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Digger Dialects

Slang Phrases used by Australian Soldiers during WW1

 

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O.C. n. (1) Company commander; (2) man in charge.
OFFSIDER n. An assistant.
OGIA adj. Finished. Mesopotamia (Hindustani).
OIL n. News; information.
OILED n. Drunk.
OLD MAN GAINS EXPERIENCE! expr. A catch phrase applied to cases where the man who runs a gambling game loses in the betting.
OLD MAN SPITS BLOOD expr. See OLD MAN GAINS EXPERIENCE.
OLD SLIPPERY n. See RUBBER-HEELED JACK.
OLIVE BRANCH n. A reinforcement who arrived in a fighting unit after the Armistice.
ON ONE'S PINK EAR adj. Down and out.
ON THE TAPES adj. Ready to begin. (Before an attack ' lie-out' positions were marked by white tapes, on which the attacking infantry lay while awaiting the opening of the barrage.)
ONJAR pron. There. Persia.
ONK n. A franc.
OPEN GO n. See FAIR GO.
OUI expr. (Fr.) Yes.
 
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Serried : a. Crowded; compact; dense; pressed together.; imp. & p. p. of Serry
 
Digger Dialects by W. H. Downing - Lothian Book Publishing, Melbourne and Sydney, 1919
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