Digger Dialects

Digger Dialects

Slang Phrases used by Australian Soldiers during WW1

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B.S. n. See BULLSH. BABBLING BROOK; BABBLER n. An Army cook. Also BABBLINS. BACK CHAT n. An impertinent bandying of words. BACK IN ONE'S CART v. Interferw. BAGS [The] n. A parapet. BANGER n. A sausage. BANJO n. A shovel. SWING THE BANJO — Dig. BANK n. The movement of an aeroplane in turning on its side in changing direction. BANTAM n. A short man. BARE adj. Mere. 'A bare prive' - A mere private. BARGE v. 'Barge up to' - approach. BARRAGE n. (Fr.) (1) A large number of shells bursting in the one area; (2) A commotion; (3) A display of mental, moral or physical force. 'To put up a barrage' - to confound. ' A gas barrage' — an oration or sermon. 'A barrage of foul air' — a stench. 'A barrage of hot air' - a flow of vituperative, blasphemous or obscene language. BASE WALLAH n. A person employed at the base. BASS ATTACK n. A drinking bout. (A humorous perversion of 'Gas Attack.' 'Bass' is a kind of English beer). BAT n. Language. Mesopotamia (Hindustani).

Old English 'word lottery' pick Dendrolite : n. A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.

Digger Dialects by W. H. Downing - Lothian Book Publishing, Melbourne and Sydney, 1919
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Slang Phrases used by Australian Soldiers during WW1