单词 | quarter-bloke |
释义 | > as lemmasquarter-bloke quarter-bloke n. British Military slang now rare a quartermaster or quartermaster sergeant. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > quartermaster quartermaster1590 fourrier1678 Q.M.1791 quartermaster captain1846 Q1916 quarter1917 quarter-bloke1918 quarter jack1930 1918 L. N. Smith Lingo of No Man's Land (2014) 62 Quarter-blocke [sic], quarter master sergeant. 1919 Athenæum 1 Aug. 695/2 The Q.M.S. (the colour-sergeant or ‘Flag’ of the Old Army) is always called the ‘Quarter Bloke’ or ‘The Bloke’. 1920 Punch 18 Aug. 137/2 It's great..To eat a daintier kind of grub than quarter-blokes provide. 1944 Gen 30 Dec. 55/2 Nickly overstepped the mark when he suggested to the quarter-bloke..that he was flogging the rations. 1950 C. MacInnes To Victors the Spoils i. 21 I'll drop back there and talk to his quarter-bloke. 1971 S. Milligan Adolf Hitler 64 A man in the battery who had actually been with my father's Regiment..said he remembered my father as the Mad Quarter-bloke. < as lemmas |
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