Beta. Lunch is generally referred to as lunch in Australia, however, dinner is also referred to as tea or evening meal. Continue reading.
Lunch at an Australian pub is called a counter lunch, while the term counter meal is used for either lunch or dinner. Common dishes served at counter lunches and counter meals are steak and chips, chicken parmigiana and chips, a mixed grill (an assortment of grilled meats), and roast lamb or beef with roast vegetables.
Chow. Meaning: (Noun) Chow is an informal term for a meal used in certain English-speaking countries. It is often used in Australia as slang for dinner.
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.
British people typically call lunch "dinner." Do Britons feel strongly about being called "English" instead of "British"? Why do people use the term British when they actually just mean English?
Lunch is generally referred to as lunch in Australia, however, dinner is also referred to as tea or evening meal. Lunch is the meal eaten in the middle of the day. 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.
By the early nineteenth century, lunch, what Palmer in Moveable Feasts calls "the furtive snack," had become a sit-down meal at the dning table in the middle of the day.
/ (ˈfræŋə) / noun. Australian slang a condom.
A sandwich. Sanger is an alteration of the word sandwich. Sango appeared as a term for sandwich in the 1940s, but by the 1960s, sanger took over to describe this staple of Australian cuisine.
Brekky: the first and most important meal of the day, Aussies call breakfast 'brekky'.
hungry, craving: I'm fanging for a steak. Contributor's comments: I've also heard the term "I'm hanging for a fanging" to mean hungry - or more correctly "hangin' for a fangin'". Good on the fang means having a good appetite.
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.
not paying attention or tending to business; negligent: You must have been out to lunch when you wrote that weird report.
The origin of the words lunch and luncheon relate to a small meal originally eaten at any time of the day or night, but during the 20th century gradually focused toward a small or mid-sized meal eaten at midday. Lunch is the second meal of the day after breakfast. Luncheon is now considered a formal lunch.
See also: 'Dirty Bird' (KFC). “Let's pop into Maccas after the footy.”
That being said, let's start with something most of us will probably have sitting in the fridge or pantry: ketchup. Ketchup is underrated. We call it tomato sauce in Australia. Or just “sauce”.
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.
“Sack”. “A sack” or “The sack”, this is a noun.
Hooroo = Goodbye
The Australian slang for goodbye is Hooroo and sometimes they even Cheerio like British people.
Dinner and supper are both used to refer to the main meal of the day, and especially to that meal as eaten in the evening.
Up until the start of the 20th century, the main meal was what we now refer to as "lunch," which was formerly called "dinner" because that was when Americans ate the largest meal featuring multiple courses, grand portion sizes or both. The evening meal was called "supper," which was much lighter and more informal.
Lunch lady, in Canada and the US, is a term for a woman who cooks and serves food in a school cafeteria. The equivalent term in the United Kingdom is dinner lady.