Australian Slang
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Bities : biting insects Bitzer : mongrel
dog Blowie : blow fly Bluey : blue working cattle
dog Boomer: a large male kangaroo Brumby: a wild
horse Bunyip : mythical outback creature Chook: a
chicken Dunny budgie: blowfly Freshie: freshwater
crocodile Joey: baby kangaroo Jumbuck: sheep Kelpie:
Australian sheepdog originally bred from Scottish
collie Mozzie: mosquito Roo: kangaroo Saltie:
saltwater crocodile |
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Aussie salute: brushing away flies with the hand Bail
out: depart often angrily Bail (somebody) up : to corner
somebody physically Barrack : to cheer on Big-note
oneself : brag, boast Blue : fight/argue Blow in the bag
: have a breathalyzer test Bog in: tuck in, commence
eating Bot: to scrounge Burl: have a go Captain Cook:
look ("let's have a Captain Cook") Chuck a Uey: do a u
turn Dob in: to inform on somebody Drum:
tip-off Dummy, spit the: get very upset at
something Earbashing: nagging Face, off one's:
drunk Flat out: busy Flick: to dump your
partner Flick it on: to sell something soon after buying
it Flog: to sell / steal Fossicking: search /
rummage Game: up for it Get up somebody: to rebuke
somebody Gobful, give a: to abuse verbally Grinning like
a shot fox: very happy, smugly satisfied Knock: to put down
/ criticise Lair it up: to behave in a brash and vulgar
manner Lend of, to have a: to take advantage of
someone Lizard drinking, flat out like a: very busy Lob
in: drop in to see someone Muster: round up sheep or cattle
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Naughty, have a: have sex Nuddy, in the: naked Pash:
passionate kiss Perve: looking lustfully at the opposite
sex Pommy shower : using deodorant instead of taking a
shower Plate: bring your own / some food (often to a
BBQ) Rack off: get lost! Rage on: to continue
partying Rapt: pleased Rock up: to turn up,
arrive Root: have sex Rooted: tired Ropeable: very
angry Rort: Cheating, defrauding Rubbish, to: to
criticize Session, to have: go out drinking Shankys's
pony: to travel on foot Shoot through: to leave Sickie,
throw a: have a day off due to illness Skite: boast,
brag Smoko, have a: take a break Spewin: very
angry Spit the dummy: get very upset at
something Sprung: caught doing something Squizz: to
look Sunbake: sunbathe Technicolor yawn: to be
sick Tee-up: to set up (an appointment) Waggin' school:
playing truant Walkabout: wander off Whinge:
complain Whiteant: to criticising competitors
products Wobbly, throw a: go mad Veg out: relax in front
of the TV Yabber: talk a lot Yakka : work (noun) Yewy
: u-turn in traffic |
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Ankle biter: small child Aussie: Australian Banana
bender: a person from Queensland Bastard: term of
endearment Battler: A hard worker only just making a
living Beaut / beauty: great, fantastic Bikies:
motorcyclists Block, do your: get angry Bloke : man,
guy Blokey: behaving 'manly' Blow in:
stranger Bludger: layabout Bogan: young, immature
person Bounce : a bully Brickie : bricklayer Bushie :
someone who lives in the Bush Bushranger:
outlaw Cadbury- a cheap drunk (a glass and a
half) Clayton's : fake, substitute Clucky : feeling
broody or maternal Cobber : friend Cockie : farmer. Also
a cockatoo Cockroach : a person from New South
Wales Cook: one's wife Cranky: in a bad mood,
angry Crook : sick, or badly made Crow eater : a person
from South Australia Dag: a funny person, nerd Dero :
tramp, hobo, homeless person (from "derelict") Digger : a
soldier Dill: an idiot Dipstick: fool / idiot Dog:
unattractive woman Dole bludger: signing on
illegally Drongo : a dope, stupid person Figjam: Someone
who has a high opinion of themselves Fisho :
fishmonger Frog in a sock, as cross as a: sound
angry Fruit loop : fool Full: drunk Galah:
fool Garbo, garbologist: municipal garbage
collector Greenie: environmentalist Grey hairs: old
people Gutful of piss: drunk Gyno : gynaecologist He
hasn't got a brass razoo: he's very poor Hoon:
hooligan Jackaroo: a male farm hand Jillaroo: a female
farmhand Journo : journalist Jumped up: stuck
up Kiwi: person from New Zealand Knocker: somebody who
