Know your Kiwi and Aussie phrases. Although 'all good' is the same in NZ and across the Tasman, there's some words and phrases that aren't. Dairy: While we know we are popping out to the corner stores, Aussies will be mystified. They call it a milk bar.
dairies, the female breasts; sometimes of a man.
someone who gets drunk easily (on a glass and a half): You are such a cadbury. Contributor's comments: My son's friends in Armidale NSW used this to describe both those who got drunk easily and also those who got very silly after smoking a small amount of dope.
Head of cattle is usually used only after a numeral. Australian, New Zealand and British farmers use the term beast or cattle beast. Bovine is also used in Britain. The term critter is common in the western United States and Canada, particularly when referring to young cattle.
Icy-pole: Ice cream or popsicle.
That being said, let's start with something most of us will probably have sitting in the fridge or pantry: ketchup. Ketchup is underrated. We call it tomato sauce in Australia. Or just “sauce”.
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.
A female kangaroo is known as a ' flyer ' or a ' doe ' and a male kangaroo a ' buck ' or a ' boomer ' (hence the nickname of the Australian men's basketball team, the Boomers). They live in social groups called mobs .
Jumbuck is an Australian word for a 'sheep'. It is best known from Banjo Paterson's use of it in Waltzing Matilda.
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'.
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.
In Australia and New Zealand "tinny" or "tinnie" is also commonly used as slang for a small open aluminium boat.
“Sack”. “A sack” or “The sack”, this is a noun.
The middle finger emoji represents the physical act of raising one's middle finger—considered an obscene gesture in many cultures—and is used for offensive or humorous effect.
Runners: this is what Australians call their sneakers or trainers.
Bogan: Australian slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are unrefined or unsophisticated.
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.
The shoe known in Australia as a "thong" is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world.
Yeah nah yeah = yes.
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.
Some countries refer to the fruit as “sweet melon” and “Crenshaw melon.” In South Africa, it's often called “spanspek.” However, Australians and New Zealanders tend to call it a rockmelon. That fact definitely surprised plenty of American TikTokers who commented on Liu's video. Advertisement.