pollywog a sailor yet to cross the equator.
scrambled eggs the gold insignia on an officer's cap.
seagull a loose woman who follows the fleet around from port to port.
sea legs accustomed physically and mentally to life at sea.
send a fish to fire a torpedo.
shellback an experienced sailor; one who has crossed the equator.
shivering Liz Jell-O.
sick bay onboard hospital.
skibbies the Japanese.
slop chute a garbage chute leading to the ocean.
slushy nickname for the cook.
smukes dollars.
sparks a wireless operator.
step off the plank to get married.
straight as a deck seam trustworthy.
submarine ears hard of hearing.
swab a large mop.
three sheets in the wind drunk.
three striper a commander.
two and a half striper a lieutenant commander.
two striper a lieutenant.
watch a four-hour watch duty.
watch cap a black, knitted stocking cap.
wicky wicky hurry up; chop chop; on the double.
Nurses
Annie nickname for a nurse anesthetist. arthritis of the cerebellum, have to be stupid. bedpan alley the hospital.
blues the two-tone blue uniforms worn during the war.
brown kitties bronchitis.
dock the hospital.
doctorine a woman doctor.
follow-up man mortician.
gubbins dirty dressings.
idiotorium hospital for the mentally ill.
inkie an incubator baby.
misery hall an emergency room.
scrub nurse a nurse who follows sterile procedures in order to handle operating room instruments.
sick bay ship hospital.
stiffy a paralyzed person.
stink kitchen a chemical laboratory.
temperature, don't run a don't get excited.
wacs
arsenal wear general issue lingerie.
barracks bags bags under the eyes from working a night shift.
blow boy bugler.
boll weevils heavy brown cotton stockings.
book rack bunk bed.
burp class a defense class on gas warfare.
canteen cowboy soldier who hangs out at the canteen to flirt with the women.
cool good.
cut off a scene to leave.
dry ammunition cosmetics.
gigs demerits.
GI Jane an OK person.
gravy good-looking, as in "he's gravy."
gruesome twosome regulation shoes.
hair warden the camp hair stylist.
jeep jockeys women auto mechanics in Motor Transport.
jubilee reveille.
monkey suits general issue coveralls. night maneuvers fooling around with a man. put a nickel in it hurry up. scoff to eat.
screwy as a toad a nut case.
square from Delaware a hick girl from a small town.
WAC Women's Army Corps.
WAC shack the barracks. Also known as the Wackery.
wolfing looking for men.
usic
KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS
baby grand a small grand piano, usually no more than 5 feet in length.
bandoneon the Argentine equivalent of an accordion, characterized by notes that are produced by buttons instead of a keyboard.
calliope any organ played or activated by steam.
celesta a small, keyboardlike instrument in which keys depress hammers that strike tuned steel bars, creating a haunting bell-like sound; invented in 1886 and used in T chaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy."
clavichord a stringed keyboard set in a rectangular box and producing soft sounds, popular from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
concert grand the largest size of piano, usually about 9 feet in length.
concertina a simple accordion with buttons in place of a keyboard.
damper any device that mutes or stops the sound vibrations of an instrument, as in the small pieces of felt-covered wood used in a piano.
damper pedal on a piano, the right-hand pedal that raises all dampers, allowing all of the strings to vibrate freely.
harpsichord a pianolike instrument having strings that are plucked instead of being struck by hammers; popular from the 16th to the 18 th centuries and still in use.
hydraulos a type of pipe organ invented by the Greeks, notable for its regulation of air pressure by the displacement of water in special chambers.
key any of the individual levers on a keyboard.
manual a keyboard played by the hands as opposed to one played by the feet, as an organ pedalboard.
pedal any one of the two or three foot pedals controlling volume and tone on a piano.
pedal organ the section of organ pipes, often of low pitch, operated by an organ's pedal board.
piano keyboard in which keys activate hammers that strike tuned strings.
player piano a mechanical piano that plays tunes automatically by means of air pressure and special perforated music roles.
soundboard the resonant board over which strings are strung in a piano or harpsichord.
spinet a small harpsichord, popular from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
stop in organs, a lever or knob that stops air to a particular set of pipes; the set of pipes so affected is also called a stop.
synthesizer a modern keyboard instrument capable of producing or reproducing hundreds of different sounds through electronic means.
virginal a small, rectangular harpsichord popular from the 15th to the 17th centuries.
wind chest the air chamber in some organs.
MuSIC DIRECTIvES
(tempos, volume, etc.)
accelerando accelerating gradually.
adagietto a slow tempo, slightly faster than adagio.
adagio a slow tempo, faster than largo, slower than andante, specifically from 98 to 125 quarter notes per minute.
adagissimo extremely slow tempo.
ad libitum ad-libbing tempo, rhythm, accents, notes, and so on.
affettuoso with tenderness.
affrettando in a rushed manner.
agilmente lightly and nimbly.
agitato in an agitated, restless manner.
allargando slowing down and increasing in volume.