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Digger Dialects

Slang Phrases used by Australian Soldiers during WW1

 

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P.B.I. n. Poor bloody infantry.
P.O. expr. Go away. Seee P.O.Q.
P.O.Q. expr. Push off quick; go away.
P.O.W. n. Prisoner of war.
PADRE n. (Span.) An army chaplain.
PAHNI n. Water. Mesopotamia (Hindustani).
PAINT n. Jam.
PARADOS n. The mound of carth behind a trench.
PARAKEET n. A Staff officer. (So called from the red gorget tabs and red band around the cap of a Staff officer).
PARAPET n. The mound of earth in front of a trench.
PARAPET JOE n. A German machine-gunner, who attempts by continuous fire to prevent our men from looking over the parapet.
PARLEY v. (Fr., Parler) Speak.
PARTY v. (Fr., Partir) Go away.
PEA-SHOOTER n. A German anti-tank gun.
PEECHI expr. In a little while. Mesopotamia (Hindustani).
 
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Stylomastoid : a. Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
 
Digger Dialects by W. H. Downing - Lothian Book Publishing, Melbourne and Sydney, 1919
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