Australian slang

f**K off !!! j/k

what have you been doing to upset people ?

that never happens here

favourite saying : "your shout!!"

 

Well, for starters -

abso-bloody-lutely = beyond a doubt
dead horse = tomato sauce
get nicked = get caught
jaffle = toasted sandwich
Macca's = McDonald's
peckish = hungry
sanga = sandwich

and most importantly...

wanker = friend

 

CRIKEY!!! A ROO IN SYDNEY?

 

I personally prefer:

ya bastard = you're a good bloke
bit of a bastard = he's an arsh0le

replace bastard with favourite derogatory term and it still works. If you're called one, you're not; but if you are called 'a bit of one' you defintely are.

Aussies are into mateship, cheering for the underdog and a fair go. Pretty grouse actually. Grouse = great.

And naturally, no Aussie would ever greet with something other than G'day.


Rhyming slang is also used in several other parts of the world; particularly, in the UK. Hence why it made it here with the bloody convicts.

 

Everytime I say grouse someone tells me it died in the 80's.

Along with ace and every other similar word!!

 

keep that up and you'll fit right in cobber

 

they became extinct through introduced vermin such as cool and dude; although, like the Tassie Tiger, there's still a few hidden away

 

The one I still remember from a mate of mine (who may have picked it up elsewhere) is "...bit of a Pearl Harbour tonight..."

Well, that and "...bangs like a dunny door in a hurricane..."


Cheers
Kevin

 

technically, banging like a dunny door in a cyclone... you see, dunny doors are Aussie and we don't get hurricanes here ;-)

 

fair enough, mate...lost me head for a second...

Kev

 

and that should be fair 'nuff mate, I'd lose me 'ed if it wasn't screwed on

 

alright = rid(t?)io
afternoon = arvo
drunk = pissed

any one know that the word obsessed by Americans( the n word) means "short hard working bloke" in old Aussie Slang.

 

Pronounced righdio.

But yep, good aussie slang!

edit: or rightio

 

Of course the one you really need to know is 'seppo' as in septic tank rhymes with ...
BUT remember an Aussie actually only sledges (that's 'abuses' to you) his mates. If you really don't like someone, you just ignore them.

 

ahh, so that's why I don't talk to my wife

and I must be in love with 348 ptui~

 

Just heard someone say one of my faves:

Temporary Australian - Motorbike rider

Could be world wide though, as I have heard Goober on many times mention Temporary Afghanis!

Then again temporary Australians may be the nine located currently in Bali.....

 

and another bike saying use to be "riding the Honda hwy"

 

i find it amusing a yank? joining in on the banter.
brown bread=dead
hit the frog and toad=hit the road
dog and bone=telephone
bonza or beaudy=good
crickeys ( pronounced crike keys )=bloody hell
but you yanks new that one from the dic*head himself steve irwin

 

I prefer to think of him as a Queenslander!

 

go walk the dog, shake hands with the unemployed, see a man about a ???... all = take a leak

 

originally out of vic tor

 

you forgot one...go for a slash