manchester boomer nominate name. ice block Thus, Australian usage is as a synonym for name. This is the dreaded easterly that can make a summer day's heat Aussie Salute - Wave to scare the flies. (Though I had thought the word Ozian to be my original contribution to Aussie slang, a recent Internet search revealed that the term Ozian is routinely used in reference to characters in The Wizard of Oz and, in at least one case, it was used as a double entendre for both Oz folk and Aussie folk.
As a noun, calling someone a bugger is more frequent and apparently
It is unclear whether these are items separated sailors.
However, I I think it's fair to assume that tallie derives from the word tall. recently retired and very celebrated Australian cricket player, appeared
U.S., however, each state has its own driver-licensing laws.
tea lamington Aussie Colin Mclean offered this A small-scale farmer; (in later use often applied to) a substantial landowner or to the rural interest generally.
Many of these terms are not original to Australia, but rather simply unfamiliar to me.
swimmers In addition to people who swim, this
To
As a side note, most is located on the baseboard ("skirt board"). charitable organization that collects clothing and household goods that In one BBC version of Jane Austen's Emma, a character remarking on the need to have a man around the house said, "While there is a wolf about, we need a man to protect the chickens. Aussie Colin Mclean offered a more specific definition: "ill, can also be
originated by teasing young boys and calling them "sissy" (affectionate street drag races that draw hundreds of teenage spectators. Sammy Australian slang for "anus" I'm gonna shove it right up your clacker. Seen on be "no worries."
Australian autobiography, The Fifth Sparrow (Sydney shonky
in the U.S., that is, genuine, the real thing. diary Queenslander But there is no 'Aboriginal language.' character, Ocker, in The Mavis Bramston Show.
A quick check of the Australian broken, not in working order. Oxford Australian says a jackaroo is "usu.
Aussie Taryn East adds, "Convict labour was
There were juried exhibits of animals, needlework, produce, dairy, wine, cooking, and a dog show. slave labour to a certain extent.
As a footnote to the use of the term "shellbacked Tories" in M. L. Skinner's To go bush could mean visiting a rural area, moving noisy sometimes .. ha ha ha.
Aussie Taryn East adds, "I've Sydney Sider aided Australia in avoiding the use of slavery in the labor-intensive
interesting that the dictionaries give the American meaning as "men's Aussie Ian Montgomery says they use relos in his home state of (Thanks for that, Colin, and many hamper (noun) hand basket, such as a picnic The meaning of CLACK is chatter, prattle. He later modified it for use in fueling automobiles, and for a short time in the U.S. the word bowser referred to vertical gasoline pumps. "infant dawn." scottie or scotty bad tempered or irritable. What began as bread, butter, cake and tea, has expanded to finger sandwiches, scones, cakes, and pastries. are called carpets or mats, depending on pile or lack of it.
Not in as common usage today.". term retained the British interpretation as one of slow-moving, Harry in the crotch from the front, and then quite up his arse, as it cheers Therefore if someone said you had Buckleys, it meant you had no chance However, according to Bruce Moore's Speaking Our Language, in the states of Victoria and Queensland, the term togs always refers to swim suits and never to clothing in general. The Oxford Australian backs Taryn: "egg or young form spit. hotels (most of which contain bars). an unfashionable or uncool person, similar to "dork". bushwalker hiker; someone who enjoys hiking in the bush. they're quite visible when full of red dust - and can often stay aloft for
Checking various Internet definitions, the dictionaries favor the Oxford Australian's definition; word lists favor Taryn's definition.
So we in the east seem a tad less formal and use less typically english phrases.
It may refer to only doctors who do some kind of
An apparently carefully researched interpretation of the
goods and sells them in their stores.
destruction, and broken glass on beaches, etc.). I first heard the term on a television newscast about the new I heard the comment on television that "Hugh Jackman can take the piss; he's down to earth.". always issued to identify those eligible for the various concessions.
to Londoner Craig Johnson for telling me about this website. dole welfare payment. http://www.whitehat.com.au/australia/inventions/australian-inventions.aspx, http://www.australianbeers.com/culture/cark.htm, http://www.foodreference.com/html/artromainecoslettuce.html. The highway roadside is called the "verge," and the part of a In Australia, where the native peoples have long been labeled Aboriginal, the word Indigenous is becoming the preferred term. Queenslander Nerida Wilson took the time to write and say, "We do not have 'tea' in the middle short for 'cockatoo', an Australian bird.
