Australia slang

While google-ing today, I found a fun list of slang words from Australia. Some of them are pretty silly. I don't know if I'll hear any of them when I go, but they're still fun to read. Jasmine, one of the Perth RMs I met with last week, said she had a companion from Delaware and she would make a list of all the words that were foreign to her with their meanings so she could understand the people. I'm not really worried about not understanding the people. I'll get used to the accent, I'm sure. (Maybe I'll even pick it up.)

Anyway, here is the list I found. Now, if you want to sound Australian, you can. And you and I can talk Australian if you want. I'd like to try a couple of the fun ones out. Happy reading!

"Don't know what we are talking about, be prepared and know our slang at least you won't look like a drongo.

* Ankle Biter - small child
* Arvo- afternoon
* Back of Bourke - middle of nowhere ... also called 'beyond the black stump'
* bail out - exit leave
* Banana Bender - person who resides in Queensland
* bludger - lazy person not working
* Beaut - fantastic, wonderful, the best.
* Billy - Pot of Tea
* Bingle - motor vehicle accident
* Bizzo - business bloke - man, guy
* Blowie - Blow Fly
* Blue - fight (have a fight/blue)
* Bluey - Bluebottle jellyfish
* Bogan - unkempt slack messy person with low education
* Bonzer - fabulous, great, cool, ripper
* Bugga- bad luck, oops
* Cark it - to die
* catch ya later - Goodbye
* chick - girl, woman
* chook - chicken
* chuck a wobbly - lose ones temper
* Cozzie - swimmers (NSW ) Also Known as Togs (QLD) and Bathers (Vic, SA) depending on the State. Also can be called Budgie smugglers is the case of male speedos.
* Cobber - friend, mate
* Coo-ee - hello (outdated) can be yelled out when looking for someone in the bush or can be used as a negative adjective, e.g. There's nothing within coo-ee of here
* Croweater - A South Australian
* dead horse - tomato sauce
* dead set - genuine,
* real dob - to tell on
* Dole Bludger- person who lives of solcial security and does not make any effort to get a job
* dinky die - genuine thing
* dole - government payment to people who dont work
* Do your Block - lose your cool (temper)
* dob - to tell on
* Drongo - idiot, stupid person.
* dunno - "I don't know"
* dunny - Toilet
* Earbash - to talk non-stop
* fair dinkum - true, real, honest
* fair go - give us a break
* galah - noisy person acting like an idiot
* Good on ya - good job
* g'day - hello, have a good day
* goon - really cheap alcohol, particularly very cheap cask wine
* grog - alcoholic drinks
* have a geez - to have a look (at something)
* hicksville - outback country town
* how are ya- greeting, warm welcome
* iffy - questionable
* knackered - tired, exhausted
* hooligan, idiot or troublemaker. Generally associated with someone who commits mindless acts of violence or destruction
* larrikin- usually used in an affectionate way. A larrikin is a trouble maker, but a harmless or loveable one
* joe blake -snake
* lemon - useless faulty thing
* lob in - visit someone
* loo - toilet
* mozzies - mosquites
* muso- musician
* No worries - its not a problem.
* Oodnagalabie - very far away, isolated, see also Back of Bourke and Whoop-Whoop
* pike - to quit or back out of something you said you would do
* p*ssed - drunk
* p*ssed off - annoyed and angry
* plonk - wine (usually cheap wine)
* ratbag - idiot
* ring in - foreigner also some one not invited or that should not be there
* ripper - great, cool, fabulous
* rooted - stuffed, tired, exhausted
* Sandgroper - Person from Western Australia
* she'll be right - everything is okay
* Sheila - woman
* shonky - not to be trusted/doesn't work properly
* Spunk - good looking person, adjective = spunky
* stubbies - short work shorts for men / small bottle of beer
* take the p*ss - make fun of, ridicule
* tall poppies - successful people... Tall poppy syndrome is the desire to undercut those who are more sucessful
* thingamajig - an item or thing
* too right - i agree
* true blue - true, real
* tucka- food
* thongs- flip flops, rubber sandles (the underwear is called a g-string here)
* Hoo-Roo - Good-bye
* whinge - to moan and complain
* whoop - whoop - outback
* wowser - boring, conservative person
* yobbo - unintelligent/crude person usually male
* youse - means you (plural)
* your Shout - your turn to buy a drink"