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You might be said to be on a bad trot. This Aussie slang term for a run of bad luck originated in the 1940s. I don't mean to put the mocker on but we've got even more slang terms for bad luck below. Mozz is a shortened version of mocker.
A freshie is a freshwater crocodile while a saltie is a saltwater crocodile.
The name "dingo" comes from the Dharug language used by the Indigenous Australians of the Sydney area.
Sharks themselves have been dubbed 'Noah's arks', in an example of Australian rhyming slang (another import from our British origins), sometimes abbreviated to 'Noahs'.
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.
Cockroach – someone from New South Wales. Dead horse – rhyming slang for tomato sauce. Devo – short for devastated, used to show how upset someone is, as in 'I'm devo that I dropped my pie on the ground'. Dodgy – not quite right, disagreeable or suspicious.
A female kangaroo is known as a ' flyer ' or a ' doe ' and a male kangaroo a ' buck ' or a ' boomer ' (hence the nickname of the Australian men's basketball team, the Boomers). They live in social groups called mobs .
The Red Kangaroo, native to Australia, has a 30 day gestation period and the single baby weighs only 1 gram (. 035 ounces) when it is born. The baby kangaroo, called a joey, spends about 235 days in the mother's pouch.
Here in Australia, however, McDonald's most prevalent nickname is “Macca's”.
Contributor's comments: Mud-lark is a very common term in Adelaide for the Magpie-lark, which is used just as often. The bird is believed to be the Piping Shrike, South Australia's prolific emblem. As such, the bird is also known so, but less commonly.
Contributor's comments: We use the term in Tassie as well, you say that someone is a bush pig, or a feral. It has become quite a broad insult to females mainly, not necessarily meaning that they are unkempt.
Possum is a term of endearment, not just a nighttime rodent. Sure, the standard “darling” and “babe” still apply, but there seems to be a slight misunderstanding when it comes to what non-Australian women want to hear when kissed good night. Did you just call me possum?
Mozzie: short for mosquito. No drama/s: this is Aussie speak for no problem.
Aussie Word of the Week
If you cast your minds back, you may remember calling the humble banana a nana as a child. Originally an Australian toddler's word, dating back to the 1890s, this is now a very common term. So common in fact, that Australian Bananas uses it as well.
Aussie Word of the Week
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.
The shoe known in Australia as a "thong" is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world.
An Aboriginal word baroomby meaning "wild" in the language of the Pitjara Indigenous Australians on the Warrego and Nogoa Rivers in southern Queensland.
Australia's equivalent to a raccoon would be the Common Brushtail possum which is a nocturnal, semi-arboreal marsupial.
Yeah nah yeah = yes.
defecate: He went into the bushes to have a shag.
Australian and New Zealand Slang. a person imposed upon or made a fool of; victim.
Hoon activities (or hooning) can include speeding, burnouts, doughnuts, or screeching tyres.