toc emman.

/tɒk ˈɛmə/

Forms: Also tock emma (and toch emma) and with capital initials.

Etymology: Representing T.M. (see T n. Initialisms 1); see toc n., emma n.

Military slang.

A trench mortar. Also transferred.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > mortar > trench mortar

trench mortar1871

minenwerfer1914

mine-thrower1914

Minnie1915

Stokes1915

toc emma1916

T.M.1925

Moaning Minnie1944

1916 B.E.F. Times 1 Dec. f. 3/1 Completely oblivious of the dangers I encountered from our own artillery and Tock Emmas!

1918 J. H. Douglas Captured ii. 25 He turned out to be Bombardier ‘Chuck’ Gibson who was with the sixty-pound ‘Tock Emma’ (Trench Mortar) Battery located on our frontage.

1928 R. C. Sherriff Journey's End (1929) ii. ii. 57 Can't have men out there while the toch-emmas are blowing holes in the Boche wire.

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.’

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

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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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.

单词	toc emma
释义	toc emman. /tɒk ˈɛmə/ Forms: Also tock emma (and toch emma) and with capital initials. Etymology: Representing T.M. (see T n. Initialisms 1); see toc n., emma n. Military slang. A trench mortar. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > mortar > trench mortar trench mortar1871 minenwerfer1914 mine-thrower1914 Minnie1915 Stokes1915 toc emma1916 T.M.1925 Moaning Minnie1944 1916 B.E.F. Times 1 Dec. f. 3/1 Completely oblivious of the dangers I encountered from our own artillery and Tock Emmas! 1918 J. H. Douglas Captured ii. 25 He turned out to be Bombardier ‘Chuck’ Gibson who was with the sixty-pound ‘Tock Emma’ (Trench Mortar) Battery located on our frontage. 1928 R. C. Sherriff Journey's End (1929) ii. ii. 57 Can't have men out there while the toch-emmas are blowing holes in the Boche wire. 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.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). > as lemmas toc emma 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. extracted from emman. < n.1916 as lemmas
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