What is Your Favourite Australiaism or Australian Slang?

ms spock said:

What is Your Favourite Australiaism or Australian Slang?

the one I just coined.

G’day. Not gender or time specific.

Tamb said:

G’day. Not gender or time specific.

conmeinand’aveacupptea

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

G’day. Not gender or time specific.

conmeinand’aveacupptea

bugga.. spellcheck not obsreved.

Emma Chisit

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

G’day. Not gender or time specific.

conmeinand’aveacupptea

‘kn oath

Head like a half-sucked mango.

Spiny Norman said:

Head like a half-sucked mango.

the classic by line is to be far from as PC as possible..
ie: “They’re lucky legs”
“Why?”
“Lucky they don’t snap orf and shove up your arse, that’s why.”

Spiny Norman said:

Head like a half-sucked mango.

Never heard of that before. But I found out why.

The best thing we’ve discovered is that regionalisms still exist. When we started on this project we really wondered whether there was still enough distance between the cities for them to develop. In Tasmania they say that someone has “a head like a busted sofa”. In Melbourne they will say “a face like a bastard pig”. In NSW, it’s “a head like a dropped meat pie” and in Brisbane it’s “a head like a half-sucked mango”. It’s amazing how it works – it’s like a joke that goes around the country and everyone adapts it. Another example is the “Dapto briefcase”, a Wollongong expression for a cask of wine. In northern NSW they call it a “Coraki handbag”.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Questions-for-Sue-Butler/2005/01/09/1105205963870.html

ms spock said:

Spiny Norman said:

Head like a half-sucked mango.

Never heard of that before. But I found out why.

The best thing we’ve discovered is that regionalisms still exist. When we started on this project we really wondered whether there was still enough distance between the cities for them to develop. In Tasmania they say that someone has “a head like a busted sofa”. In Melbourne they will say “a face like a bastard pig”. In NSW, it’s “a head like a dropped meat pie” and in Brisbane it’s “a head like a half-sucked mango”. It’s amazing how it works – it’s like a joke that goes around the country and everyone adapts it. Another example is the “Dapto briefcase”, a Wollongong expression for a cask of wine. In northern NSW they call it a “Coraki handbag”.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Questions-for-Sue-Butler/2005/01/09/1105205963870.html

There’s also ‘head like a twisted gumboot’.

ms spock said:

Spiny Norman said:

Head like a half-sucked mango.

Never heard of that before. But I found out why.

The best thing we’ve discovered is that regionalisms still exist. When we started on this project we really wondered whether there was still enough distance between the cities for them to develop. In Tasmania they say that someone has “a head like a busted sofa”. In Melbourne they will say “a face like a bastard pig”. In NSW, it’s “a head like a dropped meat pie” and in Brisbane it’s “a head like a half-sucked mango”. It’s amazing how it works – it’s like a joke that goes around the country and everyone adapts it. Another example is the “Dapto briefcase”, a Wollongong expression for a cask of wine. In northern NSW they call it a “Coraki handbag”.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Questions-for-Sue-Butler/2005/01/09/1105205963870.html

Descriptions of strong wind are regional too.
Inland it’s blowing a dog of its chain. On the coast its blowing the oysters off the rocks.

Spiny Norman said:

ms spock said:

Spiny Norman said:

Head like a half-sucked mango.

Never heard of that before. But I found out why.

The best thing we’ve discovered is that regionalisms still exist. When we started on this project we really wondered whether there was still enough distance between the cities for them to develop. In Tasmania they say that someone has “a head like a busted sofa”. In Melbourne they will say “a face like a bastard pig”. In NSW, it’s “a head like a dropped meat pie” and in Brisbane it’s “a head like a half-sucked mango”. It’s amazing how it works – it’s like a joke that goes around the country and everyone adapts it. Another example is the “Dapto briefcase”, a Wollongong expression for a cask of wine. In northern NSW they call it a “Coraki handbag”.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Questions-for-Sue-Butler/2005/01/09/1105205963870.html

There’s also ‘head like a twisted gumboot’.

