I think that blokes been out in the sun for too long, hes acting troppo, Watch out, hes gone troppo! Derived from the phrase tropical fever, used during the Second World War, when Australian soldiers in the Pacific theatre believed that long exposure to the heat and tropical conditions could make someone go mad. Im not sure about this chicken in the fridge, I think its a bit iffy. I cant be arsed to cook dinner tonight. carry on like a pork chop = Someone carrying on in an unduly agitated manner, e.g. Abo = Abbreviation of Aboriginal; not necessarily intended as a derogatory term, but in modern times it is now almost always regarded as derogatory, even if not intended as such. coon = Derogatory name for Aborigines (from the American usage regarding Negros). 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. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Geez, its a real stinker out there, Its stinking hot, Its a stinker of a day. mate = Friend, cobber. Also spelt as drop-bear or dropbear. = 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). mates rates = A decent-sized discount, which is given to friends (mates). arseholes = People who are considered to be not nice, 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. pulled that one out of their arse. 125 Australian Slang Words & Phrases A Cold One - Beer Accadacca - How Aussies refer to Australian band ACDC Ankle Biter - Child Arvo - Afternoon ( S'Arvo - this afternoon!) cant be bothered = Dont feel like doing something, not in the mood to do something, cant be arsed, e.g. bust up = A disagreement or fight, e.g. Less common alternatives are sammo, sammie, and sango. billy lid = Rhyming slang for kid (child). Feeling inspired to learn more weird quirks from around the English-speaking world? Click Go the Shears [traditional Australian song, 1890s] go like the clappers = To move at high speed. In army slang, a kilometer is called a click, e.g. Also spelt hooroo. Bog standard - basic, unadorned, without accessories (a bog-standard car, telephone etc.) See: IAC list on Trove. lolly water = Soft drink (e.g. Just like the silly Australian Culture and Stereotypes. Yeah? Plate, bring a : Instruction to bring a plate of food to a party. clippie = A tram conductor (who would clip tram tickets, using a hole punch). bushmans clock = A kookaburra (a bird whose calls can be very loud and long in the morning). Up a gum tree = In dire trouble, in a quandary. not British sterling). Get your laughing gear around that sanger. awkward as a Chow on a bike = Acting in an awkward manner; from a negative reference to a Chinese person on a bike. Well, drink Bonox!. Well, av a go, ya mug!. he got angry and he clocked him; presumably from hitting someone across the dial (dial being slang for face, as the face of a clock is called a dial). dead-set drongo = Someone who is regarded as a total idiot, stupid, clumsy or worthless, e.g. Australian English (or Aussie slang, really) is a language of subtle poetry. Have a butchers at this. I havent seen Dave for ages, I think hes gone walkabout. Can also be spelt as cooee. He was pretty toey about having to stay inside all day. Also rendered as parmi or parmo. arsey = Someone who is considered lucky, e.g. Download it's free. Jacko = Jack (or the surname Jackson). Rommels comments on Australian soldiers [1941-1942] bundle = A lot of money, a bundle of money, e.g. Im going to see the relos at Christmas. Possibly derived from arc welding, whereby sparks fly out (sparks flying refers to an argument or fight). stone the crows = A phrase used when surprised, e.g. dropkick = Someone who is dumb or an idiot. Derived from knackers, a slang term for castanets. Go on, give us a dink on your bike; also referred to as double-dinking. Look at that bloke; hes almost falling over; hes blotto. annoyed, irked. The Encyclopdia Britannica defines slang as "unconventional words or phrases that express either something new or something old in a new way. Required fields are marked *. dig = An abbreviation of digger (meaning friend, cobber, mate). parma = A parmigiana. Hes a real little bugger, isnt he?. Distinct from the word nanna, which means grandmother. ( give us a go). Rarely heard nowadays. Used in the term Aussie battler. Not slang as such, but a well-known part of Australian pub culture. phrase pissed to the eyeballs: https://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=117007, Spewin (adj) objecting to a situation, place or thing causing the person to become vocally angry, agitated or upset. Chrissy = Abbreviation of Christmas; can also be spelt as Chrissie. Similar to the term yall (you all), as used in the southern states of the USA. The phrase was made up by Australian comedian Barry Humphries, to use in his Barry McKenzie cartoon strip in Private Eye (UK), e.g. Fair suck of the sav, give him a chance. berko = To go berserk, to be really