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A
Ace excellent
Aggro some who is aggravated, upset about something
Alf stupid person
Amber fluid / Amber nectar beer
Ankle biter young child
Ant's pants height of fashion OR person has a high opinion of themselves
Anyhow mate a saying used to change the subject when talking (usually when they bored with what you are saying)
Apple eaters someone who lives in the state of Tasmania (apple growing state)
she'll be Apples! everything will be okay
Apricots a man's testicles (reproductive glands). Should I have said that as it would be obvious to anyone familiar with human anatomy that women don't have testicles. Okay, let's just leave it as testicles.
Aerial ping pong Aussie rules football
Arse over tit trip or fall over
get your Arse into gear someone is asking you to get moving
Arse about face something is back to front
Arvo afternoon
this Arvo this afternoon
Aussie someone from Australia - an Australian
Ay? or eh? didn't catch what someone has said, or pardon me
Avagoyermug someone is not trying hard enough in their sport, and you want them to (this is yelled to give them a bit of a push a long)
AV Jennings marriage meaning your first marriage (AV Jennings is a builder in Australia specialising in building houses for young married couples)
Awning over the toy shop male beer belly (the toy shop being the male reproductive organs)
your Acres (achers) testicles (achers from when someone kicks you in the testicles)
B
Back of Beyond far out bush as you can get, right out outback of Australia
Back of Bourke the middle of nowhere
out in the Back Blocks beyond suburbia and the more established farm and cattle properties
Back hander a bribe
Back hander sometimes used to describe hitting someone with the back of your hand
Your old Bag, the old Bag a term for a woman, usually the wife, the mother-in-law, or such
Bagged someone criticised or put someone down
Bail out you leave
Bail up hold up OR rob OR earbash
Balls Testicles
Balls up terrible mistake, everything has gone all wrong
Bananas someone going crazy with anger
Banana Bender some who lives in the state of Queensland (Queensland is the Banana growing state)
Bang on hit the target right in the middle, OR it's right, or correct
Banged up pregnant
Bangs like a dunny door in storm Makes a lot of noise when making love
Bar flies Old men who drink and talk in the front bar of a pub (hotel) from when they open to when they close (they sit on a beer for hours)
Barbie or B.B.Q barbecue cooking outdoors
Have a Barney fight or scuffle or argument or tiff
Barrack to spur your team, or sport on
Give it a Bash you will try something you are not sure of
Basket case someone on the edge of mental collapse
Gidday you old Bastard a term of endearment
Bathers swimming costume (VIC & SA)
Old Battle-Axe wife OR mother-in-law
Battler you work hard to earn a living
Beak your nose
Beanie ski hat
Beaten by a blow shearer slang, running shears from one end of sheep to the other. Used in the song 'Click go the shears'.
Beating around the bush not getting to the point on a subject
You little Beauty, that's Beaut excited approval, something has gone really well
Beer o'clock Knock off time, time to finish what you are doing and have a well earned beer
give someone a Bell ring them on the phone
Belly flop diving incorrectly into water with the stomach breaking the water
Belt up! you are asked stop talking, be quiet, in a angry way
Berko angry in a unreasonable way
gone Berko gone mad, looks like going mad
Better Half your wife or husband
Bewdy! Beauty. Really good. Exclamation of delight
Going to have a Bex you are going to settle your self down from some sort of stress - usually a cup of tea, a cry and a good lie down (Bex is a pain relieving drug)
Bickie a dollar
Big note yourself to say you are better or more important than you are
Town Bike woman of loose morals, sleeps around (everyone rides her)
Billabong a waterhole
put the Billy on putting water on to boil, usually camping out to make a cup of tea
Billy cart a go-kart of a kid's (child's) construction
Billy lids The kids, children
Bindii (Bindy-eye) or Bindie a grassy nettle
Biscuit cookie
To put the Bite on someone to ask them for money
Past the Black Stump the same as Back of Beyond
Blimey you are surprised by something
Even Blind Freddy could see that what someone would say to you, if you are not understanding something that is obvious
Block your head
Do your Block you are angry or lose your temper
Doing your Block you are getting very angry, losing your head
Go to the Block go to your vacant piece of land
