Ozzie. Meaning: (Noun) An alternative way to spell and pronounce Aussie, also short for Australian.
THE LAND DOWN UNDER. In 1804, the British explorer Matthew Flinders named the landmass during his voyage and gave one of the popular nicknames of Australia, “The Land Down Under,”.
Aussie = Australian
It simply means Australian, someone from Australia. So when Australian people refer to themselves, they say Aussies do so and so.
White Australian may refer to: European Australians, Australians with European ancestry. Anglo-Celtic Australians, an Australian with ancestry from the British Isles. White people, who are Australians.
A bloke, or "Aussie bloke", is a masculine archetype unique to Australia.
There are also a number of terms for Australia, such as: Aussie, Oz, Lucky Country, and land of the long weekend.
On 26th January every year, Aussies celebrate Straya Day (Straya short for Australia, because it's how many Aussies pronounce Australia).
Lemony means annoyed, as in, I got lemony at the kid. This piece of Aussie slang dates back to the 1940s.
Sandgropers, Cabbage Patchers and Gum Suckers
The names for Victorians have a bit of a sting to them: Victoria was called the Cabbage Patch because of its small size, hence 'Cabbage Patchers' hailed from the garden state.
There is no one Aboriginal word that all Aborigines use for Australia; however, today they call Australia, ""Australia"" because that is what it is called today. There are more than 250 aboriginal tribes in Australia. Most of them didn't have a word for ""Australia""; they just named places around them.
Australian English can be described as a new dialect that developed as a result of contact between people who spoke different, mutually intelligible, varieties of English. The very early form of Australian English would have been first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the early colony in Sydney.
Tasmania. Tasmania was named the 'bogan capital of Australia' with Taswegians earning four spots in the final. On the island of Tasmania, half the population has literacy and/or numeracy difficulties, and the unemployment rate is higher than it is in mainland Australia.
The name means "where the devil urinates" in the regional Pitjantjatjara language and was recorded during a field trip organised by an unspecified state government agency in May 1989. It was gazetted on 4 November 2010 by the Government of South Australia as "Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya" without the word "hill".
Australian English is most similar to British English in spelling and sentence construction, although its accent and vocabulary are very distinct from the UK.
"Barbie" is Australian slang for barbecue and the phrase "slip a shrimp on the barbie" often evokes images of a fun social gathering under the sun. Australians, however, invariably use the word prawn rather than shrimp.
Some of the most well known Aboriginal words for hello are: Kaya, which means hello in the Noongar language. Palya is a Pintupi language word used as a greeting much in the same way that two friends would say hello in English while Yaama is a Gamilaraay language word for hello used in Northern NSW.
The islands were settled by different seafaring Melanesian cultures such as the Torres Strait Islanders over 2500 years ago, and cultural interactions continued via this route with the Aboriginal people of northeast Australia.
Welcome to the City of Melbourne. Wominjeka / Womindjeka means 'welcome' in the Woi-wurrung language of the Wurundjeri people and Boon Wurrung language of the Bunurong people of the Eastern Kulin.
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.
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.
After Dutch navigators charted the northern, western and southern coasts of Australia during the 17th Century this newly found continent became known as 'New Holland'.