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Thu May 12, 2005 5:01 am

Liz says...

Eloere: you pretty much covered everything.
However...
Battler Someone who works really hard to make a living
Bikkie Biscuit
Bloody Oath Definitely!
Chook Chicken
Chuck a sickie To take a day off when you're not really sick
Chunder Vomit
In our suburb and out west only... Gin An idiot
Legendary Describes a person/event/object you really approve of.

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Thu May 12, 2005 5:22 am

little x soldier says...

did anyone mentioned 'ya'?
'Love ya' ... you know 'ya' aka 'you' ?

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Thu May 12, 2005 3:41 pm

Muse says...

american dialect/slang isn't very exciting...owck. Australian's use well ace words. har de har.

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A towered citadel, a pendant rock,
A forked mountain, or blue promontory,
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Thu May 12, 2005 5:46 pm

Galatea says...

No it's really not, and in fact it's pretty stupid-sounding most of the time . . .

pimp, hoe, bitches, bling-bling, my homies . . .

I don't get it, and I AM and American . . .

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Thu May 12, 2005 7:22 pm

Rei says...

Same here. I'm Canadian, but we get a lot of the same media, and therefore the same idioms and slang. I went to a school full of people who talked like that for three years, and I still don't understand it. I know hoe came from not caring to pronounce the word whore properly, but the rest is just dumb. I mean, bling bling? What's wrong with just saying moneyor jewelry? The worst part is that it is in the dictionary now.

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Fri May 13, 2005 6:59 am

Elelel says...

I like Aussie slang. It's fun

. Scottish and Irish sound fun too! :lol:

Someone listed "blether" as Irish before, my family uses that.
Chook? Doesn't everyone call them chooks? I thought they did.
Biscuit ... I'd forgotten that Americans call them cookies!!!

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Fri May 13, 2005 9:06 am

hawk says...

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)

Not even I knew all of these!

As Liz said, Bloody Oath means Definitely, but it's also Fucking Oath, if you're a shade ruder.
and Chuck a sickie (take a day of school when you're not really sick) is also waggin'

Fully sick = awesome
Gamin (this is probably more aboriginal slang) = bullshit (often used when you're joking with mates "Nah gamin, mate")
Bugger it = stuff it, who care's.
She'll be right = don't worry, it will turn out good. (This, surprisingly, most people use quite a lot without really knowing it)
Noogie = grabbing someone in a headlock and rubbing their head roughly with your fist.
How ya goin'? = greeting, formal/informal
Peg = throw hard, this is usually in a phrase like "don't fucking peg it!" I don't know if this is even confined to Australia.
Hammered = really drunk
old man = dad, this is said like "How's the old man?" meaning, "How is your dad?"
Blanket show = bed. This one parents use on young children to get them to cooperate before bedtime (I suppose kids think they are going to see a movie, a "show"), I remember my dad saying this to me when I was younger)
Outback = the "Wild", or the Bush for those more familiar. Despite being world-renown, this is rarely used by Australians.
Fluke = lucky, something good that is unlikely to happen but did. Used in: "That’s a bloody fluke", or "I think I fluked it"

Murray = Aboriginal, none aboriginals do not use this, mainly out of respect, but aboriginals call themselves this within their communities.
Abbo = as above
Wog = Australian-Italian. This used to be insulting, but I think a lot of Aussie Italians have embraced it.
Whitie = A white person, term used by aboriginals.
Chong = Anyone from east Asia. This is quite insulting, not used directly.
Curry muncher = Indian person, and usually any Arabs or Middle Easterners. Also insulting.
His ol' = I can't believe it! Or "Bullshit" I think this is more configned to North Queensland, each region has its particular slang.

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Fri May 13, 2005 1:37 pm

Muse says...

Éloeré wrote:Someone listed "blether" as Irish before, my family uses that

It's not irish, its scottish too.

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Fri May 13, 2005 2:25 pm

Chanson says...

it's both. i was called a bletherer for about half my life by my grandmother.

you know it's weird how many of the words listed under australian that the irish (and probably the english) use too. you think you're so original but then it seems like half the english speaking world actually had the same idea......

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Fri May 13, 2005 3:44 pm

Firestarter says...

does anyone use the word "gutted"?

just when something goes wrong for someone you say it, to take the mick. ah, i love that word.

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Fri May 13, 2005 5:04 pm

Caligula's Launderette says...

areida07 wrote:krunk- This would be somethin' really popular at the local public high school... only dorky jocks and cheerleader say it... ...I'm not sure if it has a specific definition... "Get it krunk" is one usage... whatever.

so the down low on "Crunk...or Krunk...however the darn thing is spelled"

Crunk is an energy drink, the name came from two guys messing around with the words crazy and drunk thus crunk.

we have conversations like that in my AP Lit class.

word of the month in october was crunk.

but yeah anzways...american slang...I'm from Cali, near the border (to mexico...) so my friend as I use a lot of Mexican (yes mexican, not spanish...and yes it's different) when we are speaking like "hola", "amigos", I cuss a lot in spanish. yeah that's about it.

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Fri May 13, 2005 9:37 pm

Muse says...

we use gutted

oh, and when someone gets "slagged off"

We say they got ripped.

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Fri May 13, 2005 10:47 pm

Firestarter says...

ah, we say ripped all the time.

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Fri May 13, 2005 11:32 pm

Crysi says...

Firestarter wrote:does anyone use the word "gutted"?

just when something goes wrong for someone you say it, to take the mick. ah, i love that word.

Lol Jack, you're great.

Did you know I had to look up "take the mick"? Sheesh.

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Sat May 14, 2005 2:27 am

Elelel says...

Chanson wrote:it's both. i was called a bletherer for about half my life by my grandmother.

you know it's weird how many of the words listed under australian that the irish (and probably the english) use too. you think you're so original but then it seems like half the english speaking world actually had the same idea......

Probably because England, Sccotland and Ireland are close together, and Australia was setteled by Brits. So, that's a reason. My mum always calls the kids in my family "bletherers" or "you're blethering". But then her family was origally from Ireland ... many generations ago. Before they moved to South Africa ... which was before they moved to Australia.

Who knows? The word might have stuck in the family ... you know, passing it on, like haw I got my pronunciation of "off" with a South African accent from my mum because she lived there til she was 15.

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