What do they call eggs in Australia?

In Australian English a goog is an egg.

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What is the Australian slang for eggs?

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.

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What is Australian slang for hen?

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.

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What is the Australian slang for girl?

Aussie Slang Words For Women:

Chick. Woman. Lady. Bird.

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What is Aussie slang for food?

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.”

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What do Australians call condoms?

/ (ˈfræŋə) / noun. Australian slang a condom.

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What do Aussies call broccoli in slang?

Brocci: Broccoli, nature's little edible tree.

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How do you say drunk in Australia?

Munted (mun-ted) / Drunk.

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What is mom Australian slang?

Certainly if you're in the US, your mother is your “mom” – short for “mommy” and in the UK, Australia and New Zealand it's “mum” – shortened from “mummy”.

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What is a hottie in Australian slang?

hottie (plural hotties) (slang, Australia, New Zealand, now rare) Synonym of hotshot. (slang, originally Australia) A physically or sexually attractive person.

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What do Australians call sleep?

Today's obviously an expression episode, and the expression that I want to teach you guys today is, “To hit the sack”, “To hit the sack” or “To hit the hay”, “To hit the hay”. And both of these expressions just mean to go to bed, to go to sleep.

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What do Australians call watermelon?

Some countries refer to the fruit as “sweet melon” and “Crenshaw melon.” In South Africa, it's often called “spanspek.” However, Australians and New Zealanders tend to call it a rockmelon. That fact definitely surprised plenty of American TikTokers who commented on Liu's video. Advertisement.

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What is the Aussie slang for cheating?

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.

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Why do Aussies call eggs Googs?

In Australian English a goog is an egg. It is an abbreviation of the British dialect word goggy 'a child's name for an egg', retained in Scotland as goggie. The phrase is a variation of an earlier British phrase in the same sense: full as a tick, recorded from the late 17th century.

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What is slang for egg?

'Egg' has become a kind of shorthand for "Internet troll," though the avatar can simply indicate that a user is new to Twitter or inexperienced with the platform.

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What is a Chookie in Australia?

chookie (plural chookies) (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A small or young domestic fowl; a chick.

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What does shags mean in Australia?

defecate: He went into the bushes to have a shag.

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What is Australian slang for Daddy?

The most common and uniquely Australian slang terms for dad are “ol' man” and “oldies,” which can refer to both parents as well. These are used more or less universally across the country and are understood by just about everyone. Australians also use many generic English slang terms for father like pops and papa.

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What do Aboriginals call their Mum?

Pap(a) is also found as 'mother', mainly in Victoria. Other kinship roots (for grandparents) have been shown to have a split distribution with one root dominating in the east and one in the west for what is apparently a single proto-meaning.

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What is cheeky aussie slang?

unpredictable behavior usually aggressive...used by mostly Aboriginal people to describe animal behavior: Look out for that croc it's properly cheeky one. That king brown snake was real cheeky so watch out you kids.

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What is Australian slang for friend?

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. In Australia, you'll also hear mate used in an ironic sense.

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What do Aussies call KFC?

See also: 'Dirty Bird' (KFC). “Let's pop into Maccas after the footy.”

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What is poor Aussie slang?

noun 1. a person who is poor: They can't afford to go - they're real povos. --adjective 2. poor, or befitting a poor person: povo clothes.

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What do Aussies call lollipops?

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.

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