"AUSTRALIAN SLANG" Personal Page by Tattugran

Aussie salute : brushing away flies with the hand
Bail out : depart often angrily
Bail (somebody) up : to corner somebody physically
Barrack : to cheer on
Big-note oneself : brag, boast
Blue : fight/argue
Blow in the bag : have a breathalyzer test
Bog in : tuck in, commence eating
Bot : to scrounge
Burl : have a go
Captain Cook : look ("let's have a Captain Cook")
Chuck a Uey : do a u turn
Dob in : to inform on somebody
Drum : tip-off
Dummy, spit the : get very upset at something
Earbashing : nagging
Face, off one's : drunk
Flat out : busy
Flick : to dump your partner
Flick it on : to sell something soon after buying it
Flog : to sell / steal
Fossicking : search / rummage
Game : up for it
Get up somebody : to rebuke somebody
Gobful, give a : to abuse verbally
Grinning like a shot fox : very happy, smugly satisfied
Knock : to put down / criticise
Lair it up : to behave in a brash and vulgar manner
Lend of, to have a : to take advantage of someone
Lizard drinking, flat out like a : very busy
Lob in : drop in to see someone
Muster : round up sheep or cattle
Naughty, have a : have sex
Nuddy, in the : naked
Pash : passionate kiss
Perve : looking lustfully at the opposite sex
Pommy shower : using deodorant instead of taking a shower
Plate : bring your own / some food (often to a BBQ)
Rack off : get lost!
Rage on : to continue partying
Rapt : pleased
Rock up : to turn up, arrive
Root : have sex
Rooted : tired
Ropeable : very angry
Rort : Cheating, defrauding
Rubbish, to : to criticize
Session, to have : go out drinking
Shankys's pony : to travel on foot
Shoot through : to leave
Sickie, throw a : have a day off due to illness
Skite : boast, brag
Smoko, have a : take a break
Spewin : very angry
Spit the dummy : get very upset at something
Sprung : caught doing something
Squizz : to look
Sunbake : sunbathe
Technicolor yawn : to be sick
Tee-up : to set up (an appointment)
Waggin' school : playing truant
Walkabout : wander off
Whinge : complain
Whiteant : to criticising competitors products
Wobbly, throw a : go mad
Veg out : relax in front of the TV
Yabber : talk a lot
Yakka : work (noun)
Yewy : u-turn in traffic

AUSTRALIAN FLAG

Ace! : Excellent! Very good!
Arvo : afternoon
Amber fluid : beer
Aussie : Australian
Beaut, beauty : great, fantastic
Big Mobs : loads, a lot of
Bloody : very
Bloody oath! : that's certainly true
Blue : argument/mistake
Bodgy : poor quality
Bonzer : great, ripper
Bottler : something excellent
Bottling :
his blood's worth: he's an excellent, helpful bloke
Buckley's chance :
(you've got) no chance
Bull dust : rubbish
Cactus : dead, broken
Cark it : to die, stop working
Chocka : full up
Click : kilometre - "it's 20 clicks away"
Come a gutser : a bad mistake or have an accident
Come good : turn out ok
Cooee, not within : figuratively a long way away
Cost big bikkies : expensive
Crack a fat : get an erection
Cream, to : defeat by a large margin
Cut snake :
(mad as a) very angry
Dead dingo's donger :
(as dry as a) dry
Deadset : true / the truth
Dingo's breakfast : no breakfast
Dinkum / fair dinkum : true, real, genuine
Dinky-di : the real thing, genuine
Docket : a bill, receipt
Doco : documentary
Drink with the flies : to drink alone
Dunny rat :
(cunning as a) very cunning
Exy : expensive
Fair dinkum : true, genuine
Fair go : a chance / break
Fair suck of the sav! : exclamation of wonder, awe, disbelief
Furphy : rumour
G'Day : hello!
Give it a burl : try it, have a go
Give it away : give up
Going off : good fun
Good oil : useful information, a good idea, the truth
Good onya : well done
Grouse : great, terrific
Heaps : a lot
Iffy : dodgy
It's gone walkabout : it's lost, can't be found
Kangaroos loose
in the top paddock : Intellectually inadequate
Kick the bucket : to die
Knock back : refuse
London to a brick : absolute certainty
Lunch :
(who opened their?) OK, who farted?
Mate's rate : cheaper than usual for a friend
Mate's discount : cheaper than usual for a friend
No worries! : no problem / its okay
Nun's nasty :
(as dry as a) very dry
Piece of *** : easy task
Pig's arse! : I don't agree
Plate, bring a : Instruction to bring a plate of food to a party
Pozzy : position
Quid, make a : earn a living
Rack off : get lost! get out of here!
Reckon! : for sure
Ridgy-didge : original, genuine
Right : okay
Ripper : Great
Rooted : ruined, broken
She'll be apples : It'll be alright
She'll be right : it'll be okay
Sparrows fart : dawn
Strewth : exclamation
Stoked : very pleased
Stuffed, I'll be : expression of surprise
Too right : definitely
Turps, hit the : go on a drinking binge
Zack, not worth a : not worth anything

