Brekky: the first and most important meal of the day, Aussies call breakfast 'brekky'.
Q: It's a choice between “breaky” and “brekky”. Although, I've also seen “brekkie” and even “breakie”.
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Or perhaps you spell it breaky or even breakie? Whichever way, that's breakfast. The most important meal of the day.
Chow. Meaning: (Noun) Chow is an informal term for a meal used in certain English-speaking countries. It is often used in Australia as slang for dinner.
brunch. The word “brunch” is a combination of the words “breakfast” and “lunch.” It is a meal eaten in the late morning, which replaces breakfast and lunch. “We're having brunch at 10:30 on Sunday morning.”
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.
also woolah, woolas, woolie, woollie, wooly. (drugs) a cigarette of crack or base cocaine, mixed with marijuana and wrapped in a cigar leaf.
Australian English is full of words based on this formula. Barbie, of the now-infamous "throw another shrimp on the barbie," is short for barbecue; brekkie is short for breakfast; mozzie is short for mosquito; postie is short for postman; Aussie is short for Australian; and the list goes on.
I have seen 'bkf' being used as an abbreviation.
(informal) A breakfast.
HJs/Hungry Jacks: Burger King.
The term "esky" is also commonly used in Australia to generically refer to portable coolers or ice boxes and is part of the Australian vernacular, in place of words like "cooler" or "cooler box" and the New Zealand "chilly bin".
Muffin,when used as a slang is sometimes very impolite . It can mean an attractive person,usually female,similar to sugar.It can mean a female reproductive organ.
The term 'Chippy' is commonly used in Australia and the UK to refer to carpenters. The term is found as far back as the 16th century – no doubt in reference to the wood chips that flew as carpenters worked their magic. A proverb from 1770 states: 'A carpenter is known by his chips'.
bluey. / (ˈbluːɪ) / noun Australian informal. a blanket. a swagman's bundle.
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 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.
SAO biscuits are a savoury cracker biscuit that was launched in Australia in 1904 by Arnott's, the term SAO being trade marked in 1904.
See also: 'Dirty Bird' (KFC). “Let's pop into Maccas after the footy.”
'Spag bog' and 'spag bol' were first coined in the UK in the 1970s. 'Spag bol' has since been used by most people all across Australia, and the bog is rarely heard. If you're a bogger, consider yourself a gem, I guess? Whether you call it 'spag bol' or 'spag bog', it's still that family dish we all love and enjoy.
Mate. “Mate” is a popular word for friend. And while it's used in other English-speaking countries around the world, it has a special connection to Australia. In the past, mate has been used to address men, but it can be gender-neutral. In Australia, you'll also hear mate used in an ironic sense.
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.
"Barbie" is Australian slang for barbecue and the phrase "slip a shrimp on the barbie" often evokes images of a fun social gathering under the sun.