Bloke Australian male
Bloody oath I do "yes" you really, really do approve of what's someone is saying
Ugly as a box of Blowflies that's real ugly
On the Blower telephone
Blowies blow flies
Blow in stranger in town
Blowing your dough spending all your money
Blow through leave in a hurry
Bludger someone who fails to do anything at all they are asked (lazy)
Bludge to do nothing at all
True Blue something that is real Australian
having a Blue having a fight or argument
Blue Heeler police
Bluey a nickname for someone with red hair
Bob's your uncle you just understood something that at first you did not not understand
off to the Bog to leave an offering off to the toilet to leave a deposit
bolted left very quick
Boogie Board half-sized surf board
Bolt erect penis
it's a Bomb it's cool or it' a old car
Bonza or Bonzer great, an expression of delight
Bonzer there mate! that's great friend
Boomer kangaroo
Booze, Boozer alcohol, pub or hotel OR a person who is a heavy drinker
Booze Bus Police van used for random breath testing for alcohol
go for a Bo-peep a sly look at something
you little Bottler delight, something as gone the way you want
ya bloods worth Bottling! someone has done something good for you, you make this statement
Bottoms up drinking the whole glass of something all at once (usually beer)
Bow wow really ugly (a dog)
got no Brass you've got no money
Brass razoo no money
hit in the Breadbasket hit in the stomach
Brekky first meal of the day
Brickies cleavage top of the buttocks exposed
he's a Broken packet of biscuits his life looks good on the outside, but his a mess on the inside
choke a Brown dog OR kick a Brown dog you are going to get your tension out (NO you don't choke or kick a brown dog). Another way of referring to going to the toilet
Brown-eye to show ones bottom, mooning
a Bruce a man (as in the Monty Python sketch where all the Australians were named Bruce
Brumby wild horse
Buckley's chance no chance at all (Buckleys & Nunn was a store and the Nunn rhymes with none)
Budgie Budgerigar - small parrot popular as pets. Good mimic.
have a feed of Bug (Moreton Bay Bug) small crab
Bugalugs a friendly endearment
doing Bugger all you doing absolutely nothing
Bugger me dead! extremely shocked at something
Bugger off! they are telling you to go, in a not very nice way. If asked as a question it can mean that you aren't believed or an expression of surprise
go to Buggery being asked to leave or keep your nose out-in a very nasty way
Built like a brick shit house something or someone is of very strong construction (usually outside toilets are made of wood)
Bull dust a lie
Bullamakanka imaginary place in the far outback, as far as you can go in the outback
Bum your arse end (bottom) or someone down on their luck and living on the street
Bum nuts eggs
Bummer you're been let down by something
Bundy Bundaberg rum
Bung to put (bung another snag on the barbie mate!)
Bunghole your mouth
Bunyip mythical spirit creature from outback said to reside in or near billabongs
give it a Burl give something a try, that you have not done before
Burr up get angry
Bushbash go off road in a vehicle, forcing your way through untouched bush
Bush pig an unattractive woman
Bush telegraph the town gossip network
what is this? Bush week? you tell someone something is not true. An exclamation that they don't believe you
Busy as a one legged bloke in an arse kicking contest you are doing nothing
Busy as a centipede on a hot plate very busy (picture trying to manage 100 bare feet while standing on a hot stove)
give it a "Butchers" you will look into it (rhymes with butcher's hook)
it's BYO bring your own (alcohol to a restaurant, OR meat to a barbecue)
C
Something's Cactus It's died
Cakehole your mouth
Call it a day to finish what you have been doing for the day
Camp oven Large cast iron pot with a lid, for cooking on a open fire
Have a Captain Cook have a look at something
Someone Carked it they've died
Carpetbagger steak beef stuffed with oysters
Catch me fuck me Rugby League football
Chalkie teacher
Cheapskate someone will not spend money or tight wad
Cheerio saying goodbye
Cheese & kisses the missus, you wife
Chew the fat have a good talk together
Chinwag having a good chat
Chippie carpenter
It's Chock a block or Chocker's full to the point you can fill no more or crowded to over flowing
You Choof off You go now
Chook a chicken, rooster or hen
May your Chooks turn into emus and kick your shithouse down statement you can make when, you're not very happy with what someone has done to you
Chuck throw something or vomit
Chunder vomit
