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Updated: May 2, 2025
Excited anticipation for your name as each parcel or letter is read out, dull disappointment if your issue is napoo. Parcels. Oxo cubes, of course. Utilised because of adhesive qualities for throwing at a target as darts. A pair of silk socks, purple with gold spots. Will come in useful as a rifle rag. A long, wide woolly article resembling a cross between a scarf and a blanket ... do as a pillow.
He grouses at everything great or small which has no immediate or vital bearing on the situation. As soon as anything arises that would really warrant a grouse napoo! Tommy Atkins then begins to smile. He grouses when he has to clean his buttons; he grouses loudly and fiercely when a puttee frays to rags, and he grouses when his tea is too hot.
The reappearance in the same sense of "napoo" for death in the armies of the Allies in France is a little surprising. G.v.d.M.
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