Pierre's Rough Guide To Aussie Slang
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M
Mate friend
Matilda your sleeping bag or bed roll for camping out
Milk bar the corner shop that sells all everything(mainly food)
Missus your wife
Mozzie mosquito
Mystery bag sausage (never know what the butcher put in it)
Mug your face
you are a Mug you are a fool
Mad as a cut snake you are crazy, or very annoyed
gone up the Mulger gone bush, gone to the country not touched by man
Mollydooker a left hander
Moosh your mouth
I was just Mucking around I was just joking
More of them, then you can poke a stick at a lot of something
you look like a stunned Mullet dazed OR you mind is off thinking about something else
Manchester household linen
Middy or Middie 285 ml beer glass (NSW)
Mob group of people not necessarily unruly
things are crook in Musclebrook times are bad .
Min Min mysterious lights at night in the outback
plates of Meat your feet
Mundee Monday
Mutt dog that is of dubious breeding
Muff female private part
Mexican someone from the State of Victoria
Mackers McDonald's
N
you got a good Nick you got a good name
you're in the Nick you are in jail
you're in the Nuddy you are naked
Nick off go now, get lost
Nick steal something
something in good Nick something in good shape and condition
Nickers female panties
I'm Nackered absolutely exhausted or very tied
Nockers women's breasts
Narkie short tempered
No-hoper someone who is hopeless
Nana banana
Nackered castrated
Neddie a horse
Nulla-nulla wooden club used by Aborigines
until the other shoe drops waiting for the next piece of the puzzle to complete the picture
Nuggets man's testicles
Nappy diaper (not slang)
it's on the Nose something stinks
Noggin head or brains
a Naughty sexual intercourse
Noah's ark a shark
Nong idiot
Not backward in coming forward someone is pushy, eager to do something
Never Never mythical place in the outback
O
Ocker an uncultured Aussie
good On ya mate well done there mate
Ooroo goodbye
Oz Australia
Outback remote part of Australia
Once over giving something a quick look over or checking it out
One armed bandit poker machine (sad to say the arm is being replaced by a button)
bun in the Oven pregnant
Off the beaten Track on a road in the country not used very much, a remote part of Australia
Off like a brides nightie leave very quickly
Off like a bucket of prawns in the hot sun leaving very quickly
Off-sider assistant or partner
Oy! a Aussie bush call
Ow-yar-goin how are you going?
Overlander a drover or stockman driving sheep or cattle in the outback
Out house tiolet (coming from the old days when a tiolet was down the backyard
Old's parents
P
Prang automotive crash
Pull your head in mate tell them to mind their own business
Put up or shut up show you can do it or say it or keep quite
you are a Raw Prawn you are easy to deceive
Postie Postman, mail delivery person
you Pong you smell or have a unpleasant odour
Pissed as a parrot drunk
Pissed off you are angry or unhappy with something
Perk at work something good your employer supplies for nothing as a part of your job and the taxman wants a part
Playing Possum you are hiding yourself or trying to keep something from someone
Pot hole hole in the road
Prawn shrimp (that's right we don't put a shrimp on the barbie, that's just advising to encourage you to visit here,
no Aussie but hogan has ever said it)
Pull the belt in stop spending money
Pull your socks up get you life in order OR your act together
Pub hotel, place for buying and drinking alcohol
Plonk really cheap alcohol
Prezzies gifts
the Pot calling the kettle black you use this phrase to reverse what someone has said when something adverse was said about you
Pigs bum that's wrong, or incorrect
Pussy a females private part
I'll put the cows out on the long Paddock you're putting cows out on the road to graze the verges
Pally on friendly terms with someone
Pearl excellent
Pester annoy or bother someone
Piffle nonsense
Pinch to arrest
it Pivot's on to consider
Poddy dodger cattle rustler
Possie advantageous position, in good spot
Pot 285 ml glass of beer (VIC & Qld)
you feel like a Pork chop in a Jewish Synogogue you feel uncomfortable in some social situation
pack of Poo tickets toilet paper
talking on the Porcelain telephone vomiting into a toilet (driving the Porcelain bus)
Piker someone who does not want to do, what the rest of the group want to do
Pash or Pashing kissing and cuddling
Paw-paw Queensland papaya fruit (tropical)
Paper yabber letter
Push-bike Bicycle
as Proud as a rat with a gold tooth someone is very proud with how they look or something have done
Pommy or Pom english person
Pat-malone you are on your own, alone
Puffed you are out of breath
your Plates of meat your feet
Pie floater a meat pie floating in pea soup(mash), usually with lots of
sauce(traditional aussie tucker)
Playing Possum pretending ,usually pretending your are sleep
away with the Pixies day dreaming
Piss into the wind futile excercise
Piddle urinate
Piece of Piss something is easy
don't Piss in my Pocket someone is telling you their troubles and you are not interested
Pocket billiards male with one hand in his pockets adjusting his genitals
Pussyfoot to hesitate to move or act over cautiously
Pull your head in tell a person to mind their own business
alot on the Plate you have a lot to do
Q
Quid money
Quack doctor
not the full Quid not quite up to scratch mentally
