Australian and New Zealand English uses "chips" both for what North Americans call french fries and for what Britons call chips. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" and "cold chips" are used.
Tucker is a word that Australians use for food. You will hear this word used a lot in more in country towns compared to the city. “I'm really hungry, I can't wait to get some tucker.”
It is commonly claimed that New Zealanders say 'fush and chups' and Australians say 'feesh and cheeps'. This 2009 cartoon refers to a survey conducted by the BBC in the United Kingdom, in which the New Zealand accent was rated as the most attractive and prestigious form of English outside the UK.
Aussie is a term of identification for people of all multicultural backgrounds that identify as an Australian.
Let's start with the most common, most well-known, and most quintessentially Australian slang term for girls: Sheila. While everywhere else in the English-speaking world, Sheila is a specific person's name, in Australia it can be used to refer to any woman or girl.
While some Australian speakers would pronounce “no” as a diphthong, starting on “oh” as in dog and ending on “oo” as in put, others begin with an unstressed “a” (the sound at the end of the word “sofa”), then move to the “oh” and then “oo”.
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.
The term 'Chippy' is commonly used in Australia and the UK to refer to carpenters.
In the case of Australian slang, words are clipped, and then a diminutive suffix is added to the clipped word. In this case, bikkie (the colloquial Australian word for a cookie), is clipped slang for biscuit (the British English word for a type of cookie), and it uses the -ie diminutive suffix.
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.
One of the most infamous Australian idiosyncrasies is the word for flip flop: the 'thong'.
Ketchup is underrated. We call it tomato sauce in Australia.
Brocci: Broccoli, nature's little edible tree. Bloke: A man.
See also: devo (devastated), servo (service station), avo (avocado), ambo (ambulance personnel) etc. “I bumped into Johnno at the servo this arvo.”
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.
Spit the dummy: Acting like a child. Couldn't run a chook raffle: Unorganised/useless.
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.
Australia's colourful bank notes are known by many colloquial names. The twenty-dollar note is referred to as a lobster, while the fifty-dollar note is called a pineapple, and don't we all want to get our hands on a few jolly green giants, that is, hundred-dollar notes?
The term "esky" is also commonly used in Australia to generically refer to portable coolers or ice boxes and is part of the Australian vernacular, in place of words like "cooler" or "cooler box" and the New Zealand "chilly bin".
Tatie. Meaning: (Noun) An Australian slang for potatoes that is derived from “Taters.”
Traditional IPA: tæˈtuː 2 syllables: "ta" + "TOO"