Australians most commonly refer to a plumber as a “dunny diver”. This is used throughout Australia by all generations and is based on the other slang term “dunny” for toilet. There are some other slang terms used, such as “pipey,” “tradey” or even “Super Mario”. “Dunny diver” is the most common.
A dunny diver is a plumber, those stalwart tradies who install and repair piping, fixtures, appliances, and appurtenances in connection with the water supply and drainage systems.
Plumbers have lots of nicknames. Pipey is one you hear often. Mario is occasionally thrown about by other tradies. Super Mario, if you're any good with a spanner. And leaky is another one, although we're not sure if this one is meant quite as affectionately.
The term “tradie” is a slang word used in Australia that is commonly used to refer to tradesmen or tradeswomen.
Chippie: A chippie is a slang or a colloquial term for a carpenter. Example – “We've got three chippies and one labourer on site.”
“Hard yakka” means work hard. The word “yakka” – which first appeared in the 1840s – derives from the word for work (yaga). It comes from Yagara, an Indigenous language in Australia. In fact, many Australian English words derive from Indigenous languages.
18. Tradie — tradesman. The word tradie derives from the full word “tradesman,” which is a term for all those people who work doing a trade or a job that requires particular skills. For example, electricians, plumbers and carpenters have trade jobs.
A brickie is a bricklayer. This piece of Aussie slang has been around for yonks and was recorded as early as 1900.
The word tradie or derives from the word “tradesman.”
The term 'Chippy' is commonly used in Australia and the UK to refer to carpenters. The term is found as far back as the 16th century – no doubt in reference to the wood chips that flew as carpenters worked their magic.
From plumbum came plumbarius “a worker in lead,” a meaning that held up through Old French plomier, which became, in the 15th century, the English word plumber.
The characters move through pipes in the Mushroom Kingdom to collect coins and secret items in their quest to save Princess Toadstool from Mario's archenemy Bowser. In part due to the underground setting, Shigeru Miyamoto selected a plumber as the ideal profession for the hero of the video game.
The pipes, together with their fixtures, of a water, gas, or sewage system. pipes. drains. waterworks. sanitation.
Bogan: Australian slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are unrefined or unsophisticated.
(Australia, slang) The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk. (New Zealand) A potato chip. (demoscene, informal) A chiptune. (US) A chipping sparrow. (slang) An occasional drug habit, less than addiction.
Sparkie: The Australian term for an Electrician.
Bludger. A lazy person, someone who avoids work. eg. 'He never does any work – he's a total bludger.
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.
'Digger' was a colloquial name applied to Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) personnel that developed during the war (although the term was already applied to miners back in Australia and New Zealand).
Donga is an Australian slang term for a temporary, usually modular building, normally built of light weight materials and easily able to be moved from site to site. Typically associated with demountable classrooms and workers accommodation, linguists world wide have been puzzled over the origin of this strange term.
singlet – a sleeveless undershirt, known in British English as a vest and in American English as a tank top (or, colloquially, as a "wife beater"). Better known as an A Shirt in American English.
A sparky is an electrician. A brickie is a bricklayer.
However, present-day usage of the term "ute" in Australia and New Zealand has expanded to include any vehicle with an open cargo area at the rear, which would be called a pickup truck in other countries.