What do Aussies call sunglasses?

Sunnies - A term native to Australia and New Zealand to describe sunglasses.

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What is the slang term for sunglasses?

sunglasses
  • specs.
  • bifocals.
  • cheaters.
  • contacts.
  • goggles.
  • lorgnette.
  • monocle.
  • pince-nez.

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What is Australian slang for glasses?

Spekkies
  • (Noun) The Australian slang for sunglasses. Derivative of spectacles.
  • Example: My mate is obsessed with spekkies. He trades them for big chunks of money.

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What are sunnies Aussie slang?

What caught my eye was the reference to Tom Ford “sunnies”–sunnies being Australian shorthand for sunglasses.

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What do Aussies call condoms?

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

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What is a slang word for glasses?

SPECS. Clue. Answer. Eyeglasses, in slang (5) SPECS.

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What is modern slang for eyeglasses?

synonyms for eyeglasses
  • specs.
  • sunglasses.
  • bifocals.
  • cheaters.
  • contacts.
  • goggles.
  • lorgnette.
  • monocle.

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What do British people call glasses?

As a Brit, the full word "spectacles" is old-fashioned, but "specs" is perfectly normal.

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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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What do Aussies call lollipops?

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.

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What do Aussies call Sellotape?

Australia Remember When. Remember Sellotape, sometimes called 'sticky tape' or Durex tape. I remember Bear Brand Tape and Scotch Tape too when we were kids. Just from memory I think as kids we used to call all sticky tape 'Durex', which of course ended up having quite a different meaning.

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What is bra in Australian slang?

In an interview on Triple J radio, Koby Abberton pointed out that "Bra" is a reference to the gang's suburb, Maroubra, and partly after the street slang for brother. Some members of the gang tattoo "My Brother's Keeper" across the front of their chest, "Bra Boys" and Maroubra's postcode "2035" on their backs.

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What does shags mean in Australia?

defecate: He went into the bushes to have a shag.

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What is Australian slang for lipstick?

Lippy – lipstick. Lollies – the same as lollipops. Mozzie – a mosquito.

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What is the Australian slang for drunk?

Munted (mun-ted) / Drunk.

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What is the Australian slang for girl?

Sheila = Girl

Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.

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What is goodbye in Australian?

Hooroo. Meaning: (Exclamation) Hooroo is a 100% Australian slang word for 'goodbye.

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Are sunglasses called bins?

On the subject of 'bins' this expression is the cockney rhyming slang for glasses, as in reading glasses, so if someone is having trouble looking up a number in a telephone book you might say put on your 'bins'.

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Do people still call sunglasses shades?

Sunglasses can have prescription lenses like eyeglasses, but they can also have lenses that are not for correcting vision. Shades is an informal word for sunglasses.

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Are sunglasses called buffs?

Why are Cartier glasses called buffs? The term refers to the material used in some of Cartier's most expensive eyeglass designs: Buffalo horn. Cartier uses natural horns with unique patterns from South America and Asia. Horn is a natural material which offers a variety of tones to give each frame a special character.

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What do Aussies call a chicken in slang?

Chook comes from British dialect chuck(y) 'a chicken; a fowl' which is a variant of chick. Chook is the common term for the live bird, although chook raffles, held in Australian clubs and pubs, have ready-to-cook chooks as prizes.

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What is Australian slang for diarrhea?

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.

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What is Australian slang for annoying?

Lemony means annoyed, as in, I got lemony at the kid. This piece of Aussie slang dates back to the 1940s.

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What do Brits call a fridge?

◊ In U.S. English, fridge is informal, but in British English it is the usual word for a refrigerator.

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What is the Irish sunglasses slang?

(slang) Two black eyes (eyes showing hematoma from bruises).

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