"Knickers" can also refer to male underwear, while the word panties generally refers only to female underwear. In Australia, male underpants are often referred to as "undies", although the word can also refer to panties.
Answer (1 of 3): "undies" is a word that is in common usage in Australia, but others will have to say whether it is a uniquely Australian word or not. Before the turn of the century "grundies" or "Reg Grundies" was quite a common word in the Aussie vernacular.
In North America, Australia and South Africa pants is the general category term, whereas trousers (sometimes slacks in Australia and North America) often refers more specifically to tailored garments with a waistband, belt-loops, and a fly-front.
Although the term's origin is Old English, meaning a strip of leather or hide, with its first known use being before the 12th Century, Australians apparently have the upper-hand in using the term to describe footwear – in 1965, according to , with its use for underwear not recorded until 1990.
Thongs = Flip Flops
“Pop your thongs on, the sand is hot.” In Australia, thongs are just the way we say flip flops.
If you call it a bum bag in North America or a fanny pack in Australia or the UK, you might get shocked looks or sniggers. To avoid awkwardness, some brands use “hip pack” or “waist bag” instead.
Daks: Australians call their trousers 'daks'. If someone mentions 'tracky daks', they're talking about sweatpants.
A domestic fowl; a chicken. 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.
speedos – generic term for men's swimming briefs which originated in Australia, from the brand name (see Speedo). Known colloquially as sluggos, budgie smugglers. swimmers – used mainly in New South Wales and sometimes used in Queensland, from "swimming costume"
Flip-flops are also called thongs (sometimes pluggers) in Australia, jandals (originally a trademarked name derived from "Japanese sandals") in New Zealand, and slops or plakkies in South Africa and Zimbabwe. In the Philippines, they are called tsinelas.
Esky is a brand of portable coolers, originally Australian, derived from the word "Eskimo". The term "esky" is also commonly used in Australia to generically refer to portable coolers or ice boxes and is part of the Australian vernacular, in place of words like "cooler" or "cooler box" and the New Zealand "chilly bin".
Ketchup is underrated. We call it tomato sauce in Australia.
Pommy or pom
The terms pommy, pommie, and pom used in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand usually denote a British person.
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.
Let's start with the most common, most well-known, and most quintessentially Australian slang term for girls: Sheila. While everywhere else in the English-speaking world, Sheila is a specific person's name, in Australia it can be used to refer to any woman or girl.
Diaper is what they use in North America, and Nappy is the word used in the UK & Ireland, Australia, NZ and many other Commonwealth countries.
For those trivia buffs amongst you - here's a piece of toilet trivia - The flusihng toilet was invented by Sir Thomas Crapper (Aussie's also call the toilet the crapper).
Norks: Australian slang, from the large cow udders used to advertise Norco, New South Wales' North Coast Dairy Co-Operative. Wabs: From the Brits.
Most Australians now use the term doona meaning a quilt: there is no difference between a quilt and a doona. You might also hear the term 'duvet', which is used most commonly throughout Europe. This also refers to a quilt or doona. All three terms can be used interchangeably.
It is called a singlet in Australia and New Zealand, and a banian or banyan in the Indian Subcontinent.
Here in Australia, the Macquarie DIctionary simply lists lounge as “a sofa or couch”.
Tummy pack, belly bag, moon bag, belt bag, waist bag, butt pack, sling bag. People stress a lot over what to call them, but don't even worry! Just call it what you like. Growing up we called them fanny packs, but the other day my mom referred to hers as a tummy bag which cracked me up!
A meat pie: "I'll have a maggot bag and blood thanks." Meaning a pie and tomato sauce. Compare maggot sack, rat coffin. Contributor's comments: This term is used in western QLD. Contributor's comments: In SA the standard public servant's lunch order was "A maggot bag and a snot block" i.e. a pie and a vanilla slice.