Crossword-Solution: DINKUM 6 letters, 33 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Then Smith 'e promised if 'e came back 'ome Before 'is cobber o'er the flamin' foam, 'E'd see the ole folks 'ere, an' 'e agreed, If there was need, 'E'd stay an' do a bit around the farm So long as 'e 'ad one sound, dinkum arm.

The knowledge that we were at last on our way to the 'Dinkum' thing had the effect of leading us to take a more serious view of the situation.

She's Joan iv Ark, Flo Nightingale, all fair 'N' dinkum dames who've made their mark If she comes tip-toe in the dark, We blighters feel her there.

The first Australian to stroll down those streets was amazed to see, in huge lettering, "The Melbourne Store," next door to "The Sydney Shop." They even knew our slang, for here was "The 'Fair Dinkum' Store," and across the way "Ribuck Goods." Prices were pretty much what you liked to pay.

But as soon as he spotted them there toes of mine--the ones that's gone--I could see he knew I'd clicked a packet, square dinkum, this trip." ("Square dinkum" or "dinkum" is an Antipodean verbal flourish, which broadly approximates to the American "Sure enough" or the English "Not 'arf.") Certain of these neologisms are common enough in civilian life--have been imported into the army since 1914--but others (and the more interesting ones, as I hold) were, until the war, limited to the barrack-room.