Army Slang (April 1917)

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>    Some of the strangest language in the army is heard on the picket
> line.   Horses are frequently called "goats" or "sheep."  Occasionally
> there is a "camel," a "giraffe," or a "juggernaut."  The term "outlaw"
> for a wild horse is not unusual, although the name "corrahu," common in
> Battery A, is.

What is "corrahu"?

>    One term which the Rhode Island guardsmen picked up on the border is
> the Spanish "aborrotes" for groceries.

OK, so that should be "abarrotes", right?

Similarly "corrahu" should be Spanish "carajo", now [and then too I
suppose] all-purpose rude expletive (originally = "penis"), right? Or wrong?

-- Doug Wilson