What do Aussie call dinner?

Some people in Britain and Australia refer to their main evening meal as "tea" rather than "dinner" or "supper", but generally, with the exception of Scotland and Northern England, "tea" refers to a light meal or a snack.

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What is slang for dinner?

repast. He proclaimed it a splendid repast. blowout (slang) collation. nosh-up (informal)

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Do Australians call lunch dinner?

Contributor's comments: In Tasmania 'dinner' is usually the meal (or snack) eaten in the middle of the day; though, if the midday meal is a snack it may be referred to as 'lunch', especially by school children, ie it's lunch-time. 'Tea' is the evening meal.

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What do Aussies call lunch?

From another question I found out that Australians and New Zealanders call lunch and snacks crib. On the Macquarie dictionary site, there are several (user contributed) theories about why, but nothing authoritative.

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Why do Australians call lunch dinner?

Dinner is the main meal of the day. If the meal you eat in the middle of the day is your main meal then it can be called either lunch or dinner. There is a tradition among some Australians to have a large family meal at lunch time on Sunday. It is often called Sunday dinner.

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Do Australians say dinner or supper?

So, it's largely a question of formality, and most Australians use the two terms as the context calls for. Both mean the same thing in different circumstances. It's an evening meal, one way or another. The only other term is supper, though this is more archaic at this point and is not widely used by anyone.

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Do they say dinner or supper in Australia?

However, in Australia, dinner would be referred to as the main evening meal, and supper would be snacks and food eaten later in the evening; which the US citizens would call a late night snack.

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What do Aussies call condoms?

/ (ˈfræŋə) / noun. Australian slang a condom.

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What do Aussies call KFC?

If you're more of a KFC person, then you should head over to the 'Dirty Bird'.

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What is Aussie slang for hungry?

Decoding Australia's colourful food slang. "I could eat the bum out of an elephant. Let's have some tucker." Translation: I'm really hungry.

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What do Aussies call eggs?

Australians use a couple of other colloquial words for a hen's egg. The Australian English word googie or goog is an informal term that dates from the 1880s. It derives from British dialect goggy, a child's word for an egg. A closer parallel to the jocular bum nut, however, is the word cackleberry.

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Who says dinner instead of lunch?

And on NPR, food historian Helen Zoe Veit points out that in the past, especially in farming communities, the noon meal was the biggest one of the day. Which would explain why, in certain parts of the south, the word 'dinner' has persisted as a reference to the noon, rather than evening, meal.

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What do posh people call dinner?

If you call your evening meal 'supper' you're officially posh, according to survey. A nationwide study into our the eating habits of British people has settled an ongoing argument about what our evening meal should be called.

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What do British people call dinner?

The evening meal is usually called 'tea', 'dinner' or 'supper'. What is a traditional British Dinner? A typical British meal for dinner is "meat and two veg".

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Why do Aussies say hey?

Some people may use Australian slang and say “G'day” or “G'day mate”. However, this is less common in cities. Many Australians greet by saying “Hey, how are you?”. This is usually spoken as a simple greeting, and is not an actual enquiry about your wellbeing.

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What is a bogan Aussie slang?

Bogan. (Noun) An uncouth or uncultured person, usually. See also: feral, ratbag, reptile, bevan etc. “I can't understand that bogan's broad Australian accent.”

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What do Aussies call french fries?

Australian and New Zealand English uses "chips" both for what North Americans call french fries and for what Britons call crisps. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" and "cold chips" are used.

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What do Aussies call getting sick slang?

If you're feeling unwell, you could say you are crook. If someone is angry, you could say they've 'gone crook'.

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Do Aussies say undies?

Aussie slang is full of alternative words for our trousers and underwear. Reginalds or Reg Grundies are rhyming slang for undies, while bloomers are known as bum shorts in Queensland, and scungies in New South Wales and the ACT.

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What do Australians call kids?

ankle-biter – a small or young child.

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What is a tucker in Australian slang?

In Aussie slang, a "Tucker" is a large lunch, and the Tucker Bag is the ideal bag for a large lunch, or a day out.

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What is Australian slang for afternoon?

“Arvo” directly translates to “afternoon”. You may hear people say “This arvo I'm going to surf,” or ask you “What are your plans this arvo?”

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What are the 3 meals called?

3 main meals of the day
  • Breakfast – eaten within an hour or two after a person wakes in the morning. (Index) ...
  • Lunch – eaten around mid-day, usually between 11 am and 3 pm. In some areas, the name for this meal depends on its content. ...
  • Dinner – eaten in the evening.

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