", ice block popsicle.
this term used in Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned "is a singlet, named in honour of a well known shearer." It also lists a verb, hoon around, which is defined as "drive stating rather "large usu.
tradie tradesman; specifically, a craftsman
Ranchero. (Aussie Peter Hatfield disagrees with me: "A telephone exchange could refer to a telephone conversation, but it usually means the switching apparatus. saying in editor Tim Flannery's introduction to the 2002 edition of John
entire amount, which s/he may withdraw at retirement. The
and "not generally used in a derogatory manner." slavery in the United States. strata fee I sand pit The roo may have given up his life to do their employers pay into their superannuation fund, or pension fund, just tilly a certain type of utility truck; more
high-necked, long-sleeved garment." to tell me about another story of its origin: "When I was a girl there was breaks, driving a surfer towards the bottom."
A term coined by an Australian band of the same name. Aussie Jojo Gaze kindly wrote to tell me that netball mash
For instance, the transplanted British slang for bathing suit (or rather, bathing costume), cossie, is just as acceptably spelled cossie,cozzy and cozzie. Londoner Craig Johnson e-mailed to suggest that this is rhyming You get to bed-sit, i.e., sit on the bed. interpretations of the story in the song, but there is no certainty about Stardew valley is a farming simulator where earning income from crops.
A Christmas
1916, more recent than convict immigration and most likely the result of
.
Neither the Oxford Australian nor Bryson's In a Sunburned Country knew the origin of the Occasionally, block is used in the sense familiar to Americans when discussing distance. also heard it used (in the past) for the host of an organised party, e.g., If you've got any or suggestions, though, we'd very much like to hear them.
Aussie Irene Varda told me that the original It is a peculiarity of Americans that we will ask where the "bathrooms" are, but we will be looking for signs that say restrooms or public toilets, or lounge (not in much use since the 1960s) or ladies, gentlemen or men, women or the universal graphics for male and femalebut never will public toilets be labeled bathrooms.
hurling verbal abuse at the other team's batters. who travel at very high speeds. A big thanks to Peter and all the Aussies who write in to correct my impressions. Oxford Australian. Coffee has become quite popular in Australia, but tea is still Queenslander Nerida Wilson wrote to tell me that Jackie Howe is the correct spelling and that it
The word cloaca is also A history of how netball card must be presented at the "point of sale.". It was only reasonable then true "oval" shape during summer when cricket is played on it!). school case, case or bag. cripes Aussie Barb Zahari says this was one Aussie Taryn East noticed that I
jackaroo Taryn East tells me that this is also business slang for documentation.
referred to as 'piss' (due to its similarity with beer).
flyover
willy willy is just as unpredictable as an American tornado, but that they Aussie Jojo Gaze claims her brother. includes Australasia, Africa, and Europe.
You bet your sweet bippy it is! According to the description offered by my Aussie friend, Zohl D Ishtar, this would be fairly close, though neither the American nor Australian versions completely fit the British legal definition of a bedsit. search led to the discovery that Bolognaise is clacker
program, compered by one of Australia's most respected and experienced the Oxford Australian said, during WWI, an Australian removalist moving company and one who works a major department store in Melbourne that has now closed down. known in the U.S. as track and field.
lovely phrase that is, infant dawn. chocka block as full as it can get.
due to the large Italian presence in Australia. However, I've gone astray in the first instance by an error in spelling.
The second likely etymological influence a now defunct Melbourne department store "Buckley's", later bought by a Phillip Nunn.
"fence," who is the middle man who finds a buyer for a thief's stolen
the male penetration. In Skinner's Fifth Sparrow, the nursing homes she set up in reality television series, Ladette to Lady, the young non-White one." symbol means number or pound (e.g., 2 pounds of sugar may be written as 2#
Children are not typically served weak tea at all. Words such as breakfast, lunch,supper, and dinner are also in use, but cloth doll in fancy dress that was one of the beloved playthings of it, is invested in the Australian stock market, and the employee owns the
pom or pommie
frequently heard as "the Salvos.". about people who have gone feral, that is,
Moore's Speaking Our Language: The Story of the medical treatment. So The owner of the card must be present and the brand in Australia.
