Shilling: bob or deener or dina. Florin: two bob or swy. 1937 or 1938 crown: casey's cartwheel -named after the treasurer of the time Lord Casey who proposed the coin. Ten shillings: half-fidly.
Deena is a name of Hebrew origin, meaning 'valley'. It is a feminine name that is often used as a short form of the name Dinah. The name Deena is often associated with the biblical character Dinah, daughter of Jacob and Leah.
Zac, trey and deener
A zac was a sixpence, a trey a threepence and a deener was a shilling coin.
sheila. A girl or woman. This word first appeared in Australian English in 1832 with the spelling shelah. It was initially used in Australia to refer to a woman of Irish origin, but from the late 19th century onwards it became a general term for a woman or girl.
A trey was the term used for threepence, zac was for sixpence (now 5 cents) deener or bob for 1/- (now 10 cents), a tenner for 10/- (now $1) and a brick or quid for 1 pound (now $2), As we are approaching Australia Day, it is not only coins that bring back memories of Aussie slang terminology.
Australians use some fun slang words to refer to their colorful paper money. Some of these terms include prawn for the pink five dollar bill, blue swimmer for the blue 10, lobster for the red 20, and pineapple for the yellow 50.
Charley Wheeler - "sheila" or "sheilah", Australian slang for a woman. After the famous Australian painter Charles Wheeler.
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.
Australians more commonly refer to their girlfriends by the kind of generic slang you might hear elsewhere in the English speaking world, such as babe or sweetie. However, some specifically Australian examples of slang include the old classic “Sheila”, “missus” or just “love”.
See also: 'Dirty Bird' (KFC).
For instance, the Jim-brits or Jimmy Britts, shortened to “the jimmies,” is Australian rhyming slang for diarrhoea; “Jimmy” (or “Jimmy Grant”) is an immigrant, so not only is this a deft expression, it is also a neat insult of the Australians' traditional enemy.
A toilet. The dunny was originally any outside toilet.
Dina or Dinah (Arabic: دينا, Hebrew: דִּינָה, also spelled Dena, Deena) is a female given name.
Latin. From the Latin paulus, meaning "small" or "humble".
Broadcaster and wordsmith Kel Richards says the meaning of the Australian phrase “hoo roo” is simply “goodbye”. That is the Australian version – it doesn't exist anywhere else in the world – but it's descended from a group of English words like hoorah and hooray,” he told Sky News host Chris Smith.
Jumbuck is an Australian term for a male sheep, and is featured in Banjo Paterson's poem "Waltzing Matilda".
Jerry: verb (i) (jerried, jerrying) Colloquial (sometimes followed by to) to understand; realise: he jerries to what's going on.
Grom stems from the word grommet, a term generally used to denote the lowest ranking members of a naval ship. This term was then borrowed by the Australian surf community to describe young, skilled surfers, employed as both a term of respect and a way to poke a little fun at the younger guys and girls in the water.
A fifty-dollar note is also known colloquially as a "pineapple" or the "Big Pineapple" because of its yellow colour. The $100 note is currently green and is known colloquially as an "avocado" or "green tree frog", but between 1984 and 1996 it was grey, and was called a grey nurse (a type of shark).
Australia's colourful bank notes are known by many colloquial names. The twenty-dollar note is referred to as a lobster, while the fifty-dollar note is called a pineapple, and don't we all want to get our hands on a few jolly green giants, that is, hundred-dollar notes?
Australian currency is in dollars and cents. We use the dollar symbol $ and the cent symbol ¢. In text, we identify Australian dollars with AUD.