What does it mean? General greeting, used instead of “hello”, both day and night. Often combined with “mate”, as in…
G'day. One of the first things you'll hear when in Australia, is the classic “G'day, mate”, which is basically the same as saying, “good day”, or “hello”. So feel free to use this one from day 1 and watch the smiles around you as people respond with, “g'day mate”, which means “hello, friend”.
1. “How ya goin'?” “How ya goin'?” is the ultimate Aussie greeting.
Ask an Aussie to name a truly Australian word, and they might yell "Bonzer!" Bonzer, sometimes also spelled bonza, means "first-rate" or "excellent," and it is the Australian equivalent of the American "awesome": "It's a good clean game ... and the standard is red hot," Thies said.
Contributor's comments: The term 'povo' comes from the word poverty. Contributor's comments: [North Geelong informant] I would also say that this is used to describe someone who is tight arsed but not necessarily poor. Contributor's comments: poor and despised person: "Take no notice of him - he's just a povo."
Bonza was founded in October 2021 by former Virgin Blue executive Tim Jordan. U.S. investment firm 777 Partners were the inaugural investors and backers.
There are also a number of terms for Australia, such as: Aussie, Oz, Lucky Country, and land of the long weekend.
These Australianisms have been largely replaced by the international cops, coppers, pigs or bacon. However the older, more affectionate wallopers is also still used.
Certainly if you're in the US, your mother is your “mom” – short for “mommy” and in the UK, Australia and New Zealand it's “mum” – shortened from “mummy”.
Australian goodbye is “Hooroo”; sometimes they even “cheerio” like British people, a UK slang word.
Some of the most well known Aboriginal words for hello are: Kaya, which means hello in the Noongar language. Palya is a Pintupi language word used as a greeting much in the same way that two friends would say hello in English while Yaama is a Gamilaraay language word for hello used in Northern NSW.
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”.
Ta. 'Ta' means 'thank you'.
Contributor's comments: The word "bubs" was short for "babies".
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.
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'.
In Australia, a bloke is a unique masculine archetype associated with the country's national identity. The "Aussie bloke" has been portrayed in important works of art and associated with famous Australian men. "He's a good bloke" literally means "he's a good man".
Why is Australia called Oz? The word Australia when referred to informally with its first three letters becomes Aus. When Aus or Aussie, the short form for an Australian, is pronounced for fun with a hissing sound at the end, it sounds as though the word being pronounced has the spelling Oz.
Dunny diver noun: a plumber. There are a number of colloquial names for different types of tradespeople (tradies) that are well known in Australia and elsewhere.
Bonza now has all four of its initial fleet of 737-8s in service with all of them, Shazza, Bazza, Sheila and Malc, getting busier by the day. They will soon be flying on 27 routes to 17 destinations, with 93% of those routes not served by any airline and 96% not currently served by a low-cost carrier.
Australia's newest airline, Bonza, has ventured into the country's most populous state New South Wales, but not to the city almost any other airline would target first. Bonza has touched down in NSW!
What planes does Bonza Airline use? Bonza Airline operates a fleet of brand new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.