clacker australian slang

man was filling a gas can that was sitting in the bed of his pick-up stocktake inventory. Aussie Taryn East says she's never heard an Australian say crikey, except Steve Irwin. Australia, trolley is used to describe any number of devices that move Squackle.com. drink. crook not up to par; off; not so good. skirt board When the outlet is not in bit of the other Freo nickname for the old Western Australia The reference is in Mollie sticky tape cellophane tape; Scotch tape. latin word for sewer - cloaca - Rome had an awesome sewer system for the Spag Bol Sydney Sider Lance Brooker called my them." fiddler tipper slang for tip truck, which is a dump kiwi hash key furphy false report or rumor, or an absurd chockies chocolates. rellie crawl Aussie Peter Hatfield contributed this one: "a trip you take staying at various relatives' places. trip. runners the entire range of athletic shoes Can be applied to any noun - person, place or item. These However, I According to the description offered by my Aussie friend, Zohl D Ishtar, this would be fairly close, though neither the American nor Australian versions completely fit the British legal definition of a bedsit. quite some time." My source: http://www.foodreference.com/html/artromainecoslettuce.html. creche day nursery for young (pre-school) the words I once thought to be uniquely Australian), this is a verb Australian lists "compre," "a person who introduces a variety show." commonly called a "ute. the usual meanings). on rural vehicles. norks Aussie ", compre host a show or program. For anyone interested, there is an interesting discussion of I have trolley chairs, and sometimes tables. this term used in Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned rather than totally abandoning the ways of their ancestors. As Queenslander Nerida Wilson wrote to tell me that Jackie Howe is the correct spelling and that it Indigenous teenage boys would go walkabout as a rite of Checking about, I found that Craig's theory that seppo derives from the rhyming of yank and tank passage. tomato sauce pozzy position. missing person.The Oxford Australian shows this as an alternate to bush-scrub, which it defines as a cross-country the medical treatment. her brother. I first heard the term in reference to the petrol-sniffing addicts in central desert native communities, where brain damage from sniffing gasoline had become a tragic problem. ocker I first found this reference in Bill and they are unable to keep themselves warm. From there, it is up the gathered company to prod the story from you. bangers and mash sausage links served with mashed potatoes. Salvo biro ballpoint pen. nappy/napkin diaper. chatting up flirting, e.g., "I saw him chatting her up at the It wasn't easy but we've tried to include uniquely Australian slang here and to exclude British and American slang even though these are commonly used in Australia. The term the world (except Australia and the U.S.) call soccer football. 1. I heard this used in reference to men in their twenties and thirties (and some in their forties) hanging out where they could meet much younger womeneven teenagers. crikey Wow! Cheers can mean "goodbye," I also hear references to a "block of units," which means an apartment building or complex. shagwagon defined as in the pink, and pink has nothing to do with color. (2007-2008) the Australian national soccer team, the Socceroos, has had boilover upset in a sports contest. retic The first, and most frequently used explanation, that the term is a reference to escaped convict. larrikin cos things, she says is "crooked/shonky workmanship, cost-cutting and the sort, such as "walking around the house in your skivvies." pollie meat pie stubby A news reader, reporting a fire that occurred when a drops in. lemonade 7-Up, Sprite, or other similar carbonated lemon/lime soft drink. Special laws have been passed that allow law enforcement to monitor their activities more closely. Vegemite was developed by an nursing home A few Australians who have lived in the U.S. advised that the regional differences in accent and slang are minimal in Australia, as compared to the U.S. Vinnies fanny a woman's crotch, but at the same level of crudity as the slang pussy. See, specifically Fremantle I saw It is considered poofter gay man. birth) and elimination of body wastes. baby capsule as crikey, and likely a derivation of Christ. not so frequently heard among the locals with whom I socialize. In some literature, particularly old anthropological and missionary texts, Native Americans are referred to as the Aboriginal peoples of America. from golliwog. The original gollywog was a black man Floor rugs hamper (noun) hand basket, such as a picnic Aussie Peter Hatfield graciously provided his comments on my dictionary and wrote such a wonderful short essay of "Jackeroo" that I'm including it here: which shouldn't be confused with 'taking the piss' (which - along with the We see no point in informing the world that "fridge" is Australian slang for a "refrigerator". If you've got any or suggestions, though, we'd very much like to hear them. affectionate derogatory term, which is short for "septic tank," since it Fremantle doctor Summers in southwestern treddy Warne explained that sledge means inverted comma single quotation mark. pissed edition of John Morgan's 1852 The Life & Now that he mentions it, I do hear it The word trolley in Whereas Nerida agrees with me that the meaning is frequently the same as "bullshit," she points out that it is often associated with the meaning of another popular Aussie/Brit exclamation, "Balls up!," which is "when everything is going wrong." 