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Maconochie colloq.|məˈkɒnəkɪ|
[The name of the makers, Maconochie Brothers, of London.]
1. Meat stewed with vegetables and tinned, esp. as supplied to soldiers on active service; a tin of such meat. Also Maconochie ration.
1901‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness i. 9 The hungry shelterers trooped back to their ‘dixies’, and wasted not a thought upon them [sc. shells], until the ‘Maconochie’ had vanished. 1915F. H. Lawrence in T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 689 We have found several tins of Maconochie Rations & also Jam in the house. 1917‘I. Hay’ Carrying on viii. 220 How would a Maconochie apiece suit your boys? 1940‘Gun Buster’ Return via Dunkirk ii. xix. 225 He manages to scrape together two tins of Maconochie (stew), a tin of cold potatoes,..and some ‘issue biscuits’. 1954W. Faulkner Fable 61 His company commander was shaving out of a Maconochie tin.
2. joc. slang. The stomach. Also Maconochie Cross, Maconochie Medal (see quots.).
1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 32 Maconochie,..stomach. Ibid., Maconochie Cross, Military Cross. Maconochie Medal, Military Medal. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 149 Maconochie..was also sometimes used for stomach, e.g., ‘He got hit in the Maconochie’. 1965Brophy & Partridge Long Trail 147 Maconochie Medal, the Military Medal; Maconochie Cross, the Military Cross. |