Ballarat. Meaning: What is this? (Noun): Australian slang word for cat.
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Whip the cat, an Aussie slang expression since the 1840s, means to vent frustration over something that can't be changed. Essentially, to cry over spilt milk. From phrases to memes, cats appear again and again in our culture and language. We have more than a few cat people here at Macquarie!
noun,plural mog·gies. British Informal. a cat.
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.
'mob' — Australia - beef cattle. Dairy cattle - herd or mob.
To dog, as a verb, can mean to insult someone in front of his friends. In Australian slang it is used for a police informer.
Specifically, the catgirl (a woman with cat ears, whiskers, and sometimes paws or a tail) is referred to as a neko. Neko is also Japanese slang for “bottom,” or the submissive/receiving partner in a homosexual relationship. Additionally, neko is a high-level programming language created in 2005.
Outdoor cats, often called feral cats or community cats, are domestic cats who live outdoors and without a clear owner. SHARE.
Molly. The term “molly” is a general term for a female cat of any age. Unlike male cats being called either “toms” or “tomcats,” a female cat would only be referred to as a “molly” and not a “molly cat.” This is the term used from the time a kitten is born and can technically be used her whole life.
Initially, Urban Dictionary defined it as "an excited exclamation, particularly in sports and sexual contexts". It also compared the word to other interjections like "Yeah!" and "Ayt!" Cats make several easily-identifiable sounds with their mouths closed.
(slang) A cat's slow blink, interpreted as a sign of friendship.
The Cambridge Dictionary defines a “cool cat” as a fashionable person. I prefer the American Heritage Dictionary's slang definition of the word cool – composure or poise – because that so perfectly describes a cat's normal state of being.
Moggy or moggie is an old British affectionate term for a domestic cat, but is also used as alternative name for a mongrel or mixed-breed cat whose ancestry and pedigree are unknown or only partially known.
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.
A stray cat is a cat who lived indoors and was socialized to people at some point in her life, but has left or lost her home, or was abandoned, and no longer has regular human contact.
Cat (Felis catus), also called house cat or domestic cat, is a member of the family Felidae in the order Carnivora.
They also are called "house cats," "alley cats," "moggies" (in the U.K.), and in cat shows that allow them, these domestic, mixed-breed cats are usually in a class called "Household Pets."
A kitty is an amount of money gathered from several people, which is meant to be spent on things that these people will share or use together. You haven't put any money in the kitty for three weeks. countable noun.
ailurophile • \eye-LOOR-uh-fyle\ • noun. : a cat fancier : a lover of cats.
Bunnies v Bilbies. Apr 09, 2022. The Bilby is a native Australian animal sometimes called a rabbit-bandicoot because it has a long nose like a bandicoot and big ears like a rabbit. It is for this reason that some Australians consider replacing the Easter Bunny with an Easter Bilby.
“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.
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