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Even a drongo can use a dongle!
Traveler Tip: If you are uncertain about a particular expression or word, just say, ‘Hang on a moment, I’m not quite sure what you’re on about.’
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Decoding coronavirus slang – ABC
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Arvo = Afternoon
As fit as a mallee bull = Very strong
Back of Bourke = Any remote outback area (Macquarie Dictionary)
Banana Bender = Person from Queensland
Barbecue stopper = Controversial topic of conversation, a social gaffe
Barrack = To shout encouragement for a player or team
Big Ask = To request an unreasonably large favor
Billabong = Smallish lake formed when the river path changes, leaving a branch with a dead end. Also called an oxbow lake
Biro = Ballpoint pen
Blinder = Excellent performance
Blower = Telephone
Bludger = Lazy person
Bogan = unrefined or unsophisticated person
Boilover = Upset (in sports)
Boots and all = Making every effort; with no holds barred
Bunghole = Mouth (feed that into your bunghole)
Bush tucker = Indigenous animals and plants
Chook = Chicken
Chunder = To vomit
Cracker = Something great!
Cracking = Great
Damp squib = Event which people think will be exciting but which is disappointing when it happens
Devo = Devastated
(The) Ditch = Tasmanian Sea
Dongle = USB Wi-Fi Thumbdrive
Drongo = Idiot
Drover = Herder
Fair dinkum = True
Flash = Ostentatious or showy
Flat out = Busy
Front bench = ?
Full on = Intense
Furphy = False or unreliable rumor (listen to Hindsight)
Galah = Fool, silly person. Named after the bird of the same name.
G’day 友達
Ginger = Red-head
Gumsucker = Person from Victoria
Hard yakka = Hard work
Hinterland = Countryside, backcountry; satellite urban/rural areas within 60-90 minute drive of metro areas
Humpy = Rough bush shelter
Jersey = Wool sweater
Killing the pig = Catching a lot of fish
Lurgy = Flu or cold, often described as the dreaded lurgy
Mate =
Mate’s rate = Free (or at least cheaper than full price)
Mateship = Deep friendship
Minimum Chips = Scoop of potato chips (Lifematters, RN)
Mob = Group
Mongrel =
Mossie = Mosquito
Mouth organ = Harmonica
MP = Member of Parliament
Newspoll
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/newspoll
No dramas = No worries
No wuz! = No worries
Not wrong = I agree emphatically
Nut out = To work through
Oz = Australia
Piece of Piss = Easy
Pissup = A gathering where a lot of alcohol is consumed
Pub Test =
Pulling up stumps = Moving house, changing address
Punter = Passenger
Push bike = Bike
Rat Run = To take a shortcut through back streets to avoid traffic lights or tollways (queensland)
Ratbag http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/a-call-for-us-all-to-embrace-our-inner-ratbag/6889214
Ready = Cash in hand
Reckon = To think
Ripsnorter = Something that is really great
Root = To have sex
Rubbity-dub = Pub (also shortened to rubbity)
Send ‘er down Hughie = Make it rain
She’ll be right = Everything will be okay
Sherbet = Alcoholic drink
Shout = To buy a round of drinks; to pay for something for another person.
Snag = Sausage
Spit the dummy = To lost one’s temper (‘dummy’ is a pacifier)
Stoush = A brawl
Straya = Australia
Stroppy = Grumpy (Australia: are we the stroppy nation?)
Stubby Holder = Insulated holder for beer cans and bottles
Strewth = An exclamation expressing surprise
Stuff up = Blunder
Tacker = Child (young tacker)
Tall poppy syndrome = Tendency to criticize successful people
Territory Rig
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-14/pyjamas-pith-helmet-safari-suit-top-end-dress-code-territory-rig/9957100
Toey = very nervous (‘I’m a bit toey about this’)
Under the pump = under pressure
Vegemite = Black paste with a salty taste best spread lightly on toast
White-anting = To subvert or undermine from within
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_anting
Witchetty grub = Large, white larvae of several moths used as food
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Abattoir = Slaughterhouse
Balanda = European descent
Built like a brick shithouse =
Clean skin = Bottled wine that does not carry a label or any other identifying marks
Cotton Wool =
Crack the sads = To get very annoyed
Cracked the shits =
Dobber = Informant
Double_dissolution = Procedure permitted under the Australian Constitution to resolve deadlocks between the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Flat out like a lizard drinking = Busy (We’re inviting everyone who isn’t flat out like a lizard drinking to join us.)
Flog = To sell something
Goodonya cobba! –
Gunna = Going to (‘I’m gunna hit the piss this weekend.’)
Horses for courses – Selecting suitable people for particular activities
I wouldn’t be dead for quids = Aussie expression of lust for life
Jacked off – To get annoyed
Larrikin – Prankster (see: larrikin spirit)
Pearler – Great
Punt =
Reg Grundies = Underpants
Shit stirrer = Trouble maker
Shitstorm = Trouble
Sluggos, Budgie smuggler, Fish frighteners = Speedos
Spit the dummy = to behave in a childish or unreasonable manner
Swag – Blanket-roll containing personal belongings and useful items carried by a traveler
Shitstirrer = Troublemaker
Swag – Rolled up bedding, used by a swagman (Bilarni)
Tim Tam = Chocolate cookie
Cop a lot of stick =
Turn of Phrase
As unwelcome as an echidna in a balloon factory. (Wordwatch)
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