Walkabout came to refer to any public walk, such as (and particularly) one taken by visiting royalty. And the sudden disappearance of an Aborigine who has gone on walkabout, apparently without explanation, led to the word walkabout gaining an additional use that's fairly common in Australia today.
Walkabout is a rite of passage in Australian Aboriginal society, during which males undergo a journey during adolescence, typically ages 10 to 16, and live in the wilderness for a period as long as six months to make the spiritual and traditional transition into manhood.
noun. walk·about ˈwȯ-kə-ˌbau̇t. : a short period of wandering bush life engaged in by an Australian aborigine as an occasional interruption of regular work. often used in the phrase go walkabout.
The term hiking and bushwalking can be used interchangeably, though bushwalking typically refers to what Australians call the bush.
An Australian pub or hotel is a public house or pub for short, in Australia, and is an establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.
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.
6. Tinnies = Cans of Beer. But the Australian slang for beer is amber fluid. Some states call it a pint and at others, it is a schooner.
A sidewalk (North American English), pavement (British English), footpath in Australia, India, New Zealand and Ireland, or footway, is a path along the side of a street, highway, terminals.
Contributor's comments: In Central Qld we also call a Bicycle a "Treddly" or a "Push-bike". Contributor's comments: While not widespread I have heard treddly used in Queensland. Contributor's comments: I heard and used treadlie for bike, most often Deadly Treadly, in Brisbane in high school in the late 70s.
Bluey is an Australian nickname for a person with red hair. As a nickname, Bluey may refer to: Frank 'Bluey' Adams (born 1935), former Australian rules football player. Derek Arnold (born 1941), New Zealand former rugby union player.
Slang. a. to go on strike; stage a walkout. b. to be acquitted.
dag. An unfashionable person; a person lacking style or character; a socially awkward adolescent, a 'nerd'. These senses of dag derive from an earlier Australian sense of dag meaning 'a "character", someone eccentric but entertainingly so'.
Koori is a term denoting an Aboriginal person of southern New South Wales or Victoria. 'Koori' is not a synonym for 'Aboriginal'. There are many other Aboriginal groups across Australia (such as Murri, Noongar, Yolngu) with which Indigenous Australians may identify themselves.
There is no one Aboriginal word that all Aborigines use for Australia; however, today they call Australia, ""Australia"" because that is what it is called today. There are more than 250 aboriginal tribes in Australia. Most of them didn't have a word for ""Australia""; they just named places around them.
In England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, India, Canada (usually), and New Zealand, Z is pronounced as zed. It's derived from the Greek letter zeta.
What does noice mean? Noice, or nice pronounced with an exaggerated Australian accent, is a synonym for awesome.
Catch you later is an Australian slang form of saying 'goodbye'. A: Anyway, it's time for me to go home. Catch you later. If you do happen to talk to an Australian they may ask you if you are fair dinkum.
Also, a US sidewalk is a British pavement, and curb is spelled kerb (curb in UK English is a verb i.e. to “curb your enthusiasm”).
Aussie is Australian slang for Australian, both the adjective and the noun, and less commonly, Australia.
From sweltering bush sheds to luxurious mansions with waterslides and mezzanine bedrooms — the word donga is today embraced by Australians for a wide range of structures. Typically associated with temporary or demountable housing, donga has endured in local slang for about a century.
Sunnies - A term native to Australia and New Zealand to describe sunglasses.
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.
Blue Heelers: This is a term used in Australian and is after a breed of dog, the Australian Cattle Dog. This term is use because it accurately describes the personality and appearance (blue uniform) of a police officer.