A blue is a fight, dispute or row. You can bung on a blue, stack on a blue or turn on a blue. The slang word has been around since the 1940s and is used to refer to everything from fisticuffs at the pub to a brawl on the footy field.
Australian slang for emotions:
Aggro: means angry, aggressive or something that may cause aggravation. “I hope my housemate cleaned up their dirty dishes because I don't want to get aggro.”
Kerfuffle. Mess Up. Saturday Night Square-Up. Scrap/scrapping. Scuffle.
Deadly (ded-lee) / Great. A term chiefly used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people meaning awesome or wicked. Other Australian (and perhaps slightly more bogan) colloquialisms that express the same sentiment include ripper, bonza, grouse and heaps good.
The OED has the verb as Australian and New Zealand slang from 1955 (the quotations use blueing and blued), and a noun blue as Australian and New Zealand slang (an argument, quarrel, fight, brawl) from 1944 which they suggest may be from to turn the air blue, meaning to swear.
In 2002, Michelle Griffin discussed the fact that "bogan" is no longer just being used as an insult, but is in fact a way to identify with the "Aussie" culture that many Anglo‐Saxon Australian citizens are proud of. In the past, bogan was a term of disdain, but nowadays it has become "cool" to be a bogan.
Drinking heavily. Turps is an abbreviation of turpentine, and is recorded in Australian English from the 1860s with the meaning 'alcoholic liquor'. It alludes to the use of spirits such as turps and methylated spirits by down-and-out alcoholics.
traps, trappers or jacks – police. These Australianisms have been largely replaced by the international cops, coppers, pigs or bacon. However the older, more affectionate wallopers is also still used.
skip. An Australian, especially one of British descent. Also as skippy. The term is the creation of non-British Australian migrants, especially children, who needed a term to counter the insulting terms directed at them by Australians of British descent.
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.
The synonyms squabble and quarrel are sometimes interchangeable, but squabble stresses childish and unseemly dispute over petty matters, but it need not imply bitterness or anger.
brawl, fisticuffs, run-in, scuffle, skirmish, slugfest, tussle, clash, conflict, encounter, showdown.
clobber (slang), wallop (informal), thwack, lay one on (slang), beat or knock seven bells out of (informal)
Digger is a military slang term for primarily infantry soldiers from Australia and New Zealand.
larrikin, Australian slang term of unknown origin popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It signifies a young hoodlum or hooligan in the impoverished subculture of urban Australia.
Cozzie – swimming costume • Cranky – in a bad mood, angry • Crook – sick, or badly made • Cut lunch – sandwiches • Dag – a funny person • Daks – trousers • Dinkum, fair dinkum – true, real, genuine • Dipstick – a loser, idiot • Down Under – Australia and New Zealand • Dunny – outside toilet • Earbashing – nagging • ...
Bunji: Aboriginal English for mate.
Why do Australians call sweets “lollies”, even when they have no sticks? According to British English from A to Zed by Norman Schur (Harper, 1991) “lolly” derives onomatopoetically for the mouth sounds associated with sucking or licking. The word “lollipop” came later.
A silent cop, also referred to as a "sleeping policeman" or a "traffic dome", is a traffic management device formerly widely used in Australia. It consisted of a metal or concrete dome, about 400 mm (16 in) wide and about 125 mm (5 in) tall, embedded in the road surface.
J. English/Australian slang term short for jackboots. The term can be used to describe a police officer, informant or an unreliable person. "To go jack on a mate" is the act of betraying associates or implicating them in a crime.
Term meaning: Do you get it or understand what I am saying.
(noun) someone who is overly interested in the affairs of others; (noun) an inqusitive person; (verb) to pry into other people's business: She is always interested in everyone's business, she is a real doris; I am going to have a Doris at what she is doing over there.
Skid Steer – The 'official' term of the thing much more commonly referred to as Bobcat.
Examples of titles and terms that may not be registered as a person's name include: Judicial, Military and Civil Law Enforcement titles - Colonel, Commander, Commissioner, Inspector, Judge, Justice, Marshal. Religious titles and categories - Bishop, God/Goddess, Saint. Royal titles - Majesty, Prince/Princess, Queen/ ...