snags = Sausages. drongo = Someone who is an idiot, stupid, clumsy or worthless, e.g. Bluey : pack, equipment, traffic ticket, redhead. Collins Street farmer = A businessman or investor who buys or invests in a farm or agricultural business (Collins Street is a street in Melbourne associated with businessmen, particularly with medical professionals); the New South Wales version is a Pitt Street farmer (after a street in Sydney associated with businessmen). He caught the wog (stomach bug). people from Bananaland (a slang name for Queensland). happy as a bastard on Fathers Day = A reference to someone who is unhappy; e.g. Early in 2017, the Australian pie company Four'N Twenty expressed its concern that Australians hadn't been "slinging slang" enough, and so launched its "Save Our Slang" campaign, aimed at promoting some 70 you-beaut, dinky-di, true-blue Aussie-isms ( bloke, bogan, grouse . Brian Cadd [music videos and biography] bottled = To smash someone (usually over the head) with a bottle, such as in a pub fight, e.g. You reckon Australia was founded in the year 1500? garbo = Garbage man; the person who comes along in a truck to collect your rubbish. was fired; got the sack), bullshit = A term which is used to refer to a lie, to something said that is disagreed with, or to a situation that is disagreed with), e.g. coldie = A cold can of beer, or a cold stubbie of beer. Meaning everything will be alright. He was big-noting himself to impress that girl. get a handle on = To understand something, e.g. boongs = Derogatory name for Aborigines; also used for Papua New Guineans (PNG used to be a territory of Australia). they had a real barney over that one (sometimes spelt as barny). A lot of Australian slang is inspired by beach and surf culture. may your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down = A phrase expressing ill-will, e.g. chuck = [2] To vomit, to chuck up, to throw up, e.g. Anzac. The full phrase is Fair suck of the saveloy, but saveloy has long since been shortened to sav (a saveloy is a seasoned pork sausage). Bodgy - of inferior quality. bees knees = Something very good. bitser = A dog of mongrel pedigree; from being bits of this pedigree and bits of that pedigree. shithouse = [2] No good, e.g. Hes a bit of a boofhead. Rarely used nowadays. Shes a couple of lamingtons short of a CWA meeting (CWA refers to the Country Womens Association). in the nuddy - naked. Aussie slang such as 'budgie', 'greenie', 'pollie', 'surfie', and even 'mozzie' are now also making appearances in global English. I havent seen Dave for ages, I think hes gone walkabout. sanger A sandwich. Ring the rattlesnake? hes an arsey bastard. Gazza = Garry. Ozzie) : Australian Aussie salute : brushing away flies with the hand Avos : avocados B B & S : Bachelors' and Spinsters' Ball - a very enjoyable party usually held in . See the following list: https://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=132374 2. to withdraw in a cowardly manner from (a contest, a dare, the riding of a large wave, etc. City of Churches = Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. Made famous by the ill-fated former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who enjoyed using Australian slang to speak to the . he was flat out like a lizard drinking to get the project completed on time; similar to flat chat. he missed crashing into the truck by a bees dick, he was a bees dick away from being sacked. spunk rat spunk.nl spunked spunkie spunkier Spunkier spunkiest Spunkiest spunk in English dictionary . Gor blimey, I ate too much, Im as full as a goog. come the raw prawn = To try to impose on someone, or to seek an advantage, e.g. Ditch, the = The Tasman Sea, as the ditch between Australia and New Zealand; sometimes pronounced as the dutch, as a reference to the New Zealand style of pronouncing vowels. Sausage. whinge = To complain, moan, whine, especially used when there is little reason for complaint, when there is no point complaining, or when the matter seems trivial, e.g. a few cents short of a dollar = [See the entry: a few sandwiches short of a picnic.]. hoo roo = Goodbye. cop it sweet = When someone takes on a negative outcome without complaining. bog in = To tuck into food, or to eat food with gusto, e.g. Derived from the imagined length of a bees genitalia. Geez, its a real stinker out there, Its stinking hot, Its a stinker of a day. Based upon the fanciful notion that a person is eating so much that the food is filling up not only their stomach, but also their legs. ankle biters = Young children. flat out like a lizard drinking = Working very hard, e.g. grumblebum = A complainer, a whinger, a whiner. guernsey = A football jumper (clothing used to cover the torso), which displays the teams colours; to get a guernsey refers to being picked, or selected, for a footy team (can also be used in other contexts, re. It means difficult, dangerous or challenging. Derived from the practice of young male Aborigines going walkabout, heading off into the wilderness, to live alone for several months, as a rite of passage. Its 25 clicks to the RV (RV refers to a rendezvous). And the big men fly Hes a dead-set drongo. However, when I look at his second meaning, this seems to cover your given usage: [See the entries: couldnt raffle a chook in a pub, like a chook with its head cut off and may your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down.]