AUSSIE SLANG
A
Aerial pingpong: Australian Rules Football
Amber fluid: beer
Ankle biter: small child
Antipodes: places on exactly opposite sides of the earth
Apples, she'll be: It'll be alright
Arvo: afternoon
Aussie (pron. ozzie): Australian
Aussie salute: brushing away flies with the hand
Avos: avocados
B
Back of Bourke: a very long way away
Barbie: barbecue ("I'll throw some shrimp on the barbie")
Banana bender: a person from Queensland
Barrack: to cheer on (football team etc.)
Bastard: term of endearment
Beaut, beauty: great, fantastic
Bikkie: biscuit , cookie
Billabong: an ox-bow river or watering hole
Billy: large tin can used to boil water over a campfire for tea
Black stump, beyond the: a long way away the back of nowhere
Bloke: man, guy
Bloody: very (bloody hard yakka)
Bloody oath!: that's certainly true
Blood Nut: red head
Blow in the bag: have a breathalyzer test
Blowie: blow fly
Bludger:
lazy person, layabout, somebody who always relies on other people to do things or lend him things.
Blue: fight ("he was having a blue with his wife")
Blue, make a: make a mistake
Bluey: pack, equipment, traffic ticket, redhead
Bodgy: of inferior quality
Bonzer: great, ripper
Boogie board: a hybrid, half-sized surf board
Boomer: a large male kangaroo
Boozer: a pub
Bored shitless: very bored
Bottle shop: liquor shop
Brass razoo, he hasn't got a : he's very poor
Brown-eyed mullet: a turd in the sea (where you're swimming!)
Buckley's, Buckley's chance:
no chance ("New Zealand stands Buckley's of beating Australia at football")
Brick shit house, built like a: Big strong bloke
Bull bar:
Stout bar fixed to the front of a vehicle to protect it against hitting kangaroos
Bush: the hinterland, the Outback, anywhere that isn't in town
B.Y.O.:
unlicensed restaurant where you have to Bring Your Own Grog, also similar party or barbecue
C
Cark it: to die, cease functioning
Carpet Grub: Baby
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer: Wife
Choke a darkie: defecate
Chokkie: chocolate
Chook: a chicken
Chrissie: Christmas
Click: kilometre - "it's 10 clicks away"
Cobber: friend
Cockie: farmer
Cow Cockie: dairy farmer
Cockroach: a person from New South Wales
Coldie : a beer
Come a gutser: make a bad mistake, have an accident
Corroboree: an aboriginal dance festival
Cozzy: swimming costume
Cranky: in a bad mood, angry
Crook: sick, or badly made
Crow eater: a person from South Australia
Cut snake, mad as a: very angry
D
Dag: a funny person, nerd, goof
Dead Horse
tomato sauce ("Pass the dead horse")
Daks: trousers
Digger: a soldier
Dill: an idiot
Dinkum, fair dinkum:
true, real, genuine ("I'm a dinkum Aussie"; "is he fair dinkum?")
Dinky-di: the real thing, genuine
Docket: a bill, receipt
Dole bludger: Somebody on social assistance when unjustified
Donger: penis
Doodle: penis
Drink with the flies: to drink alone
Drongo: a dope, stupid person
Drum: information, tip-off ("I'll give you the drum")
Dunny: outside lavatory
Durry: cigarette
E
Earbashing: nagging, non-stop chatter
Esky:
large insulated food/drink container for picnics, barbecues etc.
Exy: expensive
F
Fag: cigarette
Fair dinkum: True, genuine
Fair go: a chance ("give a bloke a fair go")
Footy: Australian Rules football
Fossicking:
searching, rummaging ("fossicking through the kitchen drawers")
Freckle: anus
Full: drunk
G
Galah:
fool, named after the bird of the same name which
flies south in the winter - a bloody silly thing to do in the
Southern Hemisphere !
Garbo, garbologist: municipal garbage collector
G'Day: hello!
Give it a burl: try it, have a go
Good oil: useful information, a good idea
Good on ya: good for you, well done
Grog: liquor, beer ("bring your own grog, you bludger")
H
Hoon: hooligan
Hooroo: goodbye
Hotel: often just a pub
I
Icy pole: popsicle, lollypop
J
Jackaroo:
a male station hand (a station is a big farm/grazing property)
Jillaroo: a female station hand
Joey: baby kangaroo
Journo: journalist
Jumbuck: sheep
K
Kero: kerosene
Knock: to criticise
Knock back: refusal (noun), refuse (transitive verb)
Knocker: somebody who criticises
L
Liquid laugh: vomit
Lob, lob in: drop in to see someone ("the rellies have lobbed")
Lollies: sweets, candy
Loo: toilet
Lucky Country, The: Australia, where else?