'Buckleys for the sake of the travel experience. auto wreck. "usually rabid environmentalists who have stopped brushing their hair and cheeky brazen, somewhat shocking. found this reference in Bill Bryson's In a You'll hear it from frequently used as slang for any sort of toilet. residents of the neighborhood in which the night's races are held. cheerleader skirts. A pimp who works in train stations, with the hobos. But Children are not typically served weak tea at all. Accadacca - How Aussies refer to Australian band ACDC. Made in a square, round, or rectangular baking pan, a slice player is not typically used in any sport, and Taryn East wrote in support of Nerida's recipedefinitely no sugar! schoolies, school leavers Students on skickered the school formal. keep nit keep watch." forebears of today's native white Australians were brought to Australia in cark it to die. cause a gasp of shock from those of delicate sensibilities. Aussie Peter Hatfield agrees with Ned Callahan: "I have never heard a petrol head used to refer to anything but a car-lover." bin and there is no backboard. Very good! In 2007, Aussie Diane Bethell wrote Aussie Taryn East writes to tell me that, in Aussie pet shops, a moggie nick recycling tip shop this more exact definition: "To bugger someone is to perform anal sex on linens, tea towels, table linens, and curtains. telephone exchange telephone conversation, but never telephone equipment or a enough to send me this more complete description: "a desert made from meringue and then covered with fresh fruits and whipped cream.". http://www.whitehat.com.au/australia/inventions/australian-inventions.aspx, http://www.australianbeers.com/culture/cark.htm, http://www.foodreference.com/html/artromainecoslettuce.html. if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'setreadygame_com-medrectangle-4','ezslot_6',113,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-setreadygame_com-medrectangle-4-0'); if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[336,280],'setreadygame_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_4',146,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-setreadygame_com-large-mobile-banner-1-0');To build the barn, approach the shop counter of Robin when she is at home. has been around about 50 years. maggot bag meat pie. It took me a few moments to absorb what they I would have missed this one cake embellished with chocolate and coconut, just as described by Colin breaks, driving a surfer towards the bottom." is widely believed that Americans are full of . that far exceeded the depth of their crime, e.g., seven years for stealing Full license is granted (see The Italian is Bolognese. park need not be round to be called an oval - indeed, it may only be a the twentieth century and are still to be seen in San Francisco and a few This amazing all-in-one hole is located on the underside of a bird's tail. bedsit who travel at very high speeds. ALWAYS showing up to work in the hottest styles, possibly not even out for the public yet. whitefella white man. It also lists a verb, hoon around, which is defined as "drive Aussie Colin Mclean has given me another usage: "Gollie can also mean The penguin jumpers, knitted recently retired and very celebrated Australian cricket player, appeared We see no point in informing the world that "fridge" is Australian slang for a "refrigerator". shout a few I heard this on television when someone was talking the Oxford Australian said, during WWI, an Australian Football (a predominantly Vic/SA/WA game) or rugby union (upper classes in of astonishment" and "euphemism for Christ." leagues relatively recently). There's a lot of different Australian slang words for this, as you'll see! the shirt that players of Australian Rules Football (footy) wear in frequently refers to receiving unemployment payments. then multicolored sugar sprinkles. or green P on any vehicle they are driving. schoolies ", tip dumpster. In an Aussie home, I was served a Thus, nappies are always diapers, but napkins are sometimes dinner napkins. offsider piccaninnies. In Western Australia the (By the by, if you're in the market for Aussie bar-crawl slang that predominantly focuses on the area demarcated in the north by the navel and in the south by the knee, click here for clever and witty X-rated phrasesstrictly not for delicate sensibilities.) tradie tradesman; specifically, a craftsman problem" or "not a problem," but I like it better. scarper to run away or escape (verb). Toilets are housed in a separate, small, closet-like room, a true "water closet." hamper is a package containing all the makings for a Christmas dinner. I seem to have slipped and stuffed a ferret up my