![]() Mate: Despite what Americans might think, this is a highly nuanced term which can take on entirely different meaning depending on context and intonation. Macca’s: An Aussiefied nickname given to McDonald’s which helps us forget we’re stuffing American junk food into our mouths.Ģ0. Lollies: The only correct, un-Americanised or Brit-icised term for sweets, candy etc.ġ9. Hence, when footy players say the phrase, “I know how to handle the knockers” it usually leads to immature giggling.ġ8. What Russell Crowe is when he’s behaving badly.ġ7. Kip: A brief nap that is longer than a lie-down and shorter than a snooze.ġ6. Can also be used to encourage your friends to hurry up and get to the bar.ġ5. ![]() Or, according to A Current Affair, anyone who receives any kind of benefit from the government.ġ4. Dole bludger: Someone who receives unemployment benefit for the government without genuinely trying to find a job. For some reason people forget that cheap sausages are available all year round at Woolies and Coles and go absolutely nuts about democracy sausages on social media.ġ3. Democracy sausage: The sausage sizzle available at voting booths on election day. ![]() Also known as getting a stiffy, pitching a tent pole, standing at full salute or getting some angle on your dangle.ġ2. Crack a fat: The enlarged state or condition of erectile tissues within the penis when filled with blood. Chuck a wobbly: To throw a massive, public, humiliating tantrum.ġ1. Occasionally chucked by actual sick people.ġ0. Chuck a sickie: To take the day off work, usually to binge watch Netflix series or go to the track. Budgie smugglers: A near-pornographic form of swimwear worn by men with no shame, ranging from prime ministers to your overweight uncle Vince.ĩ. “Thus in the guise of an enormous spirit, Buckley lived with the Watourong for 32 years before giving himself up.” The sheer improbability of his survival gave rise to the expression, “Buckley’s chanc”, meaning virtually no chance at all.Ĩ. By an enormous stroke of luck he ran into an aboriginal tribe, the Watourong, who mistook him for the reincarnated spirit of their dead chief. Robert Hughes explained the origin of the term in The Fatal Shore: William Buckley was a 6’6” convict who escaped from Port Phillip in Victoria in 1803. Buckley’s: When you have next to no chance of achieving something. A cashed-up bogan has the financial resources to live their best bogan life.ħ. Bogan/cashed-up bogan: Someone who’s unapologetically unsophisticated and who embraces Australianisms. More frequently used now to describe a bong.Ħ. Billy: Traditionally a can that drovers used to make tea. Also known as a bust up, dust up, biff, scrap, to-do or stink.ĥ. Bail: To abandon something, usually your friends on a night out.Ĥ. What young people buy now instead of houses.ģ. Avo, smashed: Avocado that has been mashed up and possibly mixed with feta, served on toast. Ace: A term meaning “cool” that swings in and out of popularity so you’re never sure whether the person saying it is being ironic or not.Ģ. Here is a glossary of some of our favourite Australian words.ġ. Some commonly used slang dates back to the convict days, while other words have crept into our everyday language only in recent years. ![]() Australia has a rich, complex vernacular all of its own. ![]()
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