The most common slang term for crocodile in Australia is simply “croc”. This is the one that is universally used and understood, thanks to its simplicity! There are a handful of other terms that are sometimes used, though, such as “flat dog,” “freshie”, “saltie” and “snapping handbag”.
A freshie is a freshwater crocodile while a saltie is a saltwater crocodile.
The name "dingo" comes from the Dharug language used by the Indigenous Australians of the Sydney area.
Very angry; crazy; eccentric. The phrase also takes the form mad as a snake. The different senses of the phrase derive from the fact that 'mad' has two main senses - 'crazy' and 'angry'.
Cockroach – someone from New South Wales. Dead horse – rhyming slang for tomato sauce. Devo – short for devastated, used to show how upset someone is, as in 'I'm devo that I dropped my pie on the ground'. Dodgy – not quite right, disagreeable or suspicious.
Sharks themselves have been dubbed 'Noah's arks', in an example of Australian rhyming slang (another import from our British origins), sometimes abbreviated to 'Noahs'.
Australian and New Zealand Slang. a person imposed upon or made a fool of; victim.
For instance, the Jim-brits or Jimmy Britts, shortened to “the jimmies,” is Australian rhyming slang for diarrhoea; “Jimmy” (or “Jimmy Grant”) is an immigrant, so not only is this a deft expression, it is also a neat insult of the Australians' traditional enemy.
Many people recognize phrases like "shrimp on the barbie" (which isn't actually said in Australia), and "roo" (for kangaroo), but there are many more phrases that you'd hear during a trip or English course in Australia.
A person who is always in the know, a gossip queen, someone who knows everyone else's business: Shirley, stop spying on those kids you old dorry. Contributor's comments: No doubt the origins of this is from the popular 70's soap Number 96.
Here in Australia, however, McDonald's most prevalent nickname is “Macca's”.
Definition. In Australia, chips can refer to 'hot' chips; fried strips of potato. Chips also refer to what are known in other countries as crisps.
Cut snake (Mad as a): this is an extremely Australian way to say that someone is very angry. Dag: another word for a nerd or geek.
Dungalaba: crocodile, and a totem for the Larrakia people. "It's a very important word for Larrakia people because it's one everyone wants to be linked to," the Aboriginal Bush Traders officer said. "It's also one of the primary clans of Larrakia people.
Contributor's comments: Mud-lark is a very common term in Adelaide for the Magpie-lark, which is used just as often. The bird is believed to be the Piping Shrike, South Australia's prolific emblem. As such, the bird is also known so, but less commonly.
The shoe known in Australia as a "thong" is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world.
8. Hooroo = Goodbye. The Australian slang for goodbye is Hooroo and sometimes they even Cheerio like British people.
Jumbuck is an Australian word for a 'sheep'. It is best known from Banjo Paterson's use of it in Waltzing Matilda.
Bogan. (Noun) An uncouth or uncultured person, usually. See also: feral, ratbag, reptile, bevan etc. “I can't understand that bogan's broad Australian accent.”
Loo or dunny - Thesea are slang term for toilet.
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Chuck means, among other things, to vomit, as in he chucked up on my carpet! Lovely. Thankfully chuck also has some less gross meanings. In Australia certain things are chucked rather than 'done' or 'taken'.
Got The Hots For: The act of having a crush on someone.
i.e. “OMG so Sally Jones totally has the hots for Johnno.”
Dating back to the 17th Century, to bilk is to cheat, swindle or to evade a payment on a debt. Eelie is an obsolete Aussie underworld slang word for a confidence trick or the ruse by which a swindle is affected, probably extracted from eelerspee, an obsolete word for a con artist.
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.
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.