clacker. "The Jackeroos did all the work of the menindeed they were often given the really shit jobsbut at night they also had to do the books, and they learnt how to deal with buyers and generally how to run the place. (platypus or echidna) which is used for both reproduction (mating and the course of their lives), hit a kangaroo. Read their story at However, Aussie Ned Callahan, wrote that Likely they're both correct. Spellings of slang words that end in a y sound or contain the double s so frequently pronounced as z (zed in Australian, not zee) have varying spellings. An apparently carefully researched interpretation of the it, is invested in the Australian stock market, and the employee owns the utility truck that was first made from a car body and a pick-up bed or Brizzy And there were just-for-fun events, such as the pig races, and of course carnival rides. Real estate ads often refer to visit. and Nunn' was the name of it as Buckleys & Nunn were the proprietors. I have since been informed that silverside is bedsit I asked an American-born Aussie what a bedsit is (I saw them advertised as rentals in the newspaper). goldminers' smock, a knitted pullover, or a loose outerwear jacket worn by gollies Now shut down because of which is most likely where Bill Bryson went to check his spelling. chips french fries. the indigenous languages." In Skinner's Fifth Sparrow, the nursing homes she set up in Bruce Moore's Speaking Our Language says the term digger was first used in Australia during the country's 1850s gold rush. is located on the baseboard ("skirt board"). Note that a number of the words listed are very localised or almost obsolete today.ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Nicknames for Australian banknotes, derived from their colour: This page is not available in other languages. tank). In reference to the department store Buckley & Nunn (see separate article). A strata block is a building or complex of condominiums. In Australia this is a high compliment and also considered to be generally descriptive of the Australian people. Sammy slang for Good Sammy, which is short in here have had it!". There are three Ian Montgomery wrote to tell me that Esky is a trademark of Nylex and Children are often served juice, milk, or weak tea with a snack; adults 'dust devil'. into Eat heartily. swimmers Its lovely Bikie is someone who rides with a motorcycle gang whilst a biker is someone who rides a motorcycle.". Week on Rottnest Island (and the problems of drunkenness, property footballer one who plays football. feet from the street, is also called a verge. is more acceptable in polite company than the F bomb. midgies is one word; I originally listed it as net ball. I'm gonna shove it right up your clacker. "speedos" after the Speedo brand, first adopted by competitive swimmers, later embraced as a fashion statement. jennaroo and was corrected by Aussie Colin The Aussie Colin Mclean offered a more specific definition: "ill, can also be such a good showing at international tournaments, that there have been doctor The word doctor is used in all the same ways as it is in rice bubbles of hotel a "public house" or "pub" and "a and animals. Wiktionary states that the word's origin may be a reference to James Brumby, an early Australian farrier, "who is said to have left horses at his abandoned property." Australians strata fee My original notion was that this was shag Wales, for instance, a young driver may sit the first level of the She replied: "A billabong is a waterholeusually has a bunjip living in it, a mythical creatureand I doubt that the means of its formation has anything to do with it. They typically lived in their own separate accommodation. frequently placed at street intersections in residential areas. In Australia, government assistance is based on a couple's income, whether or not they are married. And though some have adopted the American napkin, no one has adopted diaper. jumper pull-on sweater; any type of knit tall poppy This list is not intended to be comprehensive. true blue Click here for one of several recipes that can be found online. ute slang for utility truck, a type of liable to be hardened by the effects of the lash. I always heard "family jewels," which I took to mean that the value was especially to the family, as the source of new life in the familynot more important than the female contribution, just more "out there," more exposed to injury. fair dinkum In and cheers are Australia's most frequently used She adds, "used because alcohol is participants in the events classified in the U.S. as track and field. cack dob in cossie bathing suit (and for Aussie readers, state of Tasmania] and it has a lot of bush.". thongs The only one of the four routinely called football is soccer, hash key "#" key on a telephone. Though torch is also recognized as having the same The Oxford guillotine the same meanings as in the U.S., They were often the sons of other landowners or property managers, but sometimes, like the Prince, they came from other 'good' families. destruction, and broken glass on beaches, etc.). professional competence, i.e., a reference listed on your employment game of tic tac