Hooroo = Goodbye The Australian slangAussie is Australian slang for Australian, both the adjective and the noun, and less commonly, Australia.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Aussie
Hooroo. Meaning: (Exclamation) Hooroo is a 100% Australian slang word for 'goodbye.
“Cheers!”
Aussies use “cheers!” in a number of instances: to say thank you, in celebration, when drinking, and to say hello and goodbye. Get ready to hear “cheers mate!” a lot.
oo-roo. Goodbye: "Oo-roo," he said, turning to leave..... Compare hooray, hooroo. Contributor's comments: "Ooroo" is also used in Melbourne and Geelong.
1. to convey a second person on a horse, bicycle, or motorcycle. --noun 2. a ride obtained from being pugged. Compare bar2, dink, dinky1, dinky-double, donkey1, double, dub.
From sweltering bush sheds to luxurious mansions with waterslides and mezzanine bedrooms — the word donga is today embraced by Australians for a wide range of structures. Typically associated with temporary or demountable housing, donga has endured in local slang for about a century.
Mozz is a shortened version of mocker. You can mozz someone or put the mozz on to hex or wish them bad luck. A run of outs is a succession of bad luck, particularly in gambling from where the phrase originated in the 1930s.
This week we shine a spotlight on a quintessential piece of Aussie slang, a word famous the world over: sheila. A sheila is a woman. In use since the 1830s, sheila has its origin in a generic use of the common Irish girl's name.
But as with many Aboriginal languages there's no simple way of saying goodbye in Wiradjuri. Traditionally, there was little use for such a term. The nearest word like that in Wiradjuri is guwayu – which means in a little while, later or after some time.
Durry, a New Zealand or Australian slang term for cigarette.
Catch you later is an Australian slang form of saying 'goodbye'. A: Anyway, it's time for me to go home. Catch you later.
Gone for a Burton - Rhyming Slang for 'to leave'.
(informal): bye, bye-bye, catch you later, mind how you go, see ya, see you, see you in the funny papers (US, informal, dated), so long, ta ta, tatty bye, toodeloo, toodles, TTFN, ttyl. (slang): buh-bye, cya, hasta la vista, later, laters, keep it real, peace, peace out, take it easy.
Chookas: Means “Break a leg” or “all the best”. Used to wish a performer good luck. For example, “Chookas for the big night!”
Chookas! It's a uniquely Australian expression which dancers and performers say to one another backstage just as the performance is about to begin. It loosely translates as break a leg or good luck, but the origins of the word are rarely thought about as it has passed into everyday language.
In Australia, most people call their mothers 'mum'. But you have probably heard 'mom' used on American television. And some people prefer the spelling 'mam'.
'Ta' means 'thank you'. "A: Can you please pass me the sauce? B: Sure, here you go. A: Ta."
Here in Australia, however, McDonald's most prevalent nickname is “Macca's”. A recent branding survey commissioned by McDonald's Australia found that 55 per cent of Australians refer to the company by its local slang name.
Munted (mun-ted) / Drunk.
They include bunji, "a mate, a close friend a kinsman" (from Warlpiri and other languages of the Northern Territory and northern Queensland), boorie, "a boy, a child" (from Wiradjuri), jarjum, "a child" (from Bundjalung), kumanjayi, "a substitute name for a dead person" (from Western Desert language), pukamani "a ...
Wakka Wakka, or Waka Waka, people are an Aboriginal Australian community of the state of Queensland.
Lolly, a short form of lollipop (a kind of confectionery on a stick) Lolly, in Australian and New Zealand English, a piece of what is called candy in American English or sweets in British English.