| Definitions Of Ginger Terms & Redhead Nicknames. 'Ranga' is an abbreviation of 'orangutan'. Used mostly in Australia, the word has gradually spread across the world and has now been adopted to refer to all redheads. It's thought that is began being used as a derogatory word around the 1990s in Australia school yards.
Bluey is an Australian nickname for a person with red hair.
ginger (sometimes pejorative) ginge (sometimes pejorative) ging (sometimes pejorative) ginger head. ginger knob (idiomatic, derogatory)
Mostly coined in Australia than anywhere else in the world, 'bluey' is (generally) used as an affectionate nickname for a redhead. It is thought by some to have derived from the early 1900s as a form of irony. Blue is evidently contrasting with red, thus being used as a joke.
The nickname Bluey originated in the 1890s and was used as a nickname throughout World War One to refer to red-haired soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force, especially from New South Wales. During the Second World War, nearly every redhead was nicknamed Bluey, and it spread to civilian life.
ranga (plural rangas) (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) An orange-haired or red-haired person.
Stunner. Meaning: (Noun) This is a common term used to describe a person that looks stunningly beautiful.
Red hair is a genetic mutation. Red hair is seen on the heads of only four percent of people. Most of these exist in the U.K., the Republic of Ireland, and Australia.
The desert males show 25% of dark-brown colour and 28% reddish-brown colour, while females of the same area show only 7% of it compared with 18% among their coastal counterparts. The frequency of reddish-brown hair in the present collection appears to be higher than that of the aborigines of Arnhem Land.
'Daywalker' was first coined in season nine of South Park, during their oh-so well-known 'Ginger Kids' episode. According to Cartman (and thus adopted by society, obviously), a daywalker is a redhead who can handle being in the sun without stressing too much about getting burnt.
Orange was not used as a word to signify color until the 1540s. The term "redhead" likely comes from the simple need to refer to redheads in English before orange used was to describe the color. In other words, humans were describing redheads before they were describing anything as being the color orange.
Most (natural) redheads will have brown eyes, followed by hazel or green shades.
According to an article by evolutionary biology professor Mark Elgar, PhD, of the University of Melbourne, blue-eyed redheads are the absolute rarest, with 0.17% of the population having that combination of hair and eye color.
One of the many facts about redheads is that their hair will never turn grey. The pigment in their hair that causes it to be red will just fade over time, causing their hair to turn blonde or white, but never grey.
By most estimates, the European Country Ireland has a higher percentage of redheads than any other country in the world, with the latest estimates suggesting that approximately 10% of the country's population have red hair.
Around 17 per cent of people have blue eyes, and when combined with 1-2 per cent having red hair, the odds of having both traits are around 0.17 per cent. That's 13 million people, out of the 7.6 billion on Earth. So with numbers this low, could redheads with blue eyes actually go extinct?
Lifespan: up to 20 years in captivity, 5-10 years in the wild.
(informal, UK, Australia) A soft drink containing no alcohol.
Contributor's comments: The meaning of Bubs I grew up with is a baby, or quite often the youngest member of the family is called "bubs" from an older sibling.
Hooroo = Goodbye
The Australian slang for goodbye is Hooroo and sometimes they even Cheerio like British people.
The meaning of ranga in Australia is redhead.
Contributor's comments: "Tilly" is an nickname members of the Defence Force (Army) use to describe the Tracked Load Carrier (TLC). It is a Utility type tracked vehicle from the M113 family of vehicles. It is used for carrying a wide variety of commodities ranging from fuel and water to rations, stores and ammunition.
German Baby Names Meaning:
In German Baby Names the meaning of the name Tilly is: Strength in battle. Matilda was the wife of William the Conqueror. Used in Australia as slang for a bushman's pack.