In Australia they're called laundries – a place to do the washing and ironing that often becomes a dumping ground for all the family's stuff. But in many countries, this room is called a “mud room”.
Milk bar: the Australian equivalent to a small convenience store or corner shop.
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Butler's pantries are slowly reemerging in modern Australian kitchens and it's easy to understand why! The little room located just off the kitchen or dining room usually houses benchtops for food preparation and cabinetry for storage.
The word Verandah simply means; a place that leads outdoors. As Australia love their out doors and as such almost every homes in Australia is built with a verandah.
(American slang) Buttocks. Fanny is an extremely offensive Australasian slang term for the female genitalia, so announcing to an Australasian that you ``patted your friend on the fanny'' can can leave him or her with decidedly the wrong impression.
Yeah nah yeah = yes. No wonder you're confused! A commonly-used word here is mate, which normally means friend.
Sofa is more common in Britain, while couch is preferred in North America, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.
In Aussie slang, a "Tucker" is a large lunch, and the Tucker Bag is the ideal bag for a large lunch, or a day out.
Barbie. An outdoor grill on which prawns, steak and sausages (snags), and even fruit are cooked. A “barbie” or outdoor grill.
In the United States, you can expect the use of porta-potty and porta-John. Locally, Aussies often use Dunny or, if you're in rural areas, maybe even Thunderbox.
Dimensions (cm): 50 x 70. *Australian slang is also known as 'Strine', and its mysteries are learned by Aussies from the cradle. Having said that, 'Strine' is so weird even Aussies are perplexed by it sometimes. *For best results, wash your tea towel in a cold cycle on your machine with other similar coloured items.
The shoe known in Australia as a "thong" is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world.
Freezer. Meaning: (Noun) Commonly used when we talk about refrigerators, 'freezer' can be a slang term for a cooler as well.
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.
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.
“Sack”. “A sack” or “The sack”, this is a noun.
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.
Aussie slang is full of alternative words for our trousers and underwear. Reginalds or Reg Grundies are rhyming slang for undies, while bloomers are known as bum shorts in Queensland, and scungies in New South Wales and the ACT.
Hooroo = Goodbye
The Australian slang for goodbye is Hooroo and sometimes they even Cheerio like British people.
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This scaly phrase is a way of saying that we are working as hard or as fast as possible. Australian English has some great ways of saying you are working hard. Graft simply means hard work.
"Naur" is "no" spelled in an Australian accent. More accurately, it's "no" spelled in what an Australian accent sounds like to Americans.
While some Australian speakers would pronounce “no” as a diphthong, starting on “oh” as in dog and ending on “oo” as in put, others begin with an unstressed “a” (the sound at the end of the word “sofa”), then move to the “oh” and then “oo”.