A Cracker, Australian slangAussie is Australian slang for Australian, both the adjective and the noun, and less commonly, Australia.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Aussie
Cracker = Great e.g. "What a cracker of a day." Footy = Football, often Australian Rules Football or Rugby League depending on region. Not soccer. Gas = LPG or Liquid Petroleum Gas (used for the barbie!).
5. Sheila = Girl. Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
(New Zealand, slang, informal) Something great/good. A cracker of a day.
Cracker is always disparaging and offensive when used to refer to a poor white person in the South; the word in this sense often implies that the person is regarded as ignorant or uneducated. When used by Black people, cracker can refer to a Southern white racist, not necessarily poor or rural.
(British English, informal) something that you think is very good, funny, etc. It was a cracker of a goal. I've got a joke for you. It's a real cracker!
Durry, a New Zealand or Australian slang term for cigarette.
Grog is a general term for beer and spirits (but not wine). Australians enjoy having a few beers or a bevvie (short for beverage), a frostie, a coldie or a couple of cold ones. Beer is also known as liquid amber, amber nectar or liquid gold.
Daks: Australians call their trousers 'daks'. If someone mentions 'tracky daks', they're talking about sweatpants.
dunny – a toilet, the appliance or the room – especially one in a separate outside building. This word has the distinction of being the only word for a toilet which is not a euphemism of some kind. It is from the old English dunnykin: a container for dung. However Australians use the term toilet more often than dunny.
In England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, India, Canada (usually), and New Zealand, Z is pronounced as zed. It's derived from the Greek letter zeta.
In Australian slang, to have an erection.
The preferred Australasian term for fanny pack is bum bag.
Aussie is Australian slang for Australian, both the adjective and the noun, and less commonly, Australia.
Sunnies - A term native to Australia and New Zealand to describe sunglasses.
Blue Heelers: This is a term used in Australian and is after a breed of dog, the Australian Cattle Dog. This term is use because it accurately describes the personality and appearance (blue uniform) of a police officer.
Contributor's comments: Port is used for suitcase, I agree, but it is also used in Queensland schools for a school bag of any size or shape, not just a suitcase or portmanteau.
It's "good evening", or the non-time specific "g'day". Contributor's comments: I grew up in Brisbane, and have never, heard 'Goodnight' as a greeting.
The Australian National Dictionary explains that the Australian usages of mate derive from the British word 'mate' meaning 'a habitual companion, an associate, fellow, comrade; a fellow-worker or partner', and that in British English it is now only in working-class use.
that Australians use for food. You will hear this word used a lot in more in country towns compared to the city. “I'm really hungry, I can't wait to get some tucker.”
In Northern Ireland, when you say something is 'cracker', you mean it is really good.