Words & TermsWar, service and history
common-tally-plunk
A comic soldiers' rendering of French 'comment allez-vous?' meaning roughly 'how are you?'.
In a sentence
In this historical or contextual use, “common-tally-plunk” means a comic soldiers' rendering of French 'comment allez-vous?' meaning roughly 'how are you?'.
Where it came from
The master/AIF source stream records the phrase in Australian First World War slanguage.
- Initial era
- 1900–1949
- Where used
- Australian military usage; historical