Train stations along the Gold Coast in Queensland have become a hotspot for 'eshays' to hangout. Across social media there's countless videos of 'ehsays' attacking other school aged kids, the elderly and vulnerable.
The eshay is considered by some as the sickest crew around and by others a scourge on society. This generally male youth subculture is the Australian equivalent of the British chavs or roadmen. The culture and accompanying aesthetic came out of the low-income housing estates of inner Sydney and Melbourne.
Residents of the coastal suburb of Wynnum, 26km east of Brisbane (Wynnum Esplanade pictured) are concerned about the increasing number of eshays plaguing their community. Locals believe that the youth counterculture is having a serious impact on the community and many fear walking the streets.
Noun. (Australia, slang) A member of an Australian youth subculture favouring sportswear and electronic dance music, and commonly associated with criminal activity. (Australia, slang) A delinquent teenager; a chav.
Eshays wear Nike TN trainers with polo shirts, puffer jackets, tracksuit pants or baggy shorts and baseball caps. Favoured labels include Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, and Lacoste, paired with Nautica, Adidas, Under Armour and Ellesse. Some eshays scramble words and put 'ay' on the end in a form of pig Latin.
Eshays, or lads, are often considered stereotypically hypermasculine and inclined to crime and violence. They may be affiliated with other local youths from a postcode, hang out in groups, use slang derived from Pig Latin, wear sportswear, and engage in intimidating and anti-social behaviour.
Apparently this is some sort of horrific Australian rude boi slang. It started out as Pig Latin for sesh or session and eventually became so common it just means "cool" now.
extremely derogatory term for a person less intelligent than oneself: You're such a gronk.
Well. . . basically, an eshay is the Australian equivalent of the British Chav. Like any subculture, eshays are defined by a set of values, for eshays these include: Outfits: Polo shirts, shorts, trackies, bumbags, speed dealers (90s style sunglasses) and puffer jackets.
Noun. gronk (plural gronks) (Australia, derogatory, informal) An unintelligent and callous person.
Train stations along the Gold Coast in Queensland have become a hotspot for 'eshays' to hangout. Across social media there's countless videos of 'ehsays' attacking other school aged kids, the elderly and vulnerable.
Notorious rapper and convicted criminal Spanian has made a name for himself as one of the 'original' Sydney eshays. The controversial artist is known for speaking candidly about his life of crime, imprisonment, drug addiction and growing up in inner city Woolloomooloo.
What are Eshays called in New Zealand? The term eshay is similar to the UK phrase 'chav' and can be interchangeable with 'lad', which in turn sometimes becomes 'adlay'.
Eshays are known for their trademark style - which typically includes flashy Nike shoes, high-end branded polo shirts and gym shorts or tracksuit pants. The common style for an eshay is a t-shirt, polo shirt or hoodie, partnered with a bum bag across their chest.
What is an Eshay in Heartbreak High? An Eshay is essentially an Australian lad, Urban Dictionary notes. For comparison, an Eshay can essentially be regarded as the equivalent of the word Chav in British slang.
"An eshay may be heard vocalising the words 'eetswa' or 'doin lad?' . This is sure a sign you have encountered an eshay. Keep your purse close and your cigarettes closer and do not strike up a conversation if it can be avoided."
The history of lad rap
Lad rap evolved out of the earcher or earching subculture -- nowadays called 'lads', 'adlays' or 'eshays' -- which originated in Sydney around suburbs like Waterloo, Redfern and Woolloomooloo in the 1980s.
Eetswa: slang for “sweet”
When host Jimmy Fallon told Jackson that Hill is first on the list, The Banker star replied: “That's some bulls***.” Hill has used a total of 376 curse words in film history, followed by Leonardo DiCaprio who has cursed 361 times. Jackson came in third with 301 curses used throughout his career.
d-word (plural d-words) (euphemistic, chiefly US And UK) The word damn.
The F-word was recorded in a dictionary in 1598 (John Florio's A Worlde of Wordes, London: Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount). It is remotely derived from the Latin futuere and Old German ficken/fucken meaning 'to strike or penetrate', which had the slang meaning to copulate.
Basically, the Pig Latin system used here works as follows:
You take the first letter of a word (e.g. Hello = H) and use the last letters (e.g. Hello = ello) and add 'ay' to the first letter (e.g. Hello = Ello hay). Words that start with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U) simply have "ay" appended to the end of the word.
1. If a word starts with a consonant and a vowel, put the first letter of the word at the end of the word and add "ay." 2. If a word starts with two consonants move the two consonants to the end of the word and add "ay."
Pig Latin is not a true language: it's a coded way of speaking based on English. It's not in vogue these days, but children still use it to speak 'privately' in order for adults not to understand them.
Wannabe teen gangsters known as eshays are wreaking havoc on the streets of Adelaide, committing “mindless crimes,” as their way to say “f*** the system.” The term eshay first originated in the 1980s to describe lower-class youths in public housing who intimidate, rob and deal drugs.