. black velvet. Derived from the term Cabbage State, referring to the state of Victoria; the term infers that, because the state is quite small (compared to the other states of Australia), Victoria is about the size of a cabbage garden. On the other side of the coin, a woman is known as a sheila. He donged him on the head. That old food pongs!. Apple Islanders = Tasmanians. back of Bourke = A long way out from civilization (Bourke was once considered to be the remotest town in New South Wales). buy back the farm = To have Australian resources under Australian ownership; the farm referring to Australia. All-purpose intensifying adjective. up the duff = Pregnant, e.g. ], Widgies = Females involved in an uncouth and loutish 1950s youth sub-culture. Bodgies were regarded as uncouth louts. Charles Harpur Go on, give us a dink on your bike; also referred to as double-dinking. Freedom on the Wallaby [poem by Henry Lawson, 16 May 1891] Required fields are marked *. An alternative usage is She bangs like a shithouse door. rough end of the pineapple = Used in reference to someone getting a raw deal. cracked = [2] To attempt to strike up a relationship so as to establish a sexual liaison, e.g. To subject (a person) to a torrent of words; to talk at great length to; to harangue. Timeline of Australian history and culture he was carrying on like a two-bob watch (from having a cheap watch that goes too fast). couldnt raffle a chook in a pub = Referring to someone who is incompetent. bush bashing = Driving around in the bush, especially where there are no roads or only tracks (especially used regarding four wheel drive vehicles). Derived from the story of the convict William Buckley, who escaped from his jailers and fled into the bush, who was never caught and was considered to have very little chance of surviving (ironically, William Buckley survived by living with a tribe of Aborigines, but gave himself up about thirty years later; so, as it turned out, he had a good chance of survival, after all). Aussie battlers = Australians who are not rich, battling against lifes odds. n Australian a sexually attractive young person. Thesaurus. bush pig = Someone with little or no manners, a badly-behaved person. bludger = Someone who bludges; i.e. gi-normous = Very big; a combination of gigantic and enormous, e.g. bush week = Uncultured behaviour, referring to the possibility of people living in the bush (without refined manners) coming down to the city en masse and acting up, e.g. noggin = Head, e.g. = A phrase used against someone using an item too much, e.g. ball tearer = Something that is really good, that was a real ball tearer of a game. Banana bender Resident of Queensland. choof off = To depart, usually (but not always) said in a friendly manner, e.g. Ah spewin mate, cant believe she took the last roll.. rough as guts = Someone who appears to be uncouth, uncultured, and lacking social refinement, e.g. full as a goog = Full up, eaten to ones limit, eaten too much, e.g. Have a Captain Cook at this. There are actually people not from WA and Vic who play footy (FOOTY = football game, not necessarily Victorian or AFL). Can also be used in a general sense when speaking to someone, e.g. Brickie: A bricklayer. Finding an adorable nickname for your sweetie-pie little guy should be no trouble at all. Hes a dinky-di Australian; similar to true blue. Whilst the word began as an acronym, with ANZAC correctly spelt with capital letters, it has a modern usage as a noun, with a meaning wider than that of the ANZAC military organization, and it is therefore now also correctly spelt with just its initial letter capitalised, i.e. Beg yours? [See the entry: Buckleys chance. The term contains an implied insult, by being a reference to the time when Tasmania was known as Van Diemens Land, when it was still taking in convicts from Britain (the island, discovered by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, was originally named after Anthony van Diemen). they became great friends, they got on like a house on fire. lol . spunk google books The following definitions and usage are from: Dalzell -The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2nd Edition. youse = You all; you guys. as miserable as a bandicoot, as poor as a bandicoot. fuck truck = A panel van, often laid out with carpet, and with curtains fitted over the windows of the back compartment, so as to make it a suitable place for intimate couplings. You can borrow my hammer; but, remember, its a boomerang. Sheila initially was how Aussies would refer to Irish women, but eventually the name stuck as slang for women in general. Thorpie = Ian Thorpe, the famous swimmer. spunk rat n Australian a sexually attractive young person. The sun shines, the sky is blue and Aussies speak a Language that we can all understand! clucky = Refers to a woman who is showing interest in babies, or in having a baby, from the clucking of a mother hen over her chicks. [See the entry: cockies.]