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related: australia, language, slang recommended listening: Word for Word recommended viewing: [|Celebrating the Australian Accent] hashtag: [|#aussieslang] editing: [|Australia]

Even a drongo can use a dongle!


 * Traveler Tip:** If you are uncertain about a particular expression or word, just say, 'Hang on a moment, I'm not quite sure what you're on about.'

Top Faves: Waddaya reckon?
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 * Arvo** = Afternoon
 * As fit as a mallee bull** = Very strong
 * Back of Bourke** = Any remote outback area ([|Macquarie Dictionary])
 * Banana Bender** = Person from Queensland
 * Barbecue stopper** = Controversial topic of conversation, a social gaffe
 * Barrack** = To shout encouragement for a player or team
 * Big Ask** = To request an unreasonably large favor
 * Billabong** = Smallish lake formed when the river path changes, leaving a branch with a dead end. Also called an oxbow lake
 * Biro** = Ballpoint pen
 * Blinder** = Excellent performance
 * Blower** = Telephone
 * Bludger** = Lazy person
 * Bogan** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan
 * Boots and all** = Making every effort; with no holds barred
 * Bunghole** = Mouth (feed that into your bunghole)
 * Bush tucker** = Indigenous animals and plants
 * Chook** = Chicken
 * Chunder** = To vomit
 * Corroboree**
 * Cracker** = Something great!
 * Cracking** = Great
 * Damp squib** = Event which people think will be exciting but which is disappointing when it happens
 * Devo** = Devastated
 * (The) Ditch** = Tasmanian Sea
 * Dongle** = USB Wi-Fi Thumbdrive
 * Drongo** = Idiot
 * Drover** = Herder
 * Fair dinkum** = True
 * Flash** = Ostentatious or showy
 * Flat out** = Busy
 * [|Front bench]** = ?
 * Full on** = Intense
 * Furphy** = False or unreliable rumor (listen to [|Hindsight])
 * Galah** = Fool, silly person. Named after the bird of the same name.
 * G'day** 友達
 * Ginger** = Red-head
 * Gumsucker** = Person from Victoria
 * Hard yakka** = Hard work
 * Hinterland** = Countryside, backcountry; satellite urban/rural areas within 60-90 minute drive of metro areas
 * Humpy** = Rough bush shelter
 * Jersey** = Wool sweater
 * Killing the pig** = Catching a lot of fish
 * Lurgy =** Flu or cold, often described as the dreaded lurgy
 * Mate =**
 * Mate's rate** = Free (or at least cheaper than full price)
 * Mateship** = Deep friendship
 * Mob** = Group
 * Mongrel** =
 * Mossie** = Mosquito
 * Mouth organ** = Harmonica
 * MP** = Member of Parliament
 * No dramas** = No worries
 * No wuz!** = No worries
 * Not wrong** = I agree emphatically
 * Nut out** = To work through
 * Oz** = Australia
 * Piece of Piss** = Easy
 * Pissup** = A gathering where a lot of alcohol is consumed
 * Pub Test** =
 * Pulling up stumps** = Moving house, changing address
 * Punter** = Passenger
 * Push bike** = Bike
 * Rat Run** = To take a shortcut through back streets to avoid traffic lights or tollways (queensland)
 * Ratbag** http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/a-call-for-us-all-to-embrace-our-inner-ratbag/6889214
 * Ready** = Cash in hand
 * Reckon** = To think
 * Ripsnorter** = Something that is really great
 * Root** = To have sex
 * Rubbity-dub** = Pub (also shortened to rubbity)
 * Send 'er down Hughie** = Make it rain
 * She'll be right** = Everything will be okay
 * Sherbet** = Alcoholic drink
 * Shout** = To buy a round of drinks; to pay for something for another person.
 * Snag** = Sausage
 * Spit the dummy** = To lost one's temper ('dummy' is a pacifier)
 * Stoush** = A brawl
 * Straya** = Australia
 * Stroppy** = Grumpy ([|Australia: are we the stroppy nation?])
 * Stubby Holder** = Insulated holder for beer cans and bottles
 * Strewth** = An exclamation expressing surprise
 * Stuff up** = Blunder
 * Tacker** = Child (young tacker)
 * Tall poppy syndrome** = Tendency to criticize successful people
 * Toey** = very nervous ('I'm a bit toey about this')
 * Under the pump** = under pressure
 * Vegemite** = Black paste with a salty taste best spread lightly on toast
 * White-anting** = To subvert or undermine from within
 * Witchetty grub** = Large, white larvae of several moths used as food

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 * Abattoir** = Slaughterhouse
 * Balanda** = European descent
 * Built like a brick shithouse =**
 * Clean skin** = Bottled wine that does not carry a label or any other identifying marks
 * Cotton Wool** =
 * Crack the sads** = To get very annoyed
 * Cracked the shits** =
 * Dobber =** informant
 * [|Double_dissolution]** = Procedure permitted under the Australian Constitution to resolve deadlocks between the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Wang on =
 * Flat out like a lizard drinking** = Busy (We're inviting everyone who isn't flat out like a lizard drinking to join us.)
 * Flog** = To sell something
 * Goodonya cobba!** -
 * Gunna** = Going to ('I'm gunna hit the piss this weekend.')
 * Horses for courses** - Selecting suitable people for particular activities
 * I wouldn't be dead for quids** = Aussie expression of lust for life
 * Jacked off** - To get annoyed
 * Larrikin** - Prankster (see: larrikin spirit)
 * Pearler** - Great
 * Punt** =
 * Reg Grundies** = Underpants
 * Shit stirrer** = Trouble maker
 * Shitstorm** = Trouble
 * Sluggos, Budgie smuggler, Fish frighteners** - Speedos
 * Swag** - Blanket-roll containing personal belongings and useful items carried by a traveler
 * Shitstirrer** =
 * Swag** - Rolled up bedding, used by a swagman ([|Bilarni])
 * [|Tim Tam]** - Chocolate cookie
 * Cop a lot of stick** =

