Sunday 27 January 2013

Australia Day!


I thought I'd furnish you with a handy A-Z of Australian slang, I was going to pick just one for each letter but I struggled in places so it's just a random collection of the ones that amused me!
 
A
 
Aerial pingpong : Australian Rules football
Aussie salute : brushing away flies with the hand

B

Banana bender : a person from Queensland
Bastard : term of endearment
Bingle : motor vehicle accident
Bluey : pack, equipment, traffic ticket, redhead
Bluey : blue cattle dog (named after its subtle markings) which is an excellent working dog. Everyone's favourite all-Aussie dog.
Bluey : heavy wool or felt jacket worn by mining and construction workers.
Bluey : bluebottle jellyfish
Bodgy : of inferior quality
Bog in : commence eating, to attack food with enthusiasm
Bogan : person who takes little pride in his appearance, spends his days slacking and drinking beer
Bored shitless : very bored
Bottling, his blood's worth : he's an excellent, helpful bloke.


C

Cactus : dead, not functioning ("this bloody washing machine is cactus")
Cat burying shit, as busy as a : busy
Cobber : friend
Cook (noun) : One's wife
Crack a fat : get an erection
Cut lunch : sandwiches
Cut lunch commando : army reservist
Cut snake, mad as a : very angry


D

Dag : a funny person, nerd, goof
Daks : trousers
Date : arse[hole] ("get off your fat date")
Dead dingo's donger, as dry as a : dry
Dead horse : Tomato sauce
Dill : an idiot
Dingo's breakfast : a yawn, a leak and a good look round (i.e. no breakfast)
Dinky-di : the real thing, genuine
Divvy van : Police vehicle used for transporting criminals. Named after the protective 'division' between the driver and the villains.
Donger : penis
Doodle : penis
Doovalacky : used whenever you can't remember what something is called. Thingummyjig, whatsit.

 
E
 
Esky : large insulated food/drink container for picnics, barbecues etc.
Exy : expensive

 
F
 
Fair suck of the sav! : exclamation of wonder, awe, disbelief (see also "sav")
Figjam : "F*ck I'm good; just ask me". Nickname for people who have a high opinion of themselves.
Fossick : search, rummage ("fossicking through the kitchen drawers")
Franger : condom
Freckle : anus
Furphy : false or unreliable rumour


G
 
GAFA (pron. gaffa) : the big nothingness of the Australian Outback. Great Australian F**k All.
Galah : fool, silly person. Named after the bird of the same name because of its antics and the noise it makes.

 
H

Holy dooley! : an exclamation of surprise = "Good heavens!", "My goodness!" "Good grief!" or similar
Hoon : hooligan
Hooroo : goodbye


I
 
Icy pole, ice block : popsicle, lollypop


J
 
Jackaroo : a male trainee station manager or station hand (a station is a big farm/grazing property)
Jillaroo : a female trainee station manager or station hand
Jumbuck : sheep


K
 
Kangaroos loose in the top paddock : Intellectually inadequate ("he's got kangaroos loose in the top paddock")


L

Larrikin : a bloke who is always enjoying himself, harmless prankster
Liquid laugh : vomit
Lunch, who opened their? : OK, who farted?
 
M

Mappa Tassie : map of Tasmania - a woman's pubic area
Milk bar : corner shop that sells takeaway food
Mystery bag : a sausage


N
 
Naughty, have a : have sex
Never Never : the Outback, centre of Australia
Nun's nasty, as dry as a : dry
Nut out : hammer out or work out (an agreement, say)


O
 
Ocker : an unsophisticated person


P

Piker : Someone who doesn't want to fit in with others socially, leaves parties early
Pom, pommy, pommie : an Englishman • See the complaint about "Pom" etc.
Pommy bastard : an Englishman (see also 'bastard')
Pommy shower : using deodorant instead of taking a shower
Pommy's towel, as dry as a : very dry - based on the canard that Poms bathe about once a month
  
Q
 
Quid, make a : earn a living - "are you making a quid?"
Quid, not the full : of low IQ. [Historical note: 'quid' is slang for a pound. £1 became $2 when Australia converted to decimal currency]


R
 
Raw prawn, to come the : to bullshit, to be generally disagreeable
Ridgy-didge : original, genuine
Root (verb and noun) : synonym for f*ck in nearly all its senses: "I feel rooted"; "this washing machine is rooted"; "(s)he's a good root". A very useful word in fairly polite company.
Root rat : somebody who is constantly looking for sex.
Ropeable : very angry
Rort (verb or noun) : Cheating, fiddling, defrauding (expenses, the system etc.). Usually used of politicians


S
 
Shark biscuit : somebody new to surfing
Sheepshagger : A New Zealander
Sheila : a woman
Shit house (adj.) : of poor quality, unenjoyable ("this car is shit house", "the movie was shit house")
Shit house (noun) : toilet, lavatory
Shonky : dubious, underhanded. E.g. a shonky practice, shonky business etc.
Spunk : a good looking person (of either sex)
Squizz (noun) : look - "take a squizz at this"

T
 
Tall poppies : successful people
Tall poppy syndrome : the tendency to criticize successful people
Technicolor yawn : vomit
Tinny : can of beer
Tinny : small aluminium boat
Tinny, tin-arsed : lucky
Troppo, gone : to have escaped to a state of tropical madness; to have lost the veneer of civilisation after spending too long in the tropics.
Trough lolly : the solid piece of perfumed disinfectant in a men's urinal


U
 
Ugg boots : Australian sheepskin boots worn by surfers since at least the 1960s to keep warm while out of the water. Also worn by airmen during WW1 and WW2 because of the need to maintain warmth in non-pressurized planes at high altitudes.
Ugh : ugly. hence Ugg boots
Useful as an ashtray on a motorbike / tits on a bull : unhelpful or incompetent person or thing - "he, she or it is about as useful as tits on a bull" etc. etc.


V
 
Vinnie's : St. Vincent De Paul's (charity thrift stores and hostels)


W
 
Whacker, whacka : Idiot; somebody who talks drivel; somebody with whom you have little patience; a dickhead
Wog : flu or trivial illness
Woop Woop : invented name for any small unimportant town - "he lives in Woop Woop"


X
 
XXXX : pronounced Four X, brand of beer made in Queensland


Y
 
Yakka : work (noun)


Z
 
Zack : sixpence (5 cents) - "it isn't worth a zack", "he hasn't got a zack"

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