bluey. / (ˈbluːɪ) / noun Australian informal. a blanket. a swagman's bundle.
(Australian slang) A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.
' Other Aussie terms from Bluey that have left Americans baffled include wackadoo (something eccentric), dunny (toilet), and brekky (breakfast). Some American parents say their children have picked up the lingo by watching the show and even speak in Aussie accents now.
The nickname Bluey originated in the 1890s and was used as a nickname throughout World War One to refer to red-haired soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force, especially from New South Wales. During the Second World War, nearly every redhead was nicknamed Bluey, and it spread to civilian life.
The Heeler family is Dad (Bandit), Mum (Chilli), Bluey and Bingo (Bluey's sister). The show's creators loosely modeled the talking dogs after Australian blue heelers. Six-year-old Bluey and her little sister Bingo have rock star parents in Bandit and Chilli Heeler.
hump bluey in British English
or hump one's bluey. to carry one's bundle; tramp.
Everyone loves Bandit from Bluey – but is he a lovable larrikin, or just a 'bad dad'? Bandit Heeler is a hero. The cartoon father of Bluey and her younger sister Bingo, Bandit is the much-loved dad dog at the heart of Australia's favourite four-legged family.
In the UK, we call it toilet or loo. Some people call it the bog. If we're going outside, say on a walk in the woods, we used to call it a liberating wee, but since seeing Bluey call it a Bush wee.
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.
5. Sheila = Girl. Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
'Ranga' is an abbreviation of 'orangutan'. Used mostly in Australia, the word has gradually spread across the world and has now been adopted to refer to all redheads. It's thought that is began being used as a derogatory word around the 1990s in Australia school yards.
He is the first known character to be neurodivergent, in his case he has ADHD. In Explorers, it is revealed that Jack and his family are from Victoria.
Chook raffle is an Australian tradition of "raffling off", often in clubs or pubs, a "chook", which is an Australian slang term for a chicken. Most often the chicken is prepared by a butcher, but live chickens are sometimes raffled.
To “throw shade” means to insult or say something unkind about someone.
Pacifiers have many different informal names: binky or wookie (American English), dummy (Australian English and British English), piece, paci, bo-bo, nookie, teething ring, device, sugar tit, teether, comforter, soother (Canadian English and Hiberno-English), and Dodie (Hiberno-English).
Some people may use Australian slang and say “G'day” or “G'day mate”. However, this is less common in cities. Many Australians greet by saying “Hey, how are you?”. This is usually spoken as a simple greeting, and is not an actual enquiry about your wellbeing.
Even though Bluey is blue, Bluey is a girl. That's because Bluey and Bandit are Blue Heeler dogs, so she looks like her dad.
Despite people wrongly assuming that the titular star of the Nickelodeon series Blue's Clues is a boy, she's also a girl. The original Blue's Clues series ran from 1996 to 2006, and the reboot, Blue's Clues & You, debuted in 2019.
1 of the most popular Bluey theories I see float around is that bingo has Celiacs disease. so this theory comes from two different episodes of Bluey. the first is where Bingo's in the hospital but we never really find out why.
Some people theorized this was a genetic trait, but some theorized that Socks was autistic. Despite Bluey having a crib in Baby Race, Socks had a dog bed in Verandah Santa. This may indicate that this happens often. It is possible that Socks was going through a phase where she acted like a dog.
E Street (TV Series 1989–1993) - Peter Casanelia as Bluey's Boyfriend - IMDb.
Muffin is Bluey and Bingo's cousin and big sister to Socks! Muffin has lots of energy and is always on the go. She likes being the flamingo queen! What's your favourite thing about Muffin?
Been keeping a list on my phone, thought you all might enjoy. sunnies (sunglasses), jocks (underpants), bush wee (pee on the grass), cheeky (troublemaker), kindy (kindergarten), holiday (vacation), caravan (RV), mate (buddy), scrub (forest?), dobber/dobbing (tattler/tattling), ya grub!
When Bingo and Bluey play “grannies,” Bingo is Rita, a slow moving, hard of hearing, somewhat laissez-faire granny. Rita has appeared in every season of the series, including “Grannies” (Season 1); “Bus” (Season 2); and “Granny Mobile” (Season 3; this episode has not yet aired in the U.S.).
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.