AUSTRALIAN SPREAD

Aerial pingpong : Australian Rules football
Amber fluid : beer
Avos : avocados
Barbie : barbecue (noun)
Bathers : swimming costume
Bikkie : biscuit
Billy : large tin can to boil water over a campfire
Bitumen : surfaced road
Bondi cigar : muck floating in the sea
Boogie board : body board
Boomerang : Aboriginal tool for hunting
Booze bus : police van for breathalysing
Brekkie : breakfast
Brown-eyed mullet : muck floating in the sea
Bull bar : stout bar fixed to the front of a vehicle
Bull dust : outback dust
Bush telly : campfire
Bush tucker : native outback food
Chewie : chewing gum
Chokkie : chocolate
Chunder : vomit
Clobber : clothes
Coldie : a beer
Compo : Workers' Compensation pay
Counter lunch / meal : pub lunch
Cozzie : swimming costume
Cut lunch : sandwiches
Daks : trousers
Damper : bread made from flour and water
Date : behind (rear end)
Didgeridoo : Aboriginal instrument
Dilly bag : Aboriginal carrying bag
Docket : a bill, receipt
Donger : ***
Doodle : ***
Doozey : something very pleasant, significant, large
Duchess : sideboard
Dunny : outside lavatory
Durry : cigarette
Esky : coolbox
Fairy floss : candy floss, cotton candy
Flake : shark meat
Fly wire : gauze flyscreen covering a window or doorway
Franger : condom
Freckle : anus
Grog : alcohol / beer
Grundies : underwear
Handle : beer glass with a handle
Hottie : hot water bottle
Icy pole : ice lolly
Jocks : male pants
Kero : kerosene
Knacker : testicle
Lemon : faulty product
Lippy : lipstick
Liquid laugh : vomit
Lollies : sweets
Loo : toilet
Mappa Tassie : females pubic hair area
Matilda : swagman's bedding, sleeping roll
Metho : methylated spirits
Middy : New South Wales beer glass (285ml)
Muddy : mud crab
Munchies : snacks, nibbles
Pav : Pavlova
Plonk : cheap wine
Pokies : fruit machines
Port : suitcase
Pot : Large beer (in Victoria)
Prezzy : present, gift
Rego : vehicle registration
Road train : a very big lorry with many trailors
Rollie : a cigarette that you roll yourself
Sanger : a sandwich
Schooner : large beer glass in QLD and NSW
Schooner : small beer glass in South Australia
Scratchy : instant lottery ticket
Shout : a round of drinks
Slab : crate of beer
Snag : a sausage
Spag bol : spaghetti bolognese
Strides : trousers
Stubby : a 375ml beer bottle
Stubby holder : beer bottle cooler
Sunnies : sunglasses
Swag : roll up canvas bed for camping
Thongs : flip flops
Tinny : can of beer / small aluminium boat
Togs : swimming stuff
Trackies : track suit
Tucker : food
Tucker-bag : food bag
Turps : alcoholic drink
Ute : utility vehicle
Vedgies : vegetables
Vee dub : Volkswagen
Whipper Snipper : garden strimmer
XXXX : Four X, Queensland brand of beer
Zack : sixpence (5 cents)