Or sandshoe

Tamb said:

ms spock said:

Spiny Norman said:

Head like a half-sucked mango.

Never heard of that before. But I found out why.

The best thing we’ve discovered is that regionalisms still exist. When we started on this project we really wondered whether there was still enough distance between the cities for them to develop. In Tasmania they say that someone has “a head like a busted sofa”. In Melbourne they will say “a face like a bastard pig”. In NSW, it’s “a head like a dropped meat pie” and in Brisbane it’s “a head like a half-sucked mango”. It’s amazing how it works – it’s like a joke that goes around the country and everyone adapts it. Another example is the “Dapto briefcase”, a Wollongong expression for a cask of wine. In northern NSW they call it a “Coraki handbag”.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Questions-for-Sue-Butler/2005/01/09/1105205963870.html

Descriptions of strong wind are regional too.
Inland it’s blowing a dog of its chain. On the coast its blowing the oysters off the rocks.

“it’s blowing forty arseholes” maybe Sciottish but definitely in Aussie usage.

Tamb said:

Spiny Norman said:

ms spock said:

Never heard of that before. But I found out why.

The best thing we’ve discovered is that regionalisms still exist. When we started on this project we really wondered whether there was still enough distance between the cities for them to develop. In Tasmania they say that someone has “a head like a busted sofa”. In Melbourne they will say “a face like a bastard pig”. In NSW, it’s “a head like a dropped meat pie” and in Brisbane it’s “a head like a half-sucked mango”. It’s amazing how it works – it’s like a joke that goes around the country and everyone adapts it. Another example is the “Dapto briefcase”, a Wollongong expression for a cask of wine. In northern NSW they call it a “Coraki handbag”.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Questions-for-Sue-Butler/2005/01/09/1105205963870.html

There’s also ‘head like a twisted gumboot’.

Or sandshoe

Flat out like a lizard drinking., is up there.

Spiny Norman said:

ms spock said:

Spiny Norman said:

Head like a half-sucked mango.

Never heard of that before. But I found out why.

The best thing we’ve discovered is that regionalisms still exist. When we started on this project we really wondered whether there was still enough distance between the cities for them to develop. In Tasmania they say that someone has “a head like a busted sofa”. In Melbourne they will say “a face like a bastard pig”. In NSW, it’s “a head like a dropped meat pie” and in Brisbane it’s “a head like a half-sucked mango”. It’s amazing how it works – it’s like a joke that goes around the country and everyone adapts it. Another example is the “Dapto briefcase”, a Wollongong expression for a cask of wine. In northern NSW they call it a “Coraki handbag”.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Questions-for-Sue-Butler/2005/01/09/1105205963870.html

There’s also ‘head like a twisted gumboot’.

I looked it up and see what I got. Started by none other than Gloworm.

http://www2b.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/archives/archive54/newposts/476/topic476381.shtm

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

Spiny Norman said:

There’s also ‘head like a twisted gumboot’.

Or sandshoe

Flat out like a lizard drinking., is up there.

One of my Dad’s was Busier than a one armed paperhanger.

Emma Chist.. basically began the investigation into Australian verse-ology of strine. How much is it? was translated as Emma Chisit at a famous book signing incident.

If BC the Loony was here, he’d have to mention ‘fair shake of the sauce bottle’ and ‘near infinite’.

Fortunately, he’s not.

roughbarked said:

Emma Chist.. basically began the investigation into Australian verse-ology of strine. How much is it? was translated as Emma Chisit at a famous book signing incident.

The above may not be all the facts but the fact remains that AE = Australian English.

Strayias triffik ay?

roughbarked said:

Emma Chist.. basically began the investigation into Australian verse-ology of strine. How much is it? was translated as Emma Chisit at a famous book signing incident.

Indeed. I once had a book detailing the incident. I believe it was called Let’s Talk Strine. Unfortunately I no longer have it; I received it when I was too young to fully appreciate it and I gave it away.

