10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DINKUM OIL»
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dinkum oil in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Tobruk Truth: The
Dinkum Oil
In addition to the newspaper itself, the collection also includes photocopies of newspaper cuttings about the "Tobruk Truth" and the fighting in Tobruk, a letter to Williams from the editor of the World's Press News and various articles and ...
2
Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology
A longer survivor of the Gallipoli trench press was The Dinkum Oil,20 which
began on June 11 and lasted for eight issues into July 1915. The Dinkum Oil was
the offspring of a paper founded and edited by Sergeant Max Noonan for the 6th
...
3
The Lingo: Listening to Australian English
A poem titled 'The Dinkum Oil About "Digger"' appeared in number 4 and
correspondence wound on through subsequent issues into 1919. (The terms
DINKUM OIL or THE GOOD OIL, by the way, are said by linguists to be a transfer
of the use ...
4
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
dink dinkum dinkum oil dinky dinky-di dino dish dishy diss ditch ditsy dive divot
divvy do. people. . . .They are dinks and gooks and slant-eyed bastards (1970). [
Origin unknown.] dink2 noun Also Dink. orig N Amer = dinky noun. 1987–.
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
5
Kel Richards' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Both 'oil' and 'dinkum oil' date from 1915, hesays, andhad very wide currency as
Services' slang. Sometimes information wasjust'the oil' and sometimes it was
qualified as 'the dinkum oil' or 'the straight oil' or 'the good oil'. There was even a ...
6
Wordbook of Australian Idiom: Aussie Slang
... a real dinkum job' (3) 'Is that real gold? Yeah mate its real dinkum gold' dinkum
oil Let me give you good reliable information— 'Let me give ya the dinkum oil, its
dinki-di' dinky Petite, a small object, a small vehicle— 'She is Kerrin. P Rowe.
"The dinkum oil" — the truth. If you are interested in horse racing, as so many
Aussies are, and you got the "straight griffin " (secret information from an owner of
race horses), it would be "the dinkum oil." In referring to a fine city like Sydney or
a ...
8
The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and ...
3 honest; upstanding AUSTRALIA, 1962 dinkum adverb really; truly; honestly
AUSTRALIA, 1915 dinkum Aussie a person who embodies all those things seen
as characteristically Australian AUSTRALIA, 1920 dinkum oil noun reliable ...
Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell, 2007
9
The Bibliography of Australian Literature
Short stories. ®ssl Square Dinkum: a volume of original Australian wit and
humour (as The Twinkler). Melbourne: Melville and Mullen, [1917]. Cover subtitle:
more original Australian wit and humour. Short stories. ®ssl Dinkum Oil: a volume
of ...
John Arnold, John Hay, Kerry Kilner, 2008
10
The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War
13 Bean had been impressed with an earlier Australian trench journal, Sniper's
Shots, edited by Sergeant Max Noonan for the 6th Battalion, and onJune
11assisted Noonanin compiling thefirst Dinkum Oil.14 Dinkum Oil was
handwritten and ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DINKUM OIL»
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dinkum oil is used in the context of the following news items.
Furphies and Whizz-bangs
... reflecting a general concern about a lack of information about the war or likely activities: these included terms such as dinkum oil, good oil, ... «OUPblog, Nov 14»
FitzSimons: Let's hope Thorpe is happy as well
When you call that autobiography This is My Life it is a further affirmation that what I am telling you is the dinkum oil. But it wasn't. "The thing that ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 14»
Ananish Chaudhuri: Reforms blind to universities' aims
... physics professor, submitted an article, a spoof of some of the worst nonsense, and it got accepted by a learned journal as the dinkum oil. «New Zealand Herald, Apr 14»
Ted Cannon: sketching the story of the talented Ballarat cartoonist …
... equality of the sacrifice." Letter excerpts are from A. M. Taylor's 'Dinkum Oil: letters published in the Ballarat Courier during The Great War'. «ABC Local, Nov 13»
Skoda gets a breath of fresh air
... that it has decided to let the cat out of the bag and give us the dinkum oil on its staple car range with some decent photographs to go with it. «Stuff.co.nz, Dec 12»
One war, two allies separated by a common language
The guide included a glossary of slang, with translations of such obscure expressions as "dinkum oil" ("Gospel truth"), "God stone the crows" ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 07»
