What is the Australian nickname for breakfast?

Brekky: the first and most important meal of the day, Aussies call breakfast 'brekky'.

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What is the slang word for breakfast?

(informal) A breakfast.

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What is the Australian slang for hungry?

Decoding Australia's colourful food slang. "I could eat the bum out of an elephant. Let's have some tucker." Translation: I'm really hungry.

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What is the Australian slang word for food?

Tucker is a word that Australians use for food. You will hear this word used a lot in more in country towns compared to the city. “I'm really hungry, I can't wait to get some tucker.”

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What do Aussies call lunch?

Workers' Compensation pay. Counter lunch / meal : pub lunch. Cozzie : swimming costume.

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What do Aboriginal people call food?

Bush tucker, also called bush food, is any food native to Australia and used as sustenance by Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but it can also describe any native flora or fauna used for culinary or medicinal purposes, regardless of the continent or culture.

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What is Australian slang for egg?

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.

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What is Australian slang for biscuit?

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.

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What do British call breakfast?

Breakfast: This is also called brekkie by some but not common. Breakfast is usually the same everywhere though the contents of breakfast will vary hugely. Both Britain and Ireland are famous for their cooked breakfast which is known as "full" or "cooked" breakfast.

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What is slang for breakfast and lunch?

linner is a combination of lunch and dinner - like brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch! I'm having linner now - typically at around 4pm for a late lunch and then won't have dinner!

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What are old Australian slang phrases?

Cozzie – swimming costume • Cranky – in a bad mood, angry • Crook – sick, or badly made • Cut lunch – sandwiches • Dag – a funny person • Daks – trousers • Dinkum, fair dinkum – true, real, genuine • Dipstick – a loser, idiot • Down Under – Australia and New Zealand • Dunny – outside toilet • Earbashing – nagging • ...

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What is the Aussie slang for annoyed?

Lemony means annoyed, as in, I got lemony at the kid. This piece of Aussie slang dates back to the 1940s.

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What is the Australian slang for girl?

Sheila = Girl

Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.

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What do Aussies call french fries in slang?

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.

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What is the Australian slang for fast food?

Maccas run

Meaning: Maccas is short for fast food chain McDonalds.

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What do Aussies call Brits?

The terms pommy, pommie, and pom used in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand usually denote a British person.

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What do Aussies call a chicken in slang?

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.

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What is Australian slang for sausage?

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.

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What is Australian slang for kids?

The Billy Lids (Australian slang for "kids")

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What is an Aboriginal auntie?

Aboriginal people refer to an Elder as 'Aunty' or 'Uncle'. However, it is recommended that non-Aboriginal people check the appropriateness of their use of these terms as referring to an Elder or leader as Aunty or Uncle may not be appropriate for an outsider unless a strong relationship has been established.

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What food is unique to Australia?

11 Iconic Australian Foods You Have To Try
  • Vegemite.
  • Fairy Bread.
  • Tim Tams!
  • Meat Pies.
  • Anzac Biscuits.
  • Chicken Parma (AKA Chicken Parmigiana)
  • Pavlova.
  • Witchetty Grub.

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What do Aboriginals call Australia?

There is no one Aboriginal word that all Aborigines use for Australia; however, today they call Australia, ""Australia"" because that is what it is called today. There are more than 250 aboriginal tribes in Australia. Most of them didn't have a word for ""Australia""; they just named places around them.

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What do Aussies call teachers?

For example, chalkie means teacher, but most Australians simply call a teacher a teacher. Diminutives are often used for place names, and are only recognised by people in the local area, for example, cot for Cottesloe Beach in Perth, Parra for Parramatta in Sydney and Broady for Broadmeadows in Melbourne.

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