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dannyboy:
a sook is like a wimp or a cry-baby :P 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 :-X
he had him in a christmas hold
has any other aussies mentioned the dunny yet?
Katie77:
Where you from Danny?
Shuggy:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on July 20, 2006, 06:19:02 pm ---Like Italian for 'too much?' Or gone to the Tropics?
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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:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on July 21, 2006, 08:55:40 am ---Where you from Danny?
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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:
--- Quote from: David925 on July 20, 2006, 06:01:09 pm ---These are harder!
"Ridgie Didge" .... hmmmm.... Does it mean "honestly" or "I swear"
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Cripes! The movie wouldn't have been the same if Ennis had said "Jack... Ridgie Didge," would it?
--- Quote ---"Dunny".... toilet or bathroom? "I'm going to the bathroom"?
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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.
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