victories + God Save the Queen (song): 'Send her victorious'.
nowell = noel - a chrismass carol, the christmass season + Nowells - firearms.
browning - the name of John M. Browning (1855-1926), applied attrib. to various weapons ranging from pistols to machine-guns, esp. automatic ones, designed by him + Browne/Nolan.
dumm (ger) - stupid
curry - to ride or run with haste or rapidity, to scurry + Harry
Finnegan's Wake, chorus: 'Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake'
apparel - covering designed to be worn on a person's body + a barrel.
meggs (Slang) - halfpennies (19th and 20th century) + FSTD: A strange man wehring abarrel. And here's a gift of eggs.
Chipping Norton, town, Oxfordshire + FSTD: And I live by chipping norton. And iron for fits a farmer.
eieren (Dutch) - eggs + Isaiah 2:4: 'They shall beat their swords into plowshares'.
arc-de-sedo (Provençal) - rainbow
halcyon days - fourteen days of calm weather, anciently believed to occur about the winter solstice when the halcyon was brooding
Leibster (ger) - dearest + Leib (ger) - body + lobster (Slang) - British soldier + leidster (Dutch) - guiding star + Royal Leinsters.
reduit - a fortified defence structure which is used in order that the defending troops can survive and hold out an attack + radouga (Russian) - rainbow.
recruit - one newly or recently enlisted for service in the army
paddy - nickname for an Irishman + praties (Anglo-Irish) - potatoes + (*VYC* and *IJ*).
British - pl. British people, soldiers, etc.
wheeze - a whistling sound caused by difficult breathing; Theatr. slang, A joke or comic gag introduced into the performance of a piece by a clown or comedian, esp. a comic phrase or saying introduced repeatedly; hence, (gen. slang or colloq.) a catch phrase constantly repeated; more widely, a trick or dodge frequently used; also, a piece of special information, a 'tip'.
wayward - disposed to go counter to the wishes or advice of others, or to what is reasonable; capriciously wilful + WINDWARD ISLANDS - Group of islands, including Barbados, in the West Indies, formerly a Britain colony. The name indicates that they are the most exposed of the Lesser Antilles to the North-East trade winds.
Inggris (Malay) - English
blue streak - something resembling a flash of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.; a constant stream of words; esp. in phr. 'to talk a blue streak'
yisty (Ruthenian) - to eat
pyty (Ruthenian) - to drink
af = of
Roisin Dubh (geal) - Dark Little Rose: Ireland (poetic) + rosolyanka (Ruthenian) - potato and sauerkraut soup + My Dark Rosaleen (song).
hand to hand - with close approach of hands; at close quarters
homard (fr) - lobster
Khayyam, Omar (d. 1123) - Persian astronomer, poet. Some of his quatrains were "translated" as The Rubaiyat by Edward Fitzgerald + cayenne - a long and often twisted hot red pepper.
jiggyjoggy - imitative words expressing reiteration or alternation of light, short, jerky movements
woo - (a spell of) caressing or love-making + boys
wild + FSTD: Them were helcyown days when wine & Woman was for a song ['ere th'osirian clum dung like a wallf on the falld.]
Pushkin: Tsyngany + cigani (Serbian) - Gipsies.
woodbine - an Englishman, esp. a soldier, considered as a habitual smoker of Woodbine cigarettes + Woodbine Willie - the Reverend Stoddart Kennedy, British chaplain who distributed Woodbine cigarettes to the troops in World War I. A "woodbine" is a London whore so old as to be worth only a cigarette on two.
willie - an infantile name for the penis
popular + popioły (Polish) - ashes.
papirosy (Russian) - cheap, unfiltered cigarettes manufactured in several countries of the former Soviet Union. The tobacco is typically very strong + papieros (Polish) - cigarette + rossies (Slang) - impudent girls + (popular with the girls).
chornyi (Ruthenian) = chórnay (Russian) - black + Charlie Chaplin + Chopin, composer.
blue - to make blue + Mangan (tanslator): My Dark Rosaleen (song): 'I could scale the blue air' + Blues music + (cigarette smoke).
Slainte! (slant'i) (geal) - Health! + szklanka (Polish) - drinking glass.
banzai! (Japanese) - Shout of victory + François Achille Bazaine (1811-88) - French Army Marshal, best known for his surrender of Metz (1870), his courtmartial and death sentence (1873), which was replaced by twenty years in prison, and his escape to Madrid where he died.
bas (Irish) - death + Bass's ale.
pivo (Russian, Serbian) - beer + Paul/Peter (motif).
tune in - to strike into a chorus; to interpose in a conversation; to tune a radio or television to (a particular station or transmission, or a particular frequency)
topmast - a smaller mast fixed on the top of a lower mast + topmost - uppermost, highest.
novelty - something new or unusual; a novel thing or occurrence + Novial - an artificial language + Phil the Fluter's Ball (song): 'Then all joined in with the utmost joviality'.
revel - riotous or noisy mirth or merry-making + rebels.
rink - the space of ground within which a combat, joust, or race takes place; a sheet of ice for skating, especially one artificially prepared and roofed in + drinks + king.
