The following comprises a list of words and phrases of the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom of Great Britain during the Great War, which also includes: technicalities, trench slang, expressions in everyday use, nicknames, sobriquets, the titles and origins of British and Commonwealth Regiments, and warfare in general. These words and phrases are contemporary to the war, which is reflected in the style and language used of the time, and have been transcribed from three primary sources (see contents). Feel free to help improve any of the entries in these lists.
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- d.
- Dabster
- Daddy, A Sea
- Dado
- Dados
- Dag
- Dag up
- Dago
- Dags
- Dags, On the
- Daisy pushing
- Daisy roots (rhyming slang)
- Dandy
- Dardanelles
- Dark night patrol
- Dart
- Daty
- David
- David, Send it down (Davy, David)
- Der tag day
- Day's pack
- Dazzle painting
- DCM
- Dead Marine
- Dead, On the
- Debus
- Deck, Going off the
- Declaration of London
- Declaration of War
- De-coder
- Decoration, Military
- Decoy ships
- Deep end, To go off the
- Defeatist
- Defilade
- Degommy
- Dekko
- Delible
- Delousing chambers
- Demies
- Dennis
- Deolali tap (Doolally tap)
- De-racks
- Derby
- Derzy
- Desert, Swing it across the
- Detail, Attack in
- Deuce and ace (rhyming slang)
- Devil's Wood
- DFC
- Dial
- Dick, Money for
- Dicky dirt (rhyming slang)
- Dicky flurry
- Dicky flutter
- Dicky leave
- Dicky run
- Diddlum buck
- Dido, Cut a
- Dig in
- Dig in the grave
- Digger
- Digger, Up the
- Dig out
- Dimback
- Dinar
- Dingbat
- Dingy
- Dinkum
- Dinkum oil
- Dinky
- Dipped
- Dirty, To do the
- Disband
- Dispatches
- Distinguished Conduct Medal
- Distinguished Service Order
- Ditch, The
- Ditched
- Ditty box
- Division
- Divisional signs (see Signs)
- Division, 32nd
- Dixie (Dixy)
- Dizzy
- Do, A
- Do an alley
- Dobbs
- Dobra
- Dobying
- Dock
- Doctor, The
- Dodger
- Dog and Bonnet
- Dog biscuits
- Dog fight
- Dogs
- Dogsbody
- Dog’s leg
- Dog watches
- Doing it
- Doings, In the
- Doings, The
- Do its damndest!
- Dolphin, The
- Don
- Done in
- Done to the wide
- Donkey’s breakfast
- Doo hicky
- Dooly
- Do one's nut
- Dope
- Dora
- Dosinghem
- Do Svidanya
- Dot on one, Put
- Douane
- Double, Come the
- Dough
- Doughboys
- Dough nuts
- Dovecote, The
- Dover Patrol
- d.o.w. (DOW)
- Dragged
- DRLS
- Drowning flotilla
- Drum, Follow the
- Drum up
- Drummy
- DSC
- DSM
- DSO
- Duay
- Ducat
- Duckboards
- Duckboard glide
- Duckboard harrier
- Ducks disease
- Duck shoving
- Dud
- Duff
- Duffos
- Dufter
- Dug-out
- Duke of Fife (rhyming slang)
- Duke of York (rhyming slang)
- Dukies, The
- Dullmajor
- Dumb insolence
- Dum-Dum bullet
- Dummy ships
- Dump
- Dun cow
- Dunnage bag
- Dunsterforce
- Duration, The
- Duration, For the
- Duster, The red
- Dustman
- Dusty boy
- Dutchman
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