N
- you're in the Nuddy you are naked
- Nick off
go now, get lost
- Nick steal
something
- in good Nick something in good shape and condition
- Naughty
sexual intercourse
- Nooky
sexual intercourse
- I'm Nackered absolutely exhausted or very tied
- Not backward in coming forward someone is pushy about doing something, eager to do
something
- Nockers
women's breasts
- Narkie
short tempered
- gone to the Never Never gone out in to the bush, usually off the beaten track, gone
off in our native country sides not developed by man
- Never Never mythical place in the outback
- No-hoper someone
who is hopeless
- Nulla-nulla Wooden club used by Aborigines (made from very heavy,hard wood called Blackbut)
- Nappy
diaper
- On the Nose something stinks
- Noggin
head or brains<
O
- Ocker Aussie that likes beer, sport and women and uncultured
- good On ya mate well done there mate
- Ooroo
goodbye
- Oy! a
Aussie bush call
- Ow-yar-goin how are you going?
- Oz
Australia
- Outback
remote part of Australia
- Off the beaten Track on a road not used very much, to no road at all or
in a remote part of Australia
- Oldies
parents
- Out house
toilet (coming from the old days when a toilet was down the backyard
P
- Prang
automotive crash
- Pull your head in mate Tell them to mind their own business
- Put up or shut up Show you can do it or say it or keep quite
- Postie
Postman, mail delivery person
- you Pong You
smell or have a unpleasant odour
- Pissed as a parrot Drunk
- Pissed off
You are angry or unhappy with something
- Pull your socks up get you life in orderOR your act together
- Possie Advantageous position, in good spot
- Piss and wind Futile excercise
- Piece of Piss something is easy
- don't Piss in my Pocket someone telling you their troubles, that you are not
interested
- Pub hotel, place for buying and drinking alcohol
- Plonk real cheap alcohol
- Pot hole hole in the road
- Pot 285 ml glass of beer (VIC & Qld)
- Piker Someone who does not want to do, what the rest of the group
want to do
- Prezzies
gifts
- Pigs bum that's wrong, or incorrect
- Pussy domestic cat OR a females private part
- Pash or Pashing kissing and cuddling
- Pommy or Pom english person
- Pie floater a meat pie floating in pea
soup(mash), usually with lots of tomato sauce (traditional aussie tucker)
- away with the Pixies day dreaming
QQuid money
not the full Quid short on brains
R Rip off you been cheated
it's a Ripsnorter something is really great
don't come the Raw prawn don't tell me that lie or don't be act stupid
Rug Rat
baby
Righto
okay or that's right
Ridgie didge true or genuine article
Rellie
relative or family
it's a Ripper it's really great
Reckon you are right believe or think you're right
Rubber
eraser
Rack off
go now, in an angry way, get lost
Root sex
you got the Rough end of the pineapple you got a bad deal or you bad end of something, the deal
the Rag
newspaper OR a women who sleeps around
Rooted
very tired
Ropable
very ill tempered or angry
RS lousy
(rat shit)
Ratbag
not a nice person
SSanger or Sanga Sandwich
Sandgroper
someone who lives a the state of Western Australia (very sandy state)
you've been Sacked you been fired from work
great Australian Salute swatting flies
going for a Slash a man is going to urinate
Stone the crows! Shock at something
Smoko
have a break, and usually having something to eat and drink, and have a cigarette if you
are allowed to,
you Scrub-up well you are now dressed, hair done nice, you look good, where you didn't before
She,ll be right! this means everything at all will be good or OK or all right no Sweat no worries
I don't give a Stuff you don't care about something
my Shout
buying friends alcohol (usually beers) at a pub (then its their turn to buy you one,)
Strewth
shock at something
cheap Skate someone will not spend money or tight wad
Sit on a beer take a long time to drink a beer
Spunky
someone is sexy
Stickybeak
someone can not mind their own business( nosy)
Snag
a sausage (put a snags on the barbie)
Spud a
potato
you've been Sprung you been caught doing something they should not, busted
Silly Season Christmas holiday's
Stick in the mud someone is stopping you from doing something,
Spit the dummie You are gettiing or got very up set at something
Snakey
someone is very up set or angry
call a Spade a Spade telling something like it is, not saying something good if
its not , or bad if its good
Stubby
small bottle of beer OR a pair of mens shorts
Schooner
large beer glass (NSW & SA)
See you in the Soup see you around
Shonky
unreliable a very suspect deal
Shirty to
get upset or angry
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S
- what a Spunk (Spunky) good-looking, attractive
- Stinger
Box Jellyfish
- Swag
canvas bag or cover that you keep all your belonging and bedroll in, to protect it from
the weather when camping out
