Lingo

[daedong]

Below is some common language in australia. I have copyed this from my website. How about we make this thread for common lingo from around the world that TBN can referer to.


Aussie Lingo

This is a list of common aussie language, it is by no means complete, it would take many more pages than this.


amber fluid - beer
arvo- afternoon
banana-bender - person from Queensland
barbie - barbecue
bastard - derogatory; or term of endearment
battler - someone just making a living
beaut, beauty, bewdie - great, fantastic
billabong - water hole in dried up river bed
billy - tin container used to boil up tea in the bush
bitumen - sealed road
black stump - miles from anywhere
bloke - man, guy
block - get angry, do your block
blowies - blow flies
bludger - layabout, lazy
blue (to have a) - to have an argument
boozer - pub, hotel
bull dust - fine dust on outback roads, also bull ****
bush - country, anywhere away from city
cactus - dead or broken
chook - chicken
chunder - to vomit
cocky - cereal farmer
cooee - bush call, signal
come good - turn out all right
crook (to be) - to be ill
dero - derelict person
drongo - stupid person
dill - idiot (friendly term)
dingo - native Australian wild dog
dinkum, fair dinkum - honest, genuine, really
dinky-di - the real thing
dunny - outside lavatory
fair go! - give us a break
fossicking - rummaging, searching
furphy - a lie
galah - fool
G'day - good day, traditional Australian greeting
good on yer - well done
hoon - young idiot in a car
joey - baby kangaroo
Kiwi - person from New Zealand
knock - to put down
lamington - square cake covered in chocolate icing & coconut
mate - good friend
mozzies - mosquitos
mug - a gullible fool
no worries - she'll be right
no-hoper - someone that will never do well
ocker - basic, down to earth Aussie
off-sider - assistant
pissed - drunk
plonk - port wine
postie - mailman
ratbag - friendly term of abuse
ridgy didge -the truth
ripper - good (also "little ripper")
ring in - substitute
road-train - semi-trailer-trailer-trailer
schooner - large glass of beer
semi-trailer - articulated truck
she'll be right - no worries
sheila - a woman
shonky - dubious, underhanded
shoot through - leave in a hurry
shout - buy a round of drinks (as "it's your shout")
smoko - a work break
snag - sausage
sprung - caught doing something
station - very large farm
sticky-beak - nosey person
stubby - small bottle of beer
tee-up - to set up; organise
tinny - can of beer or small aluminium boat
too right! - absolutely
true blue - dinkum
tucker - food
ute - utility, pickup truck
walkabout - lengthy walk away from it all
whinge - complain, moan
wobbly - get mad, tantrum
woop woop - outback
yabber - to talk a lot
yakka - work or a native plant
yarn - to tell a story

 

[Junkman]

I have enough trouble trying to remember all the English words that we use here in the states, and you suggest that I learn another language that is similar to American English, but also very different???? I don't think so, unless I am going down under, and I don't see that in my plans for a while.... When I do, I will make you one of the first people that I look up..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[daedong]

I would love to know some of your lingo in the USA and i am sure it varies from state to state there just like here. For an example, even here in oz, if i was to talk about a stobie pole to someone in the eastern states they would scratch thier heads just like you will. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Poppa]

Vin you are right in that the expressions here change from region to region. But there is another aspect too and that is while we don't have odd names for all the things you listed, we have multiple names for the same thing. For example Vomit. I mentally made a list of about ten names before I realized I wasn't going to list them out on this site. Then you had hoon, a young idiot in a car. Again, multiple names came to mind and half of them unprintable. I realized that if I were to add another columnn to your list for the american expressions I was aware of I would have to do it as a PM.

I did find one I could add a few to that weren't in poor taste. Not sure if others use these but I sure do.

barbie - barbecue - smoking, Q'ing, burning, grilling,

Now I used it as a verb but each one can be a noun as well, just use "er" instead of "ing". And don't even get me started on beer, after thinking about that for a while I found myself at six o'clock in the morning looking to pop a cold one.

Thanks for the list, I enjoyed it.

Mike

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Daedong,
Would you be the dinkum ocker type???

 

[NIXON]

You know, after spending 6 years in England and a few months in Australia , one saying comes to mind .
" GREAT NATIONS SEPARATED BY A COMMON LANGUAGE /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
John

 

[Ole_Hickory]

That is an interesting post Daedong, Australia has always interested me,especially the Outback. I wondered what some of the "Lingo" meant.

 

[daedong]

Written two ways Just for fun /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Ask your Mate to take the ute down to the shed, tell him to ask the bloke at the desk if he has a drum of petrol for the car. Why he is there ask him to drop some fragrent balls in the dunny which is around the back of the shed. If there is any problem tell your cobber to ring me on the mobile (if you lived out back he would say dog and bone).
I will not be here tomorrow as my wife has asked me to fix the taps in the unit. After I have done that I am going to get pissed with my mum

Ask your co-worker to take the pickup down to the pole barn, tell him to ask man at the desk if he had a barrel of gas for the auto. Why he is there ask him to drop some fragrent balls in the toilet which is around the back of the pole barn. If there is any problem tell your buddy to ring me on the cell.
I will not be here tomorrow as my wife has asked me to fix the faucets in the condominium. After I have done that I am going to get drunk? with my mom
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