I lived in Australia for six months doing a study abroad program. I miss it so much, Aussies are hilarious, cool, and laid back. My favorite word is probably "whinge."

It means complaining, belly-aching, and generally b*tching about something. I still use it here. ;)

ba hahah thongs always makes me laugh its aussie speak for flip flops but is funny seeing groups of tourist giggle when you ask if there wearing thongs :)

yay for flip flop

mates instead of friends

ranga for red heads

where are the australians on this site I want more aussie mate cos I am aussie

I love how Aussies will swear at each other but not to insult. Also, i'm Aussie and was wondering if alot of other aussies refer to dinner as tea?

I love how we say thong as (sandals) 

And Ute

this isn't really a slang but i love the latest red rooster AD

Aussie guy : "they do roast chicken"

American guy : "what does that even taste like"

I love how we say thong as (sandals) 

And Ute

this isn't really a slang but i love the latest red rooster AD

Aussie guy : "they do roast chicken"

American guy : "what does that even taste like"

I love that us Aussies just swear in everyday conversation, without it being offensive.

Like: "Bob, ya fucking bastard, how the fuck you going, mate?"

Ranga is a good one too. Slang for red-heads.

Mate is another good one.

DROP BEARS. Epic win.

Oh man gotta love Aussie slang. I go anywhere else in the world and people look at me like I'm bat shit crazy because

A) Aussie english is not normal english and people haven't got the foggyest of what we're saying half the time and

B) We swear too fuckin much haha.

some of my favs are

narky - someone who is narky essentialy has permanant PMS, eg 'she was being a bit of a narky bitch'

cark it - to die

ocker - uncooth person

bogan - hard to describe, you'd have to meet one to understand and they only exist here

yobbo - a more ocker bogan

wobbly - as in 'chuck a wobbly' have a fit, get angry over something and make a scene

cadbury - don't know if this exists anywhere else but I haven't heard it. Means a light weight drinker (from Cadbury glass and a half chocolate, glass and a half and they're pissed - light weight)

but pretty much if you want to speak like an Aussie, just swear alot and abbreviate EVERYTHING you can.

what ever becomes whateves, awkward becomes awk, totally becomes totes and so on.

 one of my favs!! 

yeah abbreviate everything especially names

sharon shazza

gareth gazza,

daniel dazza       

tim tams people they are the best ever :)

I do like the colourful turns of phrase many Aussies use - often its the unexpected ones, rather than set slang terms that I like most - of the one prawn short of a barbie type.

As a Kiwi who has also lived for many years in the UK, I think quite a few of the above slang terms are shared by all 3 countries. eg I thought "yobbo" & "thongs" originated in Britain. Kiwis use "wobbly" and probably Brits too. Bogan? Narky? Skull? Whinge?

I think "Ocker" is majorly Aussie slang.  I think "Cark it" originated in Aussie but is now used quite a lot by Kiwis.

I never heard "rort" til I went to live in Sydney for a couple of years.  But these days its also used a lot in NZ.  Don't know where it came from originally, but probably Aussie.

Ausies also use rhyming slang borrowed from the English, but they often do it a little differently - maybe saying the whole rhyme rather than the first part and leaving people to guess the rhyme.

But the colorful and original language is perhaps the most distinctive and likeable thing about Aussie English IMO.

I love this word, i once used it because i was not impressed, i was watching It Takes two when Mark Furze from Home and Away was on and he was eliminated, i yelled at the tv "What a Rort"

Americans look at ya funny if ya say mince pies too. I said to a friend "We're having pies for tea and I gotta get some mince". Cue long really confusing conversation about why you would put "mints" in a pie. Mince - minced meat = hamburger.

Not sure this is exclusively Aussie either. Pretty sure yarn is though. Spin a yarn = tell a story (usually a not so truthful but entertaining one).

I've heard "seeya later" is taken as a threat by some cultures too (like we are going to wait out back to crack em or something). How about Blue? Meaning - fight... or redhead.

I know this isn't totally Australian either but I was giving a presentation at Uni and said something about turning someone into your gofer (go for this or go for that - helper) to help manage behaviour in children. Cue all the Japanese students madly typing into their translators. Oops! No I don't want to turn them into a small, furry, burrowing rodent (gopher). Probably thought I was taking the Harry Potter craze a little too far with that. 

you can replace the end of a place with an o and everyone still knows what you are talking about. for example:

train station - traino

bottle shop - bottleo

bowling club - bowlo 

It was a bad moment when I explained to a couple of Aussie acquaintances that I'd been delayed because I'd "been rooting around in the cupboard all afternoon..."

:/

Still, there's no denying the fact that Strine does have some excellent idioms, e.g., there are occasions when I just had to spit the dummy, tell someone to Rack Off, and calm down by taking myself outside for a well-deserved smoko...

Love'n'Kisses

V 

Got me thinking back on this with "piece of piss" today. lol.

Ah... smoko. he he.

She'll be apples, I knwo what it means.... but why?

Also I love "pashing" for kissing xD

I thought of some more.

Built like a brick shithouse (well built person).

Clacker (one's asshole, as in 'up the clacker').

Budgie smugglers (mens brief styled bathers).

Chuck a yewie or fang a yewy (U turn)

They might not be all from Oz but we use them.

as for the apples thing. Can't give you an answer as to why.

I love the word root so i'm glad it got mentioned. Also, the word "thong" and how it has different meanings everywhere.

i lived in australia for 6 years. and some words i had to replace in my vocab were:

do a u-turn => chuck a u-wey

ketchup => sauce

sprite => lemonade

flip flops => thongs

track pants => trackies

loser => derro, bogan, tosser, knob jockey, tool, tool belt, chooch

tons => heaps (eg: thanks a bunch = thanks heaps...or like heaps good)

cheap wine => goon

cheap champagne => passion pop

dammit => shit-a-brick, shittety bricketty, spewin

thanks => cheers

hey => oiii

hook up => pick up

uncoordinated = unco (for the first few weeks i thought they were saying uncle)

drunk => paro, shitfaced, smashed, blind

tantrum => tanty

awesome => wicked, choice, sick 

sulk => sook, have a sooky la-la

there's more but it's 4am and my brain is lagging. 

dag loosely translates to slob..

eg: "Omg I look like such a dag"

Bee under your bonet.

Cock Jockey

Shit kicker

Hard slog of it

She's one hot bird.

Just to name a few.


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