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AUSTRALIAN SLANG
More Australian Slang
Understanding Australian slang can save you from some embarrassing moments. Our friend Jan is an avid sports fan. Visiting here from America, she kept talking about how much she and her girl friends would "root" for their team. This often was followed by some bloke in the group asking how much she charged.
Not knowing the Aussie meaning of the word, she'd reply that she didn't charge anything and in fact paid a lot of money to go to the games to root for her team. The Aussies, of course, knew exactly what she meant, but couldn't resists the joke. We finally told her what was going on and she turned a lovely shade of red.
More Slang >> A to G H to Z
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| Hard Yakka | hard work |
| Onya | shortened form of "good on you" |
| Pash | long, lingering passionate kissing |
| Possie | position or spot. (Find a good possie to eat our lunch.) |
| Post a Letter | mail a letter |
| Rapped | extremely happy |
| Ripper | admiration, someone or something exciting |
| Root | to have sexual intercourse. Americans, if you want to root for your team, use the Aussie word barrack unless you actually mean ... |
| Starkers | Crazy, mad, insane. Can also mean completely naked. |
| Stroppy | difficult, complaining |
| Shonky | low or suspect quality, can refer to a person's character or to a thing |
| Spit the Dummy | have a tantrum (a dummy is the same as a baby's pacifier in USA) |
| Spot On | exact, perfect, correct |
| Square the Circle | attempt the impossible |
| Strine | Australian slang |
| Stuffed | exhausted |
| Sus | suspicious |
| True Blue | authentic, honest |
| Up Yourself | having a large ego |
| Whinge | whine or complain constantly |
| Wonky | bad condition which affects performance |
| Zed | Australian (and British) pronunciation of the letter Z |
