Boot: the trunk of a car. Booze bus: how Australians refer to mobile breath testing units. You might spot these big vans on the side of the road where police are conducting random breath tests of motorists. Caravan: a motor home or trailer.
Well in America it was common to strap a travelling trunk to the back of the car for luggage purposes. Here we predated that and horse drawn wagons, particularly living vans had a box in the same place that was for your dirty boots. So the boot box became simply the boot.
Ute: From the word “utility,” it's an Australian term for pickup truck. The cargo bed in a ute may also be referred to as a “tray.”
So, what's a ute? A ute it's a slang term in Australian English and a ute is just short for the phrase a 'utility vehicle' or what they would call 'a pickup' or 'a pickup truck' in the U.S. That's how they refer to it there.
The term 'ute' is simply Aussie slang.
However, there are some distinct historical differences between the two; the ute is basically a two-wheel-drive, traditional passenger vehicle with an integrated passenger tray to the body of the vehicle.
noun Australian Slang. the unconsumed end of a cigarette; cigarette butt.
donk (plural donks) (Australia, slang) A car's engine. (Australia, slang) A fool. (poker, slang, derogatory) A poor player who makes mistakes. (slang) A donkey (the animal).
Boot: the trunk of a car. Booze bus: how Australians refer to mobile breath testing units. You might spot these big vans on the side of the road where police are conducting random breath tests of motorists.
Ute, a utility coupe, lays on the chassis of a car. The front of the car, AKA passenger body and the rear of the car, AKA the cargo tray are in one piece. The reason for that can be found in ute's elementary purpose, being a people and load carrier for the farmers.
/ (ˈfræŋə) / noun. Australian slang a condom.
Why do Australians call sweets “lollies”, even when they have no sticks? According to British English from A to Zed by Norman Schur (Harper, 1991) “lolly” derives onomatopoetically for the mouth sounds associated with sucking or licking. The word “lollipop” came later.
A sandwich. Sanger is an alteration of the word sandwich. Sango appeared as a term for sandwich in the 1940s, but by the 1960s, sanger took over to describe this staple of Australian cuisine.
Australian-produced utes were traditionally rear-wheel drive and with the cargo tray integrated with the passenger body (as opposed to a pickup truck, where the cargo tray is separated from the passenger body).
Windscreen: The windshield of a car.
The cover on the front of a car is called a 'bonnet', rather than a 'hood', while an Australian will typically say 'holiday' instead of 'vacation'.
Mate. “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.
Daks: Australians call their trousers 'daks'.
the wet in British English
Australian. (in northern and central Australia) the rainy season.
The shoe known in Australia as a "thong" is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world.
Lunch at an Australian pub is called a counter lunch, while the term counter meal is used for either lunch or dinner. Common dishes served at counter lunches and counter meals are steak and chips, chicken parmigiana and chips, a mixed grill (an assortment of grilled meats), and roast lamb or beef with roast vegetables.
A meat pie: "I'll have a maggot bag and blood thanks." Meaning a pie and tomato sauce. Compare maggot sack, rat coffin.
Chook: A chicken. In the show, it's wonderfully used in the phrase “made you look, you dirty chook.” See also: “Bin chicken,” an uncharitable name for the ibis, a bird whose long beak can make quick work of a rubbish bin. Dunny: A toilet, traditionally outdoors but more commonly now indoors.
d-word (plural d-words) (euphemistic) The word damn.
a fatuous person; fool.