Aussies call this a "Serviette". Americans call this a"Napkin". #
napkin n. Cloth or paper towel to protect the clothes while eating. Australasians refer to napkins as serviettes.
Cozzie – swimming costume • Cranky – in a bad mood, angry • Crook – sick, or badly made • Cut lunch – sandwiches • Dag – a funny person • Daks – trousers • Dinkum, fair dinkum – true, real, genuine • Dipstick – a loser, idiot • Down Under – Australia and New Zealand • Dunny – outside toilet • Earbashing – nagging • ...
An ice cream float or ice cream soda, also known as a spider in Australia and New Zealand, is a chilled beverage that consists of ice cream in either a soft drink or a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water.
SAO biscuits are a savoury cracker biscuit that was launched in Australia in 1904 by Arnott's, the term SAO being trade marked in 1904.
In Scotland it is a slang term for testicles. Contributor's comments: I grew up in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and we always used the word goolies as a reference to testicles. Contributor's comments: Goolies were only ever the preserve of the male of the species - to be kicked in the goolies was very unpleasant!
Chewie: if someone asks you for some chewie, they're looking for a piece of chewing gum. Chuck a sickie: a worker who decides to take a sick day when they're actually in perfect health is chucking a sickie.
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".
Different parts of Australia use either ice block or icy pole (which is a brand name), and New Zealand uses ice block. In the Philippines the term ice drop is used with coconut flavor ice pops being called ice bukos.
In Australia, the playground slide is known as a slide, slippery slide, slipper slide or slippery dip depending on the region.
Also, we don't refer to gasoline as “gas” in Australia. We call it “petrol”… unless it's diesel. We often have a mini-market inside each gas station that sells food and offers other services.
Contributor's comments: The term 'povo' comes from the word poverty. Contributor's comments: [North Geelong informant] I would also say that this is used to describe someone who is tight arsed but not necessarily poor. Contributor's comments: poor and despised person: "Take no notice of him - he's just a povo."
Napkin - Serviette. Pudding - Sweet/Dessert/Afters. Pyjamas - PJs.
"Knickers" can also refer to male underwear, while the word panties generally refers only to female underwear. In Australia, male underpants are often referred to as "undies", although the word can also refer to panties.
On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to napkin, such as: cloth, towel, doily, serviette, wipe, and moist towelette.
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.
Contributor's comments: In Central Qld we still call Lunch "Dinner" and Dinner "Tea". Also, morning and afternoon tea is "Smoko". Contributor's comments: This was the same for me growing up in the sixties in SW WA.
Over here in New Zealand we call the kitchen staple "tin foil" but in Aussie they call it "aluminium".
Get familiar with some of the most common phrases before you travel: Chilly bin – the Kiwi word for Esky.
In Aussie slang, a "Tucker" is a large lunch, and the Tucker Bag is the ideal bag for a large lunch, or a day out.
2. sheila – woman or female.
“Sack”. “A sack” or “The sack”, this is a noun.