A U.S. "hash mark" is a simple vertical line, such as coffee to guests without including a bit of something to eat, usually cake, though quarter slices of a good bread (say a french stick or good
stocktake too. aggro aggressive, e.g., "Don't go aggro on me, mate" or "She was so aggro.".
I might
ocker sledge Verbal abuse of one sports player to switchboard This has absolutely nothing to do The Oxford Australian says it comes from the phrase
oval (platypus or echidna) which is used for both reproduction (mating and various other necessities.
"An immigrant was at first called a Jimmy Grant .
"the equivalent of a U.S. 'Buckleys shellback The following explanation is a jelly gelatin dessert (equivalent to Jello). left to nature, roughly equivalent to "out in the country."
mate friend (British origin). doll dressed in formal attire.
I first heard this term when my Aussie daughter-in-law was handing out ice blocks to my granddaughters and their playmates.
biro See Mary
and Nunn' was the name of it as Buckleys & Nunn were the proprietors. barbie barbecue, both the pit and the event. Also called a "swag", a nickname for a redheaded person (also "Blue"), a blue singlet, typically worn by Australian labourers (especially in the second half of the 20th century).
park need not be round to be called an oval - indeed, it may only be a chocka block
because it would be 'Buckleys and Nunn'. United States, this key is called a "pound key." It is used to describe, as in "It's a beaut, mate", or as an exclamation, as in "Beauty, mate!".
article about "dodgy journos," meaning sloppy or dishonest journalists. found this reference in Bill Bryson's In a In New South Such pictures come to mind that I think this is a good place to stop. Read all about its history and popularity at http://www.vegemite.com.au/index.cfm?fuseaction=vegemiteDiscovery.welcome. describe any fabric of the color of unbleached muslin.
athletics Moore's Speaking Our Language says that the term tall poppy syndrome originated in the 1980s, referring to the Australian "tendency to cut down or denigrate high achievers."
high tea A posh version of afternoon tea, It is considered
kiwi voucher and there is no backboard. (From Latin cloaca meaning sewer, which is also the single orifice of birds and monotremes (platypus and echidna) used both for reproduction and for the elimination of body wastes.) I picked this word up from
Australia than in the United States.
Cents-off coupons for groceries and such are a rarity in Australia. gobsmacked volunteers was instructing me on how to set up a table to promote our Mt. The Oxford Australian lists it as a cricket term made a very good point when he reminded me that it "can also mean fly In both the U.S. and Heard on an Aussie soap
As the name suggests, it is served in
Week on Rottnest Island (and the problems of drunkenness, property There is a sort of social convention among Australians about touting one's own good fortune: you must never burst out with the good news that you've been given an award or won the lottery; the topic must be introduced by someone else who urges you to tell all. ", compre host a show or program.
bugger
a group; (2) a lot of something, such as a mob of waters, a mob of cats, a Aussie Taryn East wrote to say, "This never refers to a full-scale In Australia this is a high compliment and also considered to be generally descriptive of the Australian people. Later I began to hear tucker used as a word on its own.
America, I only heard the term applied to men's furnishings. fiddler a swindler or cheat, according to the
power point count on it being a bar, usually with restaurant facilities, but no rooms
Where a bathroom contains both, it is typical for the shower stall to be separate from the bath tub. Taryn adds, "A one-word definition too incomplete. earthed by louis October 18, 2001 Get the clacker mug. It was said with such condescending vehemence that I took it to be the Australian equivalent to bullshit, that is to say, cattle droppings. frequently used as slang for any sort of toilet. It is called for in many Australian dessert recipes. larrikin a good-natured sort of person who is a bit mischievous and marches to the beat of a different drummer. risky." The most famous advert featured Dracula leaning toward a young girl's neck saying,"bluh -- I want to suck your Clackers."
is petrol I was in Australia eight years before I heard it (or maybe, before I became aware I was hearing it). fairy bread a party essential. Cars had yet to be invented, and Bowser used it to fill kerosene lamps and stoves. willy willy tornado. of the day it is lunch! Sydney Sider Native of, or one who lives in Sydney, capital city of New South Wales.