criticises Larrikin: a joker Mallee bull, as fit as a:
very fit and strong Mate: buddy, friend Mexican :
someone from south of the (Queensland) border Milko :
milkman |
Mob : group of people Mongrel : despicable
person Mongrel: nasty person Mug: gullible
person Nipper: young surf lifesaver No-hoper: somebody
who'll never do well Not the full quid: not bright
intellectually Oldies: parents Ocker: an unsophisticated
person Offsider : an assistant / helper / partner Piker:
social misfit / drop out Polly : politician Pom /pommy:
an Englishman Pommy bastard : an Englishman Postie:
postman Quid, not the full: of low IQ Rapt: pleased,
delighted Ratbag: mild insult Raw prawn, to come the: to
be generally disagreeable Reffo : refugee Rellie :
family relative Ring in: substitute Rotten:
drunk Salvos: Salvation Army Sandgroper: a person from
Western Australia Screamer: party lover Seppo : an
American Shark biscuit: new surfer Sheila: a
woman Shonky: dubious, underhanded Skimpy: barely
clothed bar staff Sook: soft or inoffensive
person Spunk: a good looking person Stickybeak: nosy
person Stuffed, I feel: I'm tired Surfies: people who go
surfing - more than they go to work! Swaggie :
swagman Swagman : tramp, hobo Tall poppies : successful
people Tall poppy syndrome : the tendency to criticize
successful people Taswegian : a person from
Tasmania Tickets, to have on oneself: to have a high
opinion of oneself Truckie : truck driver True blue:
patriotic Two pot screamer: person who gets drunk
easily Up oneself : have a high opinion of
oneself Useless as an ashtray on a motorbike: Incompetent
or unhelpful Useless as tits on a bull : Incompetent or
unhelpful Vejjo: vegetarian White pointers : topless
(female) sunbathers Woos: coward Wombat : a person who
eats, roots and leaves Wowser : spoilsport Wuss :
coward; nervous person or animal Yobbo: ignorant
person Youse: you (plural) |
B & S : Bachelors' and Spinsters' Ball Buck's
night: stag night Corroboree : an aboriginal dance
festival Footy: Australian Rules football Nasho:
National Service Smoko: smoke or coffee break Two up:
gambling game played by spinning two coins
simultaneously |
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Aerial pingpong : Australian Rules
football Amber fluid: beer Avos : avocados Barbie:
barbecue (noun) Bathers : swimming costume Bikkie :
biscuit Billy: large tin can to boil water over a
campfire Bitumen: surfaced road Bondi cigar: muck
floating in the sea Boogie board : body board Boomerang:
Aboriginal tool for hunting Booze bus: police van for
breathalysing Brekkie: breakfast Brown-eyed mullet: muck
floating in the sea Bull bar : stout bar fixed to the front
of a vehicle Bull dust: outback dust Bush telly:
campfire Bush tucker: native outback food Chewie :
chewing gum Chokkie : chocolate Chunder:
vomit Clobber: clothes Coldie: a beer Compo :
Workers' Compensation pay Counter lunch / meal: pub
lunch Cozzie: swimming costume Cut lunch:
sandwiches Daks: trousers Damper : bread made from flour
and water Date: behind (rear end) Didgeridoo: Aboriginal
instrument Dilly bag: Aboriginal carrying bag Docket: a
bill, receipt Donger: penis Doodle: penis Doozey :
something very pleasant, significant, large Duchess:
sideboard Dunny: outside lavatory Durry :
cigarette Esky: coolbox Fairy floss: candy floss, cotton
candy Flake: shark meat Fly wire: gauze flyscreen
covering a window or doorway Franger: condom Freckle :
anus Grog: alcohol / beer Grundies: underwear Handle:
beer glass with a handle Hottie: hot water bottle Icy
pole: ice lolly Jocks: male pants Kero: kerosene |
Knacker: testicle Lemon: faulty product Lippy:
lipstick Liquid laugh: vomit Lollies: sweets Loo:
toilet Mappa Tassie: map of Tasmania Matilda: swagman's
bedding, sleeping roll Metho: methylated spirits Middy:
New South Wales beer glass (285ml) Muddy: mud
crab Munchies: snacks, nibbles Pav: Pavlova Plonk:
cheap wine Pokies: fruit machines Port: suitcase Pot:
Large beer (in Victoria) Prezzy: present, gift Rego:
vehicle registration Road train: a very big lorry with many
trailors Rollie: a cigarette that you roll
yourself Sanger: a sandwich Schooner: large beer glass
