The apple isle -Tasmania
Everything's apples - in good order
Auntie - the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC)
Australian salute - swatting a fly away with your hand
Barbie - barbecue
Beautie - fantastic, great
Boggan - daggy person
Bloody - the great Australian adjective
A blue or barney - an argument
Brekkie - breakfast
Bum - bottom or homeless person
To go bush - disappear or get away for a break
Chook - chicken
Chunder - to vomit
Clobber - hit someone
Within cooee - within calling range
Come a cropper - to fail
Digger - Australian soldier
Dinkum - authentic
Done like a dinner - to be completely worsted
Dunny - toilet
No flies on him - applied to someone who is astute
Galah - an idiot
Galoot - stupid person
Good on ya - expression of approval
Knee high to a grasshopper - small
Grog - alcohol
To be jack of - to be fed up
Joe Blow - to other fellow
Happy as Larry - completely happy
Live on the smell of an oily rag - live on a minimum
Fit as a mallee bull - very fit
Massage parlour - brothel
Mossie - mosquito
Plonk - cheap wine
Pokies - poker machines
Ring in - substitute
Dead ringer - identical
Ripper - fantastic
She'll be right - general reassurance
Two pot screamer - very susceptible to alcohol
Sheila - woman
Tucker - food
Woop woop - a location a long way away
3 comments:
hi mate! additional:
heller - promise ganyan talga sila mag hello
newsagent - store that sells magazines, newspapers, etc.
filo - pinoy!
nakalimutan ko na yung iba pa. pero rondz, pag dun ka....mamamangha at maiinggit sila sa accent mo! hahahaha!
authentic coldrock!
thats beautie!
thanks, mate.
i heard nga na natutuwa sila sa american accent natin. minsan nga raw kala nila where from the US. hehe
oyp jaidy hope u cud also go there.. pra madagdagan naman ang mga friends ko dun!
if given a visa, i might go there before the year ends =) all my cousins' friends were like: "teach me how to get that accent!" and we think we don't speak english eloquently. hahaha ;P
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