Anyway I have some work to do, so I’m …

…. off like a bucket of raw prawns in the sun.
…. off like a brides nightie.

Spiny Norman said:

Anyway I have some work to do, so I’m …

…. off like a bucket of raw prawns in the sun.
…. off like a brides nightie.

Up & down like a fiddlers elbow.
May your chooks turn into emus & kick your dunny down.

As a little pommie bastard, there’s Buckley’s chance I’ll contribute anything worthwhile to this discussion.

The Rev Dodgson said:

As a little pommie bastard, there’s Buckley’s chance I’ll contribute anything worthwhile to this discussion.

So you weren’t here early enough in your life to appreciate the difference between dinking and doubling?

The Rev Dodgson said:

As a little pommie bastard, there’s Buckley’s chance I’ll contribute anything worthwhile to this discussion.

:D

ms spock said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

As a little pommie bastard, there’s Buckley’s chance I’ll contribute anything worthwhile to this discussion.

:D

A thong could conceptualise incorrectly?

people may have noticed i use bonzer a bit when describing the day.

JudgeMental said:

people may have noticed i use bonzer a bit when describing the day.

Southern climes are much like this when at the same time, English weather, is shyte.

JudgeMental said:

people may have noticed i use bonzer a bit when describing the day.

I did take note.

roughbarked said:

ms spock said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

As a little pommie bastard, there’s Buckley’s chance I’ll contribute anything worthwhile to this discussion.

:D

A thong could conceptualise incorrectly?

As could Durex.

Tamb said:

roughbarked said:

ms spock said:

:D

A thong could conceptualise incorrectly?

As could Durex.

Another anecdote; A friend from school got an exchange student grant/visa and spent some time studying in the USA.. The first part of his precis when he was informing his class of the nature of his educational travels upon return to his homeland, was; “I put my hand up in class and asked for a rubber”
The whole room put me in the corner huddling. WTF did I say?

Out here it’s as dry as a dead dingos donger

The Rev Dodgson said:

As a little pommie bastard, there’s Buckley’s chance I’ll contribute anything worthwhile to this discussion.

Bloody soap-dodgers.

geeez mate, doesn’t cobber even get a guernsey.

Spiny Norman said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

As a little pommie bastard, there’s Buckley’s chance I’ll contribute anything worthwhile to this discussion.

Bloody soap-dodgers.

you cad!

“I put my hand up in class and asked for a rubber” The whole room put me in the corner huddling. WTF did I say?

I believe you can also get into trouble asking for a fag in the USA.

JudgeMental said:

geeez mate, doesn’t cobber even get a guernsey.

you have to be there at the time.

rumpole said:

“I put my hand up in class and asked for a rubber”
The whole room put me in the corner huddling. WTF did I say?

I believe you can also get into trouble asking for a fag in the USA.

In Britain, that could also be at high risk.

Off like a Bondi tram

Off with the speed of a thousand turtles, off like a Jews foreskin.

bob(from black rock) said:

Off like a Bondi tram

like a dago’s salami?

roughbarked said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Off like a Bondi tram

like a dago’s salami?

Like a bucket of prawns in the sun

rumpole said:

roughbarked said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Off like a Bondi tram

like a dago’s salami?

Like a bucket of prawns in the sun

or..

>
< in your hubcaps. ;)

Going off like a frog in a sock…

furious said:

Going off like a frog in a sock…

big frogs in little puddles.

Busier than a one-legged man in an arse-kicking contest ?

mollwollfumble said:

Busierthanaone-leggedmaninanarse-kickingcontest ?

•fixed•

G’day

and calling everyone “mate”

Dropbear said:

G’day

and calling everyone “mate”

“Owyergoinmateoright?
Orrightmate.

Dropbear said:

G’day

and calling everyone “mate”

Not to mention ‘owarya?
To which nobody really wants to answer unless they just won the lottery and perhaps not even then.

roughbarked said:

Dropbear said:

G’day

and calling everyone “mate”

Not to mention ‘owarya?
To which nobody really wants to answer unless they just won the lottery and perhaps not even then.

every conversation between blokes.

owareya?
good..
good.

