Australian Slang For Sausage (Explained!) In Australia, sausages are called either “snags” or “bangers”, most commonly. Snag is by far the most common, and can refer to just about any kind of sausage including basic sausages and even hot dogs.
But in Australia a snag is also one of several words for 'sausage' (others include snarler and snork). It is first recorded in 1937, and probably comes from British (mainly Scots) dialect snag meaning 'a morsel, a light meal'.
In Australian English, a "banger" has referred to a sausage since the time of the First World War. Before that in Australia, a banger meant a morning coat, or an unreliable motor vehicle. All of these are publicly documented by reputable lexicographers.
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A democracy sausage is a sausage sandwich (or a sausage in bread, or a sausage sizzle...) which a voter can obtain at a polling booth on polling day.
Ciggie = A cigarette.
Fanny is an extremely offensive Australasian slang term for the female genitalia, so announcing to an Australasian that you ``patted your friend on the fanny'' can can leave him or her with decidedly the wrong impression. The word you are searching for is bum.
If you're feeling unwell, you could say you are crook. If someone is angry, you could say they've 'gone crook'.
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.
A sausage sizzle (also referred to as 'sausage in bread' or a sausage sandwich) is a grilled or barbecued food item and community event held in Australia and New Zealand. Sausage sizzle.
Icy-pole: Ice cream or popsicle.
Zucchini = courgette
It's compulsory to say it only with a really strong French accent.
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Our sausages and burger patties are 100% West Australian beef and produced fresh, daily. As a rule it is approximately 12 sausages to a kilo and we recommend around 400 sausages for a Bunnings fundraising sausage sizzle… Everyone likes a spare sausage, you can never have too many sausages. Sausage on.
Bogan (/ˈboʊɡən/ BOHG-ən) is Australian and New Zealand slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are considered unrefined or unsophisticated.
Snag = Sausage or Hot Dog
Australians love barbies. Therefore, snags are an Australian staple.
If you're more of a KFC person, then you should head over to the 'Dirty Bird'.
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.
The traditional Australian breakfast is very similar, unsurprisingly, to a typical British or American breakfast, with a whole fry-up made up of smokey bacon, eggs in various ways, grilled mushrooms, and tomatoes, with the optional addition of hash browns, beans, pork or beef sausages.
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Australia's colourful bank notes are known by many colloquial names. The twenty-dollar note is referred to as a lobster, while the fifty-dollar note is called a pineapple, and don't we all want to get our hands on a few jolly green giants, that is, hundred-dollar notes?
Some countries refer to the fruit as “sweet melon” and “Crenshaw melon.” In South Africa, it's often called “spanspek.” However, Australians and New Zealanders tend to call it a rockmelon. That fact definitely surprised plenty of American TikTokers who commented on Liu's video.
Esky is a brand of portable coolers, originally Australian, derived from the word "Eskimo". The term "esky" is also commonly used in Australia to generically refer to portable coolers or ice boxes and is part of the Australian vernacular, in place of words like "cooler" or "cooler box" and the New Zealand "chilly bin".
Plonk, chardy and the goon of fortune
Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol.
For instance, the Jim-brits or Jimmy Britts, shortened to “the jimmies,” is Australian rhyming slang for diarrhoea; “Jimmy” (or “Jimmy Grant”) is an immigrant, so not only is this a deft expression, it is also a neat insult of the Australians' traditional enemy.
"Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi" is a cheer or chant often performed at Australian sport events.
dunny – a toilet, the appliance or the room – especially one in a separate outside building. This word has the distinction of being the only word for a toilet which is not a euphemism of some kind. It is from the old English dunnykin: a container for dung. However Australians use the term toilet more often than dunny.