G'day Gerry,

Way up above, Emma B thought that "kip" was of Norwegian origin - brought to British ports by sailors looking for a bed for the night.

The Oxford English Dictionary (when my computer installation of the full 22-volume OED works - after I've remembered to ... again ... kill Billy Gates's Windows XP "Security" Update XP KB17422!) gives the source as even closer to your ancestry: Danish "kippe" = hut. The English sense for a bed (for the night) is grouped with a sense meaning a brothel ... "horekippe" in Danish.

I'm surprised to find no entry in the OED for "khazi" ... I'm quite familiar with it in Australian usage (and yet it is also missing from Oxford's Australian National Dictionary!). had always thought it was a soldier's term ... probably from the Middle East ... brought back after the First or Second World War.

Interestingly, when I read the text out aloud ... I find it not to give it all an "Ocker" (coarse Australian) accent ... and I could understand every word! Frankly, a lot of it sounds like a recycled version of Barry Humphries Ocker parlance for his Barry ('Bazza') McKenzie character of the '70s.

Regards,

Bob