The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-22
TRENCH SLANG DICTIONARY

(List continued from previous issues of the
State Journal9
D. c. M-Distinguished Conduct Medal.
DIGGING IN-Making trench or other
DITTY BOX OR BAG.-Navy team. Recep-
tacle for holding odds and ends.
DIZZIES-Sugar loaf mounds at points
where communicating trenches widen.
DOING A BIT-Any service for the war.
DOLLY vARDEN-British name for Ger
DoLoI! D0LoIl tRUssIAN)-"Downi
Down. Corresponds to French "A basf'
DUD-Originally a spent shell. Now ap-
piled to any false alarm. c.n
ed by Germans Trommelferen-
d. S. O.-Distinguished Service Order.
DUFFLE BAG-A clothes bag
DUGOUT-An underground shelter against
shells or bombs.
EGG-A German bomb. so called from its
resemblance to an ostrich egg.
EMBUSOUE@A Stacker.
EN- PERMISSIoN-On leave.
Observation-Disclosures of organization OF the
French flying corps.
ESTAMINET-A small French saloon or
EAT DIES PERTEs-casuaity list
ETRE ATTIGE-French slang, meaning TO
EvA "a HospITAI-A type of field
EVENING HATE-The methodical evening
bombardment by she German.
FAGS-C Cigarettes.
FELDwEBEL OR wACHMEISTER-Ger
man sergeant ma jor.
FIRE BUCKET-A sheet iron pail or brazier
for heating a dugout.
FIVE-POINT- NINE-A German gun that
roKKERA e ype Of S very fast German air
FoURBI-French slang. meaning anything
and everything, clothes, pack. the army
FRANCINEEA Red Cross nurse.
FRITZ-Tommy's name for German SOL
FUNK HoLE-A dugout proof against high
explosive shells
GEFREITER-A German high private.
GNIOLE-French elang for brandy.
GoGLASH II KITCHEN-A field kitchen.
GREEN CROSS SHELLS-Gas Shells.
GROUsING-British soldiers slang for
grumbling. Corresponds to kicking.
HAND GRENADE-A bomb thrown by
hand
HAUPTMANN-Germa captain of infan-
HE1v1Es-Heavy artillery.
HOLY sYNoD-The highest eeclesin stical
authority in Russia. the governing body
of the Orthodox Greek church.
HUES-Germans-
INvALIDED-sen home on account of
IRON RATIoNswEmergency rations !;
bully beef. hard tack, jam and tea
JACK 1oHNSoS-Rritish soldiers name
for the German seventeen inch shells.
JAM TINS-Earliest British bomb. The
Mills bomb is the present British stan
JUS (JUIcE)-Coffee.
KAMERAD-German for comrade. The
Germans Il surrender.
KILO-A kilogramme. 2.20 pounds.
feet1 About fiye-eighths Of a mile.
KITCHENER'S ARMY OR KITCHENER s
MOB-England's first volunteer army for
the present war.
LAISSEZ PASSER-A military pass.
LANDSTURM-one Of the units Of the
E-ENFIELD-The rifle used by the
| British army.
| Russian Socialists, named from their
| leader. Nikolai Lenine.
| LEWIS GUN-An air cooled machine gun
invented by Col !. n. Lewis Of the United
States army; -, .,..,..o,
| A position beyond the first line trenches
! from which a detail Of. two or three
! soldiers listen at night for sounds Of
LITTLE WiLLiE-German Crown Prince.
| LOUFTINGUE-Frenc slang for a fool,
nut"
MACCABEEs-Cor zone gets used to
living beside corpses, or Mascabees, "a as
we call them."-Diary of French OIL
NJ. b. K-Missing. believed killed.
MARIO E-trpnCn slang TOT DULL
| MARMITE-A kettle Also a German shell,
| from its resemblance to the utenstl.
MASSED FORMATION-The close order IN
which Germans attack.
MAXIMAL1STS+A radical or anachistic
/ PARTY in Russia less violent in Its doc
| trines than the Leninites.
lMEDAILLE MILITAIRE-Military medal
a French decoration.
MILLIMETER-A unit Of measure, OO395
I inch.
1 MINNIE-A kind of shell fired by Minen-
1 werfer.
MINENwERFER-A German trench NOR
tar.
MONS CINQUE-French slang, ''just in
time"
/ MI'FTI-Civilian clothes.
MCZHIK OR MUJIK-Russian peasant
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