Dropbear said:

roughbarked said:

Dropbear said:

G’day

and calling everyone “mate”

Not to mention ‘owarya?
To which nobody really wants to answer unless they just won the lottery and perhaps not even then.

every conversation between blokes.

owareya?
good..
good.

Owyergoinmateorright?
Orrightmate

>and calling everyone “mate”

This one can mean half dozen different things.

>Not to mention ‘owarya?

This one can simply be an acknowedgement, but means don’t want to know really.

Poiter.

Peak Warming Man said:

Poiter.

You’re not allowed to vote for yourself as favourite.

“Fark”

diddly-squat said:

“Fark”

And Farkernell or Farcanal depends on which school you went to.

strike a light

FMR

stone the crows

Fuck me dead

I will if you say stone the crows again.

CrazyNeutrino said:

Fuck me dead

There’s a long & very naughty poem beginning with those words.

As I am in NZ at the moment I will list a few localism I like.

World Famous in New Zealand ( on L&P lemonade cans)
Yeah, right… (Catch line to any BS story, taken from a series of beer ads about BS stories)
Waikikamukau (place name used liked ‘Timbuktu’ or ‘beyond the black stump’. Pronounced why-kick-a-moo-cow)

Stealth said:

As I am in NZ at the moment I will list a few localism I like.

World Famous in New Zealand ( on L&P lemonade cans)
Yeah, right… (Catch line to any BS story, taken from a series of beer ads about BS stories)
Waikikamukau (place name used liked ‘Timbuktu’ or ‘beyond the black stump’. Pronounced why-kick-a-moo-cow)

yeh right is pretty popular in Aus too ;)

Dropbear said:

Stealth said:

As I am in NZ at the moment I will list a few localism I like.

World Famous in New Zealand ( on L&P lemonade cans)
Yeah, right… (Catch line to any BS story, taken from a series of beer ads about BS stories)
Waikikamukau (place name used liked ‘Timbuktu’ or ‘beyond the black stump’. Pronounced why-kick-a-moo-cow)

yeh right is pretty popular in Aus too ;)

“your right” gets used a lot too

• “your right” gets used a lot too

Usually used in conjunction with “Nah Mate” eg.

“You want a hand with that?”

“Nah Mate, you’re right”

“Yeah, nah…..” Is a common Aussie one.

maaaaaate

I wish the Australianism “aorta” hadn’t gone out of fashion so soon.

Aorta fix my street. Aorta bridge the Rip. Aorta give us more pay.

mollwollfumble said:

I wish the Australianism “aorta” hadn’t gone out of fashion so soon.

Aorta fix my street. Aorta bridge the Rip. Aorta give us more pay.

gunna as in I’m jus gunna.

no worries, no stress, been crook as a dog all week, totally fucked, flat on me back, mate.

Dry as a dead dingoes dick

what a bonza thread!

Old mate.

Skeptic Pete said:

Old mate.

Hello Poiter.

bonzer is such a grouse word, cob.

Get a dog up ya…

Peak Warming Man said:

Skeptic Pete said:

Old mate.

Hello Poiter.

That doesn’t sound much like an Australianism to me.

Good one dickhead.

Well f..k me in the mouth…

He means Poida.

He’s got no idea about our culture.

Here watch and learn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpS31FJO8_o

G’daymateowyagoin

Said to every backpacker that got off the airport bus at the backpackers that I worked at back in the 90s. Then it was up the that particular backpacker to learn how to say it by the end of their stay.

Much entertainment for us :)

OCDC said:

He means Poida.

I was going to make a similar comment, but google seems to disagree.

There was a French woman working in the same lab as me at one stage. She had been watching the show but had not picked up on the Poida thing. The penny dropped during a chance conversation. You could see the realisation dawn on her face. She was in hysterics once she realised what it was about.

Fair suck a the sav!

Just remembered (and used) another one.

Ya boofhead.

Has petrol head been listed?

Fuck yeah. Straya mate.