Clanger tell a real big lie or say something inappropriate or a shock
Claytons something of questionable integrity, a fake. Claytons is a non alcoholic drink billed as 'the drink you're having when you're not having a drink'
Cleanskin unbranded cattle OR not a criminal
Clobber Clothes
Clocked someone you're hit someone
Clod hoppers your feet
Cobber a mate, a close friend
G'day Cobber welcome close friend
something is a Cock up its gone all wrong
Cock and bull something is a lie (cock and bull story)
Cockroach someone who lives in the state of New South Wales, don't ask why
Cockie farmer
a Cockie cockroach
Cod's testicles
Codswallop cods-swal-lop a lot nonsense or a lie
got no Coin got no money
Coldie a cold beer
get them to Come across try to get someone over to your way of thinking
Compo Compensation (Worker's Compensation)
Conk to hit someone
Cooee call for greeting someone at a distance in the bush
Cop it sweet to get what's coming to you, without try to get back at them
Corroboree aboriginal festival dance
put on your Cossie put on your clothing
you will be waiting till the Cows come home you be waiting all day
Couldn't organise a root in a brothel Person is incompetent, they can't even arrange to have sex in a brothel
Cow Juice milk from a cow
Cozzie swimming costume (NSW)
that's a load of old Crap (load of old shit) a lie
stop the Crap! stop what you are doing or saying its not right
off to the Crapper you off to the toilet
Crack onto to make a pass at/chat up
Creamed someone or team beaten someone else or a team by a huge margin
Crikey! surprise at something
Cripes!! I've stepped in something in extreme discomfort (as in having stepped into dog poo barefoot
Crockery teeth
Crook ill OR something that is not functioning
feeling Crook not feeling well
Crook as Rookwood very unwell (Rookwood is a cemetery in western Sydney)
Croweater someone who lives in the state of South Australia, that state's outback has a lot of crows
Cruddy something of low quality
to make a Crust to earn a living, work for wages
not worth a Crumpet something is worthless
Cunning as a shithouse rat someone is very cunning and under handed
have a Cuppa have cup of tea or coffee
Curly nickname for a bald person
give someone a bit of Curry give someone a hard time of it
Cut lunch sandwiches
you need to take a Cut lunch where you going is a long walk
mad as a Cut snake someone very upset, that could do anything
Cow-tow bow and scrape to someone
D
Daks or Dacks trousers or shorts. Sometimes refers to underpants
you are a Dag the manure that hangs from the wool on the rear end of a sheep or a friendly endearment (the trick is knowing which one they mean, check to see if they a smiling) or an unfashionable way of dressing
Daggy something that looks very bad
Damp squib someone who is not thinking too well, a bit of a dud (a squib was a small firecracker, a damp squib is one that doesn't go off).
Damper flour and water bread mix cooked in the coals of a camp fire
he's got the Darling pea behave strangely, OR insane (it's a plant that causes some strange behaviour mainly in animals that eat it)
Deadset without a doubt
Dead cert absolute certainly
Dead horse tomato sauce
Dead marine empty beer bottle
going to the Dunny off to the toilet
your Dial your face
Didgeridoo Aboriginal wind musical instrument
Digger Australian soldier
Going to your Digs is going to your home the place you live
Dill someone that is not too smart
Dilly-bag food bag or small bag to carry things
Dingbat someone who is a fool or acting foolish
You are a Dingo you are cunning bad person
Dinki-di something good from a Australia OR originating from Downunder
Dobber the person has told someone else what you've been up to
Dodgy something suspicious and underhanded is going on
Doesn't know if it's Pitt street or Christmas to be confused (a country bloke confused at all the lights of Sydney's Pitt Street)
Dog and bone telephone
Who cut the dog in half? someone has farted
Dog's Breakfast a mess or messy
its a Done Deal something is finished or completed
Donger a mans penis
Donk car or boat engine or motor bike
Haven't seen you in Donkey's years you haven't seen someone in a very long time
Doodah something or item you do not know the name of
Dork fool or idiot
Blowing all your Dough spending all your money
Drink with the flies to drink alone
if you are a Drip you are someone with no personality, no character, boring
Drongo idiot, someone that is stupid, an insult
Dropped your bundle you lost control of the situation, and finding it hard to get it sorted out, finding it hard to cope with things (Bundle - a load you carry)
Dropped your guts you have farted
