There are a handful of Australian slang terms for wine. The most common is “plonk”, meaning cheap wine—though this can also mean any cheap alcohol. Other than that, it's likely to be called “chardy” or “champers”, and wine in a bag is called goon.
A few key terms for cheap wine slang are space bag (the bag within boxed wine), cardboardeaux (another term for boxed wine), and plonk (a favorite for cheap wine, coming from Australian roots).
Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol. It originally meant cheap, fortified wine but over time came to mean any cheap alcohol.
Booze. Meaning: (Noun) A street slang for wine and other liquors.
Goon is the Australian word for boxed wine - other names include cask wine, goon bag or goon sack. The origins of its name are ambiguous - some believe it is a shortening of the word 'flagon', while others claim that it was derived from an aboriginal word for 'pillow', referring to the inflatable bag inside the box.
In Australia, locals call cheap cask wine “goon.” It's sold in disposable silver bags, aptly named “goon sacks.” Unlike a standard . 75-liter bottle of wine, goon's four-liter bag is inflatable. It's fitting that in Australia, the birthplace of boxed wine, being resourceful with your goon sack is a popular pastime.
noun A person who indulges frequently and largely in wine.
We've identified six descriptors that will help you understand and talk about wine: “Fruity,” “Acidic,” “Oaky,” “Tannic,” “Sweet,” and “Body.” Below, we break down what these words mean and how to use them so you can better recognize your wine preferences.
(Other definitions for plonk that I've seen before include "Put down noisily" , "Ordinary wine" , "Wine - put down with a thud" , "Cheap red or white" , "Cheap wine (sl.)" .)
It goes by many names, including hooch, prison wine, jail alcohol, jail wine, toilet wine, and Pruno. Pruno has also been coined jail or prison alcohol because inmates combine a variety of ingredients to create their own alcoholic drinks.
History of Goon
Nowadays, goon comes in a plastic space bag, which is then placed in the box. One of the reasons that goon is so cheap is because the space bag and carton box are far more economical than glass bottles.
You show the term 'wag', meaning to play truant from school as being common in a small part of coastal NSW only. I grew up in country nothern Victoria and the term was used there.
Australians have odd names for many things. A chicken is called a "chook"; a mosquito is called a "mozzie." So it's no surprise they call Syrah "Shiraz." You're correct that Shiraz has a Persian link—it's the name of the capital of the Fars province.
According to the algorithm behind Urban Thesaurus, the top 5 slang words for "cheap" are: shisty, plonk, show, jewbag, and hyundai. There are 1182 other synonyms or words related to cheap listed above. The preferred three terms are “frugal”, “cheapskate” and “miser”.
The most common kind of wine flaw is called 'cork taint' (ie, when you hear people say a bottle is 'corked'). This means that the cork of the bottle has been infected with a bacteria called Trichloroanisole ('TCA' for short). A 'corked' wine will smell and taste like musty cardboard, wet dog, or a moldy basement.
As we also call it, vino or a drop of plonk, grape juice, some claret, bubbly, fizz and champers. White, red, rosé or fizzy, wine remains a popular choice both when at home or at the bar/restaurant – Spoilt with many options from Spanish to Argentinian, from Grand Cru Bordeaux to cheap and cheerful Prosecco.
A chap is a man or boy. [mainly British, informal] "I am a very lucky chap," he commented. "The doctors were surprised that I was not paralysed." Synonyms: fellow [old-fashioned], man, person, individual More Synonyms of chap.
Swirl, sniff, sip and spit was the phrase used in the 1980s and 1990s by our Sonoma County Wineries Association to help people in a humorous way to taste wine responsibly. Easy to remember not always easy to do especially the last word.
If you're really feeling squirrely, you can slap the bag before you drink. Or before and after. In the end, the slapping is just a sideshow, and Slap the Bag is nothing more than a way to dump cheap wine into the receptacle that is your mouth.
The rules of this “game” are fairly straightforward: one player holds the bag, calls out someone else to “Slap the bag,” which they then do and then chug copious amounts of wine. That person becomes the keeper of the bag. However, many variations exist.
[ broun-bag ] show ipa. verb (used with object),brown-bagged, brown-bag·ging. to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.