Australian and New Zealand English uses "chips" both for what North Americans call french fries and for what Britons call crisps. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" and "cold chips" are used.
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.
Why do Australians call both crisps and fries “chips”? American chips are what the British call crisps, while our British chips are usually shorter and more chunky than the sort called French fries; Australians use chips for both the American and British sorts, distinguishing the latter by calling them hot chips.
In Australia, chips are referred to as hot chips, while fries are called potato chips. These terms can be confusing for Americans, as the word "chip" is used to describe both types of food in the United States. What Do Australians Call Fish And Chips? Australians call fish and chips "fish and chips".
This vowel is famously expressed in the different way New Zealanders and Australians pronounce 'fish and chips' – a fast-food dish common in both countries. It is commonly claimed that New Zealanders say 'fush and chups' and Australians say 'feesh and cheeps'.
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roo – kangaroo
After all, the kangaroos are Australia's most popular animals.
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A survey, initiated by Dr Vaughan and fellow linguists Rosey Billington and Katie Jepson, found Western Australians and South Australians preferred to call it a potato fritter. Victorians stood by potato cake while those in NSW believed it was a scallop.
Contributor's comments: Sliced potatoes dipped in batter and fried. Called 'potato cakes' in Victoria but known as 'scollops' in NSW and the ACT: "I bought a couple of potato cakes from the fish 'n' chip shop the other day."
Generally, chook refers to the bird, snd chicken to the food eg chicken nuggets. But there are exceptions, such as “I'll pick up a barbequed chook on the way home".
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.
We call them lollies, but a lolly in England would only mean a lollipop on a stick. The English instead refer to regular lollies as “sweets” or “sweeties”, while they're known as “candy” Stateside.
porridge Oatmeal. pot Large mug of beer.
Crook. I'm sick. Now you try. For example, you might say, "I drank too many stubbies and now I'm feeling crook."
bub (plural bubs) (Australia, slang) A baby.
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