Yakka first occurs in the 1840s as a verb meaning 'to work', and it derives from yaga meaning 'work' in the Yagara language of the Brisbane region. Yakka found its way into nineteenth-century Australian pidgin, and then passed into Australian English. Spelling variants such as yakker and yacker are also found.
1. physical or mental effort directed towards doing or making something. 2. paid employment at a job or a trade, occupation, or profession.
Yakkha language, a Sino-Tibetan language.
Hard Yakka is an Australian clothing company. It was founded in 1935 as D. K. Laidlaw & Sons Pty Ltd, but later adopted the name "Yakka", a loanword from the Yagara language (yaga "work") that had entered Australian English in the late 19th century.
A 'mook' is someone with little to no social life and someone considered untrustworthy.
Pap(a) is also found as 'mother', mainly in Victoria. Other kinship roots (for grandparents) have been shown to have a split distribution with one root dominating in the east and one in the west for what is apparently a single proto-meaning.
Meanwhile, “yaama” means “hello” in the Gamilaraay language spoken in northern NSW.
When Aus or Aussie, the short form for an Australian, is pronounced for fun with a hissing sound at the end, it sounds as though the word being pronounced has the spelling Oz. Hence Australia in informal language is referred to as Oz.
Too easy means something along the lines of that is easy to do and no problem (also known as no wakkas!). Example: After ordering a coffee, the waiter tells you that it is “too easy”. This means it is dead or it has broken. It is most often used to refer to inanimate objects such as lawn mowers or vehicles.
Waugal or waug means soul, spirit or breath. The Waugal is the major spirit for Noongar people and central to our beliefs and customs. Waugal has many different spellings, including Waakal, Wagyl, Wawgal, Waugal, Woggal and Waagal.
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.
Link copied. Bogan is the most significant word to be created in Australian English in the past 40 years. It is defined as "an uncultured and unsophisticated person; a boorish and uncouth person" in the 2016 edition of the Australian National Dictionary.
The word yabby is a borrowing from the Wemba Wemba language of Victoria. The earliest evidence of it dates from the 1840s, and it has generated a number of compound terms such as yabby farming, yabby net, and yabby trap.
“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.
Bogan. (Noun) An uncouth or uncultured person, usually. See also: feral, ratbag, reptile, bevan etc. “I can't understand that bogan's broad Australian accent.”
Cocky may mean: boldly or brashly self-confident. Australian slang for cockatoo. Australian and New Zealand slang for farmer.
noun 1. a person who is poor: They can't afford to go - they're real povos.
Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol.
While some Australian speakers would pronounce “no” as a diphthong, starting on “oh” as in dog and ending on “oo” as in put, others begin with an unstressed “a” (the sound at the end of the word “sofa”), then move to the “oh” and then “oo”.
5. Sheila = Girl. Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
There is no one Aboriginal word that all Aborigines use for Australia; however, today they call Australia, ""Australia"" because that is what it is called today. There are more than 250 aboriginal tribes in Australia. Most of them didn't have a word for ""Australia""; they just named places around them.
Australia is colloquially known as "the Land Down Under" (or just "Down Under"), which derives from the country's position in the Southern Hemisphere, at the antipodes of the United Kingdom.
In some communities men and women are elders with equal standing; in others it may be a few men who hold that status. Elders are usually addressed with "uncle" or "aunty" which in this context are terms of respect. They are used for people held in esteem, generally older people who have earned that respect.
Wardan means 'the sea', so Wardan Boodjar means 'sea country' or the coast anywhere in the southwest. Wardan, or sea, is of great spiritual significance to the coastal Nyungar.
Some of the most well known Aboriginal words for hello are: Kaya, which means hello in the Noongar language. Palya is a Pintupi language word used as a greeting much in the same way that two friends would say hello in English while Yaama is a Gamilaraay language word for hello used in Northern NSW.