Barbie. An outdoor grill on which prawns, steak and sausages (snags), and even fruit are cooked. A “barbie” or outdoor grill.
"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. Australians, however, invariably use the word prawn rather than shrimp.
And the stove is not a “stove”, folks. It's known as a “cooktop” by the Aussies. Thankfully a spoon is also called a spoon in the merry old land of Oz.
Australians say "cool" as "ripper" or "heaps good" in slang.
13. "Phwoar!" Always use to describe the heat, often when being smacked in the face by it when exiting an air-conditioned building.
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.
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.
One of the most infamous Australian idiosyncrasies is the word for flip flop: the 'thong'.
A slang term for a person's face or their personal space; commonly used when someone is up in another person's "business;" also used to refer to Ice in a person's mouth like in "Grillz" by Nelly featuring Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp.
A barbecue grill or barbeque grill (known as a barbecue or barbie in Australia and New Zealand) is a device that cooks food by applying heat from below. There are several varieties of grills, with most falling into one of three categories: gas-fueled, charcoal, or electric.
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.
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.
Ketchup is underrated. We call it tomato sauce in Australia.
Australian, British and New Zealand English uses "chips" for what North Americans call french fries. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" and "cold chips" are used.
While some Australian speakers would pronounce “no” as a diphthong, starting on “oh” as in dog and ending on “oo” as in put, others begin with an unstressed “a” (the sound at the end of the word “sofa”), then move to the “oh” and then “oo”.
Hug an Australian Day is an international holiday celebrated every year on April 26. The idea is really simple; share a hug with an Australian friend. A hug is a physical display of affection.
“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.
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.