angry and out of control; e.g. Bazza = Barry. Davo, Jacko, Johno, Robbo, Stevo, and Tommo (David, Jack, John, Robert, Steve, and Tom). troppo = To go crazy, loony, mad; to be mentally disturbed; acting strangely, e.g. chuck = [2] To vomit, to chuck up, to throw up, e.g. I havent yet proceeded very far down the list here, but I have a comment about arsey. ethnic = A non-Anglo person; in common usage, ethnics usually refers to non-Anglo Europeans. fair suck of the sav = To call for fair treatment, or a demand to give someone a reasonable chance, e.g. Auntie = A reference to the ABC (originally the Australian Broadcasting Commission, later renamed the Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Up shit creek without a paddle = In dire trouble, in a quandary. fair go = To have fair treatment, e.g. dont get your knickers in a knot = Dont get upset. This is part of the Australia tradition of giving various names a zza suffix, e.g. dimmies = Dim Sims, the Australian version of the Chinese food Dim Sum; cooked for diggers on the goldfields in the 1850s, the modern recipe and style is believed to have been developed by William Wing Young in 1945. dingo = A treacherous and cowardly person; from the characteristics attributed to the Australian dog, the dingo. Hello, sign in. Gday cobber! (a greeting used by an older generation of Australians)A collection of Australian slang words and phrases. This Australian slang phrase is not as common as it once was. cuppa = A cup of tea, or a cup of coffee, e.g. Agnes L. Storrie (Agnes L. Kettlewell), The Bastard from the Bush [poem, circa 1900] K = Kilometer (abbreviation), e.g. frog and toad = Rhyming slang for road, e.g. someone who hasnt got any guts (courage). In this article, we divide all the Australian slang words into three main groups: slang abbreviations ending in -ie (barbie, sunnies), slang abbreviations ending in -o (e.g. (Give it a) Burl: Give it a shot. 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). Although most people who aren't from Australia hear Aussie slang terms and scoff at how "they're just shortforms of real words" a lot of words we use today originated from the Lucky Country. Siphon the python? 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. Makes a bit more sense than just she bangs like a dunny door! = A question asking as to someones state of wellbeing, meaning How are you going? or How are you today?. Not a slang term as such, but included here since Americans can get confused over the term, as a rubber in the USA refers to a condom (some Americans were shocked to read that the advertised content of a showbag for young children included pencils and rubbers). Davo, Jacko, Johno, Robbo, Stevo, and Tommo (David, Jack, John, Robert, Steve, and Tom). He looks a bit down in the mouth; hes about as happy as a bastard on Fathers Day. Can also refer to someone who is perceived to be a bit mad or crazy. Get the root rat mug. In the Australian context Asian usually refers to someone of East Asian ethnicity (from China, Japan, Korea, etc. 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. Similar to hoo roo. 125 Common Australian Slang Words, Terms and Phrases 1. carry on like a two-bob watch = Someone carrying on in an unduly agitated manner, e.g. duck-shoving = To move things around, to jockey for position, or to evade responsibility. Derived from dinkum. See: IAC list on Trove. Charles Harpur Spunk-rat sexually attractive person Similar to no dramas. Some are in current widespread use, whilst others are not; some may be derived or taken from overseas slang, but most are unique to Australia. 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. Plural: durries. Recommended poetry True blue Aussie terms can make for some of the cutest nicknames for your little boy. Now listen mate, I need to splash the boots. rubber = An eraser (i.e. spunk rat n Australian a sexually attractive young person. Ben Hall, Captain Moonlite (Andrew Scott), Captain Thunderbolt (Frederick Ward), Frank Gardiner, Mad Dan Morgan, and Ned Kelly were all considered to be bushrangers. Mu Similar to Take a hike. Have a geek at this!; not to be confused with the term geek referring to a studious person, bookworm, or nerd. Routledge. He put the bite on her for a loan. Piece of piss : easy task. black velvet. No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest [poem by Mary Gilmore, 29 June 1940] He glassed that bloke at the bar, Watch out, hes nasty, he might glass you. Youve got Buckleys chance of winning Tattslotto. Soldiers at a Furphys water cart, World War OneGeebung = Somewhere very far away. What else did you get for Christmas? spunk rat n Australian a sexually attractive young person. back of Bourke = A long way out from civilization (Bourke was once considered to be the remotest town in New South Wales). Youre a bit of a silly duffer, arent you? Possibly derived