Bbaa lambnouna tram (streetcar) [uk/australia]· As it began to Andy Cain and I had no Quaker oat, I took the baa lamb to the Gates of Rome. – The Age, Melbourne, ‘The Other English Language. Cockneys’ Rhyming Slang’, 19th April 1952· – J. Franklyn, DRS1, 1960· – S.T. Kendall, Up the Frog, p.24, 1969· – R. Barker, Fletcher’s Book, p.29, 1979· – P. Wright, Cockney, p.103, 1981· Electric baa lambs ran in London from 1901 to 1952[.] – G. Tibballs, UCGGRS, 2008· – G. Seal, DEDH, 2009B. A. Baracus; BAsnounthe testicles [uk]Rhymes on knackers. < B. A. Baracus, a character por-trayed by Mr T (the stage name of Laurence Tureaud) in the American television series The A-Team (1983–87) and by Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson in the film of the same name (2010). B. A. stands for ‘Bad Attitude’. The short form is recorded in 2013.· I kicked him in his BA Baracus[.] – www.kuntandthe-gang.co.uk, 6th October 2009· – Roger’s Profanisaurus: Hail Sweary, 2013babblenouncrime or criminal activity [uk]Formed on babbler, a shortening of the noun bab-bling brook. Used in the phrase on the babble ‘en-gaged in criminal activity’.· [H]ye’s been on the babble all his life. – J. Crozier, SABR, 2006babbleverbto cook [uk]Formed on babbler, a shortening of the noun bab-bling brook.· Who’s babbling? – N. Whitby, Green Fields, p.4, 2000· I couldn’t babble a boiled egg. – J. Crozier, SABR, 2006babbling brook; babbler; babbling; babblins; babnoun 1 a cook, especially and originally a sheep station, camp or army cook [australia/new zealand/us/uk]Recorded in the forms babbling brook, babbler, bab-blins and bab. The first two are common in all three locations of use; the third and fourthare exclusively Australian.· Ninety per cent of the cooks do their full share of work. The offsider gets a third and emerges for next season as a full-fledged Babbler–that is if he takes to the game. – W.S. Ramson, AND, 1988: Worker, Sydney, 6th August 1904· Blanky pork an’ beans – an’ why? Becos the babblin’ brook’s a blanky fool! – Aussie: The Australian Soldiers’ Magazine, 16th February 1918· He reviled the officers’ cook for being a..thieving, dirty, greasy, ‘babbling brook’. – H.W. Orsman, DNZE, 1997: The Kia Ora Coo-ee magazine, 15th October 1918· BABBLING BROOK; BABBLER (n.)–An Army cook. Also BABBLINS. – W.H. Downing, Digger Dialects, 1919· Babbling brook, that’s the cook. – The Evening News, Harrisburg, PA, D. Runyon, ‘Runyon Says’, 2nd May 1929· – J. Brophy and E. Partridge, SSBS1, 1930· There was no fear of travellers being sent empty away by a crotchety “babbler” at Dareel (“babbler” being “cook” in the language of the bush). – The News, Ad-elaide, South Australia, 9th August 1932· – A.J. Pollock, US, 1935· Old ‘Forty-Mile Tom’ is the ‘bab’ on our station, But, though he is famed all along the Paroo, He sets little store by his great reputation For making a duff or con-cocting a stew. – W.S. Ramson, AND, 1988: The Bulletin, Sydney, 22nd July 1936· Arch, the cook–oh, how that bold ‘babbler’ could curse. – H.W. Orsman, DNZE, 1997: F. Bruno, Desert Gaze, p.33, 1944· – G. Simes, DAUS, 1993: 1950· – J. Franklyn, DRS1, 1960· No doubt about it, my Mary is a bottling babbling brook. – J. Meredith, Duke of the Outback, p.105, 1983: H.P. ‘Duke’ Tritton, letter dated 3rd March 1905, but sure-ly written later; ante 1965· We have a tame Babbling Brook, who in civvy life was a parson. The other day he was carrying two dixies of water to our trench when Fritz put over a collection of five-nines just in front of him. The holy Babbler ducked energetically and then continued on his watery mission. [...] Shortly after, another collection of hate-stuff arrived, scattering about half a hundredweight of France over the Bab. and into the dixies of water. – R. Fair, Anzac Humour, p.34, 1965· The next job was the “babbling brook”. I once had a chap (a cook himself) inform me that there were “cooks, cuckoos, cuckeroos, and cuckeroo b––s”. Needless to add my informant was a cook. – P. Newton, The Boss’s Story, p.65, 1966· Good babblers are hard to come by. – D. O’Grady, A Bottle of Sandwiches, p.152, 1968· – S.T. Kendall, Up the Frog, p.24, 1969· – J. Jones, RCS, 1971https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110535525-002
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