buggered off – gone away. bum nuts – eggs.
Bum nut's origin does not need much explanation—it's a humorous re-imagining of an egg as a roundish (nutlike) product of a hen's rear end. 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.
But not all food slang is enticing — think snot block for vanilla slice. We received some vivid new terms in this unappetising category: dandruff cake for lamington, bachelor's breakfast for meat pie, dead fly pie for fruit mince pie, blowfly slice for fruit mince slice, and fart fodder for baked beans.
Decoding Australia's colourful food slang. "I could eat the bum out of an elephant. Let's have some tucker." Translation: I'm really hungry.
Bogan: Australian slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are unrefined or unsophisticated.
Bogan (/ˈboʊɡən/ BOHG-ən) is Australian and New Zealand slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are considered unrefined or unsophisticated. Depending on the context, the term can be pejorative or self-deprecating.
Historians and etymologists are still unsure as to precisely where the term bogan originated. Some research suggests the term originated from specific areas around Melbourne's western suburbs during the 1980s. Others believe it comes from communities living near the Bogan River in rural NSW.
Australians use some fun slang words to refer to their colorful paper money. Some of these terms include prawn for the pink five dollar bill, blue swimmer for the blue 10, lobster for the red 20, and pineapple for the yellow 50.
The term 'doggy bag' refers to the leftovers of a restaurant meal that are taken home for the family pet. However, many customers consume these leftovers themselves.
Brocci: Broccoli, nature's little edible tree. Bloke: A man.
If you can't tell, Australians like to shorten their words! Avo: this is what we call an avocado. This is a good one to know, because smashed avo (mashed avocado on toast) is very popular in Australian cafes.
(Australia, New Zealand, euphemistic) A fart.
Dunny is Australian/New Zealand slang for a toilet.
Mate. “Mate” is a popular word for friend.
But the Australian slang for beer is amber fluid. Some states call it a pint, and in others, it is a schooner. Stubby meaning?
Australian, British and New Zealand English uses "chips" for what North Americans call french fries. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" and "cold chips" are used.
Flip-flops are also called thongs (sometimes pluggers) in Australia, jandals (originally a trademarked name derived from "Japanese sandals") in New Zealand, and slops or plakkies in South Africa and Zimbabwe. In the Philippines, they are called tsinelas.
Australia's colourful bank notes are known by many colloquial names. The twenty-dollar note is referred to as a lobster, while the fifty-dollar note is called a pineapple, and don't we all want to get our hands on a few jolly green giants, that is, hundred-dollar notes?
A fifty-dollar note is also known colloquially as a "pineapple" or the "Big Pineapple" because of its yellow colour. The $100 note is currently green and is known colloquially as an "avocado" or "green tree frog", but between 1984 and 1996 it was grey, and was called a grey nurse (a type of shark).
Williams and and Elkins were both awarded the title of "Australia's Greatest Bogan" by the celebrity judges, including Angry Anderson and comedian Tahir Bilgic. The Tassie pair won a ute with kegs of beer sitting in the tray. Victoria's larger-than-life Nanna Shazza won the "Golden Thong Award" for best female bogan.
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.
Eshay (/ˈɛʃeɪ/) is a slang expression associated with an Australian urban youth subculture that originated from Western Sydney in the late 1980s, but which News Corporation coverage has brought into the mainstream since the late 2010s. In New Zealand, "hoodrats" are a similar subculture.