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Aussie Slang, a primer

This list will grow as I remember more, or Aussies remind me, of them. Phonetic spelling appears in (parenthesis). If you really want to speak 'Aussie' - slur all your words together in to one long word......ex: didyabringyagrogalong? Have fun!

Aussie (Oz-zie)-Yankee

agro-aggravated
arvo-afternoon

balls up - screw up
bag yer head- shut up
barney-fight
big girl’s blouse - girly boy
bludger-slacker
blue-fight
bogan-trailer trash
bonzer -great, anything pleasing
boof - idiot
boot-trunk (of a car)
brekkie - breakfast
buckleys-butkus (see comments)
budgie or budgerigar-parakeet
bum antlers- tattoo on the very lower back
bush - country

cactus - done, useless, dead
cark, carked it - die, died
chip, chips - french fries
chippie - carpenter
chockers - completely full
chook-chicken
chuck a wobbly-pitch a fit
chunder - vomit
cossie(Kaah-zie)-swimsuit
crack a tinnie - open a beer
crisps - potato chips
crook sick
cut lunch-sandwich

doona-comforter, blanket
dosh - cash
drongo - loser
dummy-pacifier, a babies
dunny-outhouse
dunnie - alternate spelling for dunny
dunnie budgie-big blow fly that hangs out around the dunnie

esky - cooler, (portable icebox)
exxy-expensive

fair dinkum - real, genuine
fairy floss-cotton candy

galah(Gah-lar)-Silly/stupid person
garbo - garbage collector
glory box - hope chest
greenie - environmentalist
grog-beer/spirits
grot-slob
grouse - excellent
jumbuck - sheep
jumper - sweater (not the little girl dress, LOL!)

knackered - spent, exhausted

lippie - lipstick
lollie-candy

Maccas-Mickey D's (McDonalds)
milko - milkman
mozzie - mosquito
muso - musician

on ya!-good one!
on yer bike-get outta here

petrol-gas
plonk - cheap wine, booze
pollie - politician
pong-stink (especially BO)
poofteenth - smidgeon
postie - postman

rabbit on - talk too much about nothing
rack off - get lost
ripper - excellent
‘ron-later on
roo loose in the top paddock - a screw loose
root - “getting lucky” (NOT cheering for your team, LOL!)

servo-gas station
shiela-babe, woman, girlfriend, wife
skerrick - nothing, empty
skite - show off
sledging - ‘trash talk’ (as in sports)
smoko - coffee break (smokers)
snag-sausage
sook - cry baby, pout
sparky - electrician
spit the dummy-temper tantrum
stirrer - trouble maker
stubbie-pony (of beer)
stunned mullet-shocked
subbie - sub-contractor

ta- thanks
thongs-flipflops
torch-Flashlight

umpie - umpire
unco - uncoordinated, clumsy
ute(you-t)-pickup truck

whinge-whine

yobbo - redneck

5 cent piece-nickle
10 cent piece-dime
25 cents-quarter (we don’t have 25 cent pieces in Oz, nor pennies)

(last updated July 2008)