you are Drover's dog you no good, you a useless, you are of no importance
Dry as a dead dingo's donger drought OR very dry climate
I've been Dudded someone's conned you, cheated you
Dudder con-man, won't pay bill's
Dud-dropper one who sells cheap stuff as good stuff, implying that it's cheap because it fell off the back of a truck (stolen)
up the Duff pregnant
Dunlop cheque cheque that bounced (the bank did not accept it, returned to you) Dunlop being famous for making tyres
noisy as a Dunny door in a storm something or someone making a continuous noise
Dunny budgie a fly
Durry cigarette
E
getting a good Earbashing someone talking to you a long time
I could Eat a horse, and chase the jockey you are very very hungry
Elbow grease working hard (digging etc)
Esky large insulated box which you put ice bricks in, to keep food and drink cold (beer)
Evo evening
F
Face fungus man's beard, hair on the face
Fag a cigarette
Fair crack of the whip! Give me a fair go or when someone has done or said something wrong or not correct, or is going to (to let them know, you know)
Fair-go Mate! statement you make when someone is not letting you do or say something
Fair dinkum someone or something really genuine
Fair enough OK you are right, I agree about something
Fair suck of the sav statement you make when someone is not letting you do or say something (sav is a saveloy - a type of sausage)
Fanny female private parts
Fart-arse around you not getting on with the job at hand, and doing other things
Fat chance someone has little to no chance of something happening
old fella a man's penis
Fibber someone who tell lies
like a Fish on a hook you are really caught on something or caught by something or into something usually unpleasant
Five finger discount shoplifting
Flake Shark meat, used in Fish and Chip shops
Flaked out laid down for a rest or fell down from over doing it
Flaming thing or Flaming good time extra bad or extra good
Flash as a rat with a gold tooth dressed and groomed nicely
Flasher perverts who expose their private parts in public
Flat chat or Flat out going very fast what ever they're doing
Flat out like a lizard drinking doing something very fast
give it the Flick you throw it away
go to the Flicks you off to the cinema
Floater meat pie floating in thick pea soup
Flog usually means to sell something but can sometimes mean to steal something
Footbrawl northerners term for Ozzie Rules Football
Footy Aussie Rules Football
Footy Rugby league
Fossicking hunting for gemstones etc (usually opals or sapphires)
I suppose it was Fred Nerk I suppose it was someone imaginary
Fridee Friday
Frocks older ladies Dresses
you Front someone you ask them what they're hiding
a Fruit cake mentally unstable
Fruiterer one who sells fruit and vegetables
Full as a boot drunk
Full as a Fairy's phone book something that is not at all empty
in Full Feather in real good health
Funny as a fart in an elevator something that isn't funny
Funny farm mental institution
G
Ga day, Gidday or G'day a friendly welcome (same as hello or hi)
Galah loud, rudely behaved person, an insult (a galah is a loud raucous parrot)
what's your Game what are you up to, something going on that is wrong
you're Game if you have a go at something others think or find difficult, they say you're Game or brave
have a Gander have a look
Garbo Garbage collector
Garbologist Garbage collector
Gasbag talking a lot
Gibber a large rock or a desert (as in the Gibson Desert)
Give it away give up on something
I need to Go! you want to go to the toilet
it's a Goer something that will definitely occur, that you have been trying to make happen
Going like hot cakes something selling or given away very fast
Gone round the bend gone crazy or mental
Gone to the dogs something or some place, is no longer any good
Good as Gold! something is great
Good oh okay
the Good oil on it is to tell the truth on something
Good on ya Mate! you are happy with what they are doing
Goog an egg (he's got a big goog on 'is head) he's got a bump on the head as big as a egg
full as a Goog drunk
Goose Someone that is not to smart, silly
come off the Grass! do you think I'm stupid or gullible?
Green around the Gills you are feeling queasy, sick often referring to hangovers
you dirty Grub dirty eater or dirty child
go eat some Grub go eat some food
hop into the Grub start eating food
Grazier sheep or cattle farmer (usually in a big way)
Gregory Peck your neck
Grizzle complaining person
Grog alcohol
you are a Grot you are very dirty or untidy
Grouse something is great, terrific
Grumblebum usually an older person who habitually complains.
