Meaning: Mouth. Those who love this phrase might suggest 23 per cent of voters shut their cake holes. To be fair though, this one isn't strictly Australian.
cake hole – mouth
There's no better replacement for the word “mouth”.
cakehole (plural cakeholes) (slang, offensive) The mouth. synonyms ▲ Synonyms: piehole, gob, face, puss. Shut your cakehole!
Lemony means annoyed, as in, I got lemony at the kid. This piece of Aussie slang dates back to the 1940s.
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Unco or The Man from Unco means awkward or clumsy. Typically used by schoolkids, unco is a shortened version of uncoordinated. Aussie slang is chockers with great and hilarious terms for the uncoordinated among us. Captain coordination is - ironically - as clumsy as a duck in a ploughed paddock.
hottie (plural hotties) (slang, Australia, New Zealand, now rare) Synonym of hotshot. (slang, originally Australia) A physically or sexually attractive person.
Sheila = Girl
Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
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”.
A phrase with a bit more of a fluid motion to it is to give someone the flick. This also means to dismiss, sack or send someone packing and has been Aussie slang since at least the 1980s.
This could occur because the word “no” is an example of what linguists call an open syllable, meaning it has no consonant at its close. This allows the speaker to lengthen the vowel and draw it out – a feature we love in different Australian accents!
Over-mixing your batter prevents the leavening agent from rising up like normal and traps it inside the batter where it creates tunnels and big holes. Mix just until the ingredients are combined to create light and fluffy cake layers. Be sure you're using the right leavening agent.
nounIce Hockey Slang. the opening between a goaltender's parted legs.
"Butt" is the most common definition for Cake on Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Cake. Definition: Butt.
In one example, however, the author explains the meaning of bum nut, indicating that it is probably not particularly widely used in Australian English: 'Breakfast was a few bum nuts (eggs), bacon and some leftover goat that was hanging in the cool room.' (
In Britain, a lolly is essentially a sweet (or candy in the US) on a stick. It is short for lollipop. Now that all seems fairly straight-forward, until we learn that lolly is actually the Australian word for sweets – i.e. British lollies but without the sticks.
Mate. “Mate” is a popular word for friend. And while it's used in other English-speaking countries around the world, it has a special connection to Australia. In the past, mate has been used to address men, but it can be gender-neutral.
Smoko = A break at work.
Traditionally used when having a cigarette break.
No worries
It's said to be the national motto of Australia. This expression means “do not worry about it”, or “it's all right”. It can also mean “sure thing” and “you're welcome.” So, when you bump into a person on the train and you apologise, they may respond with “no worries”, meaning “it's all right”.
Take a sickie: call in sick and take a day off work when not actually sick, as in “we had to sack him, took too many sickies”. In Australia, most employees have an allowance of up to 10 days (2 weeks) sick leave per annum.
The experienced listener knows to listen carefully to what comes next after Yeah, nah and decipher the meaning based on this. Yeah, nah – 'yes, no' - became popular in Australia in the 90s and has continued to grow in use, both in Australia and overseas.
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”.
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. As you can probably guess, this term derives from the word 'stunning'.