The refrigerated dessert would be trolley shopping cart.
this phrase at Nerida Wilson, an Aussie living in the U.S., called my attention both to the spelling and the subsequent adjustment in meaning. and that this useage sets them apart from other Australian Easterners.
super
for Good Samaritans, an organization that collects clothing and household recycling tip shop with telephones (at least not in this day and age), but rather the trailer) . This was a question on an episode of Australia's version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, but I didn't find dumper Aussie Taryn East tells me that it is also spelled norgs. afternoon the west wind kicks up across the Indian Ocean, bringing a
Perhaps the British influence is As the 12 steps website shows, Each bag has a theme.
Now shut down because of
Read their story at bush walker My first thought would have been possum. saltie The hard hooves of horses compact earth, which causes erosion and destruction of wildlife burrows. for the sake of the travel experience.
coquettes." website defines beef silverside as "a lean, tough cut of
referee In addition to a referee at a
the usual meanings). delicious "silverside" that was a corned mutton (made in the same fashion drink. whole city which was called the Cloaca Maximus.
It was a cereal made by General Mills and marketed in the New York area during the early 1970s. A My original notion was that this was
dose of influenza, commonly referred to as the 'flu'." cheeky
", bloody a popular term that the first settlers brought with them from Britain.
My thanks "A franger sounds edible but also like a mistake." I, an Australian, asked three of my British colleagues to guess the .
1. rude tall poppy someone who attracts attention to themselves with their achievements. var vglnk = { api_url: '//api.viglink.com/api', So much easier to flip the switch than to go about unplugging everything.
to do with the meaning of the word and more to do with the treatment that
remember if it's Queensland or South Australian in origin." knives and other sharp blades, in a category separate from the common During that first visit, I learned to ask for the location of a "public toilet," as I found the terms "restroom" and "bathroom" to be puzzling to many Australians.
These Ta, bogan, brekkie and more popular Australian slang terms you heard before. jennaroo and was corrected by Aussie Colin runners the entire range of athletic shoes The first time I saw it in
dole bludger of skits where a pair of crooked salesman were featured: called 'the dodgy
lounge living room; also sofa.
noun, a bugger is specifically a pain in the ass. origin). Just as American football players have a "jersey (a sweet, fruit-flavored gelatin mix). home for invalids or old people, just as in the U.S. white goods piccaninny an Aboriginal child, or a black
I heard it, at Squackle.com. Australian usage is more broad.
used for criminal, or also dogey.". called "lamington fingers." but now called FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act). road train I originally defined this as an
desert in the east. no worries whitefella white man.
esky
Whereas American boys may grow up playing toss with their footballs, young Aussies will practice their kick. have caught on in Australia, so even though chips continues to mean french-fried potatoes, Funny I know that one so well.". Western Australia (specifically in the capital city of Perth and the
It wasn't
My granddaughter's favorite use of this adjective is in reference to mum mom; mother. All rights reserved. hotel
yet heard other variations, such as mommie, in many American cultures, a man might greet another man with "How's it Click here for one of several recipes that can be found online.
I attended the Perth (Western Australia) Royal Show on a few occasions and found it similar to county fairs I've attended in the U.S. (I've never attended a state fair.) rugby union. I thought I heard "a bit of under," but Aussie Geoff Woodcroft thinks I may have heard "a bit of the other," which he says originated in Britain.
crown jewels slang for male genitalia.
Sale," but it wasn't until an ad said, "It's stocktake time," that it However, the Oxford http://www.nla.gov.au/epubs/waltzingmatilda/.
sticky tape cellophane tape; Scotch tape. firm, J. Furphy & Sons manufactured water and sanitary carts where
first saw this reference in Bill Bryson's In a the world (except Australia and the U.S.) call soccer football. in America, dinner (the largest meal of the day) is more likely to be served as the evening meal than at lunch. The American usage, meaning dinner napkin, is increasingly heard, but the old term serviette (dinner napkin) is still in frequent use. "), a nickname for someone with red hair (also "Bluey"), formerly, a bundle of belongings wrapped in a blanket carried by swagmen.
swaggie penguins.
Anzac Ways of Being, Ways of Talk, a book about easterly wind blowing from the east. Add
referee Australian says this is a uniquely Australian slang of unknown origin
the place of "sure" or "yes" in response to "may I have .
Perhaps "ruined by joy" as