The Great War
The Tommy's Tongue
V - Vic
- VAD:
- Voluntary Aid Detachment.
- Vamoose:
- To go quickly. From Spanish vamos, let us go.
- Velvet:
- Good. To be on velvet was to be in exceptionally fortunate and comfortable circumstances.
- Vermorel Sprayer:
- An agricultural spraying tool, used in the trenches to spray dispersal chemicals onto low-lying pockets of gas.
- Very:
- A flare or colored light fired from a Very pistol for signalling at night.
After the inventor, Edward W. Very (1852-1910), a U.S. naval ordnance officer.
- Vin Blanc Anglais:
- Whisky. From French, literally English white wine.