Australian slang for dinner is tea. This is by far the most common slang way to refer to dinner, and virtually any Australian will know what you mean when you say tea. That said, there are a number of other slang terms which might be applied to dinner, such as blowout, chow, nosh-up, or repast.
Some people in Britain and Australia refer to their main evening meal as "tea" rather than "dinner" or "supper", but generally, with the exception of Scotland and Northern England, "tea" refers to a light meal or a snack.
repast. He proclaimed it a splendid repast. blowout (slang) collation. nosh-up (informal)
"Bikie" is short for a motorcycle-gang member, "bangers" and "snags" are just two of the several terms for sausage, "ripper" means excellent, "snaffle" refers to quickly grabbing something, "titch" is a tiny amount, "chook" is chicken, and it goes on and on.
Workers' Compensation pay. Counter lunch / meal : pub lunch. Cozzie : swimming costume.
A sandwich. Sanger is an alteration of the word sandwich. Sango appeared as a term for sandwich in the 1940s, but by the 1960s, sanger took over to describe this staple of Australian cuisine.
“Grub” is a slang word for food. “I'm hungry. Let's get some grub!” Two other slang words for food are nosh and chow.
The term "esky" is also commonly used in Australia to generically refer to portable coolers or ice boxes and is part of the Australian vernacular, in place of words like "cooler" or "cooler box" and the New Zealand "chilly bin".
synonyms for dinner
On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dinner, such as: banquet, feast, supper, blowout, chow, and collation.
If you call your evening meal 'supper' you're officially posh, according to survey. A nationwide study into our the eating habits of British people has settled an ongoing argument about what our evening meal should be called.
(slang, especially Australia) inebriated: drunk, high, stoned; or hungover. synonym ▲ Synonym: toasted. (slang, derogatory, Australia, figuratively) Of a person: crazy, insane.
This week, our word is tucker. This is some great Aussie slang for food that has been in constant use since the 1850s. The original meaning is of a meal, that is, something to be tucked away (in the stomach).
“Arvo” directly translates to “afternoon”. You may hear people say “This arvo I'm going to surf,” or ask you “What are your plans this arvo?”
It means nothing fancy. So not a three course meal or a candle lit event. And after you've finished you'll probably leave quite soon rather than chatting for an hour or two.
Gobble up – English is a funny language isn't it? We wolf down, but we gobble up – and both mean the same thing: to eat fast. To gobble means to eat hungrily and hastily.
Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. An Australian pub or hotel is a public house or pub for short, in Australia, and is an establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.
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.
“Sack”. “A sack” or “The sack”, this is a noun.
Australian goodbye is “Hooroo”; sometimes they even “cheerio” like British people, a UK slang word.