There is actually a whole range of confusing terms you may encounter at an Australian barbecue. An "avo" is an avocado, a "chook" is a chicken, an "Esky" is a portable cooler, "snags" are sausages, "sunnies" are sunglasses and a "tinnie" is a can of beer.
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. The term has also been transferred to refer to other birds, and often in the form old chook it can refer to a woman.
Also called: chookie Australian informal a hen or chicken. Australian informal a woman, esp a more mature one.
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.
'Cobber' is a long-standing Australian term for a friend (it probably comes from the British dialect verb 'cob', meaning 'to take a liking to', or from Hebrew/Yiddish chaver, 'chum'), and to 'Dob someone in' is to incriminate them; the combination dates from the 1960s.
slang, British. : a child or young person. specifically : sweetheart.
(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.
Contributor's comments: The word "bubs" was short for "babies".
Contributor's comments: In Central Qld we still call Lunch "Dinner" and Dinner "Tea". Also, morning and afternoon tea is "Smoko". Contributor's comments: This was the same for me growing up in the sixties in SW WA.
Informal. a liberal, highly educated person who combines a bourgeois, affluent lifestyle with nonconformist values and attitudes.
cack (third-person singular simple present cacks, present participle cacking, simple past and past participle cacked) (Australian slang) To laugh. I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.
: timid, cowardly. slang. : insistent on petty details of duty or discipline. : petty, unimportant.
Bachelors Handbag
A slang term referring to a takeaway roast chicken, it's a suitably humorous and Australian choice.
a cowardly or fearful person. a young or inexperienced person, especially a young girl.
Snag. Source. [Noun] Definition: sausage, also used to refer to sliced bread and sausage combo, Australian hot dog. Example: “Grab a few snags for the party tonight!”
Aussie Word of the Week
Aussies have a plethora of names for sausages and the ways and contexts in which we eat them. Snag is perhaps the most famous slang term for sausages, followed closely by banger. Many of us grab a sausage sanga down at the local hardware store.
Mate. “Mate” is a popular word for friend. And while it's used in other English-speaking countries around the world, it has a special connection to Australia. In the past, mate has been used to address men, but it can be gender-neutral. In Australia, you'll also hear mate used in an ironic sense.
dunny – a toilet, the appliance or the room – especially one in a separate outside building. This word has the distinction of being the only word for a toilet which is not a euphemism of some kind. It is from the old English dunnykin: a container for dung. However Australians use the term toilet more often than dunny.
Sheila = Girl
Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
(Australia, New Zealand, euphemistic) A fart. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Durries and darts: the quintessentially Aussie slang for cigarettes.