emman.

Etymology: Apparently an arbitrary formation.

Used originally in telephone communications and in the oral transliteration of code messages, hence colloquial, for m, as in ack emma, for a.m. (see ack n.); 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 n.).

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1891 Man. 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 Signalling Instr. (War Office) 86 The letters T, A, B, M,..will be called toc, ak [1904 Signalling Regs. ack], beer, emma.

1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xix. 289 ‘Pip Emma’—as our friends the ‘buzzers’ call the afternoon.

1918 H. W. McBride Emma Gees i. 9 Emma Gee is signaler's lingo for M.G., meaning machine gunner.

1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 22 Emma-emma-esses, smoke-oh. (From the signal alphabet, MMS, Men may smoke.)

1926 E. Wallace Door with Seven Locks xiii. 125 Tell him I want to raid Gallows Cottage, Gallows Hill, at eleven-fifteen pip-emma.

1931 Morning 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.’

1969 P. G. Wodehouse Pelican at Blandings vi. 83 We shall meet at twelve pip emma.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	emma
释义	emman. Etymology: Apparently an arbitrary formation. Used originally in telephone communications and in the oral transliteration of code messages, hence colloquial, for m, as in ack emma, for a.m. (see ack n.); 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 n.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > call or message > terms used in emma1891 ack1898 pip1898 toc1898 vic1913 1891 Man. 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 Signalling Instr. (War Office) 86 The letters T, A, B, M,..will be called toc, ak [1904 Signalling Regs. ack], beer, emma. 1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xix. 289 ‘Pip Emma’—as our friends the ‘buzzers’ call the afternoon. 1918 H. W. McBride Emma Gees i. 9 Emma Gee is signaler's lingo for M.G., meaning machine gunner. 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 22 Emma-emma-esses, smoke-oh. (From the signal alphabet, MMS, Men may smoke.) 1926 E. Wallace Door with Seven Locks xiii. 125 Tell him I want to raid Gallows Cottage, Gallows Hill, at eleven-fifteen pip-emma. 1931 Morning 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.’ 1969 P. G. Wodehouse Pelican at Blandings vi. 83 We shall meet at twelve pip emma. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1891
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