This Page is just for fun! Here are a few common Aussie sayings/words that you might not have heard before, hopefully now when you do, youll know what it means!!!
Ace! : Excellent! Very good!
Abo : An aboriginal person. A word you DONT use, it is rude and racist. I didnt know this.
Amex : American Express
Ankle biter : small child
Avos : avocados
Banana bender : a Queenslander
Banger : A Sausage
Barbie: BBQ
Barrack : to cheer on (football team etc.)
Bathers : Togs
Billabong : an ox-bow river or watering hole
Billy : A teapot
Bingle : A car crash
Bities : biting insects
Bitzer : mongrel dog (bits of this and bits of that)
Bizzo : business ("mind your own bizzo")
Bloody oath! : that's certainly true
Blow in the bag : have a breathalyser test
Blowie : blow fly
Blue : fight ("he was having a blue with his wife")
Bodgy : of inferior quality
Bog in : commence eating, to attack food with enthusiasm
Bonzer : great, ripper
Boozer : a pub
Bottl-o : liquor shop
Brown-eyed mullet : a poo in the sea (where you're swimming!)
Budgie smugglers : men's bathing costume
Bundy : short for Bundaberg, Queensland, and the brand of rum that's made there
Bunyip : mythical outback creature
Bush oyster : nasal mucus
Cab Sav : Cabernet Sauvignon
Cactus : dead, not functioning ("this bloody washing machine is cactus")
Clacker : Bum Hole
Click : kilometre - "it's 10 clicks away"
Cobber : friend
Compo : Workers' Compensation pay
Corker : something excellent. A good stroke in cricket might be described as a 'corker of a shot'
Cozzie : swimming costume
Daks : trousers
Deadset : true, the truth
Delta : Felt Pen
Devon : Luncheon
Dill : an idiot
Dinkum, fair dinkum : true, real, genuine
Drink with the flies : to drink alone
Drongo : a dope, stupid person
Dunny budgie : blowfly
Ekka : the Brisbane Exhibition, an annual show
Esky : A chilly Bin.
Fairy floss : candy floss, cotton candy
Flake : shark's flesh (sold in fish & chips shops)
GAFA (pron. gaffa) : the big nothingness of the Australian Outback.
Galah : (pronounced Galaar) fool, silly person.
Grouse (adj.) : great, terrific, very good
Hooroo : goodbye
Icy pole: Ice Block
Jumbuck : sheep
Matilda : swagman's bedding, sleeping roll
Moolah : money
Nasho : National Service (compulsory military service)
Ranga : The same as our Ginga (a Ginger person)
Ridgy-didge : original, genuine
Rip snorter : great, fantastic - "it was a rip snorter of a party
Rubber : NOT an eraser... a condom!
Salvos, the : Salvation Army, bless them
Sanger : a sandwich
Shonky : dubious, underhanded. E.g. a shonky practice, shonky business etc.
Slab : a carton of 24 bottles or cans of beer
Slippery Dip: A kids slide
Strewth : exclamation
Texta : Also felt pens
Thongs : Jandals
Trackie daks/dacks : tracksuit pants
White pointers : topless (female) sunbathers
Wog : person of Mediterranean origin. An Insult.
Things that catch me out here are… Aussies don’t say ‘wee’ eg ‘I saw a wee girl’ I get hassled for it all the time. Also I have had to change the way I say egg, it sounds more like Ags, I just couldn’t be understood! They dont say Pants here, they are trousers, and plants are pronounced 'pants' with an L. Now I learnt the other day that the Aussies that pronouce 'H' Haytch are actually using lazy english, so dont worry you wont have to alter that! There are actually that many Kiwis on the Gold coast that it seems to be very 'Kiwified', the accent doesnt seem to be as strong here and I dont even notice the Aussie accents at all anymore! With the Australian vocab everything that can possibly be shortened will be, I think as Kiwis we are pretty bad at that anyway though so it probably wont be noticable (for example Avocado = Avo, American Express = Amex etc ect) Let me know if you notice any more!!
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