Guffing off someone who is lazy
Gumsucker someone who lives in the state of Victoria
down the Gurgler down the plug hole, something has failed
Gutzer or Gutsa to fall over and hurt yourself or plan that does not work out
got a Gympy leg your leg is not working, its damaged
H
Haggle you try to talk the price down
Hair of the dog drinking more alcohol as a cure for a hangover
Put Hairs on ya chest someone that if you eat this or drink this you will become a man
Handles like a dog on lino (linoleum) your car or whatever handles very badly
Hang out spending time out, usually with friends
Happy as a pig in mud very happy
Hardcase someone with closed mind, but they might not think so or a tough guy
Hit the Hay or Hit the sack go to bed to sleep
Hit the Frog and Toad Hit the road, leave, usually said by a visitor when they are ready to leave
Hit your kick open your wallet
Hoon a show-off with limited intelligence
Hoo-roo saying goodbye to someone
Hot under the collar to get angry
Howzat? asking someone how something is. Often shouted at cricket when appealing for a batsman to be dismissed
Humping something heavy carrying something heavy usually very hard or having sex
Humpy bush dwelling of cheap construction
I
Idiot box television set
something is a bit Iffy it is risky or suspect
you give me the Irrits they're extremely irritating
Ivories your teeth (to tickle the ivories) to play the piano
J
Jack of that you a fed up with something
I will fix your Jack and Jill I will pay your bill, usually in a restaurant
Jack-in-the-box someone who can not sit still
Jackaroo or Jillaroo trainee male or female Cattle Station hand
Jack Dancer Cancer
Jaked broken
Jaffle toasted sandwich (toasty toast)
Had to use the Jerry (chamberpot) it is a pot under the bed if you need to go in the middle of the night
See you in a Jiffy see you in a short time
Jigged broken or no long useful
I will job you! I will hit you or punch you
Jocks male underpants
Joe Blake a snake
Joe Bloggs you are referring to the average citizen
Any old Joe blow will tell you any one you don't even know will tell you
Down the John off to the toilet
Journo journalist
Jumper usually a woollen sweater
Jumbuck sheep
Just down the road If someone says this, ask for more details as this could be 100 yards to a 1000 miles away
K
Kafuffle argument Or a disturbance
you must have Kangaroos loose in the top paddock you going a little crazy
Keen as mustard enthusiastic about something
Kick the bucket dead
Kindy kindergarten
Kip short rest or sleep or nap
pack your Kit pack up all your belongings or your possessions
Kiwi someone who live in New Zealand (New Zealander)
Knackers testicles
Knickers female underwear
Knock-off a counterfeit product
Knock shop a house of prostitution
Knock something you criticise it
Knocked me back she didn't want to have sex with you
Knocked up she is pregnant
Knock off time time to go home from work
Get Knotted! is a angry way of say go now
you Know mostly used by people who do not know what they are talking about, and hope you do (habit phrase some Aussies use at the end of a sentence)
What do you Know? someone is try to open a discussion with you, in a friendly way
L
Lady muck a woman who puts on airs of a grand lady, usually badly (stuck up)
Lady blamey a beer glass made from the bottom half of a beer bottle
Lag inform, dob
Lame-brained someone that is stupid
Lamingtons sponge cakes coated in chocolate and grated coconut
Laughing gear your mouth
Lashing out going on a spending spree
Lav or Lavvy outdoor toilet
Leading you up the garden path someone is try to deceive you, but you are not awake up to it
take a Leak go to the toilet
Get a leg over have sexual intercourse
help you get a Leg up someone is going to help you get started at something (usually when you are new to something)
Lemon something that is faulty or broken or bad or useless (that you are stuck with) or a lesbian
Lights on but there's no one home someone not too smart
Lippie lipstick
Liquid amber Beer
use your Loaf use your head, think about it
Lob-in on someone visit someone unnannounced
do your Lolly hit your head or shouting and raving in an angry way (losing you head)
Lollywater soft drink, also a way to insult someone who has served an alcoholic drink that is not up to scratch
Long as a month of Sundays a very long time (28 - 31 weeks)
Long drink of water someone who is tall
Long neck large bottle of beer
how Long is a piece of string? used when someone asks when something will be finished, and it's one of those jobs that is finished when it's finished (can not determine a time)
on a good Lurk on to a good thing or job
G'day Luv substitute for the woman's name in a friendly way
M
Mad as a cut snake gone crazy
Mad as a meat axe crazy, sometimes used to excuse coarse behaviour
Map of Tassie Woman's reproductive parts. Tasmania is a triangular shape. The 'map' being the pubic hair
Mate friend
Matilda your sleeping bag or bed roll for camping out
Milk bar the corner shop that sells all sorts(mainly food)
Min Min mysterious lights at night in the outback
Missus your wife
Mob group of people or things, not necessarily unruly
