Q: And here in Australia? A: While Britain still heavily favours “lift”, in Australia you'll find both words used interchangeably.
Elevators. Australians call them both elevators and lifts (just to mix it up) but the rules are simple. It's polite to hold elevator doors for people who are approaching the elevator.
Ambo: this is an abbreviation of ambulance. It can refer to the ambulance driver or the service itself. Ankle biter: in Australia, small children are often called ankle biters.
Windscreen: another one for the North Americans, this is the Australian word for windshield.
As you probably know, “Aussie” is slang for “Australian”.
Noun. eshay (plural eshays) (Australia, slang) A member of an Australian youth subculture favouring sportswear and electronic dance music, and commonly associated with criminal activity. (Australia, slang) A delinquent teenager; a chav.
And if you're asking us about the round black things which are, quite literally, where the rubber meets the road, then yes, here in Australia, we spell them “tyres”.
In Australia, a fair is a big shopping center and a mall is the strip of shops in a town center. So the big Miranda shopping center near me, which I would call a mall, the Aussies call “Miranda Fair”. And people say “Cronulla mall” when referring to the main street of the town Cronulla.
Depends entirely on how one defines "useful." Ute is defined by Wikipedia as: "synonymous with "coupe utility" or "utility." In Australia and New Zealand, the word "ute" is used to describe vehicles with a tray in the back of the cabin ".
A firefighter. Firie follows a common pattern in Australian informal English whereby a word is abbreviated (in this case firefighter or fireman) and the -ie (or -y) suffix is added. Other examples include barbie (a barbecue), Chrissy (Christmas), and rellie (a relative). Firie is recorded from the 1980s.
Contributor's comments: The word garbo is slang for a rubbish collector or garbage collector, used in Western Australia. Contributor's comments: Garbo is also used in Melbourne as a slang word.
Today's obviously an expression episode, and the expression that I want to teach you guys today is, “To hit the sack”, “To hit the sack” or “To hit the hay”, “To hit the hay”. And both of these expressions just mean to go to bed, to go to sleep.
An elevator operator (North American English), liftman (in Commonwealth English, usually lift attendant), or lift girl (in British English), is a person specifically employed to operate a manually operated elevator.
“As Australians we eat Continental English style, which is different to many countries in the world; we follow England and their table etiquette rules. This means our fork goes in the left hand and knife in the right hand, with the tines of the fork always over and never up.
Everyone knows that for the Brits, an elevator is a “lift,” an apartment is a “flat,” and those chips you're snacking on are actually called “crisps.”
Loo. Toilet. An outdoor toilet is a Dunny and an indoor toliet is called a loo. So you might say, "You can use the dunny out the back on the loo in the front." And that's how you say "toilet" in Australian.
Let's start with the most common, most well-known, and most quintessentially Australian slang term for girls: Sheila. While everywhere else in the English-speaking world, Sheila is a specific person's name, in Australia it can be used to refer to any woman or girl.
trolley – the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa and some regions of Canada.
'Come over for a few coldie's mate. ' C*nt, the “C” word – Used when exchanging pleasantries between close friends or family member. If someone calls you the “C” word in Australia (and you haven't done anything to make them angry), then breathe a sigh of relief… it means you have entered the mate zone.
chook. A domestic fowl; a chicken. 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.
Cuppa - a cup of tea or coffer 'Drop by this arvo for a cuppa' means please come and visit this afternoon for a cup of tea or coffee. Loo or dunny - Thesea are slang term for toilet. If you are a guest in someone's house for the first time, it is usually polite to ask permission to use his or her toilet.
Sometimes the word eshay (usually when it's shouted) literally means “run”. Other common vernacular includes, illchay (chill), eetswa (sweet), adlay (lad), ashcay (cash) or gronk (an idiot or irritating person).
Noun. gronk (plural gronks) (Australia, derogatory, informal) An unintelligent and callous person.
Generally, they're young men who hang around train stations wearing stupid clothing and terrorising old ladies. You'll identify your local eshay by the way they dress and the way they talk.