"Knickers" can also refer to male underwear, while the word panties generally refers only to female underwear. In Australia, male underpants are often referred to as "undies", although the word can also refer to panties.
Aussie Word of the Week
Underdaks, also called underchunders or underdungers, is a colloquial name for your underpants. Daks are trousers, therefore underdaks must logically be underwear. Simple. Aussie slang is full of alternative words for our trousers and underwear.
knickers. (plural noun) in the sense of underwear.
Boxer briefs are also called "trunks" in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Daks: Australians call their trousers 'daks'. If someone mentions 'tracky daks', they're talking about sweatpants.
speedos – generic term for men's swimming briefs which originated in Australia, from the brand name (see Speedo). Known colloquially as sluggos, budgie smugglers.
Boot: the trunk of a car.
"Knickers" derives from "knickerbockers," or "loose-fitting short pants gathered at the knee." Because the city's early Dutch settlers wore those pants, "New Yorkers" became known as "Knickerbockers." And The Knickerbockers, of course - more commonly "The Knicks" - is the name of New York's NBA team.
Knickers are underwear, especially women's underpants. Your little cousin's favorite knickers might be her blue and red Wonder Woman knickers. Knickers, meaning underpants, is primarily a British term, although Americans will usually know what you mean if you use it.
According to Urban Dictionary a jumper is the Aussie (and British) word for sweater. I'd disagree and say it can also mean sweatshirt and cardigan but if it's a hooded sweatshirt that would be a hoodie not just a jumper and you might call a cardigan a cardie but both could also be jumpers.
The "couch" in "couch grass" (aka Bermuda grass in the US) is pronounced just like the furniture you sit on. Unless you're in Australia — there, apparently, some people pronounce it as "cooch." As does morning-show host Allison Langdon, who, when talking to some grass experts, said, "My cooch is dying."
knick·ers ˈni-kərz. : loose-fitting short pants gathered at the knee. chiefly British : underpants.
Horse and cart, raspberry tart, hart and dart, and D'Oyley Carte are all ways to say fart, many originating in England.
"Knickers" can also refer to male underwear, while the word panties generally refers only to female underwear. In Australia, male underpants are often referred to as "undies", although the word can also refer to panties.
hottie (plural hotties) (slang, Australia, New Zealand, now rare) Synonym of hotshot. (slang, originally Australia) A physically or sexually attractive person.
Why do Australians call sweets “lollies”, even when they have no sticks? According to British English from A to Zed by Norman Schur (Harper, 1991) “lolly” derives onomatopoetically for the mouth sounds associated with sucking or licking. The word “lollipop” came later.
knickers. British underwear for the lower body, typically worn by women or girls. The American word is panties.
A brassiere is the same as a bra.
Black Underwear
Courtesy. Wear It If: You're ready to take charge or regain some control. Black means power, and it's also one of the most classic colors. It feels streamlined, organized, and signals that you didn't come to play around. You've got your goals.
Scottish Word: Theek.
WHY DO AUSSIES CALL THEM THONGS? The word THONG means restraint, referred to as the piece of rubber that is used to slide between the big and second toe to keep the soul of the sandal.
Bogan. Someone of lower social status, unsophisticated or trashy.
Ask an Aussie to name a truly Australian word, and they might yell "Bonzer!" Bonzer, sometimes also spelled bonza, means "first-rate" or "excellent," and it is the Australian equivalent of the American "awesome": "It's a good clean game ... and the standard is red hot," Thies said.
The shoe known in Australia as a "thong" is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world.