While I was in the States I was often asked what words mean or how we said a particular word in 'Australian' or to teach them some slang. Well here it is guys! For your future reference and enjoyment. :)
AFL: Aussie rules football league
Ankle biter: small child
Arvo: afternoon
Aussie salute: waving away flies with the hand
Bag (something): to mock
Barbie: BBQ
Barrack: to cheer support
Bathers: swimsuit
Beaut: beauty, great, fantastic (often used as ‘you beaut!’)
Big Smoke: the city
Bikkie: Biscuit (cookie)
Billabong: waterhole in the bush, often dry in summer
Billy: large tin can used to boil tea water over a campfire
Bloody: very, used a bit as an exclamation mark
Bludger: lazy person who doesn’t like to work
Boardies: board shorts
Bogan: bit of a 'hick' country bumpkin type person
Boofhead: funny lovable ‘idiot’
Bottle-o: liquor store
Bugger: ‘what a shame’ or something broken can be buggared, also used for very tired. Bugger off means go away. Someone you feel sorry for is a poor bugger.
Bull bar/Roo bar: steel bar on the front of a vehicle to protect from hitting kangaroos.
Bush bashing: off-roading, 4wheel driving.
Cark it: to die
Chuck a sickie: take a day off from work with the excuse of ‘being sick’
Crook: sick
Cuppa: cup of tea, or other form of hot drink
Cut sick: go for it
Dag: a funny person
Daggy: unstylish
Daks: pants, trousers ‘to dak someone’ means to pull down their pants
Dead horse: tomato sauce (ketchup)
Dead set: true
‘spit the’ Dummy: get very upset
Dunny: outside toilet
Esky: insulated food/drink container (ice chest)
Fair go: a chance
Fair suck of the sauce: expression of wonder, awe, disbelief
Footie: football (either AFL or Rugby)
Fortnight: two week period
Fruit loop: fool
Good on ya: well done
Grog: booze, alcohol
Half your luck: congratulations!
Hard yakka: hard work
Have a gutful: to be fed up
Joe blow: mr. average
Kangaroos loose in the pop paddock: loopy
Kiwi: person from New Zealand (reference to their national bird, also called a Kiwi)
‘to’ Knock something: to criticize
Kraut or sour-kraut: a person from Germany
Lollies: sweets, candy
Loo: toilet
Lose the plot: forget what you were doing
Macca’s: McDonalds
Mozzie: mosquito
No worries: no problem
Ocker: a ‘less sophisticated’ aussie accent- most often associated with bogans
Off your face: very drunk
Pom/Pomme: someone from England (came about during the wars when prisoners from England had Prisoner Of Mother England tattoed on their arm)
Reckon: think, estimate (most often used as, I reckon, or I don’t reckon”)
Rough as guts: very rough
scorcher: a very hot day
Servo: petrol ‘gas’ station
She’ll be right: it’ll be ok
Shoot through: to leave
Shout: to buy somebody something- a round of drinks persay
Sook: a soft person
Spiffy: great, excellent
Stoked: very happy
Stubby holder: a beer bottle cooler (stubby being beer bottle)
Sus: suspicious
Tall poppies: successful people
Tall poppy syndrome: habit to criticize successful people
Tassie: tasmania
Thingo: anything, if you don’t know what a thing is called in English, call it ‘Thingo’ or ‘thingymabob’ also can use ‘dovalacky’
Thongs: flipflops
Too easy: ok
Tucker: food
Ute: utility vehicle, cross between a car and pickup truck
Veg out: relax and chill often in front of the T.V
Wag: not to turn up for school
Whinge: complain
Wonk: ‘to chuck a wonk’ means to have a fit
Woop Woop: small and unimportant town, often in the middle of nowhere ‘its out in bloody woop woop’
Zilch: nothing
Zillions: lots and lots, more than millions and billions
Zonked: very tired, exhausted
oops forgot D&M: stands for a deep and meaningful talk with someone :)
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