in QLD and NSW Schooner: small beer glass in South
Australia Scratchy: instant lottery ticket Shout: a
round of drinks Slab: crate of beer Snag: a
sausage Spag bol: spaghetti bolognese Strides:
trousers Stubby: a 375ml beer bottle Stubby holder: beer
bottle cooler Sunnies: sunglasses Swag: roll up canvas
bed for camping Thongs: flip flops Tinny: can of beer /
small aluminium boat Togs: swimming stuff Trackies:
track suit Tucker: food Tucker-bag: food bag Turps:
alcoholic drink Ute: utility vehicle Vedgies:
vegetables Vee dub: Volkswagen Whipper Snipper: garden
strimmer XXXX: Four X, Queensland brand of beer Zack:
sixpence (5 cents)
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Ace! : Excellent! Very good! Arvo:
afternoon Amber fluid : beer Aussie:
Australian Beaut, beauty : great, fantastic Big Mobs:
loads, a lot of Bloody : very Bloody oath! : that's
certainly true Blue: argument/mistake Bodgy: poor
quality Bonzer : great, ripper Bottler : something
excellent Bottling, his blood's worth : he's an excellent,
helpful bloke Buckley's chance, you've got: no
chance Bull dust: rubbish Cactus : dead, broken Cark
it : to die, stop working Chocka: full up Click :
kilometre - "it's 20 clicks away" Come a gutser : a bad
mistake or have an accident Come good: turn out
ok Cooee, not within : figuratively a long way away Cost
big bikkies: expensive Crack a fat : get an
erection Cream, to: defeat by a large margin Cut snake,
mad as a: very angry Dead dingo's donger, as dry as a:
dry Deadset: true / the truth Dingo's breakfast: no
breakfast Dinkum / fair dinkum: true, real,
genuine Dinky-di : the real thing, genuine Docket: a
bill, receipt Doco: documentary Drink with the flies: to
drink alone Dunny rat, cunning as a: very cunning Exy:
expensive Fair dinkum: true, genuine Fair go: a chance /
break Fair suck of the sav!: exclamation of wonder, awe,
disbelief Furphy: rumour
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G'Day: hello! Give it a burl: try it, have a
go Give it away: give up Going off: good fun Good
oil: useful information, a good idea, the truth Good onya:
well done Grouse: great, terrific Heaps: a lot Iffy:
dodgy It's gone walkabout: it's lost, can't be
found Kangaroos loose in the top paddock: Intellectually
inadequate Kick the bucket: to die Knock back:
refuse London to a brick: absolute certainty Lunch, who
opened their?: OK, who farted? Mate's rate, mate's
discount: cheaper than usual for a friend Mind your own
bizzo: mind your own business No worries!: no problem / its
okay Nun's nasty, as dry as a: very dry Piece of piss :
easy task Pig's arse!: I don't agree Plate, bring a:
Instruction to bring a plate of food to a party Pozzy:
position Quid, make a: earn a living Rack off: get lost!
get out of here! Reckon!: for sure Ridgy-didge:
original, genuine Right: okay Ripper: Great Rooted:
ruined, broken She'll be apples: It'll be alright She'll
be right: it'll be okay Sparrows fart: dawn Strewth:
exclamation Stoked: very pleased Stuffed, I'll be:
expression of surprise Too right: definitely Turps, hit
the: go on a drinking binge Zack, not worth a : not worth
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Back of Bourke: long way
away Billabong: an ox-bow river or watering hole Black
Stump, beyond the: a long way away, the back of
nowhere Boozer: a pub Bottle shop: off
license Bottle-o: off license Brizzie: Brisbane, state
capital of Queensland Bundy: short for Bundaberg,
Queensland, and the brand of rum that's made there Bush:
outback BYO : unlicensed restaurant where you have to Bring
Your Own grog Down Under: Australia and New
Zealand Dunny: outside lavatory Going off: a place that
is a lot of fun Kindie: kindergarten Lucky Country, the:
Australia Maccas: McDonald's Milk bar: takeaway food
shop Never never(land): the Outback / centre of
Australia O.S.: overseas Outback: central areas of
Australia Oz: Australia Rage: party Servo: petrol
station Sleepout: house verandah converted to a
bedroom Station: a big farm/grazing property Top End:
far north of Australia Uni: university Unit: apartment
Woop Woop: a small, perhaps, unimportant town
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