bon homme (fr.) - good man + petit bonhomme il vit encore (fr) - man in the street still lives ('Jacques Bonhomme' personifies France) + bonham (Irish) - sucking pig (from Irish banbh: pigling).
vive - to endue with life
droom (Dutch) - dream + dromos (gr) - race
rest + Thomas Moore, song: The Dream of Those Days [air: I Love You above All the Rest] + strast (Russian, Serbian) - passion.
blowhole - each of the two holes (constituting the nostrils) at the top of the head in whales and other cetaceans, through which they breathe or 'blow'
brasshat - an officer of high rank in the British army (or other Service), so called from the gilt insignia on his cap (slang.)
butch - a tough youth or man; butcher
buckoo - Australian term of approval.
bonzer - excellent, extremely good (Australian Slang)
believe me
dogleg - tobacco of poor quality + (officers' stripes).
halfpenny - worth no more than a halfpenny, of contemptible value, trumpery + Humpty Dumpty (nursery rhyme).
wing (Slang) - penny
wang (Malay) - money
disengaged - set free from engagement, ties, or prepossession; free from obligatory connexion
slavey - a male servant or attendant; a female domestic servant, esp. one who is hard-worked; a maid of all work + Slav
generale - Mil. 'Formerly a beat of the drum for the assembly of all the troops preparatory to a march, battle, or action' + FSTD: [[for almistips.] Till I shthe [when I scene how he [the offensive] didn't care a humpeny dump for anybody touching their thusengaged generals. [I would not hurt the feelings of my life [privates] but numb arm all,]] up the revels!]
tanah (Malay) - land, country + Dan O'Connell.
Cornwall (King Mark)
milusha (Russian) - nice girl + militia's delicious (World War I Slang) - camp followers.
delicious + miliseach dilis (milishokh dilish) (geal) - dearest sweetheart.
sunpicture - a picture made by means of sunlight, a photograph + some picturebook + ST PETERSBURG - Second largest city of USSR, and cap 1712-1917 + bosch (Dutch) - wood, forest.
baghous = bakehouse (obs.) - a building or apartment in which bread is made, having an oven for baking it + baghus (Danish) - backhouse + bagus (Malay) - fine, excellent + Bacchus.
comminatio (l) - a threatening, menacing + comminations - church recital of Divine threatenings against sinners.
not care a tinker's cuss - not give a damn
Shem, Ham and Japhet
Petrograd + retrograde.
Lenin, Nikolai (1870-1924) - Russian revolutionary + leanings.
soeurs (fr) - sisters + soeurs (fr. slang) - whores.
assister - he who or that which gives help, or assists in doing something + sisterhood - a society of sisters; esp. a society of women who have taken certain vows and live together under conventual rule, or who are otherwise devoted to religious life, or to charitable work as a vocation + sisterhood (Slang) - brothel staff.
Lyndhurst Terrace, Hong Kong, brothel area [.32] [352.01]
petit - of small size, small + putih (Malay) - white + puta (Spanish) whore + putti (Italian) - cherublike figures (decorative representations of small children, nude or in swaddling-bands, often seen in altar-pieces).
chelana dalam (Malay) - drawers, panties (from Malay chelana: 'trousers' and Malay dalam: 'inside', 'under').
vinting - making wine
anggur (Malay) - wine
belle (Slang) - whore + venting her anger can tell the truth.
alliance - community or relationship in nature or qualities + Prussians called Battle of Waterloo 'La Belle Alliance' (centre of French lines was La Belle Alliance Inn).
respectable ('respectable' girls preferred in Oriental brothels)
colonel + culone (Italian) - having a big arse + Colonel Olcott, a friend of H.P. Blavatsky, had a big white beard [352.04]
mellay - an engagement in which the two parties or combatants are mixed together in a close hand to hand fight + melayu (Malay) - Malay + Malay Street, Singapore, brothel area [.29] [352.01]
guntur (Malay) - thunder + lieutenant general - in the British army, an officer in rank next below a general, and next above a major-general.
sawab (Malay) - truth (from Arabic)
arms + aimées (fr) - beloved ones (feminine).
servation - preservation + salvation
bludger - a parasite or hanger-on, a loafer; a man living off the earnings of a harlot (Slang) + not on your life - not on any account, by no means.
touter - one who or that which watches (obs.); a spy upon race-horses; one who touts or canvasses for customers or clients + tout (Slang) - one who solicits clients for brothel.
pompadour - a style of arranging women's hair, in which it is turned back off the forehead in a roll, sometimes over a pad + Pompadour (1721-64) - mistress of Louis XV + pimp (Slang) - one who solicits clients for a whore.
Java - isalnd in the Malay archipelago + by jove - by god (used to show one's surprise, annoyance, etc.)
risky - dangerous, hazardous, fraught with risk
wark = work
Rask, Christian Rasmus (1787-1832) - Danish philologist, master of 25 languages
wolk (Dutch) - cloud + russkii volk (Russian) - Russian wolf.
Comyn: The Youthful Exploits of Fionn: 'at the head of a week' ('head' meaning 'end')
stumblebum - a worthless, clumsy, or inept person; a 'down and out', a drunkard