What does wobbly mean in Aussie slang?

To chuck a wobbly is a variant of the Standard English idiom to throw a wobbly, where wobbly means 'a fit of temper or panic'. In Australian English chuck in the sense of 'throw' or 'stage' is used in other expressions with the same meaning, such as chuck a mental and chuck a mickey.

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What do Aussies call a drunk person in slang?

Words for “drunk”:

legless. off one's face. maggot (really drunk) pissed.

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What is the C word in Australian slang?

'Come over for a few coldie's mate. ' C*nt, the “C” word – Used when exchanging pleasantries between close friends or family member. If someone calls you the “C” word in Australia (and you haven't done anything to make them angry), then breathe a sigh of relief… it means you have entered the mate zone.

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What is Aussie slang for insult?

To “throw shade” means to insult or say something unkind about someone.

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What is the Aussie word for slang?

the term for Aussie slang and pronunciation is “strine”; Australian slang is often characterized by making words as short as possible, but also as cute and as funny as possible!

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What do Australians call a pretty girl?

Most commonly, stunner is used to describe a person—often not to their face. So, someone who is particularly attractive would be a stunner: “I met this total stunner the other night,” for example.

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What is the Australian slang for girl?

Let's start with the most common, most well-known, and most quintessentially Australian slang term for girls: Sheila. While everywhere else in the English-speaking world, Sheila is a specific person's name, in Australia it can be used to refer to any woman or girl.

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What do Aussies call getting sick slang?

If you're feeling unwell, you could say you are crook. If someone is angry, you could say they've 'gone crook'. Crook can also be used to describe a criminal.

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How do you say sorry in Aussie slang?

Australians typically say "sorry" as "sorry" itself, without any significant variation in slang.

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What is a choof?

Cannabis is a depressant drug that can have hallucinogenic effects. Cannabis is also known as choof, grass, pot, weed, hash, reefer, dope, herb, mull, Buddha, ganja, joint, stick, buckets, cones, skunk, hydro, yarndi, smoke, hooch, or green.

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What does Dag mean in Australian slang?

Dag is an Australian and New Zealand slang term, also daggy (adjective). In Australia, it is often used as an affectionate insult for someone who is, or is perceived to be, unfashionable, lacking self-consciousness about their appearance and/or with poor social skills yet affable and amusing.

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What do Aussies call hard work?

“Hard yakka” means work hard. The word “yakka” – which first appeared in the 1840s – derives from the word for work (yaga). It comes from Yagara, an Indigenous language in Australia. In fact, many Australian English words derive from Indigenous languages.

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What do Aussies call a public bar?

An Australian pub or hotel is a public house or pub for short, in Australia, and is an establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

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What is a smoke Aussie slang?

Macquarie Dictionary defines smoko as (1) a break in the work of the morning or of the afternoon, originally to allow time for workers to smoke tobacco; (2) food or drink consumed at that time.

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What is Aussie slang for stomach?

(Koori for tummy) stomach: I ate so much McDonalds my binji is sore. Also, bingie.

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What is Aussie slang for paramedic?

Ambo. Ambulance and/or paramedic.

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What's Australia's favorite cuss word?

Bugger. (Noun/verb/adjective) A mild profanity that's also one of the most versatile words in Australian English. Exclamation; “Bugger!

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What is the Aussie word for kiss?

Pash (pash) / Kiss

An indelicate description of kissing passionately, hence the name. Pashing typically leads to two things: pash rash (red marks around the lips caused by excessive kissing), and/or rooting (the crass Australian term for the birds and the bees).

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How aussies say oh no?

If you say “no” with an extra syllable or two, chances are you are actually saying naur, an Australian-ism defined by its listeners, not its speakers, which continues to be one of the internet's favourite jokes.

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Why do Aussies say naur?

The American accent is rhotic, so when a word is spelt with an "r," a "hard r" sound is used. When Americans apply their pronunciation to the Australian "no," it results in the phonetic spelling of "naur." (To an Australian, "naur" looks like it would be pronounced "naw.")

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What is mom Australian slang?

Certainly if you're in the US, your mother is your “mom” – short for “mommy” and in the UK, Australia and New Zealand it's “mum” – shortened from “mummy”.

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What is Australian slang for money?

An Australian shilling, like its British counterpart, was commonly referred to as a "bob", and the florin was consequently known as "two bob". Similarly, one Australian pound was colloquially described as a "quid", "fiddly", or "saucepan", the latter as rhyming slang for "saucepan lid/quid".

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What do Australians find attractive?

When it comes to sexual attraction, women rate age, education, intelligence, income, trust, and emotion connection higher than men who put a greater priority on attractiveness and physical build says new research from QUT.

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