In UK/Australian slang, "John Dory" (often as "What's the John Dory?") is rhyming slang for "What's the story?" meaning "What's going on?" or "What's the situation?", derived from the name of the fish rhyming with "story," and sometimes implies an exaggerated or fabricated tale. It's less common now but rooted in London's East End and Aussie slang.
“What's the John Dory?” 🇦🇺 - apparently that means “what's going on” in Australian Slang... well, if you didn't know that, you'll be learning more and getting to know these two awesome people more TOMORROW!
John Dory are demersal, round fish. John Dory tend to be caught via demersal trawling in the North East Atlantic, where they are most abundant and best value from May to June and September to December.
John Dory is a fish found in Sydney Harbour and it's great grilled with lemon and pepper, or deep-fried. It also rhymes with story. So when people want to know what's going on, or they're requesting the “goss” (gossip), they ask what the John Dory is.
(British, slang) One's girlfriend, wife or significant other.
jaffa - to be 'seedless' as in infertile, one who 'fires blanks'
(British, informal, from Cockney rhyming slang, used especially in negative constructions) A word; a brief chat. We've not heard a dicky-bird about anything relating to his birthday.
like your bum is your fanny. In Australia, your front bum is your fanny, if you're a girl.
Galah. (Noun) A stupid or idiotic person; often accompanied by the adjective 'flaming'. Inspired by our very own native bird, known for flying into windows. “Nah mate, Johnno's a flamin' galah.”
"Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy, Oi Oi Oi" (often written as "Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi") is a patriotic Australian sports chant, a rallying cry of national pride, originating from older British cheers like "Oggy Oggy Oggy," with "Aussie" being slang for Australian, and "Oi" functioning as an emphatic interjection, similar to "Hey!" or "Go!". It's used at sporting events, sometimes considered a bit cheesy or "cringey" by some Australians, but generally seen as an inclusive way to support national teams.
The addition of "John" appears in 1609, and probably comes from a 17th-century song about a sea captain, John Dory. Etymologies claiming it comes from the French jaune dorée (meaning "golden yellow") which sounds like 'John Dory' in English, or the Italian gianitore 'janitor' are now rejected.
The unhealthiest fish to eat are typically large, predatory species high in mercury like shark, swordfish, king mackerel, and imported tilefish, plus bluefin tuna, which are dangerous for brain/nerve health, especially for pregnant women and children; also, farmed salmon and some imported tilapia/catfish raise concerns for contaminants and antibiotics, while orange roughy and Atlantic cod are often cited for high mercury and overfishing/sustainability issues.
The 'Big Five'
The big five species, cod, haddock, salmon, tuna and prawns, make up 80% of the fish and seafood we consume in the UK. While there are many MSC certified sustainable big five products available in the UK and Ireland, why not try swapping your favourite species for one caught around our waters.
colloquial (Australian and New Zealand). A foolish or silly person; an idiot; a simpleton. Also: a victim of deception; a dupe (see quot. 1941).
an immoral girl or woman (in Scotland used as a general term of abuse for a woman)
If events or situations are hunky-dory, they are very satisfactory and pleasant: everything is hunky-dory You can't lose your temper one minute and then expect everything to be hunky-dory again the next. Synonym. fine. Informal words for good.
Here are some Aussie slang words that you might not know. Woop Woop is used to refer to a place in the middle of nowhere. People use it to signify that a location is far away, unfamiliar to them, and difficult to get to.
A drongo is a slow-witted or stupid person: a fool. This great Australian insult was originally an RAAF term for a raw recruit. It first appeared in the early 1940s, but its origin reaches back to the name of the racehorse Drongo, who ran around in the early 1920s.
Sexual intercourse. Root. Sexual intercourse, similar to the British word 'Shag'. Can also be used as a verb.
nounWord forms: plural cockies Australian informal. 1. short for cockatoo (sense 2) 2. a farmer whose farm is regarded as small or of little account.
Australians call flip-flops "thongs" because the footwear has a strap, or "thong," that goes between the big toe and the second toe, a term derived from Old English for a strip of leather. This naming reflects the shoe's structure, similar to how thong underwear has a string that passes between the buttocks, though the footwear term is much older than the undergarment's popular usage in the 1990s.
TIL the phrase "blow a raspberry" came from the Cockney Rhyming Slang term meaning "fart" (Raspberry tart = fart)
jaffa (plural jaffas) A type of sweet orange, normally seedless. (slang) An impotent or infertile male.
"Derby Kell" is old Cockney rhyming slang for belly ("Derby Kelly"). "Blow out your kite" means "fill your stomach". It uses the word kite (also kyte), a dialect word, originally derived from an Old English word for the womb which, by extension, came to mean the belly.