drongo. A fool, a simpleton, an idiot. There is also a bird called a drongo. The spangled drongo is found in northern and eastern Australia, as well as in the islands to the north of Australia, and further north to India and China.
A drongo is a slow-witted or stupid person: a fool. This great Australian insult was originally an RAAF term for a raw recruit. It first appeared in the early 1940s, but its origin reaches back to the name of the racehorse Drongo, who ran around in the early 1920s.
A small-scale farmer; (in later use often applied to) a substantial landowner or to the rural interest generally. In Australia there are a number of cockies including cow cockies, cane cockies and wheat cockies. Cocky arose in the 1870s and is an abbreviation of cockatoo farmer.
drongo. plural. drongos. DEFINITIONS1. someone who is boring and stupid.
plural noun men's swimwear: *Hey, where's me sluggos, I can't go swimming naked!
Jumbuck is an Australian word for a 'sheep'. It is best known from Banjo Paterson's use of it in Waltzing Matilda.
Weed-eater: Of all things, they call this a whipper snipper.
Nippers are young surf lifesavers, usually aged between 5 and 14 years old, in clubs across Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Unlike senior surf lifesavers, the majority of them do not patrol the beaches. The focus for Nippers tends to be on fun, and surf awareness.
Contributor's comments: Mud-lark is a very common term in Adelaide for the Magpie-lark, which is used just as often. The bird is believed to be the Piping Shrike, South Australia's prolific emblem. As such, the bird is also known so, but less commonly.
By 1930, in Australia the term had lost its meaning of clothes, and was used exclusively for swimwear. Since the late 1990s, the term 'budgie smugglers' has become synonymous with men's anatomy-hugging, Speedo-style swimwear, which are a common fixture on Australian beaches.
In Australian English a goog is an egg. It is an abbreviation of the British dialect word goggy 'a child's name for an egg', retained in Scotland as goggie. The phrase is a variation of an earlier British phrase in the same sense: full as a tick, recorded from the late 17th century.
It refers to any of several small burrowing shrimp-like marine crustaceans that are commonly used for bait. Anglers often use a mechanical device called a yabby pump to extract these crustaceans from the sand or mud flats.
Chinwag or chin-wag is a very slang way of saying to have a chat.
drongo - idiot, stupid person .
dag. An unfashionable person; a person lacking style or character; a socially awkward adolescent, a 'nerd'. These senses of dag derive from an earlier Australian sense of dag meaning 'a "character", someone eccentric but entertainingly so'.
Here in Australia, however, McDonald's most prevalent nickname is “Macca's”.
South Australian croweater
A popular Australian demonym for South Australian people is "croweater".
Garru is the Wiradjuri word for Magpie. Garru is a very important budyaan (bird) in our country.
Nine for a kiss, Ten a surprise you should be careful not to miss, Eleven for health, Twelve for wealth, Thirteen beware it's the devil himself.
fanging. hungry, craving: I'm fanging for a steak. Contributor's comments: I've also heard the term "I'm hanging for a fanging" to mean hungry - or more correctly "hangin' for a fangin'". Good on the fang means having a good appetite.
While NSW took the 'costume' part to create cossies, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, ran with 'bathing'. Bathers became the name synonymous with swimwear in these parts, with the term outranking all others in the country.
(Australia, slang) A 20-cent coin.
noun Australian Slang. a busybody; meddler.
Often confused with Cockney rhyming slang "berk" from "Berkeley Hunt". butcher's (hook) - "crook", ill, unwell; also, "look". captain - "look", from Captain James Cook, as in "Having a good captain, are ya?"
BANJO--A shovel. BANKER, RUNNING A--River overflowing its banks.