from an unproductive or worthless mine, termed a duffer. hollow legs = A reference to someone who is very hungry, or someone who is eating a lot, e.g. they had a real barney over that one (sometimes spelt as barny). bees dick = Something very small, or used as an indication of a short distance or a close call, e.g. magpie = A hoarder; someone who is attracted to shiny things, who wants to take them home. Aussie Rules = Australian Rules Football. Bullamakanka = Somewhere very far away. not the full quid = Someone who is perceived to be lacking in intelligence, a person who is not very bright; refers to lacking enough coin to make up a full quid (dollar or pound); similar to Hes only fifty cents to the dollar and a few cents short of a dollar. arced up = A reference to someone being angry or upset, e.g. ], bugger = [2] An annoying person (usually used regarding males), e.g. But it s all right for her, she s got a whole smorgasbord selection of classic spunk Contemporary slang . boozer = [2] Someone who drinks a lot of alcoholic drinks, especially beer. go south til your hat floats = A relatively polite way of telling someone to go drown themselves, e.g. 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 . flick = Get rid of, e.g. King Gee = A successful clothing brand in Australia; the phrase King Gee was a slang expression referring to the reigning monarch of the time, King George V, hence King G (King Gee) was slang for the tops or the greatest. See the following list: https://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=132374 Kookaburra A Ace! Buck's night: Aussie equivalent of 'bachelor party' or 'stag party'. He brought the teacher an apple, hes a real crawler. sticky beak = [1] Someone who is curious about someone elses business, when its actually none of their business. I cant be arsed to cook dinner tonight. Go on mate, choof off, get going. budgie smugglers = Small tight-fitting bathers (swimming costume) worn by men. Thats a nice car youve got there; shes a beauty alright. The phrase is based on spunky in the sense of spirited, and is influenced also by spunk in the sexual sense. ugly tree = A negative reference to someones looks, e.g. 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). C. J. Dennis Leaping up to take a markand the big men fly = A reference to Australian Rules Football, where players leap into the air to catch the ball (take a mark). walkabout = To head off somewhere without telling people where youve gone; to travel aimlessly, e.g. drink with the flies = To drink alone, especially regarding drinking beer alone. It's like my Australian Slang Dictionary! Ive just paid all of my bills, and now Ive got bugger all money left. Dont be a silly billy. Go on, give it a burl. Person, usually a male. gutless wonder = A coward, i.e. Vandemonians = Tasmanians. bottler = Someone who is really good. Ill save this drink for Ron; this is a play upon words, used as if the speaker is keeping something aside for someone named Ron, when the item is actually being kept aside to be used later on. full as a goog = Full up, eaten to ones limit, eaten too much, e.g. A Book for Kids [by C. J. Dennis, 1921] Often depicted as someone with a strong Australian accent, who swears, drinks a lot of beer, and who has very few social graces; stereotyped as wearing (in the heat) shorts, blue t-shirt, and thongs (footwear), with a tinnie or stubbie of beer in his hand. curry = To attack or abuse, to give someone curry, e.g. Its a bit of an old bomb. Relatively often rendered as You little ripper! (during the 1980s it was commonly used in the phrase Ripper, Rita!, which was used in a television advertisement). glassed = To smash someone (usually in the face) with a glass, commonly in a pub fight, e.g. 1. good looking person (of either sex); 2. [See the entry: shoot through like a Bondi tram.]. or a piss, a scratch and a good look around (SMH, 19 April 2017). Gods own country = A reference to Australia, or parts thereof, as a paradise on earth. its all over Red Rover = Indicating the finish of something, e.g. pull your head in = Shut up and mind your own business. Thats beaut, mate!, You beaut!, What a beaut!, or You bewdy!; may be called out when something good happens. --phrase 3. bail on (someone), to abandon (someone). 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 . bucks party = [See the entry: bucks night.]