. best thing since sliced bread = Something that is very good, a great invention. Babylon NG. Asian = Not a slang term as such, but included here so as to clear up any confusion that overseas visitors may have. stickybeak - a snoop, a nosy person, compare British English "noseyparker". Captain James CookCaptain Cook = Rhyming slang for look, e.g. hes dirty on her for flirting with his brother, shes dirty on him for spending the night at the pub; also to have the wrong thing done to someone, e.g. Commie = A Communist; also rendered as Commo. The basics G'day Hello, hi. This is part of the Australia tradition of giving various names a zza suffix, e.g. Coined by Australian cartoonist Ben Ward, milkshake duck not only marks an Australian contribution to the global lexicon, but also carries shades of an Australian cultural contribution: the tall poppy. he did the dirty on her; similar to filthy on. 25 January 2018. Go on, give it a burl. get out of here = An expression of disbelief, e.g. Shes a dead set stunner, Im dead set against that. glassed = To smash someone (usually in the face) with a glass, commonly in a pub fight, e.g. spit the dummy = Have a tantrum, get angry, be of bad temper. Drink Bonox! no worries = Not a problem, its all okay, everything is fine. scab = Someone who works whilst their fellow employees are on strike, someone who takes over a strikers job, non-union labour used as strike-breakers. he build the shed, but its a bit of a bodgy job; similar to the term dodgy, and possibly related to the term botched (to carry out a task badly, or carelessly; to botch up a job). I made a bundle on that last horse race. If your American friends still wont believe you, heres a brief list of examples of the phrase, sourced from newspaper articles, books, and internet pages: Scabs are also known as blacklegs. Dorothy Dixer = A question asked in parliament by a member of the same party as a planned question in order to enable the responder to give a prepared speech; from a letters section in a newspaper where readers would write to Dorothy Dix, of which some were supposed to have been written by the newspaper staff themselves. Not a slang term as such, but it is included here since Americans can get confused over the term, as a thong in the USA refers to a skimpy piece of underwear (Australians also call that type of clothing a thong; however, they are well aware that there are two main types of thong, one for footwear and one for underwear). boardies = An abbreviation of board shorts (bathers or swimwear which look like shorts). Aussie Slang. drum = Reliable information, e.g. dont go out in a wind = A reference to the phrase about someone who thinks so highly of themselves, that theyve got tickets on themselves; e.g. Johno = John. crook = [2] To attack or abuse, to go crook at someone, e.g. that cake was massive, it was gi-normous; can also be spelt as ginormous. Dont do that again, or Ill knock your block off. Australian Slang is just another product of the colonisation of the world by the British Empire. ugly tree = A negative reference to someones looks, e.g. John Le Gay Brereton Derives from the notion that men in Australia grew up tall and thin. more often than not comes with root rot. Similar to mucking around. We fanged it out of there. Synonym of Spunk-rat: Australian Slang Spunk-rat sexually attractive person Translation. Australians dont say cobber thats very Pommy! bewdy = An exclamation regarding something that is great, e.g. The Australian usage differs to the British usage of the term, where wog refers to people of Central Asian ethnicity (people from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, etc.). Distinct from crook, meaning criminal. Bodgies and Widgies = Bodgies (males) and Widgies (females) were part of a youth subculture that existed in Australia and New Zealand in the 1950s, similar to the Teddy Boy culture in the UK or the Greaser culture in the USA. wog = [2] Being ill with a bug (germ), e.g. theyre a bunch of arseholes. beauty = Something of good quality, e.g. go soak your head = Telling someone to rack off (telling someone to go away), usually while in a dispute or disagreement. pissed to the eyeballs = Very drunk, e.g. [See the entry: Bandywallop.]. Chrissie - Christmas. Bullamakanka = Somewhere very far away. Derived from the innovation of bakers selling pre-sliced bread, instead of whole loaves, which consumers had to cut up themselves with a bread knife. = A phrase used against incompetent car drivers (the imputation being that their driving is so bad that they couldnt have got their license by being a good driver and passing a driving test; a reference to when small toys were sometimes included in packets of cereal as promotional extras). You should have seen the way those soldiers charged the enemy, they were as game as Ned Kelly!, gander = To look, e.g. tough as fencing wire = Someone or something that is very tough. stone the crows = A phrase used when surprised, e.g. [See the entry: Bandywallop.]. Similar to no worries. Australia for the White man = A nationalist catch phrase; it was the motto of the influential magazine The Bulletin from 1908 until 1960. Out of a Cornflakes packet? Derived from the complimentary phrase your bloods worth bottling. 