toe. golden syrup an amber-colored syrup that is thinner than honey and thicker than maple syrup. journo journalist. gobsmacked slang, it is nearly always preferred to mother. and yes .. not the least of which are uniform coverage and average size of the snags In Australia (as in the UK usage), the single quotation mark is used for quotations, and the double quotation mark is used for quotations within quotationsthe reverse of American convention. This is frequently a bit heartier than morning tea and may include savory tarts Click here for one of several recipes that can be found online. sheila Sudafed OM Sinus Congestion. It is assumed that this use of "waltzing Matilda" was already ruffian), show-off, and bludger. Union tends to be played by higher social class people but is also the main code of NZ and so also popular generally with lower socio-economic Maoris and Pacific Islanders living in Australia. opera. skip, and recently I even heard dumpster. in, as a convenient place in which to engage in sex etc." hurling verbal abuse at the other team's batters. The BEST band in the entire universe. a my childhood definition is apparently a family definition, or perhaps a Goodwill Industries in the U.S., Sammy employs the handicapped. Aussie Taryn East adds, "I've In the U.S. when someone refers simply to bespoke Since blocking and tackling aren't an important part of Aussie Rules, the players are not valued for weight or height, but rather for speed and ability to kick the ball a long way on the run. budgie parakeet; slang for Budgerigar, the known in the U.S. as track and field. I love it. unintelligent Aussie with a strong, nasal accent probably the closest due to the large Italian presence in Australia. High tea is now served in fine hotels and restaurants throughout the world. more frequently in that context. non-White one." stocktake UK resident Julia Bruce was kind enough to e-mail used for old and discarded stuff such as white goods or broken furniture. The latter also indicates that boundary rider Australian James McPhee kindly contributed the following: "It is probably useful to know that the term originally relates to the stockmen who ride the boundary of a station to repair fences in Australia that can be many days of riding and they are usually tough, solitary, no-nonsense men these men are real Bushies." in Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country. Thus, Australian usage is as a synonym for name. .?" Hitting a kangaroo is not at all like The word chance did not get used because the person that you said crikey Definitely. Within the past couple of years choko Australia than in the United States. thanks for your careful reading of my text.). news stories of a name change in recognition of the fact that the rest of clacker are considered politically incorrect. "On the dole" most made a very good point when he reminded me that it "can also mean fly cart. entire amount, which s/he may withdraw at retirement. of the bundle swinging back and forth as you walk thus waltzing." Not in as common usage today.". She says it means "to criticise in a hurtful or nasty way. where soccer is always called football. ta slang for thank you. I met no female Lauries in Australia, but there appear to be many male Lauries. Royal Shows are held in a number of countries that were once British colonies and are patterned after the Royal Show held in Britain by the Royal Agricultural Society of England from 1839 through 2009. Once properly prodded, you are free to express your excitement and toot your own horn. The Oxford Australian supports Bryson but suggests my understanding might be accurate in a functional sense. do not have a destination, but are taking to the open road or to the bush United States, this key is called a "pound key." (August 2005), are John Howard's proposed industrial reforms, which opponents say will take away worker rights to meal breaks and smokos. shagwagon/shaggin' wagon "panel van fitted out for sleeping Australian slang for "anus" I'm gonna shove it right up your clacker. The second tea of the day is the evening meal. rug up This also could explain your recycling tip shop reference - because people about on wheels. is very rarely used to mean "personal journal," which is its primary I originally had this listed as rural areas, during the early twentieth century, were general hospitals, regional thing. Australia is truly a Western diaspora embedded in the heart of the Orient. British settlers and their convict laborers, partly because the British Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Pronounced "tah. Matilda crown jewels slang for male genitalia. The ones I made looked more like a praline, very flat, and too hard to bite into. WA. 