Thongs are flip-flop sandals, not female underwear; fanny means vagina—read: avoid the term “fanny pack”—and to root means to have sex. Libert learned the last one the hard way when he told a friend applying for a job that he and his Kiwi girlfriend were “rooting for him.”
In Australian English bum refers to your bottom – buttocks – the part of the body which people sit on. But in America, a bum is a person who has no permanent home or job and who gets money by working occasionally or by asking people for money.
bag. A particularly handsome young man. We used this in Adelaide in the late 80s.
Contributor's comments: The word garbo is slang for a rubbish collector or garbage collector, used in Western Australia. Contributor's comments: Garbo is also used in Melbourne as a slang word.
Loo or dunny - Thesea are slang term for toilet.
Aussie Slang Words For Women:
Chick. Woman. Lady. Bird.
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.
A stubbie is another word for a tinny and a six-pack means a pack of six beers/tinnies/stubbies.
(Australian rules football, rhyming slang) A goal.
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.
[Australian slang] get stoned or high on marijuana.
Chook raffle is an Australian tradition of "raffling off", often in clubs or pubs, a "chook", which is an Australian slang term for a chicken. Most often the chicken is prepared by a butcher, but live chickens are sometimes raffled.
In the case of Australian slang, words are clipped, and then a diminutive suffix is added to the clipped word. In this case, bikkie (the colloquial Australian word for a cookie), is clipped slang for biscuit (the British English word for a type of cookie), and it uses the -ie diminutive suffix.
(Australia, New Zealand, euphemistic) A fart. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Aussie Word of the Week
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?
If you're feeling unwell, you could say you are crook. If someone is angry, you could say they've 'gone crook'.
Durry is the spread Australian term for a cigarette. Among the younger generation, it is often called ciggies or darts.
Why do Australians call sweets “lollies”, even when they have no sticks? According to British English from A to Zed by Norman Schur (Harper, 1991) “lolly” derives onomatopoetically for the mouth sounds associated with sucking or licking. The word “lollipop” came later.
A sandwich. Sanger is an alteration of the word sandwich. Sango appeared as a term for sandwich in the 1940s, but by the 1960s, sanger took over to describe this staple of Australian cuisine.
no particular meaning, just added on to the end of a sentence: It's a hot day today, hey? See eh. Contributor's comments: Most often spoken along with an upward inflection at the end of a statement. This is commonly used by people in Western Australia to end sentences.
Munted (mun-ted) / Drunk.
The paper (first and second series) hundred-dollar note was nicknamed the "grey ghost", "grey nurse", or the "Bradman" in recognition of its proximity to the 99.94 batting average of cricketer Donald Bradman.
The fifty dollar note is called a Pineapple, and a hundred dollar note a 'jolly green giant” or a lime or even a 'green tree frog'.