what are some australian slang?

Question

I like to learn about other countries and how they speak, because oneday when i get enough money, i want to take my mother to austraila

Answer 1

The guy who said that not many people say "Crikey" in Australia was dead set (meaning really), fair dinkum (honestly) wrong ....... cos I use that expression all the time and so did my dearly departed Granny........ Aussies tend to shorten their words a lot such as:- How're yagoin?? (How are you today??) or anothery is when somebody says I love you an Aussie will say "Back atchya" meaning back at you, that they love you too. Beaudy mate, ripper, bonza ....... all mean good stuff. What's cookin good lookin ..... that was a fave of my dad when i was a little girl or how bout this one - A neighbour will knock on the back door and my mom would yell out 'come in if you're good lookin'!! i spose they're mainly expressions but some of them are really funny and hard to understand sometimes........... :0)

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Answer 2

Australian Slangs

Answer 3

G'Day How Ya Goin and G'day Mate you will hear often. Country regions seem to speak more slang Cities are very multi cultural so many of our hundreds or thousands of slang words you will never hear. Heres a few more
Mozzie = A mosquito
Bludger =Someone wanting something from you ie doesn't want to pay his way
Cockie can mean a few things ie = farmer = coakroach=cockatoo
Sheila = very slangy for female
Put the billy on= put the kettle on
Fair dinkum= really=Is that true
boogieboard= a small half size surf board
Digger= an australian army person
blue =a fight
blue= a mistake
bluey = A traffic ticket
Dunny = toilet

Answer 4

Bangers and mash = sausages and mashed potato

Barbie -- barbecue

Flat out like a lizard drinking = just too too busy.

Dead beat, nackerd, buggered, stuffed = just plain exhausted.

Stone the crows! = utter surprise.

Sanger = sandwich

a kanga - a kangaroo

A few kangers loose in the top paddock, - a sandwich short of a picnic, - a six pack short of a Barbie = all indicate someone is a little short on brains

six pack = a pack containing six bottles or cans of beer.

booze = alcohol

down the boozer = down the pub and Pub = hotel

old boozer = alcoholic

There are so many more but the thing is, although most of the above are still used in the outback area of Australia - areas that are not very populated, and unless you intend to travel in those areas, you may never hear them.

Australian cities are pretty multicultural now so you will hear lots of different accents but no so much of the Aussie slang.

Good luck and when you get "down under" = Australia, here's hoping you have a "ripper" time. = wonderful time.

Answer 5

Most of the people above aren't even Australian from what I can tell! It does differ depending where you are talking about. You don't expect someone from New York to speak the same as someone from California and someone from East London would have a very different accent and different slang to someone from Manchester. Same in Australia.

We call BBQs barbies (well I don't, but some people do) and snags are sausages but I have never in my life heard anyone refer to a woman as a "sheila" except English and Americans trying to be Australian! I don't even know anyone named Shiela and I only know one Bruce and he is English.

Answer 6

gday (good day)

haha each christmas in australia, we 'throw another shrimp on the barbie'

so there. my family is an australian family who does that.

while living in australia, i didn't think we used slang that often. now i am living in germany for a few months, speaking english because i can't speak german, i am with some other aussies and we have noticed how much slang we use. the germans have no idea what we're on about!

Answer 7

G'day a beaut ripper question I can bloody answer.
(Hello, a very excellent question that I can and more than happy to answer)

some simple phrases:

where is the nearest toilet? = where's the dunny or where's the loo or where's the (long) drop.

so you know a long drop is a deep hole with a toilet built over it, commonly used in the outback.

to be locked up or behind bars means to be in jail
cook a sausage on the barbeque = chuck a snag on the barbie.

potatoe salad = 'tato salad

tomato is pronounced tom-ar-toe not tom-ay-toe.

I apologise for the next few they are oh so common slang and I apologise if any homosexuals get offended.

being fruity means being gay.

a lezzo is a lesbian, known in america is a female gay

here gay means male homosexual
lesbian or lezzo means female homosexual

we also say that something is gay when it is stupid like when an appliance is playing up like a tv or computer we say damn it the computer is being gay.

some rude people like my older brother call gay men faggots which means f*ck maggots and he calls lesbians carpet lickers.

some other terms you may hear,
have you gone loopy? or have you gone off your rocker? = are you mad/crazy?

when someone says your dopey they're saying your dumb or stupid depending on the context.

a bastard is someone who's annoying or a pain in the backside.

someones muff refers to someones pubic hair unless of course it is a wig for the pubic area of which then it is called a merkin.

thong= G-string or G
a man G is a male G-string or male thong
a pair of thongs is actually a pair of rubber souled shoes I think yankies call them flip flops? (sorry I meant to say americans I live on a farm and my father and brothers use these words all the time so they're somewhat in my vocabulary and I use them sometimes without meaning to)

putting on a raincoat means not only to put on a raincoat it also refers to putting on a condom.

that's all I can think of at the moment if I think of anymore I'll email you.

oh and a Pontiac is a Holden.

GO HOLDEN!!

Answer 8

If I could give two votes, "blahblahblah" would get my second vote; coz even though "he" didn't address just slang specifically, everything he wrote is absa-bloody-lutely spot-on.

There are a couple of dialect/accent slang usages - derby (half of us pronounce it as darby, the rest derrby)

Queenslanders drink XXXX because they can't spell beer.....

Rhyming slang is a great part of the vernacular:

china = china plate = mate
warwicks = warwick farm = arms
plates of meat = feet

Then the sarcasm others have mentioned:

bluey = red-head

bluey = swag = bed roll when camping
copper = police
firies = firemen
meat wagon = ambulance
toweys = tow truck operator
man in the yellow van = RACV - roadside breakdown subscription service
white maggot = football umpire/referee

And if you cannot pronounce G'day properly, then you ain't from STRAYA

It's "g" as in the hard sound of g in get, followed very quickly by "daaaayy" which is the emphasised syllable.

Place names have rhyming slang names too:
steak and kidney = sydney
two dogs and a pup = kooweerup, etc
up the creek = euroa

Finally, slang is widest used in people's terms of endearment:

bluey (as above)
dougie = doug
muzza = murray
punter = ricky ponting
roy = andrew symonds and of course
bastard

etc

Catchya
Don't do anything I wouldn't do, and if you do, don't get caught!

Answer 9

I can guarantee that city-slickers such as myself have not heard half of the slang that had been noted above. Then again, I'm a migrant from New Zealand, which could explain it.

All I hear that is different to the American "vocabulary" is:
Thong (US) = G-string
Flip-flop (US) = Thong(s)
Barbeque = Barbie - Though many people still say barbeque.
Mate = Pretty much anyone. It is used as a universal name for someone other than themselves.
Sheela = Female - Occassionally heard; not often said.
Footy = Australian Football League (Aussie Rules)


Etc. Etc. Etc.

Answer 10

Strine differs depending where u are, state to state, even town to town sometimes. Look up "Down Under without Blunder", "Let's talk Strine", get a few email mates from the areas you plan to visit. Some strine is almost universal, irony is alway common. A redhead male is often called Bluey. Unfortunately, much of our lingo has been lost on the rising generation, with our high dependence on the USA for TV material. We are abt 10 yrs behind you socially, and have been so most of my 50+yrs.