M
Mate: buddy, friend
Metho: methylated spirits
Mexican: a person from south of the (Queensland) border
Mickey Mouse: excellent, very good
Middy: 285 ml beer glass in New South Wales
Mongrel: despicable person, of doubtful parantage
Mozzies: mosquitoes
Muddy: mud crab (a great delicacy)
Mug: friendly insult ("have a go, yer mug"), gullible person
Mull: grass (the kind you smoke)
N
Naughty, have a: have sex
Never Never: the Outback, centre of Australia
Nipper: young surf lifesaver or younger brother
No-hoper: somebody who'll never do well
Not the full quid: not bright intellectually
O
Ocker: an unsophisticated person
Offsider: an assistant, helper
O.S.: overseas ("he's gone O.S.")
Oz: Australia!
P
Piece of piss: easy task
Piss: beer. Hence "hit the piss", "sink some piss"
Plonk: cheap wine
Pom, pommy: an Englishman
Pommy bastard: an Englishman (term of endearment)
Postie: postman, mailman
Pot: 285 ml beer glass in Queensland
Q
Quid, make a: earn a living - "are you making a quid?"
R
Reckon!: you bet! Absolutely!
Rellie: family relative
Ridgy-didge: original, genuine
Right: okay ("she'll be right, mate")
Ripper: great, fantastic
Roo: kangaroo
Root: sexual intercourse
Rooted: broken, tired
Rotten: drunk ("I went out last night and got rotten")
Rubbish: to criticize
S
Salvos, the: Salvation Army, bless them
Sandgroper: a person from Western Australia
Sanger: a sandwich
Schooner: large beer glass
Shark biscuit: somebody new to surfing
Sheila: a woman
She'll be right: it'll turn out okay
Shonky:
dubious, underhanded. E.g. a shonky practice, shonky business etc.
Shout: turn to buy - a round of drinks usually ("it's your shout")
Sickie:
day off sick from work (chuck a sickie = take the day off sick from work when you're perfectly healthy!)
Slab: a carton of 24 bottles or cans of beer
Smoko: smoke or coffee break
Snag: a sausage
Spotters:
eyes
Spag bol: spaghetti bolognese
Spunk: a good looking person (of either sex)
Station: a big farm/grazing property
Stickybeak: nosy person
Strewth:
exclamation, mild oath ("Strewth, that Chris is a bonzer bloke")
Strine: Australian slang and pronunciation
Stubby: a small bottle of beer
Stubby holder: polystyrene insulated holder for a stubby
Sunbake: sunbathe
Sunnies:
Sunglasses
Surfies:
people who go surfing - usually more often than they go to work!
Swagman: tramp, hobo
T
Tall poppies: successful people
Taswegian: a person from Tasmania
Technicolor yawn: vomit
Tee-up: to set up an appointment
Thongs: cheap rubber backless sandals
Tin Lids: Kids, children
Tin Licker: dog
Tinny: can of beer, small aluminium boat
Togs: swim suit
Too right!: definitely!
True blue: patriotic
Tucker: food
Tucker-bag: food bag
Turps: turpentine, alcoholic drink
Turps, hit the: go on a drinking binge
U
Uni: university, college
Ute: utility vehicle
V
Vegies: vegetables
Vejjo: vegetarian
Vee dub: Volkswagen
W
Waggin' school: playing truant
Walkabout, it's gone: it's lost, can't be found
Whinge: complain
Wobbly:
excitable behaviour ("I complained about the food and the waiter threw a wobbly")
Wog:
flu or trivial illness; also term of endearment for people of the italian or greek communities
Woop Woop:
invented name for any small unimportant town - "he lives in Woop Woop"
Wowser: straight-laced person, prude, puritan, spoilsport
X
XXXX: pronounced Four X, brand of beer made in Queensland
Y
Yabber: talk (a lot)
Yard Apes: Kids, children
Yakka: work (noun)
Yewy: u-turn in traffic ("chuck a yewy at the next traffic lights")
Yobbo: an uncouth person
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