranting evacuation to London
BLITHERED
drunk
BLOW-HOLE
garrulous person
BOCHE
German soldier
BONZA
great
BOOZER
a pub
BOT
1. a man who goes into the forces with the full intention of finding a soft billet with no fighting attached to it. He is said to be “botting on the flag”.
2. a returned man who wants to live upon the fact that he has been to the front, instead of going back to his work in civil life in a proper way as soon as able.
3. a man in civilian clothes who wears a returned badge, who accosts a complete stranger also wearing a badge with a request for sixpence to get a drink.
BOWS AND ARROWS
tailors
BRASS
money
BUCKING HORSE
a sovereign
BUCK-SHE-POZZI GREASE
bread and jam
– C –
C3
disabled or discharged
CANTEEN MEDALS
beer stains on a uniform
CHI
tea
CHIPS
carpenters
CHOOM
English soldier
COAL SCUTTLE
trench mortar bomb
COFFIN NAIL
a cigarette
COLLECTING A PACKET
wounded
CONSUMPTION STICK
a cigarette
– D –
DEEP THINKER
a man who was late to enlist
DIGGER
cobber, mate
DINGBAT
a batman
DINKUM
a soldier who never skirks fatigue or dodges the nasty little camp jobs; the man who does his share of the camp duties and his best in the fight
DINKUM OIL
authenticated news
DISASTER
a piastre
DIXIES
frying pans and saucepans
DODGER
bread
DORA
Defence of the Realm Act
DOUGH
money
– E –
EGGS-A-COOK
3rd Division A.I.F., derived from the shape and colour of the divisional shoulder patch
EMMA PIPS
military police
– F –
FLOG
steal
FLYBOG
jam
FOOT SLOGGER
long route marches
FRITZ
German soldiers
FROGS
French soldiers
FURPHY / FURFIE
a camp yarn, passed from mouth to mouth, but generally believed by no one
– G –
GOT IT
attacked from the enemy in front
– H –
HUN
German soldiers
– I –
IMSHI
clear out, get away
INKED
drunk
– J –
JACKS
military police
JAKE SCROUGE
successful avoidance of particularly irksome duties
JERRY
German soldier
JOCK
Scottish soldier
