Matlow: sailor (from French, matelot)
Miölnir: Thor’s hammer, legendary weapon
Moost: mad, beserk (from Hindustani)
Mutti: sun-baked mud
Napoo: British WWI era army slang meaning ‘finished’, ‘gone’
North: mouth (rhyming slang, North and south)
Nullah: waterbed, ravine
Pawny: water (from Hindustani)
Peechi: presently (from Hindustani)
Piard: yellow dog (corruption of pariah)
Pugaree: a scarf wound around the helmet, often worn by the British army abroad
Sexton: an official of the church, sometimes charged with burying the dead
Sidekicker: friend; companion
Soor: swine (from Hindustani: a far worse insult than its English equivalent)
Tap: sunstroke
Tit-fer: hat (rhyming slang, tit-for-tat)
Topee: pith helmet
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Philip MacDonald (1900–1980) was the grandson of the writer George MacDonald. During World War I, he served with the British cavalry in Mesopotamia. He later trained horses for the army and was a show jumper. MacDonald moved to Hollywood in 1931. He was one of the most popular mystery writers of the 1930s and wrote over twenty-five novels. He also wrote many screenplays and fifteen of his novels were made into film adaptations.
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