To Welcome new Aussies....

[David In Indy]

Nope, but thanks for playing!  It might be a source only Americans know, believe it or not.  I'll give them a hint - bloomin' onions.

Outback Steakhouse?

[Ellemeno]

Outback Steakhouse?

Ding Ding Ding!  We have a wiener! 

[Katie77]

When Aussies say "bonzer"....we mean great, terrific


He's a bonzer bloke

The movie BBM was a bonzermovie

[Katie77]

Heres some more Ausie slang.....i hope you are enjoying this....


1.crook.........I was feeling a bit bloody crooktoday.

2.crook......that bloke is a bloody crook 

3.crook......that tent looks a bit bloody crook

4.crook.....your father will go bloody crook when he sees that

Four different meanings....and usually with the favourite Aussie adjective "bloody" in front of it.......

[ffrn]

Here's another one for you.  Sook or sooky calf.

Come on now, it can't be that hard.  I'll even give you points for trying!

[dannyboy]

a sook is like a wimp or a cry-baby    have a lash at these:

he copped a steel cap in the jatz crackers

if ya going down to the loo, careful you don't step on any joeys

strewth dan, your bitchin like a sheila - said to me yesterday at work 

he had him in a christmas hold

has any other aussies mentioned the dunny yet?

[Katie77]

Where you from Danny?

[Shuggy]

Like Italian for 'too much?'  Or gone to the Tropics?

Close. Tropical fever = mad

I'm 3hrs from Australia but we understand most of it. The funny thing is how they shorten words with -o, while we shorten them with -ie.

So what we call the Sallies, they call the Salvos (Salvation Army). (They're still out of favour among older NZ queerfolk for their opposition to Homosexual Law Reform 20 years ago.

There is a dictionary of Australian, it's called Let Stalk Strine by Affabeck Lawder.

Sadly, we're absorbing theirs and losing ours, a mild form of cultural imperialism, but nothing like as bad as we're getting from the US. Have a nice day!

Our answer to Let Stalk Strine is called New Zild.

And the video comes out here tomorrow, July 25, so you can expect an influx of Kiwis. Maybe I should start a thread for us.

[dannyboy]

Where you from Danny?

i'm from "glorious" adelaide  home of the mighty port power

also home to the most boring people in the whole of australia 

where you from Katie77?

[Shuggy]

These are harder!

"Ridgie Didge" .... hmmmm.... Does it mean "honestly" or "I swear"

Cripes! The movie wouldn't have been the same if Ennis had said "Jack... Ridgie Didge," would it?

"Dunny".... toilet or bathroom? "I'm going to the bathroom"?

Strictly speaking, outhouse or longdrop. Wooden, 3 ft square, peaked roof, crescent moon cut in the door, built over a deep hole. But no doubt modern urban Aussies call something with tiles and chrome a dunny too.