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emma
used orig. in telephone communications and in the oral transliteration of code messages, hence colloq., for m, as in ack emma, for a.m. (see ack); emma-emma-esses (see quot. 1919); emma-gee, for m.g. = machine gun; pip emma, for p.m. (see pip n.4); toc emma, for t.m. (see toc emma).
1891Man. Instructions Signalling 94 The reader may pronounce his letters in any distinctive method to distinguish those letters which resemble others in sound, e.g. B, V, D, E, or M, N, etc. may be called Beer, Vay, Do, E, and Emma and N, etc. 1898, etc. [see ack]. 1915‘Ian Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xix. 289 ‘Pip Emma’—as our friends the ‘buzzers’ call the afternoon. 1918H. W. McBride Emma Gees i. 9 Emma Gee is signaler's lingo for M.G., meaning machine gunner. 1919Downing Digger Dialects 22 Emma-emma-esses, smoke-oh. (From the signal alphabet, MMS, Men may smoke.) 1926E. Wallace Door with Seven Locks xiii. 125 Tell him I want to raid Gallows Cottage, Gallows Hill, at eleven-fifteen pip-emma. 1931Morning Post 20 Aug. 8/5 He was the only infantry officer..who had a good word for the Trench Mortar crowd. ‘Are you Toc Emmas? You're just the men I want.’ 1969Wodehouse Pelican at Blandings vi. 83 We shall meet at twelve pip emma. |