Definitions
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- noun informal, uncountable Military
national service ,conscription . - noun informal, countable A person doing military
national service .
Etymologies
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From national service + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
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Examples
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His own experience as a nasho conscript serviceman in Vietnam and the emotional aftermath of his service & return gave weight & empathy to the tale he told.
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While the majority of Generation Y might be unfamiliar with a word like nasho, it wasn't so long ago that the birthday ballot compelled young men into the armed forces.
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So nasho and even the rather official compo and the early pejorative reffo ` refugee 'show a desire to acclimatize the unfamiliar, not to be impressed, to cut down tall poppies.
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Some words have - o alone; arvo ` afternoon 'and nasho ` national service, compulsory military training' are examples of this.
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