R
Ripped off you've been cheated
it's a Ripsnorter something is really great
I been doing a Roaring trade you been doing a lot of business
Righto okay or that's right
Ridgie didge true or genuine article
Rellie relative or family
it's a Ripper it's really great
Ring in replacement for the real thing, imposter
Reckon you are right believe or think you're right
Raining cats'n'dogs heavy storm & rain
smells Ripe smells off or bad
Rack off tell someone to go now, in an angry way, get lost
Rapt overjoyed
Root sexual intercourse
Rafferty's Rules every thing is a mess, done all wrong, with no rules at all
you got the Rough end of the pineapple you got the worst end of the deal
the Rag newspaper OR a women who sleeps around
you'd have to Run around in a the shower to get wet you are very thin
Ringer the fastest and best sheep shearer
Road train multi-trailered truck, strung together to resemble a train
Rooted very tired
Ropable very ill tempered or angry
RS lousy (rat shit)
Rug up dress warmly
Ratbag not a nice person
Racing off having sex with
putting the Red steer into the paddock burning off the paddock or field
don't come the Raw prawn don't tell me that lie or don't act like you don't know what is going on
Rug Rat baby
wouldn't it Rot your socks! expression of disgust
Ring anus
Rip snorter something is great
Rubber an eraser or condom
Ripe something has gone off or someone is off (not very nice)
S
Sanger or Sanga a Sandwich
Sandgroper someone who lives a the state of Western Australia (very sandy state)
you've been Sacked you have been fired from work
Scone your head
great Australian Salute swatting flies
Short and curlies pubic hair, when someone states they've got you by the short and curlies you're in a bad position
going for a Slash going to urinate
up the Spout pregnant
Stone the crows! exclamation of shock at something
Smoko have a break and usually have something to eat and drink and have a cigarette if you are allowed
you Scrub-up well a compliment meaning you are well groomed and dressed
She'll be right! this means everything will be okay
no Sweat no worries
I'll Sort it I'll fix it what ever it is
I don't give a Stuff I don't care about something
my Shout buying friends a beer at a pub, then it's their turn to buy you one
Strewth shock at something
good Sport someone who is good about loosing
a Shark used car salesman
you look pretty Swank you look well dressed and groomed
something looks Swank something looks expensive
cheap Skate someone who will not spend money or tight wad
Sit on a beer take a long time to drink a beer
Stickybeak someone who can not mind their own business( nosy)
a Sparkie an electrician
Snag sausage (put a snag on the barbie) now that's what Aussies really do say(not bl...y shrimp)
Spud a potato
your've been Sprung you have been caught doing something you shouldn't have
Shack a simple dwelling or house
Silly Season Christmas holiday's
Slippery-dip a child's slide
Stick in the mud when someone is stopping you from doing something out of spite
Spit the dummie to get very up set at something
Snakey someone who is very up set or angry
Show you the ropes show you how to do a job
call a Spade a Spade telling something like it is, tactless
you Scrubber you're of poor quality and don't look after yourself
Scubber a farm animal gone bush
taking a Sickie taking time off work , with the reason of sickness, but you are well,
(it's the quintiscential thing that makes us Aussie)
Stubby small bottle of beer OR a pair of mens shorts
Scallops fried potato encased in batter
School group of drinkers, each of whom buys a round of drinks
Schooner large beer glass (NSW & SA)
See you in the Soup see you around
Shellacking complete defeat
Shivoo rowdy party
Shonky unreliable, a very suspect deal
Shoot through to leave in a hurry
Shove off! go away, said in a angry way
Shirty to get upset or angry
Skite to boast or brag about ones personal accomplishments
Slog hard work
what a Spunk (Spunky) good-looking, attractive
Squatter someone who lives on someone else's land or in someone else's house
without permission
Stinger Box Jellyfish
Strine alot of Aussie slang said at once
Swag canvas bag or cover that you keep all your belongings and bedroll in, to protect it
from the weather when
camping out
Slow as a wet weekend it means you are doing something very slowly
Sausage Short of the barbecue short of brains
Stroppy someone in a bad mood and being difficult
Strides trousers
Shark biscuit new surfers
to Scrounge to get something for free
to Scrounge around to hurriedly look for something
Shag have sex with someone
Speedo's bathers
Slugo's mens bather's (speedo's)
Scungies bather's
dick Stickers bathers
Stuffed very tired
Scarce as hen's teeth something extremely rare
Square off get ready for a fight
Square up apologise or make good
he had to run around in the Shower to get wet someone who is very skinny
a Septic tank American (not nice)
Seppo American
a Shag on a rock alone and stuck away from others
pull up Stumps moving home, changing address
Shank's pony going some where by foot
Squib out you are backing out of something, chickening out
wouldn't Shout in a shark attack will not take turns buying the drinks in a bar,
Short arms long pockets someone will not part with his money
have a Squiz at have a look at something
Satdee Saturday
Sundee Sunday
Sandshoes joggers, sneakers, trainers
