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Mon May 23, 2005 9:57 pm

Mattie says...

Did I say she invented it? Be sure you read more closely next time. Although I think I know how you were using it when you typed it. Still, you usually don't say a phrase that someone you don't like says.

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Mon May 23, 2005 10:04 pm

Nai says...

Just started reading this topic now... lol

Éloeré wrote:*cracks knuckes* Right! Aussie slang, here we go:
kicked the bucket - to die
bite the dust - to die
bite the bullet - to die
bomb - old, unreliable car
tinny - small aluminium boat
bum - posterior (sounds better than butt), or unemployed person on the dole
dunny - toliet
long drop - toliet ... without plumbing
snags - sausage
spud - potato
stubby - beer bottle with short neck
barbie - BBQ
dead horse - tomatoe sauce
yarn - story
Aussie rules - our special footy game (better than other forms, especially American, which is just weird)
sheila - girl
bloke - guy
mate - good friend, used in other places I'm sure but some people I know say it about six times per sentence
squatter - some bum that comes to live on your land when your back's turned, may require to be chased off with a shotty, see below.
shotty - abreviation of shotgun
rabbit gun - .22 gun
kangaroo gun - .303 gun, knocks over most aussie wildlife
trouble and stife - wife
whoppee weed - well, this guy I meet once who had a broad accent called drugs "whoppee weed" I don't know if it counts, but it's a good term
true blue - *thinks* I suppose it means a patriotic aussie ... if there's such thing as a patriotic aussie
fair dinkum? - True? You for real?
dummy - well, I put this in because I've only ever heard Yanks (any american) call em pacifiers.
Joe Blake - snake
flat out like lizard drinking - flat out, fast etc.
you bewdy - good on ya
you beaut - see above
pissed - drunk off your arse
castle - "a man's home is his castle"
porky pie - a lie (no one says this who's under 60 that I know)
put a shrimp on the barbie - has lost all meaning, occasionally part of drunk conversations
mozzie - abreviation for mosquito (mozzies are your only natural predators in Australia, and we hate 'em)
hit the hay - go to sleep
bush - large area of plant life, on average above your head
scrub - small area of low growing (below vision) plant life
go bush - escape into the bush
billy - pot to boil water over campfires
crow - a black bird, also a nasty person
Crikey! - exclamation never used except when paying out Steve Eriwin
far out! - exclamation, still not often used
tellie - TV
rellies - relatives
G'day - slack arse version of "good morning"

Words for idiot:
galah - also an idiotic bird, may be seen hanging upside down on telephone wires
dingo
gumby
flammin' mongrel
mongrel
drongo (also a drunk)
Eddie McGuire (hah hah!) - owns part share in a footy club, commentates extremly baisedly in favour of his team. Everyone hates him, except Collingwood supporters.
wally
Pommy git (no offense to any Pommy gits ... no, seriously, no offense)

lmfao i'm going to call my teacher a "flammin' mongrel" tomorrow and see what he says

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Sun Jan 19, 2014 11:15 am

TriSARAHtops says...

Mwah ha ha. Totally bringing this thread back from the dead (and from the dark recesses of 2005)
Anyway, a lot of Aussie words have been covered, but I have a few to add.
Take a specky - this an afl term for when a player jumps up to catch the ball, and often means jumping on the shoulders of oher players.
Doona - known as a duvet by the rest of the world
Bonnet/boot - hood/trunk of a car
Ute - pick up truck
Thongs - flip flops (although I think they have yet another name in Queensland)
And finally one I cannot believe hasn't already been mentioned...
BUDGIE SMUGGLERS! - Speedos. For the obvious reason.. :-p

if we wait until we're ready

we'll be waiting

for the rest of our lives

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Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:30 pm

horrendous says...

TriSARAHtops wrote:BUDGIE SMUGGLERS! - Speedos. For the obvious reason.. :-p

this is the first time ive ever heard a member referred to as a budgie, and hopefully the last.

hor·ren·dous
adjective: shockingly dreadful; horrible
synonyms: appalling, frightful, hideous

--

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Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:03 pm

Zolen says...

Daddy-Long-legs: a form of Harvestmen (an Opilionid not a spider)
CrawDads: Crayfish, a fresh water crustaceans resembling small lobsters.
Ya (Y-ua): You
Missouri is sometimes pronounced Mu-zur-a
and Illinois will sometimes be called ill-a-noiz

Self quoting is the key to sounding wise and all knowing.

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Tue Jan 28, 2014 6:12 am

Ventomology says...

In Washington state, we have a special word just for girl ask guy dances. We call them TOLOs instead of Sadie Hawkin's dances.
I have tried many times to figure out where it comes from, but I'm not into that sort of thing, so I end up making fun of them.

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Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:54 pm

horrendous says...

square : cigarette

hor·ren·dous
adjective: shockingly dreadful; horrible
synonyms: appalling, frightful, hideous

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Life is like a box of chocolates. Too much will make you sick.

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Fri Feb 14, 2014 7:29 am

TriSARAHtops says...

I thought of a few more!
Arvo - afternoon (for a while it was what we called after school detentions at my school)
Bogan - how do I describe this? Somewhere along the lines of redneck I guess. Surprised it hasn't been brought up before this
Yobbo -another word for bogan
Also, it isn't exactly a Australian only word, but Melbourne is pronounced MELB-ben not Mel-BORN. Just FYI. And Aussie is pronounced like oz-zy

if we wait until we're ready

we'll be waiting

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Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:26 am

JackJackson says...

Don't forget #turnt! XD

Imperfection is beauty.

Madness is genius.

And it's better to be absolutely bonkers than to be absolutely boring.

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Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:29 pm

turtlethatroars says...

Creame - What Vermonters call soft serve ice cream.

"the beauty of words. They can be many different things to many different people. It's all in how we listen. Or how we read." - Lyrical Inspiration (authors note) of Enemies and Playmates by Darcia Helle

-Formally tkpejb

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