'Bruce bailed' = Bruce isn't going to turn up. bust up = A disagreement or fight, e.g. dropkick = Someone who is dumb or an idiot. If it was connected with Strachan, it could date back to his Skyhooks days (beginning in the 1970s), or it could even be connected to his fame as host of the TV childrens show Shirls Neighbourhood (1979-1983). Aerial pingpong : Australian Rules football Amber fluid : beer Ambo : ambulance, ambulance driver Ankle biter : small child Apples, she'll be : It'll be all right Arvo : afternoon Aussie (pron. The phrase seems to have gained currency around January 2009, prompted by a widely-shared photo of a map of Australia (with the slogan) mounted on what appears to be the fence of a tennis court. pash = Passionate kissing of a long duration. pull your head in = Shut up and mind your own business. You know, strain the potatoes. Taken from the rhyming slang apples and spice for nice. bushmans clock = A kookaburra (a bird whose calls can be very loud and long in the morning). Sometimes abbreviated as dig. Block has a few meanings but the more Aussie one is your head. great grey migration, the = When, in the winter season, thousands of retired Australians (grey hairs) from the southern states travel to Queensland for a holiday. Come with us, were goin down the boozer. Distinct from the word nanna, which means grandmother. Aus = An abbreviation of the word Australia. Similar to a rooster one day, a feather duster the next. buggery = [See the entry: go to buggery.]. While not a physical beating of the ears, most people can sympathise with a person who has sustained a long taking to (an ear-bashing) by a boring or obnoxious windbag (an earbasher).The verb is first recorded from the 1940s, and possibly comes from Australian military slang of the Second World War . great Australian dream, the = The desire to own ones own home and block of land. Also rendered as parmi or parmo. bloods worth bottling = A compliment, e.g. The G = The Melbourne Cricket Ground, abbreviated as The MCG, further abbreviated as The G. The word turps is an abbreviation of turpentine, and refers to the practice of very badly-off alcoholics (winos) sinking to the low level of drinking turpentine (containing terpene alcohols) or methylated spirits (denatured alcohol), as a cheap alcoholic beverage (in spite of the dire health consequences). Hey mate, want a lift? spirit, vim. knock your block off = To hit someone in the head, e.g. The Australian attachment to slanguage (slang language) goes back to the earliest settlements of English speakers in Australia. Raymond, I am familiar with this phrase from as long as I can remember growing up in country SA especially common on the footy field! However, now that you have a bit of Aussie slang under your belt, you're a bit more prepared. He got into a blue with that bloke. Far from it - Australian slang has influenced the English language around the world, just as Australian culture has been transported to the world by comedians such as Barry Humphries, TV shows . beer oclock = A way of saying that its time for a beer. A ute, doing some burn-outsute = A utility vehicle, being a vehicle with a tray behind the seating section (can be an open tray, or a tray with sides and a tailgate at the back). bucks party = [See the entry: bucks night.]. bonzer = Excellent, e.g. cactus = To die; stop working, e.g. Literature, legends, and larrikins. I cant be arsed to cook dinner tonight. See: IAC list on Trove. It had rained that much, the ground was wet enough to bog a duck. bloody. Mexicans = Victorians are called Mexicans by people from Queensland and New South Wales, because Victoria is south of the border. The phrase is based on spunky in the sense of spirited, and is influenced also by spunk in the sexual sense. However, it should be noted that give it a burl, Shirl is a later variation (rather than a correction), as the phrase give it a burl dates back to at least 1911, as can be seen in the following list: https://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=132373, Its quite possible that the Shirl variation is connected with Shirley Strachan. List and definition of Australian Slang, Local Lingo and Unique Phrases. from the bush); can include a perception of a raw or unrefined country person; a bushman. , here's our guide to the best (and worst) of Australian slang. fang it = To move quickly, especially to drive fast, e.g. shattered = Very tired, exhausted. apples = Shell be apples, Its apples, or Everythings apples. We believe in a fair go around here; also used as a form of protest, e.g. cot case = Someone who should be put in a hospital bed (a hospital cot), usually regarding someone who is badly inebriated, but also used for someone who is mentally deranged. he was really cut when he got the sack, his girlfriend left him and he was really cut up about it. No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest [poem by Mary Gilmore, 29 June 1940] Have a decko at that!. iffy = Not very good, suspect, suspicious, e.g. shout = To buy drinks for others; to buy a round of drinks, especially in a pub, e.g. couple of lamingtons short of a CWA meeting = Someone who is lacking in intelligence, someone who is a bit mentally slow, someone who is a bit slow on the uptake, e.g. The information for the entry bangs like a dunny door has now been expanded. He didnt get picked for the footy team, so hes having a bit of a sook. dog = An informer, especially an informer for the police or prison guards, e.g. The stage manager divvied up the takings; can also be spelt as divvie. Davo cant go into work today, because hes real crook. bucks night = A grooms party held prior to his wedding, a males-only occasion; also referred to as a bucks party; from the idea of a young deer (a buck) reaching adulthood. chin wag = Talk, gossip, chat, usually refers to a conversation of some length regarding matters of little importance, e.g. Thats beaut, mate!, You beaut!, What a beaut!, or You bewdy!; may be called out when something good happens. See: IAC list on Trove. She bangs like a dunny door. 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