Mozzie mosquito
Mollydooker a left hander
Moosh your mouth
I was just Mucking around you where playing around in a way that others generally don't like
Mug your face
gone up the Mulga gone bush, gone to the country not touched by man
More of them, than you can poke a stick at a lot of something
Stunned Mullet dazed or shocked at some disturbing news
Manchester household linen
Middy 285 ml beer glass (NSW)
Things are crook in Musclebrook times are bad
plates of Meat your feet
Mundee Monday
Mystery bag sausage (never know what the butcher put in it)
N
Nacked annoyed
I'm Nackered absolutely exhausted or very tired
Nana banana
Nappy diaper (not slang)
Narkie short tempered or very negative about everything
Naughty sexual intercourse
NCR Rating Number of Cans Required. The number of beers you would need to drink before you would consider having sex with them
Neddie a horse
Out in the Never Never gone out to the bush, usually off the beaten track, gone off in our native countrysides undeveloped by man
you've got a good Nick you got a good name
in the Nick you are naked
Nick off go now, get lost
Get Nicked! go away, get lost, sometimes used when someone doesn't believe what you are saying
Nickers females underpants
Noah's ark a shark
No-hoper someone who is hopeless
Nockers women's breasts
Noggin head or brains
It's on the Nose something stinks
Not Bad often an understatement of something being good but can also be trying to spare one's feelings. Most often used when asked how you are
In the Nuddy naked
Nulla-nulla wooden club used by Aborigines (made from very heavy and hard wood)
Nuggets man's testicles
O
Ocker Aussie that likes beer, sport and women and uncultured
Off the Beaten Track on a road not used very much, to no road at all or in a remote part of Australia
Off like a brides nightie leave very quickly or something stinks
Off like a bucket of prawns in the hot sun leaving very quickly
Off-sider assistant or partner
Oldies parents
Once over giving something the look over or checking it out
One armed bandit poker machine (slowly being replaced by the button version)
On ya mate (as in Good on ya) well done there mate
Ooroo goodbye
Orright! All right! Can mean great delight but could also be a protest at being asked to do something you don't want to do. Depends on the tone of voice
Outback remote part of Australia
Bun in the Oven pregnant
Ow-yar-goin how are you going?
Oy! or Oi! a Aussie bush call
Oz Australia
P
Pack of Poo tickets toilet paper
I'll put the cows out in the long Paddock putting cows out on the road
Pally on friendly terms with someone
Paper Yabber letter
Pash or Pashing kissing and cuddling
Pat Malone you are on your own, alone
Paw-paw Queensland papaya (tropical fruit)
Pearl excellent
Perk at work something good your employer supplies for nothing as a part of your job (and the taxman wants a part of)
Pester annoy or bother someone
Pie floater a meat pie floating in thick pea soup, usually with lots of sauce
Pigs bum that's wrong, or incorrect
Piffle nonsense
Piker someone who does not want to do, what the rest of the group want to do
Pinch to arrest
Pissed as a family fart very drunk, sometimes used to insult a younger drinker to imply that they are like the old family drunk
Pissed as a parrot drunk
Pissed off you are angry or unhappy with something
Plate of meat your feet
Playing Possum you are hiding yourself or try to keep something from someone (sometimes by pretending to do something you are not)
Plonk very cheap alcohol or sometimes refers to wine in general
Poddy dodger cattle rustler
Pommy or Pom English person
Pong a bad smell or unpleasant odour
Talking on the Porcelain telephone vomiting into a toilet (driving the Porcelain bus)
Feel like a Pork chop in a Jewish Synagogue you feel out of it, in whatever situation
Possie advantageous position, in good spot (eg at sporting event, fishing spot)
Postie Postman, mail delivery person
Pot 285 ml glass of beer (VIC & Qld)
the Pot calling the kettle black someone said something adverse about you and you reply with this slang phrase (which says that they are the same or worse than their statement)
Pot hole hole in the road
Prang automotive crash
Prawn shrimp
The Raw Prawn easy to deceive
Don't come the Raw Prawn don't try to put one over me, I'm not easily fooled
Prezzies gifts
Proud as a rat with a gold tooth someone is very proud of how they look or something they have done
Pub hotel, place for buying and drinking alcohol
Puffed you are out of breath
Pull your head in mate tell them to mind their own business
Pull up your socks get your life in order or your act together
Push-bike Bicycle
Pussy domestic cat or a females private part
Put up or shut up show you can do it or say it or keep quiet
Q
Quack doctor
Quid money
not the full Quid short on brains
R
Racing off sex with someone else's wife or husband
Rack off go now, in an angry way, get lost
Rafferty's Rules every thing is a mess and mixed up, done all wrong, with no rules at all
the Rag newspaper or a women who sleeps around
Raining cats'n'dogs heavy storm & rain
