A Sheila's Guide to Aussie Slang

One thing you will come to realise very quickly here in NYC is that the Aussie accent is loved...by e-ver-y-one!!! It's cray. I hate the sound of my accent and it's the reason why I have been travelling to the USA for the past 7 years...to hopefully lose it haha!

If my friends here on the island have no clue what I am talking about...they seriously just look at me blankly...so funny how we are so similar yet so different. I thought NYC was bad, but I recently went to Texas for the OU v Texas college footy game and OMJesus they seriously had no clue at all at what i was saying. It was like I was talking a totally different language. Très funny!!

Full House @ the OU/TX Game

Pappa Vlad and I in our pimpin Wrangler

I get asked like everyday to teach people some Aussie Slang...hence the inspiration for this blog post. 

Sheila's Guide to teaching Aussie Slang...

Arvo: afternoon

ABC - Australian Born Chinese.

Aggro -  Aggressive. 'There's no need to be so aggro.'

Aussie salute: brushing away flies with the hand

Avos: avocados

All froth and no beer -  No substance. 'I thought he was reliable but he was all froth and no beer.'

Apeshit -  An expression of extreme anger

Bull dust -  A lie. 

Bail out: depart, usually angrily

Barbie: barbecue 

Bangers and mash: sausages and mashed potato

Barrack: to cheer on 

Battler: someone working hard and only just making a living

Beaut: great, fantastic

Bikkie: biscuit (also "it cost big bikkies" - it was expensive)

Bizzo: business ("mind your own bizzo")

Bloke: man, guy

Bloody oath!: that's certainly true

Bogan : person who takes little pride in his appearance, spends his days slacking and drinking beer

Bludger: lazy person, layabout, somebody who always relies on other people to do things or lend him things

Bob's your uncle: It will be alright

Bonzer: great, ripper

Boogie board: a hybrid, half-sized surf board

Booze bus: police vehicle used for catching drunk drivers

Bottle-o: liquor shop

Brown-eyed mullet: a turd in the sea (where you're swimming!)

Buckley's chance: no chance ("New Zealand stands Buckley's of beating Australia at football")

Buck's night: stag party, male gathering the night before the wedding

Bullshit: To tell lies

Cark it: to die, cease functioning

Chewy: Chewing gum

Chokkie: chocolate

Chuck a sickie: take the day off sick from work when you're perfectly healthy

Chunder: vomit

Coldie: a beer

Cozzie: swimming costume

Derro -  Homeless person with addiction problems.

Dag: a funny person, nerd, goof

Deadset: true, the truth

Fair dinkum: true, real, genuine ("I'm a dinkum Aussie"; "is he fair dinkum?")

Dipstick: a loser, idiot

Drink with the flies: to drink alone

Drongo: a dope, stupid person

Spit the Dummy: get very upset at something

Dunny: outside lavatory, or toilet

Earbashing: nagging, non-stop chatter

Figjam: "F**k I'm good; just ask me". Nickname for people who have a high opinion of themselves.

Footy: Australian Rules football

Fruit loop: fool

Fried eggs -  Small breasts.

Garbo, garbologist: municipal garbage collector

G'Day, Gidday: hello!

Give it a burl: try it, have a go

Grog: liquor, beer ("bring your own grog, you bludger")

Hoon: hooligan

Hit the sack -  go to bed

Hooroo: goodbye 

Lippy: lipstick

Mate's rate: cheaper than usual for a "friend"

Mozzie: mosquito

Map of Tassie -  Woman's pubic hair. 

Have a Naughty: have sex

Ninkum poop: a fool

Not the full quid: not bright intellectually

Pash: passion, infatuation

Perve: looking lustfully at the opposite sex

Piker: Someone who doesn't want to fit in with others socially, leaves parties early

Rage: party

Ripper: great, fantastic

Root: synonym for f*ck in nearly all its senses: "I feel rooted"; "this washing machine is rooted"; "(s)he's a good root". A very useful word in fairly polite company.

Scratchy: instant lottery ticket

Servo: petrol station

Sheila: a woman

Sickie: day off sick from work (chuck a sickie=take the day off sick from work when you're perfectly healthy!)

Slab: a carton of 24 bottles or cans of beer

Smoko: smoke or coffee break

Snag: a sausage

Spit the dummy: get very upset at something

Stickybeak: nosy person

Strewth: exclamation, mild oath ("Strewth, that Chris is a bonzer bloke")

Shit house -  Very bad also toilet.

Shit shoveler -  Someone doing a badly paid unpleasant job.

Taswegian: a person from Tasmania

Technicolor yawn: vomit

Thingo: Wadjamacallit, thingummy, whatsit

Thick as a brick -  Dim witted person. 'Judy is as thick as a brick!'

Thongs: cheap rubber backless sandals

Thunder box: toilet

To have Tickets on oneself: to have a high opinion of oneself

Tinny: can of beer, small aluminium boat

Too right!: definitely!

Tucker: food 

Uni: university

Up oneself: have a high opinion of oneself - "he's really up himself"

Ute: utility vehicle

Veg out: relax in front of the TV (like a vegetable)

Vee dub: Volkswagen

Waggin' school: playing truant

Whinge: complain

Woop Woop: invented name for any small unimportant town - "he lives in Woop Woop"

Wowser: straight-laced person, prude, puritan, spoilsport

Wog: person of Mediterranean origin 

Youse: you