Recorded Australian slang terms for 'egg' include 'bum nut', 'butt nugget', and 'fart cartridge'.
'Egg' has become a kind of shorthand for "Internet troll," though the avatar can simply indicate that a user is new to Twitter or inexperienced with the platform. Twitter recently made news by adding a feature that allows users to mute tweets coming from egg accounts.
In Australian English a goog is an egg. It is an abbreviation of the British dialect word goggy 'a child's name for an egg', retained in Scotland as goggie. The phrase is a variation of an earlier British phrase in the same sense: full as a tick, recorded from the late 17th century.
Chook - the term chook means a chicken, usually a hen.
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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. Naturally, after breaking our fast we looked through our database in search of other breakfast related words.
brekkie – breakfast
Although it sounds like breakfast for kids, brekkie is the Australian meal everyone has in the morning. So… what did you have for brekkie today?
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.
chookie (plural chookies) (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A small or young domestic fowl; a chick.
The saying apparently refers to a chicken that, when it becomes wet from the rain, “Just stands in the background, without moving, as if it is ashamed and dejected”. It looks as if it dare not move or do anything, just like a coward.
Bluey is an Australian nickname for a person with red hair. As a nickname, Bluey may refer to: Frank 'Bluey' Adams (born 1935), former Australian rules football player.
Mostly coined in Australia than anywhere else in the world, 'bluey' is (generally) used as an affectionate nickname for a redhead. It is thought by some to have derived from the early 1900s as a form of irony. Blue is evidently contrasting with red, thus being used as a joke.
Couldn't run a chook raffle: Unorganised/useless. A roo loose in the top paddock: A bit daft.
Also called egg cell . the female gamete; ovum.
Such an egg: A New Zealand insult, translatable to “such an idiot”. Similarly, “don't be an egg” is a common New Zealand slang phrase.
Eggs and soldiers is simply a name given to a soft-boiled egg in an egg cup, served with sticks of buttered toast. Dippy eggs, so called because one dips toast into them, originated in the UK and is still popular today as a children's breakfast, but adults love them, too!
Dag is an Australian and New Zealand slang term, also daggy (adjective). In Australia, it is often used as an affectionate insult for someone who is, or is perceived to be, unfashionable, lacking self-consciousness about their appearance and/or with poor social skills yet affable and amusing.
Today "dink" means "double income, no kids" and is applied to modern yuppies!: "I gave him a dink to the station." dinky-double. --verb 1. to convey as a second person on a horse, bicycle or motorcycle.
Barbie. “Barbie” is a short form of barbeque. In Australian English, “-ie” is also added to lots of abbreviated words. The word “selfie” is a good example of this; it was coined by an Australian man in 2002! How to use it: We're having a barbie tomorrow – do you want to come?
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.
But in Australia a snag is also one of several words for 'sausage' (others include snarler and snork).
Hooroo = Goodbye
Australian goodbye is “Hooroo”; sometimes they even “cheerio” like British people, a UK slang word.
nounAustralian Slang. a girl or young woman.
In the case of Australian slang, words are clipped, and then a diminutive suffix is added to the clipped word. In this case, bikkie (the colloquial Australian word for a cookie), is clipped slang for biscuit (the British English word for a type of cookie), and it uses the -ie diminutive suffix.