Slang Australian terms that originated or were used in wartime
Digger slang
GALLIPOLI SLANG
EXAMPLES
alf a mo
Anzac button, an
Anzac soup
Anzac stew
Anzac wafer, an
Aussie, (an)
axle grease
banger, a
banjo, a
belly ache, a
body-snatcher, a
bonzer
bully (beef)
buzz off
camel dung
clobber
cobber, a
coffin nail, a
cow, a
digger, a
dinkum
dry rations
furphy, a
Gallipoli gallop, the
grungey
Jacko
Johnno
Kiwi
mate, a
oil
shrapnel
smoko, a
snipe, to
souvenir, to
stiff, a
stouch, to
wangle, to
write-off
See Gallipoli Slang for
the meanings
The Vocabulary of Australian English
(nma.gov.au) [pdf file]
By Bruce Moore. See especially pages 21 to 23 for words
associated with Anzacs in World War 1.
Anzac: the
language of a legacy (stuff.co.nz)
Anzac traditions and words from a New Zealand perspective (Gallipoli slang
at bottom of page).
Australian
slang - a story of Australian English (australia.gov.au, previously at
culture.gov.au )
Scroll down to "First World War", in particular "Digger
dialects and a glossary of AIF (Australian Imperial Forces) slang"
Slang II
[pdf file] (vicbar.com.au)
Short article on slang, particularly on words used in World War 1. From the
Victorian Bar website.
Battlefield Colloquialisms of the Great War (WW1)
(Appears to have been previously called "Glossary of WW1
Slang") (www.ict.griffith.edu.au/~davidt) By Paul Hinckley. Note that as this list is based mainly
on terms used on the Western Front by British soldiers it is not a list of
"digger slang".
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