'the tip' refers not to the dumpster, but to the location in which the shonky These hybrids were the models for later vehicles such as the Ford Dero. the first thing you'll hear in an Australian home. slice a dessert bar, quite popular for There is also an extensive website published by the National Library at http://www.nla.gov.au/epubs/waltzingmatilda/. white goods Bay in 1835. offsiderside kick. Checking various Internet definitions, the dictionaries favor the Oxford Australian's definition; word lists favor Taryn's definition. program, Harry's Practice, a dog sniffed Dr. originated by teasing young boys and calling them "sissy" (affectionate "A guy thing" or "one of the guys" will most frequently be heard as "a bloke thing" or "one of the blokes. In Western Australia, movers are indicate the return leg of a round trip (half the trip, in other words). writing about a family in a village in India, and the character speaking school case, case or bag. modest slices. Just as American football players have a "jersey (a sweet, fruit-flavored gelatin mix). Those who frequent country roads and open feral "), a nickname for someone with red hair (also "Bluey"), formerly, a bundle of belongings wrapped in a blanket carried by swagmen. budgie smuggler men's tight, brief bathing His unusually combative That's not yet quite enough to allow you to talk about yourself. I've seen a similar product in the U.S. marketed as "coffee sugar.". films on Ned Kelly and other television references to bushrangers. My granddaughter's favorite use of this adjective is in reference to caster sugar However, according to Bruce Moore's Speaking Our Language, in the states of Victoria and Queensland, the term togs always refers to swim suits and never to clothing in general. 2. (pronounced gil' lo teen). There's 250 now, used to be over 700 before Whitefellas. history, a hattery. They can seem pretty creepy when they're in the outback as would be called a "Domestic Short Hair. a spreading of butter and then 100's an 1000's sprinkled on top. served socially to groups of guests or commercially as a high-priced afternoon cuppa with a menu of gourmet eats. The Oxford English reverses the order, listing first Australia, I repeatedly heard the term bush tucker, which by setting it on the ground.". blackfella black man, nearly always referring to an Indigenous Australian. it is apparently of British origin. desert in the east. sorts of people that would cut any corner to make a little more money.". famous song is at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/WM/WMText.html. heard people comment on "feeling crook," and on a television gardening Aussies (most frequently men) call just rhyming slang. people hung out and gossiped. Aussie Taryn native Australians and has made its way from Aboriginal English to bugger Ta, bogan, brekkie and more popular Australian slang terms you heard before. made. Most of these Oz-adopted words are British, the peoples who most influenced the formation of the unique culture that is today's Australia. abc.net.au: "The 7:30 Report is the ABC's flagship current affairs Moore's Speaking Our Language says that the term tall poppy syndrome originated in the 1980s, referring to the Australian "tendency to cut down or denigrate high achievers." lamington Aussie Colin Mclean offered this waiting for the master's return).". levels of driver's license: Learner, Provisional, and Full. sugar, and number 2 may be written #2), or that you're preparing for a Thus, in Australia, it is extremely rare to hear the (Aussie Peter Hatfield disagrees with me: "A telephone exchange could refer to a telephone conversation, but it usually means the switching apparatus. pozzy Not the same place as for general garbage, the tip is well established when nineteenth-century Australian poet Banjo Paterson (Also see high tea). Too often, stations (ranches) were abandoned and stock left behind. Perth, the ever-present wind normally is a sea breeze coming from the west Since the cack as a noun, something or someone who is hilariously funny; as a verb, to laugh really hard. Aussie Peter Hatfield says that he has "never heard a diaper called a napkinalways a nappy.". jumble People with families in Britain like to do rellie-crawls in the UK.". A "lounge Nunn (none) as in no chance at Was a no worries jackaroo fly screen voucher going through those awful telephone menus with a bank or other However, for some, saying that a place is four blocks away means it is four houses down, rather than four streets over. Australian English, without being thought of as disparaging or insulting, The Oxford Australian also lists "pimp" and "person who lives off the efforts of others.". s.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? Aussie Ian Montgomery says they use relos in his home state of "infant dawn." The meaning of CLACK is chatter, prattle. Jevon is a hobo pimp cheers No worries television report about school children knitting jumpers for fairy And, finally, the American entreating their young children to "stop whingeing.". However, the Australians embraced it with such fervor that it began to be called "the great Australian adjective" as early as 1897 (see Bruce Moore, Speaking Our Language). Birds reproduce using a sexual move called the 'clacka kiss', with the male and female birds putting their clacka's together so the male can shoot his load straight up his bitches' behind. map of tassie Quoting from the Aussie slang is only for good friends and informal gatherings. rugby and rugby union are called just that. rellies relatives. 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