21. roo – kangaroo. They had to have a dedicated slang term for kangaroos too, didn't they? After all, the kangaroos are Australia's most popular animals.
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.
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.
8. Hooroo = Goodbye. The Australian slang for goodbye is Hooroo and sometimes they even Cheerio like British people.
Australia. : toilet. especially : one outdoors : privy.
A ute (/juːt/ YOOT), originally an abbreviation for "utility" or "coupé utility", is a term used in Australia and New Zealand to describe vehicles with a tonneau behind the passenger compartment, that can be driven with a regular driver's license.
'Ranga', the Aussie slang term for a red-haired person, is now officially part of the Australian dictionary as one of 6000 new words introduced on Tuesday.
Irish immigrants arriving in Australia looking for labour gained a reputation as heavy drinkers and fighters, with 'blue' being local slang for a fight. The term evolved to come to mean a redheaded Irishman.
ankle-biter – a small or young child.
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.
crikey in American English
(ˈkraiki) interjection. (used as an exclamation of surprise, amazement, dismay, etc.) [1830–40; prob.
(/ˈkuːiː/) is a shout originated in Australia to attract attention, find missing people, or indicate one's own location.
The names of many of our iconic plants and animals come from Aboriginal words, including: kookaburra – from the Wiradjuri word gugubarra. kangaroo – from the Guugu Yimithirr word gangurru.
Kangaroos are often colloquially referred to as "roos". Male kangaroos are called bucks, boomers, jacks, or old men; females are does, flyers, or jills; and the young ones are joeys.
The story goes that in 1770 Captain Cook asked the natives in Queensland, Australia, for the name of this strange, leaping quadruped he had spotted in his travels. Their reply was "kangaroo," which supposedly meant, "I don't understand you."
The word “Dunny” is Australian slang for toilet or outhouse. Technically “Dunny” isn't a rude word but not many people on average say the word dunny.
Bandit Heeler is a hero. The cartoon father of Bluey and her younger sister Bingo, Bandit is the much-loved dad dog at the heart of Australia's favourite four-legged family.
Bluey is a girl! As a matter of fact, both Heeler family pups are girls. Bingo is orange and reddish-brown, which might seem like the more “feminine” color combo because (a) it's warmer tones and (b) those are Chilli's color, too. But people are often thrown to learn that Bluey, who is blue like her dad, is a girl.
Bloody, as an adjective or adverb, is a commonly used expletive attributive in British English, Australian English, Irish English, Indian English and a number of other Commonwealth nations. It has been used as an intensive since at least the 1670s.
In Australia a stockman (plural stockmen) is a person who looks after the livestock on a large property known as a station, which is owned by a grazier or a grazing company, traditionally on horseback. In this sense it has a similar meaning to "cowboy".
Ask an Aussie to name a truly Australian word, and they might yell "Bonzer!" Bonzer, sometimes also spelled bonza, means "first-rate" or "excellent," and it is the Australian equivalent of the American "awesome": "It's a good clean game ... and the standard is red hot," Thies said.
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.
THE ''ute'' is to Australians what the pickup is to Americans: a blue-collar icon and a symbol of rugged independence. Utes are integral to everyday existence in the bush -- and, increasingly, to life in the city. What's a ute?
This week we shine a spotlight on a quintessential piece of Aussie slang, a word famous the world over: sheila. A sheila is a woman. In use since the 1830s, sheila has its origin in a generic use of the common Irish girl's name.