This vowel is famously expressed in the different way New Zealanders and Australians pronounce 'fish and chips' – a fast-food dish common in both countries. It is commonly claimed that New Zealanders say 'fush and chups' and Australians say 'feesh and cheeps'.
Definition. In Australia, chips can refer to 'hot' chips; fried strips of potato. Chips also refer to what are known in other countries as crisps.
In Australia today, there are an estimated 4000 fish and chip shops, as well as fish and chips being an essential menu offering in many Australian pubs and restaurants.
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.
Fish and Chips is Cockney slang for Hips.
"Move those Fish and Chips darling."
To drink like a fish
Figurative meaning: To drink a lot, particularly in reference to alcohol.
"Chips" in England though is the common reference to what we Americans call French fries, a British use perhaps best known worldwide in relation to "fish and chips." Rather than use the word "chips" like we do in America, Brits refer to small thin salty snacks such as potato chips as "crisps."
In the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand, the term chips is generally used instead, though thinly cut fried potatoes are sometimes called french fries or skinny fries, to distinguish them from chips, which are cut thicker.
Carpintero in Spain; Zimmermann in Germany; Kamuta in Samoa and thợ mộc in Vietnam. The term 'Chippy' is commonly used in Australia and the UK to refer to carpenters. The term is found as far back as the 16th century – no doubt in reference to the wood chips that flew as carpenters worked their magic.
Here in Australia, however, McDonald's most prevalent nickname is “Macca's”.
Fish, chips and mushy peas; very British! Freshly cooked hot fish and chips were smothered in salt and vinegar and wrapped; great when eaten out-of-doors on a cold, wintry day! Servings were wrapped in old newspaper to keep prices down.
Greek migrant Athanasias Comino is often credited with introducing the takeaway meal here, opening the first Australian fish and chip shop in 1879 on Sydney's Oxford Street (though family records say Comino copied the idea from a Welshman's shop nearby).
Fish and chips are common throughout Australia and New Zealand and with a few small differences are very similar to fish and chips in the UK.
A female kangaroo is known as a ' flyer ' or a ' doe ' and a male kangaroo a ' buck ' or a ' boomer ' (hence the nickname of the Australian men's basketball team, the Boomers). They live in social groups called mobs .
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”.
In this case, bikkie (the colloquial Australian word for a cookie), is clipped slang for biscuit (the British English word for a type of cookie), and it uses the -ie diminutive suffix. Australian English is full of words based on this formula.
The shoe known in Australia as a "thong" is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world. Worn with small variations across Egypt, Rome, Greece, sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Korea, Japan and some Latin American cultures, the shoe was designed to protect the sole while keeping the top of the foot cool.
In Australia, “football” may refer to any of several popular codes. These include Australian Football, rugby league, rugby union, and association football. As is the case in the United States and Canada, association football has traditionally been referred to in Australia as soccer.
A bag of chips means crisps because hot chips don't come in a bag and you don't call McDonalds chips chips, you call them fries because they are skinny and that's what fries are in Australia - skinny chips.
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.
Icy-pole: Ice cream or popsicle.
ADVERTISEMENT. Spanish-speaking social media users have pointed out that “chupa” literally means “suck” or “to suck”.
'Lass' or 'lassie' is another word for 'girl'. This is mainly in the north of England and Scotland. 'Lad' is another word for boy. 'Bloke' or 'chap' means 'man'.
Variations on the name include fish bar, fishery (in Yorkshire), fish shop and chip shop. In the United Kingdom including Northern Ireland, they are colloquially known as a chippy or fishy, while in the rest of Ireland and the Aberdeen area, they are known as chippers.