Snag. Definition: sausage, also used to refer to sliced bread and sausage combo, Australian hot dog. Example: “Grab a few snags for the party tonight!” Snag isn't just a part of Australian vocabulary; it's part of Australian culture.
A sausage sizzle (also referred to as 'sausage in bread' or a sausage sandwich) is a grilled or barbecued food item and community event held in Australia and New Zealand.
Sausage Roll | sÉ”sɪdÊ' ˈroÊŠl | noun
Colloquial rhyming slang for 'goal'. As in 'What a great sausage roll! '. Also a delicious meat and pastry snack that goes well at half time.
Aussies have a plethora of names for sausages and the ways and contexts in which we eat them. Snag is perhaps the most famous slang term for sausages, followed closely by banger. Many of us grab a sausage sanga down at the local hardware store.
It is assumed that 'banger' relates to the noise made by a bursting sausage, and the nick-name dates to the first or second decade of the twentieth century. As for the word 'snag', the first reference to it use for 'sausage' given by the Oxford English Dictionary is in 1941, which seems very recent to me.
Australians use a couple of other colloquial words for a hen's egg. The Australian English word googie or goog is an informal term that dates from the 1880s. It derives from British dialect goggy, a child's word for an egg. A closer parallel to the jocular bum nut, however, is the word cackleberry.
A cocktail sausage is a smaller version of the saveloy, about a quarter of the size; in Australia sometimes called a "baby sav", a "footy frank" or a "little boy", and in New Zealand and Queensland called a "cheerio".
In Australia, sausages are called either “snags” or “bangers”, most commonly. Snag is by far the most common, and can refer to just about any kind of sausage including basic sausages and even hot dogs.
A fruit square, otherwise known as a Chester Square. It is a fairly solid fruit square of about 7-8cm and about 2cm thick, which has flaky pastry on the top and bottom and is topped with (usually pink) icing: What did you have for lunch?
Australia's colourful bank notes are known by many colloquial names. The twenty-dollar note is referred to as a lobster, while the fifty-dollar note is called a pineapple, and don't we all want to get our hands on a few jolly green giants, that is, hundred-dollar notes?
Snag. Definition: sausage, also used to refer to sliced bread and sausage combo, Australian hot dog. Example: “Grab a few snags for the party tonight!” Snag isn't just a part of Australian vocabulary; it's part of Australian culture.
sanger. A sandwich. Sanger is an alteration of the word sandwich. Sango appeared as a term for sandwich in the 1940s, but by the 1960s, sanger took over to describe this staple of Australian cuisine.
In the US, the term hot dog refers to both the sausage by itself and the combination of sausage and bun. Many nicknames applying to either have emerged over the years, including frankfurter, frank, wiener, weenie, coney, and red hot.
In Western Australia, it's polony, perhaps a corruption of bologna, also called baloney in the USA. This is, in itself, a mass-produced derivative of the traditional sausage of Bologna, Italy, which is actually called mortadella.
Vegemite is a dark brown and relatively salty spread made from yeast extract, mainly consumed in Australia and New Zealand, often as a Vegemite toast or Vegemite sandwich.
One of the quirks of the English language is our many nicknames for things. Here in the UK, for instance, sausages are affectionately known as 'bangers', as in 'bangers and mash'.
Maccas (pron. “mackers”) : McDonald's (You will also hear this one heaps.)
Ketchup is underrated. We call it tomato sauce in Australia.
Chook comes from British dialect chuck(y) 'a chicken; a fowl' which is a variant of chick. Chook is the common term for the live bird, although chook raffles, held in Australian clubs and pubs, have ready-to-cook chooks as prizes.
Brocci: Broccoli, nature's little edible tree. Bloke: A man.
In Australian English, a "banger" has referred to a sausage since the time of the First World War. Before that in Australia, a banger meant a morning coat, or an unreliable motor vehicle. All of these are publicly documented by reputable lexicographers.
Did you know that the collective noun for a group of sausages is a bundle? These facts and many more can be heard after 10am when Weekends jumps straight into the frypan to talk about all things sausage-related!
Contributor's comments: Little boy was rhyming slang for saveloy - meaning cocktail frankfurt. Contributor's comments: Have heard 'little boys' by friends from Geelong, Victoria. Contributor's comments: Still widely used in northern SA for cocktail frankfurts.