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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
For all of those non-aussies trying to understand us...or for those from the east-coast trying to understand the west coast...or the south trying to understand the north...
or simply for finding words and going "wow! I totally say that!"
(my favourite so far as been "barely"...completely took me back to primary school days!
)i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
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4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia
haha, this is ace. i havent heard half of these!
(i think most of these are funny phrases we make up so when a tourist uses one we can laugh at them)
heaps of these are wrong. it says when people from tassie go to the mainland we call it "australia". bullocks, we call it the mainland! what idiot wrote this? if tas is part of australia we'd hardly say we're going to australia if we're travelling from one part of the country to another!
and here the site is correcting itself!
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Big Island
Mainland Australia: We're off to the Big Island for a work conference.
Contributor's comments: The Big Island is more commonly replaced with 'the Mainland'.
Contributor's comments: Growing up in Tasmania I've never heard "Big Island" used with regard to the "Mainland".
Contributor's comments: Tasmanians often refer to "the mainland", but another variation I came across in my childhood (1960s and 70s) was "the other side" used instead.
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2,676 posts
Location: The countryside, Australia
I was just talking about how much I hated the Aussie slang in the 'Pet Hates' thread.
Grr! Sometimes I wish we just talked properly
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9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
I agree Mr. Maj. Half of those sound like high school inside jokes.
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Yes, let's go.
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2,996 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
The most entertaining piece of Aussie slang I have heard is the term "little boys". Go on, look it up. Its kinda scary.
It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.
What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...
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3,414 posts
Location: Bogged at CG, Australia
Half the ones for my region (which encompasses about a million square kilometres), i've never heard of...
"beg beg grovel beg grovel"
"master"
--FSA
"There was an arse there, i couldn't help myself"
--Rougie
wandering dingo
167 posts
Location: Aussie in London, Australia
It's quite alarming that I recognise SO many from the Perth region. I found it really really funny visiting friends in Sydney in my school years, who didn't know what honky nuts or bog laps were.
One of my favourites (in a grimacing sort of way) that is missing from the site is "Belly full of arms and legs" to describe someone who is pregnant.
Edit: also missing is "chopping her/him up" which means... well, you figure it out.
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3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia
haven't looked at the site (my computer can only do one thing at a time...) but it sounds amusing!!
rozi - i'm guessing here...but are 'little boys' frankfurts? those little red sausages? *shrugs*
i'll have to copy the link & have a look once i get off here! i love aussie slang! it's hilarious!
& cos i work in the country...i hear a LOT of it!!! do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
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2,996 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
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rozi - i'm guessing here...but are 'little boys' frankfurts? those little red sausages? *shrugs*
This is where you have to take into account that I am not an aussie native. To me the penis reference is pretty off-putting.
It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.
What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...
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567 posts
Location: USA
lmao. very interesting i must admit... very amusing since im bored as hell..
"I don't know what you are talking about"
"Cardinal!!! Poke her... with the SOFT CUSIONS!!!!"
"Its not working my lord!"
"Have you got all of the stuffing on one end?!"
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3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia
ahhhhh...it all makes sense now!!
finally got to look at the site...yeah there were a few on there that were a bit of a stretch & some i'd never heard of! but quite amusing none the less!!
do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
Sweet talented nutter
2,615 posts
Location: Brisbane Oz, Australia
Lets have a red hot go !.
that shrewd and knavish sprite
Called Robin Good Fellow ; are you not he that is frighten of the maidens of the villagery - fairy
I am the merry wander of the night -puk
old hand
1,107 posts
Location: In a test pit, Mackay, Australia
Little Boys are called Small Boys here. Mmmmmm, that orange plastic skin and mechanically recovered goo (meat is too strong a term). Compulsory during Bathurst and the footy final.
All the common slang we use are mining terms involving other words for backside and copulation, which, unsuprisingly are not on the ABC website.
There is a slight possibility that I am not actually right all of the time.
1,328 posts
Location: Bendigo, Vic, Australia
small boys? really??? cool.
My friends used to look at me strangely when I would say "I have to buy new togs to go swimming in" yup, Im a QLDer, therefore using swimming togs, or just togs, not bathers.
old festy hand
765 posts
Location: Australia
hmm... i like the story behind why all us south astralians call fritz fritz and not devon... we just went what the hell is this stuff.. and named it after the strange german dude that lived at harndorf i think..
1,328 posts
Location: Bendigo, Vic, Australia
what are we talking about here? devon is a meat, isnt it? but isnt fritz a kind of snack food?
79 posts
Location: nsw camden
i call swimmers swimmers not bathers or togs i never hear that
im not sure what everyone else calls this but ithink its jaffles or toasties i call them brevils im from aussie but have never really taken note on the slang
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1,328 posts
Location: Bendigo, Vic, Australia
jaffels! spag jaffels are the best
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13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
um... "bog a duck in gum boots"????
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A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
255 posts
Location: Melbourne - home of pirates
MMM... cheese toasties...
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3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia
ahh...togs! bathers! swimmers! speedos! dt's! budgie smugglers!
so many words for the same silly thing!
no wonder english (particularly asutralian english) is so damn hard to learn!! lightning...i have NO idea what that one means!
do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
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2,996 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
I have never heard it before, but I would guess it is one of those colourful bush ones like "dry as a dead dingo".
I would guess that "bog a duck in gum boots" would be used something like this:
"Its muddy enough to bog a duck in gum boots"
(gum boots being like wellington boots, and a duck being an aquatic fowl).
It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.
What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
You have to realize that although "bog a duck in gum boots" is a collection of English words, it isn't really...English.
Right?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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3,414 posts
Location: Bogged at CG, Australia
bog means to get stuck. you get bogged if you drive in foot thick mud.
And i'm with Eera - most of the slang i use involves four lettered words.
"beg beg grovel beg grovel"
"master"
--FSA
"There was an arse there, i couldn't help myself"
--Rougie
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4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia
......like "gosh"?
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
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3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia
hey wait - i'm in the country now (no really!) i might just ask around the office & see if anyone here has ever heard or used the phrase "bog a duck in gumboots" do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
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3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
like "work"...
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
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4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia
whats work?
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