Ratbag not a nice person, sometimes used as an endearment
Reckon you are right believe or think you're right
putting the Red steer into the paddock burning off the paddock, putting fire to the paddock
Rellie relative or family
Ridgy didge true or genuine article
Righto okay or that's right
Ringer fast sheep shearer
Ring-in replacement for the real thing, imposter
Rip off you been cheated
smells Ripe smells off or bad
it's a Ripper it's really great
it's a Ripsnorter something is really great
Road train multi-trailered semi trailer
Doing a Roaring trade you been doing a lot of business
Root sexual intercourse
Rooted very tired
Ropable very ill tempered or angry
You got the Rough end of the pineapple you got a bad deal or the bad end of something
RS lousy (rat shit)
Rug up dress warmly
you'd have to Run around in a the shower to get wet you are very thin
S
Great Australian Salute swatting flies
Sacked you been fired from work
Sandgroper someone who lives a the state of Western Australia (very sandy state)
Sandshoes joggers, sneakers, trainers
Sanger or Sanga Sandwich
Satdee Saturday
Sausage short of a barbecue short of brains (a Snag Short of a barbie)
Scallops fried potato cakes (Qld), Shellfish (elsewhere)
Scarce as hen's teeth something extremely rare
School group of drinkers, each of whom buys a round
Schooner large beer glass (NSW & SA)
Scone your head
Scrounge to get something for free
Scrounge around to furious look for something
you Scrub-up well you are now dressed, hair done nice, you look good, where you didn't before
You Scrubber you're of poor quality and don't keep yourself clean
Scrubber a farm animal gone bush
Scungies bather's, can also refer to underpants in general
Septic tank American (not nice - a septic tank is a tank used to hold sewerage)
Seppo American (see Septic tank)
Shack a simple dwelling or house
Shag sex with someone
A Shag on a rock alone and stuck away from others
Shank's pony going some where by foot
Shark used car salesman
Shark biscuit new surfers
Sheila a woman (not used any more other than by some old timers)
She'll be right! this means everything at all will be good or OK or all right
Shellacking complete defeat
Shirty to get upset or angry
Shonky unreliable a very suspect deal
Shoot through to leave in a hurry
Short and curlies pubic hair when someone states they've 'got you by the short and curlies' you're in a bad position
Short arms deep pockets someone will not part with their money
Shout buying friends alcohol (usually beers) at a pub (then its their turn to buy you one, one sure way to get drunk, especially if there is enough of you)
Wouldn't Shout in a shark attack will not take is turn buying the drinks in a bar, will not shout their turn
Shove off! go away, said in a angry way
Show you the ropes show you how to do a job
Taking a Sickie taking time off work, with the reason of sickness, but you are well, and just going fishing or something you do in good health
Silly Season Christmas holiday's
Sit on a beer take a long time to drink a beer
Going for a Slash a man is going to urinate
Skite to boast or brag about ones personal accomplishments
a Slab pack of 24 cans of beer
Slats window slats or roofing slats (tiles)
Slippery-dip kids slide
Slog hard work
Sloppy joe a cotton sweater
Slow as a wet week you doing something very slowly, and they trying to get you moving on it at a faster pace
Smoko have a break, and usually having something to eat and drink, and have a cigarette if you are allowed to
Snag sausage (put a snag on the barbie) now that's what Aussie really do say (not shrimp)
Snakey someone is very upset or angry
Snapping log crocodile
you a big Sook! you are very sensitive, and upset over nothing
I'll Sort it you'll fix it what ever it is
Call a Spade a Spade telling something like is, not saying something good if its not, or bad if its good
Sparky / Sparkie electrician
Speedo's bather's
Spit the dummy you getting or got very upset at something. It implies immaturity as a dummy is a child's pacifier
Good Sport someone who is good about losing
Up the Spout pregnant
Sprung caught doing something they should not, busted
Spud a potato
Spunk (Spunky) good-looking, attractive
Spunky someone who is very attractive
Square off get ready for a fight
Square up apologise or make good
Squatter someone who live on someone else's land or house with out permission
Squib out you are backing out of something, chickening out
Have a Squiz at have a look at something
Well Stacked large breasted women
Stick in the mud someone is stopping you from doing something, you say this statement
Dick Stickers bathers
Stickybeak someone can not mind their own business (nosy)
Stinger Box Jellyfish
Stone the crows! Shock at something
Strewth! shock at something
Strides trousers
Strine a lot of Aussie slang said at once
Stroppy someone in a bad mood, and being difficult
Stubby small bottle of beer or a pair of men's shorts
I don't give a Stuff you don't care about something
Stuffed very tired
Pull up Stumps moving home, changing address (from the end of a cricket match where the stumps are removed)
Sundee Sunday