Turn of Phrase
As unwelcome as an echidna in a balloon factory. ([|Wordwatch])

Star Wars Downunder
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Politics
[|Double dissolution] = procedure permitted under the Australian Constitution to resolve deadlocks between the House of Representatives and the Senate. If the conditions are satisfied (called a trigger), the government of the day can request the Governor-General to dissolve both houses of parliament and call a full election. [|Election 2016: Australia heads for double dissolution on July 2 - AFR]


 * Hung** = A hung Parliament results when no party has more than half the MPs (Members of Parliament) in the House of Representatives, which means no party can pass laws without gaining support from other parties or independent members of the House.

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As featured in [|Macquarie Best Aussie Slang]
- I hope your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down - useful as a roo bar on a skateboard - silly as a two-bob watch - mad as a cut snake - don't come the raw prawn with me

Australia/New Zealand English

 * Abseiling =** Rappelling
 * Good on you** = Good for you
 * Paddock** = Agricultural or playing field

Features
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/09/08/why-hasnt-australia-developed-more-diverse-regional-accents http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/20/-sp-maps-of-australian-language-swimmers-v-cozzies-scallops-v-potato-cakes [|Aussie slang is as diverse as Australia itself - The Conversation] http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-fourth-r-missing-from-australian-education-20151025-gkhv8k.html

Wiki Essays
Language English Slang

Twitter
[|@MacqDictionary] [|#aussieslang]

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Aboriginal loanwords] [|A Dictionary of Ozian Terminology] [|Australian Rules Football Slang] [|Australian Lingo - Fun Trivia] [|Australian Slang - Koalanet] [|Celebrating the Australian Accent] [|Aussie Slang] [|Aussie Slang in German and American English] [|Index of Australian Words] [|Macquarie Dictionary] -[| Aussie Word of the Week] - [|Australian English] - [|Facebook] [|Word Map] [|AusTalk] [|Australian-voices] [|Website of the Australian National Corpus] [] - [|@LocaliseEnglish] [|The story behind 'Australian English'] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-15/the-evolution-of-australias-use-of-the-english-language/7512170

The [|Australian National Dictionary] is a Dictionary of Australianisms. It includes words and meanings that have originated in Australia, or that have a greater currency or special significance here than elsewhere. While the first edition of the dictionary, published in 1998, contained about 10,000 headwords, compounds, idioms, and derivatives, this second edition contains over 16,000. New terms include Sorry Day, trackie daks, schmick, chardy, marn grook, mugachino, firie, rello, drop bear, shirtfront and not happy Jan.

Recommended Viewing
[|Celebrating the Australian Accent - Big Ideas] [|How to Speak Australians]

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**Word for Word** is a new podcast from Macquarie Dictionary (https://twitter.com/MacqDictionary).

Word for Word is produced by Kate Sherington for Macquarie Dictionary and [|Pan Macmillan Australia]. Thanks are due to Sue Butler, Victoria Morgan, Melissa Kemble, Adrik Kemp and the whole team at Macquarie. Thanks also to [|Alex McKinnon] and the good people at [|The Games Den] for their favourite words.

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[|Australian comedy: what makes us laugh?] - As this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival gets underway, Australia Talks looks at the comedy business in Australia and examines the Aussie sense of humour. What makes us laugh? What's shapes our distinctive sense of humour?

[|The Australian National Corpus: a big inventory of language in Australia] - Kate Burridge launched the AustNC at Griffith University in Brisbane in March 2012. A great collection of language data, text-based as well as digital, has been launched online, so that documentation of Australia's linguistic landscape is now available for all.

[|Victoria Mielewska] - Voice coach, Victoria Mielewska, has taught many actors how to assume an accent that is foreign to them.

[|Aussie slang] - Kel Richards presents a range of words and phrases you'll hear regularly in Australia but nowhere else.

[|'Drunken slurring' unrelated to Aussie twang: Dr Howard Manns] If you've ever travelled, especially to another English-speaking country, chances are you'll have had your Aussie twang mentioned.

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[|Australian Slang]

Wikipedia
[|Australian English]

Words that are pronounced differently in Australia (compared to the USA)
aluminum - penalize - renaissance

Podcast [|Word for Word] Australian English has many fascinating stories, interesting etymologies, and wonderfully weird slang. The language is constantly evolving as the world around us changes; new words are created, meanings change, and other things get left behind. In Word for Word, we explore the surprising histories behind everyday words and phrases, go behind the scenes with the dictionary editors, and meet some of Australia's most interesting word-lovers, from Scrabble champions to hip-hop artists. Join us as we explore our language: the ways we use it, the ways we abuse it, and the ways we ultimately change it.

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