What is a Chewie in Australian slang?

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.

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What does Chewie mean in Australia?

/ (ˈtʃuːɪ) / noun. Australian informal chewing gum.

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What do Australians call a pretty girl?

Most commonly, stunner is used to describe a person—often not to their face. So, someone who is particularly attractive would be a stunner: “I met this total stunner the other night,” for example.

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What is the C word in Australian slang?

'Come over for a few coldie's mate. ' C*nt, the “C” word – Used when exchanging pleasantries between close friends or family member. If someone calls you the “C” word in Australia (and you haven't done anything to make them angry), then breathe a sigh of relief… it means you have entered the mate zone.

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What is Aussie slang for mouth?

'Gob 'is the word for mouth, it belongs to slang language, it is a bit rude to use the word, like' Shut your gob'! Gob means mouth here in Australia, the UK, and NZ. It's a bit rude to say, and would be used in a phrase such as 'shut your gob!

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What do Aussies call condoms?

Dinger. The term 'dinger' may have originated from popular culture, such as television shows, movies, and music; however, it's unknown exactly when the term was first coined. It's commonplace to refer to a condom as a 'dinger' in Australia.

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What do Aussies call a chicken in slang?

Chook comes from British dialect chuck(y) 'a chicken; a fowl' which is a variant of chick. 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 does Dag mean in Australian slang?

Dag is an Australian and New Zealand slang term, also daggy (adjective). In Australia, it is often used as an affectionate insult for someone who is, or is perceived to be, unfashionable, lacking self-consciousness about their appearance and/or with poor social skills yet affable and amusing.

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What is a choof?

Cannabis is a depressant drug that can have hallucinogenic effects. Cannabis is also known as choof, grass, pot, weed, hash, reefer, dope, herb, mull, Buddha, ganja, joint, stick, buckets, cones, skunk, hydro, yarndi, smoke, hooch, or green.

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What is a Coldie in Aussie slang?

The locals will go out of their way to make you feel welcome, and you might even be invited to a backyard barbie (barbecue) to have a chinwag (chat) and a coldie (cold beer).

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What do Aussies call beer?

But the Australian slang for beer is amber fluid. Some states call it a pint, and in others, it is a schooner. Stubby meaning?

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What does chewie girl mean?

What is the meaning of the name Chewie? The name Chewie is primarily a gender-neutral name of American origin that means Likes To Chew Or Short For Chewbacca.

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What is Chewie short for?

Chewbacca (/tʃuːˈbɑːkə/ choo-BAH-kə), nicknamed "Chewie", is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.

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What are cockies Aussie slang?

Cocky may mean: boldly or brashly self-confident. Australian slang for cockatoo. Australian and New Zealand slang for farmer.

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What is a Jimmy in Australia?

By 1845 immigration was well established in Australia and people began playing with the word immigrant. An immigrant, someone choosing Australia as a place to live, was playfully referred to as Jimmy Grant (or just jimmy).

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What is Australian slang for cigarette break?

Smoko = A break at work.

Traditionally used when having a cigarette break.

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What does puff mean in Australia?

"effeminate man, male homosexual," c. 1850, perhaps a corruption of puff. The Australian extended form poofter is attested from 1910.

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What is the Aussie word for kiss?

Pash (pash) / Kiss

An indelicate description of kissing passionately, hence the name. Pashing typically leads to two things: pash rash (red marks around the lips caused by excessive kissing), and/or rooting (the crass Australian term for the birds and the bees).

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What is slang for girl in Australian?

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A sheila is a woman. In use since the 1830s, sheila has its origin in a generic use of the common Irish girl's name.

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What do Aussies call being sick slang?

If you're feeling unwell, you could say you are crook. If someone is angry, you could say they've 'gone crook'.

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Why do Australians 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 do Aussies call sandwiches?

sanger. 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.

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What is a Jimmy hat mean?

Noun. jimmy hat (plural jimmy hats) (slang) A condom. synonym ▲ Synonyms: see Thesaurus:condom.

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