Swag canvas bag or cover that you keep all your belonging and bedroll in, to protect it from the weather when camping out
you look pretty Swank you look dressed expensive, dressed well etc
something looks Swank something looks expensive
No Sweat no worries
T
Ta thanks
Talk the leg off an iron pot someone with the gift of the gab (someone who talks a lot)
Taswegian someone who lives in the state of Tasmania
Tea evening meal
Tee up organise or arrange something
Bush Telly looking up at the stars
Thingamajig term you use when you can't actually remember the name of something
Thing-eme-bob term you use when you can't actually remember the name of something
Thingo term you use when you can't actually remember the name of something
Thongs sandals made from rubber
Thugby southerners term for Rugby League Football
Thunder box toilet
Thursdee Thursday
Hang on a Tick wait a short moment
He's got Tickets on himself this person thinks they are the greatest, self opinionated
Tides gone out your glass is not full
Tightarse someone who will not part with is money, shout a drink in a bar, etc
Tight wad person who doesn't want to part with their money, miser
Tighter than a fish's bumhole a miser, won't spend money on mates
Tinnie can of cold beer or a aluminium boat
Crack a Tinnie open a can of cold beer
Couple of Tinnies short of a slab someone a bit simple minded, or mentally impaired
Too right! something is absolutely right & correct
Top-Ender someone who lives in the Northern Territory
Make Tracks you want to get going somewhere
True Blue really Australian
Tucker food
Tuckerbag a bag for storing food in the bush
Tuckshop What Aussie schools call a canteen or cafeteria
Tuesdee Tuesday
Turn it up stop what your say or doing as its not right
Going Twenty to the dozen moving or doing something very fast, or too fast
Two-up traditional Australian heads or tails gambling game with two coins
U
Um-ah indecisive or can be doing something wrong
Uee, Uie or Uwie doing a U turn
Underdaks or undies underpants
Uni University
Up shit creek things are going wrong for you
Up the gumtree someone that got them self in a spot of trouble, in a quandary
Up yourself full of yourself
Got Up your nose they've really upset you and irritated and annoyed you
Ute utility (in the USA a pickup truck)
V
Vegies vegetables
Verbal diarrhoea talking utter rubbish
W
Waffle nonsense
Wag skip school, truancy
Gone Walkabout you've gone for a long walk, for an aboriginal it a holiday away in the bush, period of spiritual enlightenment.
Walking ticket laid off from your job
Walkover something is done easily or someone deceived easily
On the Wallaby track to go from place to place in search of work
Wally someone who keeps making mistakes
Backroom Waltz discipline dished out at the Police Station
Wanker a male that is really stupid but they think they are the greatest
How's ya Warwick farms? How are your arms
It will all come out in the Wash something will sort it's self over time
Go down the Waterhole off to the hotel or pub
Weatherboard wooden house
Wedding tackle man's penis
The Wet rainy season in northern Australia
Wharfie dockworker
Whip around collecting money for a gift for someone leaving work
Give it a Whirl to try doing something, by giving it your best
White pointer highway patrol
White pointers lady sunbaking topless
Who-ha someone is making a fuss about something, usually nothing important
Great Wing-ding you had a great party or get together or sometimes can mean an argument
What's that!! or Wossat?! you didn't catch what someone was saying, and you want them to say it again.
On a good Wicket on to a good thing life or earning a good income
Willy man's penis
Willy Willy wind whirly or dust twister
Willy-nilly something kept in a untidy way
Put the Wind up ya! frighten someone or to intimidate
Winge complain and carry on unnecessarily
Something is Wobbly it's shaky
Chucked a Wobbly threw a tantrum
Put on the Wobbly boot drunk or have had to much to drink (alcohol)
I got the Wog I got a cold or the flu or virus
you're a Wombat! you are not to smart, a dope
Wonky something is unstable or unsteady or shaky
Woomera stick used by Aborigines to throw spears
Woop Woop somewhere a long way from civilisation
Wowser killjoy or prude, old fashioned
Wouldn't be dead for quids your very happy and well
Write off the car can not get fixed after a crash (totalled)
X
x it out cross it out or erase something
Y
Ya tellin me someone said something you agree with
Yabbie freshwater Australian crayfish
Yacking talking a lot
Yahoo loudmouthed person which usually out of control in some way
Yakka Work, usually labouring or other physically demanding work
Hard Yakka hard work
Yank American
Yapping talking none stop
Tell you a Yarn tell a story that maybe true or it might not be, that's for them to work out
See you Yewse later see you you all later
Yobbo same as a yahoo but no values at all,looks like a slob always
Your Yanking my chain or don't Yank my chain your telling a lie
Z
Catch some Z's go for a sleep
Zebra crossing broad striped paint lines as a pedestrian crossing of a roadway
Zonked really really tied |