For Australia Day..an exercise in the lingo!

biks an eks ?

biks an eks

Happy Australia Day.... However, half of these sayings, if not more, could be claimed by the English or the Irish too.... STREUTH! Not on Australia Day they can't mate! ;)

Happy Australia Day.... However, half of these sayings, if not more, could be claimed by the English or the Irish too....

Love it! So funny. A few others Ambo - ambulance barney-argument bottlo - bottle shop/liquer store bush telegraph - local gossip chinwag- chat corker- something good "it's a corker" dunny-toilet grog-alcohol hard yacka- hard work nong-idiot servo-service/gas station smoko- break from work to have a cigarette/or coffee break open slather - free for all slab - carton of beer tucker - food Yobbo- loutish also can be called bogan More funny sayings like "built like a brick s*it house" - well built person I'm not p*ssing in your pocket mate" - I'm telling you the truth We are a sad bunch!

Isn't there something about throwing "shrimp on a barbie"? Also is there a conciliatory Aussie saying...kind of like "Better luck next time" or "You put your best foot forward"? Just getting ready...never know when one might need to console some Aussies. Ummm "She'll be right mate" should do the trick.

You're a galahI've been saying that since I was wee, I got it from Bugs Bunny - had no idea it was from Oz :) Now I can explain when I get the blank look back!

Noice! After Kath and Kim it has to be "Noice, different, unusual"

Ace! : Excellent! Very good!   Arvo : afternoon Amber fluid : beer Aussie : Australian Beaut, beauty : great, fantastic Big Mobs : loads, a lot of ****** : very ****** 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 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 : cheaper than usual for a friend Mate's discount : cheaper than usual for a friend No worries! : no problem / its okay Nun's nasty : (as dry as a) very dry Piece of **** : easy task ***'s ****! : 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

OK, SamD (see other thread) has me balling my eyes out and I've not even left Australia for Dubai yet, so I thought I would do something funny to pick up my spirit. Well, hopefully others will enjoy it too or I'll feel like a right knob. So in honour of our great southern land and all the Aussie expats on this forum, I thought I would start the ball rolling with some Australian slang words and phrases explained. For the other Australians out there, please feel free to join in and add your own. She'll be apples - it will be OK (my grandma used to say this all the time) Not the full quid - that person's a bit stupid Few snags short of a barbie - same as not the full quid Few roos loose in the top paddock - that person's a bit crazy Porky - as in "telling a porky" means telling a lie ("pork pie") Map of Tassie - is a woman's pubic area (looks like a map of Tasmania) Fair dinkum - genuine or when said as an exclamation means "are you serious?" OK, handing it over to others. Who's next! edited by Buy me a Pony on 26/01/2011 Haha! You Ozzies are so common! Just kidding, love you really!

Strewth (oh wow) Bickin' (the f word brought back by soldiers from WW1) Blimey Crikey Someone's sh!tfaced (drunk) Mole (a loser) (from Puberty Blues, if anyone knows it and remembers it it's on youtube.com to remember the embarrassment of Aussies!) You're a galah Sheila Up the duff (pregnant) There was movement at the station for the word has passed around, that the colt from old regret had got away. And had joined the wild bush horses, he was worth a thousand pound, and all the crass had gathered to the fray. All the tried and noted riders from the stations near and far, hadmustered to the homestead over night. For the bushmen love hard riding where the wild bush horses roam and the stock horse sniff the battle with delight... (THE ABOVE WAS OFF MEMORY SO SORRY FOR MISTAKES) G'Day G'day, and how you going, whaddya know, might strike a like, G'day, G'day, and how you going, just say gday gday gday and you'll be right... Click go the shears boys, click, click, click, wide is his blow and his hands move quick, the ringer looks around and he's beaten by a blow, and curses the old snagger with a bare bellied joe!

My Uncle was a shocker for using rhyming slang... Dead 'horse = tomato sauce ("Pass the dead 'orse please" at the dinner table used to horrify me as a horse obsessed little girl! :D) Dog 'n bone = telephone Plates of meat = feet Frog n toad = road (Time to hit the frog n toad) oh, I could go on.... Then of course there's Benno, Davo, Johnno, Damo, Stevo, servo, bottle-o....

We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come. We share a dream and sing with one voice: I am, you are, we are Australian

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land for me!

@BMAP Yeah KKS beat you to it...but your "history" lesson has given me the giggles. I was totally joking to start with, but didn't realize it was such a big story! LOL - Threads like these make me love living in Dubai.

Also is there a conciliatory Aussie saying...kind of like "Better luck next time" or "You put your best foot forward"? Just getting ready...never know when one might need to console some Aussies. Souja naito omou. Get ready to say: Yattane Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi :D

My friends father use to say " Stop acting like fart's in a bottle" when we were mucking around. I don't know how fart in a bottle act like but I suppose it stopped us mucking around tryng to work out what it meant.

Isn't there something about throwing "shrimp on a barbie"? Also is there a conciliatory Aussie saying...kind of like "Better luck next time" or "You put your best foot forward"? Just getting ready...never know when one might need to console some Aussies. hehe no self respecting Australian throws shrimps on a barbie. They are prawns Duly noted :)

Isn't there something about throwing "shrimp on a barbie"? Also is there a conciliatory Aussie saying...kind of like "Better luck next time" or "You put your best foot forward"? Just getting ready...never know when one might need to console some Aussies. hehe no self respecting Australian throws shrimps on a barbie. They are prawns

"Happy as Larry" when you're feeling chipper "Cheers Big Ears" when clinking glasses, to be followed by "Same goes Big Nose" - sooooo appropriate in my family, we're not stunners. And my personal all-time Aussie chick identifier - 'scuse me so polite always, when "Excuse Me"? can be a precursor to all out war! Sorry to upset you Buy Me a Pony :(, but it does mean you just have a heart. I'm in all out sobs by the time I get to Her Beauty and Her Terror, so at least I did it to myself too! :)

Isn't there something about throwing "shrimp on a barbie"? Also is there a conciliatory Aussie saying...kind of like "Better luck next time" or "You put your best foot forward"? Just getting ready...never know when one might need to console some Aussies.

http://www.australianhistory.org/australian-slang-atod.php Just reading this list brings back early Alf from Home and Away flashbacks :D

LOL - awesome!! I know my nanna use to say "You're carrying on like a pork chop" if I or any of the kids were being a little hard to deal with / cracking a temper tantrum. Struuuuuth! (good ol Steve Irwin). Blimey Charlie / Crikey = Wow / shocked reaction And in spirit I'm wearing my 'thongs' today ... and not the kind that rides up my b*tt!

And my 80 year old MIL's favourite.... "Honestly that man is useless as tits on a Bull!"

****** Ripper! try again.... bl00dy ripper! <em>edited by juzzrach on 26/01/2011</em>

Noice!