What do Aussies call a chicken in slang?

chook (plural chooks) (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A chicken, especially a hen.

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What do Aussies call chickens?

chook. A domestic fowl; a chicken. Chook comes from British dialect chuck(y) 'a chicken; a fowl' which is a variant of chick. Chook is the common term for the live bird, although chook raffles, held in Australian clubs and pubs, have ready-to-cook chooks as prizes.

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What is a chook in slang?

slang. a woman. interjection. 3. (used as a call for poultry or pigs)

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What is British slang for chicken?

1 Answer. The word chicken is often used to describe someone who is scared (fearful) of something. For example if you and your friends had decided to go bungy jumping and one the day one of your friends pulled out of the arrangement, or did not jump, the others might call him 'chicken'.

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What does Rooster mean in slang Australia?

Rooster = A guy. “

He's a good lookin' rooster”

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What is an Ocker Aussie?

ocker. An uncouth, uncultivated, or aggressively boorish Australian male, stereotypically Australian in speech and manner; a typical or average Australian male. Ocker is also used as an adjective meaning characteristically Australian; uncouth, uncultured, or aggressively boorish in a stereotypically Australian manner.

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What does chooky mean in Australia?

noun. Also called: chookie Australian informal a hen or chicken. Australian informal a woman, esp a more mature one. interjection. Australian a exclamation used to attract chickens.

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What is a chicken in slang for a girl?

(a) a young woman, esp. a prostitute (but note cite 1882); thus chicken-chaser, chicken-hustler, a womanizer; also attrib.

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What is slang for chicken chook?

Chook raffle is an Australian tradition of "raffling off", often in clubs or pubs, a "chook", which is an Australian slang term for a chicken. Most often the chicken is prepared by a butcher, but live chickens are sometimes raffled.

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What does Chick mean in slang?

slang a girl or young woman, esp an attractive one.

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What is a Chewie in Australian slang?

Chewie: if someone asks you for some chewie, they're looking for a piece of chewing gum. Chuck a sickie: a worker who decides to take a sick day when they're actually in perfect health is chucking a sickie.

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What does choof mean in Australia?

(tʃuːf ) verb (intransitive) Australian slang. 1. to move in a particular manner or direction. But the less adventurous could choose to 'choof along' at 20 to 30km/h.

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What is a dirty chook?

Chook: A chicken. In the show, it's wonderfully used in the phrase “made you look, you dirty chook.” See also: “Bin chicken,” an uncharitable name for the ibis, a bird whose long beak can make quick work of a rubbish bin. Dunny: A toilet, traditionally outdoors but more commonly now indoors.

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What is Australian slang for chicken egg?

Australians use a couple of other colloquial words for a hen's egg. The Australian English word googie or goog is an informal term that dates from the 1880s. It derives from British dialect goggy, a child's word for an egg. A closer parallel to the jocular bum nut, however, is the word cackleberry.

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How do you say chicken in Australian accent?

Modern IPA: ʧɪ́kən. Traditional IPA: ˈʧɪkən. 2 syllables: "CHIK" + "uhn"

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What is a chook in New Zealand?

chook (plural chooks) (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A chicken, especially a hen. quotations ▼ (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking. (Australia, dated) A fool.

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What is street slang for chicken head?

Chickenhead is an American English slang term that is typically used in a derogatory manner toward women. The term mocks the motion of the head while performing oral sex on a man, but contains social characteristics and cultural relevance as well, and is frequently heard in popular hip hop music.

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Why does my girlfriend call me chicken?

Generally it means small and cute. So it's an endearment much like 'honey', 'dear', 'darling' etc…but unlike the others it is used for women, either by their spouses or by family members.

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What is a street chick?

a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets. synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, streetwalker.

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What are chicken littles slang?

a person who constantly warns that a calamity is imminent; a vociferous pessimist: The Chicken Littles are warning that the stock market will collapse.

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Why do Australians call eggs Googs?

In Australian English a goog is an egg. It is an abbreviation of the British dialect word goggy 'a child's name for an egg', retained in Scotland as goggie. The phrase is a variation of an earlier British phrase in the same sense: full as a tick, recorded from the late 17th century.

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What is Bikkie Aussie slang?

In this case, bikkie (the colloquial Australian word for a cookie), is clipped slang for biscuit (the British English word for a type of cookie), and it uses the -ie diminutive suffix.

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What does Bobo mean in Australia?

Informal. a liberal, highly educated person who combines a bourgeois, affluent lifestyle with nonconformist values and attitudes.

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What is a Billy Aussie?

The billy is an Australian term for a metal container used for boiling water, making tea or cooking over a fire. By the end of the 19th century the billy had become as natural, widespread and symbolic of bush life as the gum tree, the kangaroo and the wattle.

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What is a black chook?

Black chicken usually refers to a chicken with solid black plumage. Black chicken may also refer to: Ancona chicken, a breed that originated in Italy. Ayam Cemani, a breed that originated in Central Java, Indonesia. Jersey Giant, an American breed created by John and Thomas Black.

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