What is a dish licker Australian slang?

Dish licker. Usually means a canine/dog. The dish lickers ate the roast, while it was defrosting on the table! ( The bloody dogs ate our roast.) I done me dough on the dish lickers last night! (

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What is a dish licker slang?

dishlicker (plural dishlickers) (Australia, slang) A greyhound.

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What is bikkie in Australian slang?

In the case of Australian slang, words are clipped, and then a diminutive suffix is added to the clipped word. In this case, bikkie (the colloquial Australian word for a cookie), is clipped slang for biscuit (the British English word for a type of cookie), and it uses the -ie diminutive suffix.

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What is the Australian slang for hungry?

Decoding Australia's colourful food slang. "I could eat the bum out of an elephant. Let's have some tucker." Translation: I'm really hungry.

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What is a Dingleberry in Australian slang?

idiot, loser: Don't be a dingleberry. Also, dangleberry.

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Does Dingleberry mean balls?

At the same store they were selling a really unfortunately named candy: “DINGLEBEARIES” So, does “dingleberry” not mean the same thing up north? Because in Texas, dingleberries are the dried balls of feces that get stuck to the hairy buttholes of farm animals.

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What is slang for Australian $5?

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.

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What is chooky Australia?

Also called: chookie Australian informal. a hen or chicken. 3. Australian informal. a woman, esp a more mature one.

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What does ankle biter mean in Australia?

Ankle biter : small child.

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What does daggy mean in Australia?

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 slang for girl in Australia?

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.

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What is McDonald in Australian slang?

“Macca's” is a nickname for Mcdonald's. If you used the term Macca's in the U.S. or Canada, you'd get some funny looks. But the term is very common in Australia. In fact, McDonald's changed its name to Macca's at stores across the country for Australia Day in 2013 – and still refers to itself as Macca's today.

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What does dusty mean in Australia?

dusty. not feeling good - not of great quality - less than 'it' should be pertaining to quality: Hit the turps last - feelin pretty dusty this mornin'.

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What is a Drongo in Australian slang?

A drongo is a slow-witted or stupid person: a fool.

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What is bottom licker?

buttlicker (plural buttlickers) (US, slang, derogatory) A contemptible person; an ass-kisser. (US, slang) Someone who performs anilingus.

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What does cut snake mean in Australia?

The title comes from the Australian idiom "mad as a cut snake" which describes either insanity or anger so extreme you don't want to get near it.

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What does chinwag mean in Australia?

Australia is an incredibly beautiful, laid-back, warm and vibrant country. 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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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 is a Shazza in Australia?

Proper noun. Shazza. A diminutive of the female given name Sharon.

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What do Australians call BBQ?

Australia. In Australia, barbecuing is a popular summer pastime, often referred to as a "barbie". Traditional meats cooked are lamb chops, beef steak, and sausages (colloquially known as "snags").

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What do Australians call cash?

Australian currency

You'll use Australian dollars (AUD or AU$) while you're here. One dollar equals 100 cents. Australian dollars come in $100, $50, $20, $10, and $5 banknotes. $1 and $2 dollars come in coins.

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What is $20 called in Aussie?

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?

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What is $100 Aussie slang?

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).

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Why do guys get Dingleberries?

If you wipe with standard dry toilet paper, you're probably not getting a clean sweep down there. TP doesn't remove poop—it just smears it around your hole. After a few hours, the residue gets crusty and turns into dingleberries.

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