- Slow as a wet weekend you doing something very slowly
- Sausage Short of the barbecue Short of brains (a Snag Short of a barbie)
- Stroppy
someone in a bad mood, and being difficult
- Shag Sex with
someone
- Stuffed
very tired
- As rare as Rocking Horse Manure something extremely rare
- pull up Stumps moving home, changing address
- Shank's pony going some where by foot
- have a Squiz at have a look at something
- Satdee Saturday
- Sundee
Sunday
- Sandshoes
joggers, sneakers, trainers
- a Slab
pack of 24 cans of beer
- Sloppy joe
a cotton sweater
- Servo service
station for cars
- Spun out or Spin me out surprised and amazed
- Spewin or Spewing being sick or being very disappointed at something
- Suss it out check something out
- lower than a Snake's armpit someone very underhanded
- Saltie saltwater
crocodile
- Schnozz nose
- Singlet under
shirt or tanktop
- Stirrer
someone who causes trouble
T
- he's got Tickets on himself this person thinks they are the greatest, highly self
opinionated
- hang on a Tick wait a short moment
- Thunder box toilet
- Too right! something is absolutely right & correct
- Two-up
traditional Australian heads or tails gambling game with two coins
- Taswegain someone
who lives in the state of Tasmania
- Top-ender
someone who lives in the Northern Territory
- Ta or Tar
thanks
- Tucker
food
- Tuckshop
Aussie schools call a canteen or cafateria or eatery
- Tuckerbag
a bag for storing food in the bush
- Tinnie
can of cold beer or a aluminum boat
- crack a Tinnie open a can of cold beer
- a couple of Tinnies short of a slab someone a bit simple minded
- make Tracks you want to get going somewhere
- Thongs
sandals made from rubber
- True blue really
Australian
- Thingo something
you don't know the name of is a thingo
- going Twenty to the dozen moving or doing something very fast, or to fast
- Thugby southerners
term for Rugby League Football
- Tea evening
meal
- Thing-a-ma-jigger term you use when you can't actually remember the name of something
- Thing-eme-bob term you use when you can't actually remember the name of something
- Tides gone out your glass is not full
- Tightarse
someone who will not part with is money
- Tuesdee
Tuesday
- Thursdee Thursday
- bush Telly
looking up at the stars
- Tallie
750ml large bottle of beer
U
- Up shit creek things are going wrong for you
- Up yourself full of yourself
- Underdaks or undees underpants
- Uee or Uwe doing a U turn
- someone got Up your nose they've really upset you and irritated and annoyed you
- Ute
utility (in the USA a pickup truck)
- Up the gumtree someone that got them self in a spot of trouble, in a quandary
V
- Vegies
vegetables
- Verbal diarrhoea talking
utter rubbish
W
- Wanker a
male that is really stupid but they think they are the greatest
- got the Wog I got a cold or the flue or virus
- car is a Write off car can not get fixed after a crash (totalled)
- something is Wobbly its shaky
- Wonky
something is unstable or unsteady or shaky
- chucked a Wobbly you told a story that doesn't sound quite true, OR throwing a tantrum(inWA)
- Gone for a Walkabout you gone for a long walk, for a aboriginal it a holiday
away in the bush, period of spiritual enlightenment.
- Wowser
killjoy or prude, old fashioned
- Wally
someone who keeps making mistakes
- go down the Waterhole off to the hotel or pub
- Wag skip
school, truency
- put the Wind up ya! frighten someone OR to intimidate
- Who-ha
someone is making a fuss about something
- it will all come out in the Wash something will sort it's self over time
- Weatherboard
wooden house
- the Wet rainy
season in Northern Australia
- Wharfie dockworker
- Winge
complain and carry on unnecessarily
- Willy-nilly something kept in a untidy way
- Willy
man's penis
- Willy Willywind whirly or dust twister
- Woop woop
somewhere a long way from civilization
- give it a Whirl to try doing something, by giving it your best
- on a good Wicket on to a good thing life OR earning a good income
- Wouldn't be dead for quids you're very happy and well
- Wrapped excited
about something good that has happened
- Watering the horse going to urinate
- no Worries mate! don't worry about it, everything is fine(Australian Attitude)
Y
- hard Yakka
hard work
- tell you a Yarn tell a story that maybe true or it might not be, that's for them to work out
- Yahoo
loudmouthed person which usually out of control in some way
- Yobbo
same as a yahoo but no values at all, looks like a slob always
- see you
Yewse latter see you you all latter
- Yabbie freshwater Australian crayfish
- Ya tellin me someone said something you agree with, you say thatis
- Yank
American
- Yacking
talking a lot
- Yonks a
long period of time
Z
- catch some ZZZ's go for a sleep
- Zonked
really really tied

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