Eetswa is pig Latin for sweet, but can also be used to say thanks and okay.
'Eets': "Short for Sweet, meaning awesome, describing something that is preferable happening."
Noun. eshay (plural eshays) (Australia, slang) A member of an Australian youth subculture favouring sportswear and electronic dance music, and commonly associated with criminal activity. (Australia, slang) A delinquent teenager; a chav.
The word "eshay" apparently derives from the Pig Latin for "yes" (originating as an affirmation). The term "adlay" (/ˈædleɪ/), Pig Latin for "lad," refers to the same subculture. Eshays, or lads, are often considered stereotypically hypermasculine and inclined to crime and violence.
What is an Eshay in Australia? An eshay in Australia is a lad – similar to the chavs and roadmen in the UK. It's a youth subculture associated with a hard-knock life, rap and drill music, crimes, drugs, and gangs.
Noun. gronk (plural gronks) (Australia, derogatory, informal) An unintelligent and callous person.
extremely derogatory term for a person less intelligent than oneself: You're such a gronk.
“G'day mate!” “How ya goin'?” I'm so keen / Get Keen - This phrase means to be eager, interested or excited about something.
Eshays are said to have spread from Sydney's inner-city graffiti scene in the 1980s through Housing Commission estates and out into the suburbs. Teens embracing eshay culture had predominantly come from low socioeconomic backgrounds but the movement has also been picked up by private school boys.
Consists of youths predominantly from areas in Melbourne's northwest including Deer Park, St Albans and Sunshine. Popular in the 90s, this gang has re-emerged, with several youth members taking part in a vicious brawl in Eaton Mall in 2019.
Wannabe teen gangsters known as eshays are wreaking havoc on the streets of Adelaide, committing “mindless crimes,” as their way to say “f*** the system.” The term eshay first originated in the 1980s to describe lower-class youths in public housing who intimidate, rob and deal drugs.
What are Eshays called in New Zealand? The term eshay is similar to the UK phrase 'chav' and can be interchangeable with 'lad', which in turn sometimes becomes 'adlay'.
Eshay is pig latin for sesh, as in 'let's have a sesh,' (stoner lingo; a smoking session); became super popular in the 90s when I was still in school, but at that point hadn't become an epithet, it was simply used to obfuscate the truth from adults.
Eetswa is pig Latin for sweet, but can also be used to say thanks and okay.
Aussie is Australian slang for Australian, both the adjective and the noun, and less commonly, Australia.
(ˈblækˌfɛlə ) Australian sometimes offensive. an Aboriginal or Black person: offensive when used by non-Black people.
Eshays, or lads, or adlays, are a youth subculture, originally from Western Sydney. They speak in Pig Latin.
Nike's iconic Air Max Plus TN has been banned from several pubs and restaurants around Australia after it became a symbol for eshay and criminal culture - but the shoe is slowly seeing a shift away from its controversial past.
5. Sheila = Girl. Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
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.
(Australia, euphemistic) A fart.
When host Jimmy Fallon told Jackson that Hill is first on the list, The Banker star replied: “That's some bulls***.” Hill has used a total of 376 curse words in film history, followed by Leonardo DiCaprio who has cursed 361 times. Jackson came in third with 301 curses used throughout his career.
The F-word was recorded in a dictionary in 1598 (John Florio's A Worlde of Wordes, London: Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount). It is remotely derived from the Latin futuere and Old German ficken/fucken meaning 'to strike or penetrate', which had the slang meaning to copulate.
Bloody has always been a very common part of Australian speech and has not been considered profane there for some time.