Verb. (informal, chiefly Australia) To overreact (as an adult) to a situation, in an angry and childish manner. He'll really spit the dummy when he hears that he's not going on that trip.
A relative recent phrase, having joined the Aussie lexicon in the 1980s, to spit the dummy means to throw a tantrum. Aussie slang features plenty of colourful ways of saying someone is throwing a tantrum or losing their temper.
A "dummy" in Australia is what Americans call a "pacifier": To "spit the dummy" is a colourful expression that invokes an image of a baby getting so upset that it has to spit out its dummy/pacifier so it can cry and howl loud enough to get everybody's attention.
The phrase is recorded first in the1980s. It is usually used of an adult with the implication is that the behaviour described is childish, like a baby spitting out its dummy in a tantrum and refusing to be pacified.
Other Names for Pacifiers
For example, we may call it a dodie or a dummy, and both refer to the same thing. Below, we've listed out names for the pacifier from various countries around the world: Dummy: England and Australia. Soothie/soother: Canada. Dodie: Northern England and Ireland.
'Gob 'is the word for mouth, it belongs to slang language, it is a bit rude to use the word, like' Shut your gob'! Gob means mouth here in Australia, the UK, and NZ. It's a bit rude to say, and would be used in a phrase such as 'shut your gob!
Dummy. In the United Kingdom, the term “dummy” is commonly used to refer to pacifiers. This term is also used in other parts of the world, such as Australia and New Zealand.
Contributor's comments: The meaning of Bubs I grew up with is a baby, or quite often the youngest member of the family is called "bubs" from an older sibling.
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.
The Australian National Dictionary Centre suggests that snag as slang for "sausage" most likely derives from the earlier British slang for "light meal", although it makes no comment on how it came to be specifically applied to sausages.
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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.
Compared to thumb sucking, dummies pose much less of a risk to teeth, as children typically stop sucking a dummy by age 7. However, it's important to note that dummies are not recommended for children over a year old due to their effects on speech development and mouth structure.
The exact origin of the name “pacifier” is unclear, but it may have come from the first baby comforters, which were sold in the U.S. as “pacifiers.” In Canada and Britain, pacifiers are also commonly called “dummies.” This may have originated from an article published in 1915 in The British Journal of Nursing ...
a stupid person. UK. (US pacifier) a small rubber object that you put in a baby's mouth to stop him or her from crying.
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”.
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'.
Lemony means annoyed, as in, I got lemony at the kid. This piece of Aussie slang dates back to the 1940s.
In Britain, Ireland, United States, Australia, New Zealand and, particularly prevalent in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nan, Nana, Nanna, Nanny, Gran and Granny and other variations are often used for grandmother in both writing and speech.
The Ninni Co pacifier is designed to mimic. breastfeeding. Made of a 100% silicone, twice as soft. as any pacifier on the market. The round base contains several holes to ensure.
schnoolie — My husband is Austrian and the German word for pacifier is "schnuler" so we call it a "schnoolie." seuss or seussy — Started as "soother" and morphed into "seuss" (like Dr. Seuss).
"Tete" can be used for pacifier.
hottie (plural hotties) (slang, Australia, New Zealand, now rare) Synonym of hotshot. (slang, originally Australia) A physically or sexually attractive person.