. He cracked the exams (possibly from someone successfully opening or cracking a safe). a stubbie short of a six pack = Someone who is lacking in intelligence, someone who is a bit mentally slow, someone who is a bit slow on the uptake, e.g. Thesaurus. Woop Woop = Somewhere very far away. bag of fruit = Rhyming slang for suit (can also be abbreviated to bag). shithouse = [2] No good, e.g. it was so obvious that even Blind Freddie could have seen it, even Blind Freddie could have done it. The longer phrase is Youve got two chances, Buckleys and none, used as a play upon words regarding the (now closed) department store Buckley and Nunn, giving someone two chances: Buckleys chance and none (that is, no chance either way). fang it = To move quickly, especially to drive fast, e.g. So, that's why we simply define slang as very informal language or specific words used by a group of people. My belief of that usage is that it means something like PUSHY, perhaps RUDE, perhaps ill-mannered. Drink Bonox! may your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down = A phrase expressing ill-will, 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. Western Australians. = 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). Made famous by the ill-fated former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who enjoyed using Australian slang to speak to the . Any such words or phrases contained herein are listed here in an academic role, as a documentation of cultural expressions, with regards to establishing a historical record of slang usage. that cake was massive, it was gi-normous; can also be spelt as ginormous. Have a Captain Cook at this. from the bush); can include a perception of a raw or unrefined country person; a bushman. gi-normous = Very big; a combination of gigantic and enormous, e.g. Here is what you give as its meaning: crust = Used in reference to someones job or income, e.g. Similar to get off the grass, get out of town. noun (uncountable) Touchwood . That blokes a flamin galah; he doesnt know whether hes Arthur or Martha . Freedom on the Wallaby [poem by Henry Lawson, 16 May 1891] beer oclock = A way of saying that its time for a beer. Thesaurus > Synonym of spunk-rat. Reports of the death of slang downunder are total bulldust. The idea of a life force Contemporary slang, List of lakes in Minnesota This is a list of lakes in Minnesota. 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! goog = An egg, e.g. Derived from the perception that galahs (a species of bird) are not very bright. Hes moved out of home and batching it now. Shes such a great woman, her bloods worth bottling; hence the term bottler. Derived from the name of the Australian television series Skippy, about a kangaroo. Like, point Percy at the porcelain? (Barry McKenzie, played by Barry Crocker, in the 1972 movie The Adventures of Barry McKenzie). boat race = Rhyming slang for face (can be abbreviated as boat). clocked = To have hit someone, e.g. An alternative usage is She bangs like a shithouse door. Bewdy, Norm! was an advertising catchphrase in the 1970s. List and definition of Australian Slang, Local Lingo and Unique Phrases. divvy = Divide, e.g. Often turned around for other purposes, e.g. The world's best online dictionary. [See the entry: Bandywallop.]. Here is a list of commonly used words and phrases try them out with your Australian friends! That blokes a bit strange; hes a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Australian Army soldiers who served in North African campaign WW2 DEUCE - sentence to jail for two months (criminal slang 1950s) . a few cents short of a dollar = [See the entry: a few sandwiches short of a picnic.]. Similar to a rooster one day, a feather duster the next. bottled = To smash someone (usually over the head) with a bottle, such as in a pub fight, e.g. cop it sweet = When someone takes on a negative outcome without complaining. Drop Bear, Scientific name: Thylarctos plummetus, Cant bear em: how GPS is helping to track drop bears, Advance Australia Fair: How the song became the Australian national anthem, Under the Southern Cross I Stand [the Australian cricket teams victory song], A billabong: Goulbourn River [postcard, 27 November 1907], The New to the Old [poem by Randolph Bedford, 3 January 1896], New Year greetings [postcard, early 20th Century], [A Very Charming Gentleman] [poem by C. J. Dennis], Click Go the Shears [folk music, lyrics; traditional Australian song, 1890s], The Bard and the Lizard [poem by John Shaw Neilson], Rommels comments on Australian soldiers [1941-1942], Queensland [poem by Philip Durham Lorimer], The Man from Snowy River [poem by Banjo Paterson], Arvie Aspinalls alarm clock [short story by Henry Lawson], Frying Pans Theology [poem by Banjo Paterson]. The phrase bugger it means damn it. Barbie = [2] Abbreviation of Barbara. Similar to a nosey parker, the latter phrase being apparently British in origin, possibly referring to Matthew Parker (1504-1575), Archbishop of Canterbury, who was known for poking his nose into the activities of his priests. hawk the fork = Soliciting for purposes of prostitution; from hawk (to sell) and fork (vagina). falling head over heels, e.g. 26 Comments "G'day cobber!" (a greeting used by an older generation of Australians)A collection of Australian slang words and phrases. 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