Stud – ”The term Stud means a pedigree cow herd here and means a Bull AI company up in North America.” Dairy – “In North America a dairy is where someone milks the cows but down under it is called a cowshed. A dairy here is the local corner shop where you can get your food, etc.”
Know your Kiwi and Aussie phrases. Although 'all good' is the same in NZ and across the Tasman, there's some words and phrases that aren't. Dairy: While we know we are popping out to the corner stores, Aussies will be mystified. They call it a milk bar.
dairies, the female breasts; sometimes of a man.
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To chase up a cow is to find a dry spot outdoors, usually with sexual intentions. In contrast, calling someone a cow is to call them a contemptible person. In fact, calling someone a miserable cow has been part of Aussie slang since the 1890s!
Icy-pole: Ice cream or popsicle.
That being said, let's start with something most of us will probably have sitting in the fridge or pantry: ketchup. Ketchup is underrated. We call it tomato sauce in Australia. Or just “sauce”.
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.
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.
poddies. For those of you who don't know what poddies are;– they're calves which no longer have mothers due to unfortunate circumstances. Most calves are kept with their mothers for half of the year until they are big and strong enough to face what the world throws at them – on their own.
The middle finger emoji represents the physical act of raising one's middle finger—considered an obscene gesture in many cultures—and is used for offensive or humorous effect.
Lemony means annoyed, as in, I got lemony at the kid. This piece of Aussie slang dates back to the 1940s.
A: While Britain has started using “yogurt” a lot more, others like New Zealand, Australia and South Africa remain staunch “yoghurt” supporters. Canada meanwhile goes with “yogurt” but also the curious “yogourt” due to its French side.
Reduced-fat: contains approximately 2% milk fat. Low-fat: contains less than 1.5% milk fat. No-fat/skim: contains no more than 0.15% milk fat. Milk solids, which are produced when water is removed from liquid milk, are added to optimise the taste.
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.
Courgette & Zucchini – Basically, both are edible forms of the cucurbit plant. The word 'courgette' is used among British and New Zealand people, while that of 'zucchini' is used in North America and Australia.
Sheila = Girl
Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
Australian and New Zealand English uses "chips" both for what North Americans call french fries and for what Britons call crisps. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" and "cold chips" are used.
Chook: A chicken. In the show, it's wonderfully used in the phrase “made you look, you dirty chook.” See also: “Bin chicken,” an uncharitable name for the ibis, a bird whose long beak can make quick work of a rubbish bin. Dunny: A toilet, traditionally outdoors but more commonly now indoors.
“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.
To dog, as a verb, can mean to insult someone in front of his friends. In Australian slang it is used for a police informer.
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".
Tatie. Meaning: (Noun) An Australian slang for potatoes that is derived from “Taters.”
Chop picnic was always used until mid 60's when population expanded rapidly from 14000 to 34000. Barbecue then became popular name.