Some Help With Australian Lingo
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Wednesday, 7 March 2007 |
 Don't get into a blue. Know a bit of Strine and you'll be fine.
In a pub you could get asked to shout. Don't holler your head off. You're just being reminded it's your turn to pay for the next round of drinks.
If you're visiting Australia and are non-Australian but you do speak English, you should have no real problem understanding the local lingo. (We try to make sure we use only words that we think are common to your kind and our kind of English.)
Hopefully this next section helps you to better understand the Australian use of the language, and try and keep you out of trouble!Labels: Australian Lingo |
posted by Tabitha @ 3:41 pm  |
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Or You Need to Go to the Toilet...
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 If you need to go to the rest room, comfort room, or whatever else you call that room (because you're pissed, or simply pissed off), that place is the loo, or call it toilet. A dunny is a different thing altogether.
Whatever you talk about, don't act the wowser as everyone tends to be given a fair go, fair dinkum, mate. And don't go acting the yobbo either.
Also, it doesn't hurt to say ta or thanks for anything done for you; you'll hear a lot of ta-ing around, thanks is so much a part of the Aussie language.Labels: Australian Lingo, Restroom, toilet |
| posted by Tabitha @ 3:29 pm |
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Aussie Lingo Glossary
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arvo - Afternoon.
barney - Row, fight, argument.
bizo - Business.
bloke - Man.
blue - row, fight.
corker - Great.
crook. Mad. Also sick.
dunny - A more primitive type of toilet, usually locted outdoors.
fair dinkum - Genuine, real, really.
fair go - Fair chance.
grog - Beer, liquor.
half your luck - Congratulations.
lair - One of brash or vulgar behavior, usually flashily dressed as well.
loo - Toilet.
mate - Friend, pal, colleague.
middy - Middle-sized glass. A middy usually contains 285ml (of beer).
mug - Someone taken advantage of.
pissed - Drunk.
pissed off - Angry, mad.
plonk - Cheap liquor or wine.
rack off - Scram, get lost.
ripper - Great, something great.
schooner - A larger glass for beer, larger than a middy.
shout - pay for a round (of drinks).
sport - Something like mate, but sometimes said with some belligerence.
Strine - Australian as she's spoke.
ta - Thanks.
tucker - Food.
wowser - Prude, puritan.
yobbo - Someone a bit uncouth.Labels: Australian Lingo |
| posted by Tabitha @ 3:10 pm |
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