What do Australians call laundry room?

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”.

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What is the Australian slang for convenience store?

Milk bar: the Australian equivalent to a small convenience store or corner shop.

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What do Australians call the closet?

Q&A: Why is it called a 'dunny'? | Australian Writers' Centre.

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What do Australians call a pantry?

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.

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What do Australians call a porch?

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.

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THE MYSTERY OF THE BASKET

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What is a fanny in Australia?

(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.

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What do Australians say instead of yes?

Yeah nah yeah = yes. No wonder you're confused! A commonly-used word here is mate, which normally means friend.

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What do Aussies call a sofa?

Sofa is more common in Britain, while couch is preferred in North America, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

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What do Australians call a lunch box?

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.

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What do Aussies call a grill?

Barbie. An outdoor grill on which prawns, steak and sausages (snags), and even fruit are cooked. A “barbie” or outdoor grill.

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What do Australians call Porta potties?

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.

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What do Australians call tea towels?

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.

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What do Australians call flip flops?

The shoe known in Australia as a "thong" is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world.

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What do Australians call fridges?

Freezer. Meaning: (Noun) Commonly used when we talk about refrigerators, 'freezer' can be a slang term for a cooler as well.

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What is slang for biscuit in Australia?

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.

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What do they call eggs in Australia?

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.

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What is the Aussie slang for bed?

“Sack”. “A sack” or “The sack”, this is a noun.

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What do Aussies call lollipops?

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.

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Do Aussies say undies?

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.

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How do Australians say goodbye?

Hooroo = Goodbye

The Australian slang for goodbye is Hooroo and sometimes they even Cheerio like British people.

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What do Aussies call hard work?

Aussie Word of the Week

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.

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What do Australians say no?

"Naur" is "no" spelled in an Australian accent. More accurately, it's "no" spelled in what an Australian accent sounds like to Americans.

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How aussie people say no?

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”.

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