AUSTRALIAN DESSERT

Ankle biter : small child
Aussie : Australian
Bastard : term of endearment
Battler : a hard worker only just making a living
Beaut / beauty : great, fantastic
Bikies : motorcyclists
Block, do your : get angry
Bloke : man, guy
Blokey : behaving 'manly'
Blow in : stranger
Bludger : layabout
Bogan : young, immature person
Bounce : a bully
Brickie : bricklayer
Bushie : someone who lives in the Bush
Bushranger : outlaw
Cadbury : a cheap drunk (a glass and a half)
Clayton's : fake, substitute
Clucky : feeling broody or maternal
Cobber : friend
Cockie : farmer. Also a cockatoo
Cook : one's wife
Cranky : in a bad mood, angry
Crook : sick, or badly made
Dag : a funny person, nerd
Dero : tramp, hobo, homeless person (from "derelict")
Digger : a soldier
Dill : an idiot
Dipstick : fool / idiot
Dog : unattractive woman
Dole bludger : signing on illegally
Drongo : a dope, stupid person
Figjam : Someone who has a high opinion of themselves
Fisho : fishmonger
Frog in a sock :
(as cross as a) sound angry
Fruit loop : fool
Full : drunk
Galah : fool
Garbo, garbologist : municipal garbage collector
Greenie : environmentalist
Grey hairs : old people
Gutful of *** : drunk
Gyno : gynaecologist
Brass razoo :
(hasn't got a) he's very poor
Hoon : hooligan
Jackaroo : a male farm hand
Jillaroo : a female farmhand
Journo : journalist
Jumped up : stuck up
Kiwi : person from New Zealand
Knocker : somebody who criticises
Larrikin : a joker
Mallee bull:
(as fit as a) very fit and strong
Mate : buddy, friend
Milko : milkman
Mob : group of people
Mongrel : despicable person
Mongrel : nasty person
Mug : gullible person
Nipper : young surf lifesaver
No-hoper : somebody who'll never do well
Not the full quid : not bright intellectually
Oldies : parents
Ocker : an unsophisticated person
Offsider : an assistant / helper / partner
Piker : social misfit / drop out
Polly : politician
Pom /pommy : an Englishman
Postie : postman
Quid, not the full : of low IQ
Rapt : pleased, delighted
Ratbag : mild insult
Raw prawn :
( to come the) to be generally disagreeable
Reffo : refugee
Rellie : family relative
Ring in : substitute
Rotten : drunk
Salvos : Salvation Army
Screamer : party lover
Shark biscuit : new surfer
Sheila : a woman
Shonky : dubious, underhanded
Skimpy : barely clothed bar staff
Sook : soft or inoffensive person
Spunk : a good looking person
Stickybeak : nosy person
Stuffed, I feel : I'm tired
Surfies : people who go surfing - more than they go to work!
Swaggie : swagman
Swagman : tramp, hobo
Tall poppies : successful people
Tall poppy syndrome : the tendency to criticize successful people
Tickets :
( to have on oneself) to have a high opinion of oneself
Truckie : truck driver
True blue : patriotic
Two pot screamer : person who gets drunk easily
Up oneself : have a high opinion of oneself
Useless as :
an ashtray on a motorbike Incompetent or unhelpful
Useless as :
*** on a bull Incompetent or unhelpful
Vejjo : vegetarian
White pointers : topless (female) sunbathers
Woos : coward
Wombat : a person who eats, roots and leaves
Wowser : spoilsport
Wuss : coward; nervous person or animal
Yobbo : ignorant person
Youse : you (plural)