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