'Mollydooker' is old Aussie slang for a left handed boxer and our Boxer always punches well above its Fruit Weight™.
A mollydooker is a slang term for a left-handed person. In use since the 1930s, mollydooker probably came from British dialect brought to Australia in the early twentieth century. Left-handed people sometimes get a bad rap in Australian English. For instance, left-handed can mean doubtful, clumsy or awkward.
Q From Mark Roome: A mollydooker is an Australian expression for a left-handed person.
2. sheila – woman or female.
: clumsy, awkward. : insincere, backhanded, dubious.
British : left-handed sense 1. British : clumsy, awkward.
The “American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language” cites the conventional wisdom that the word “southpaw” originated “from the practice in baseball of arranging the diamond with the batter facing east to avoid the afternoon sun.
Australia: 'Shark week. ' Portugal: 'My ketchup. '
utility or ute: let's load the tilly and get to work.
In an interview on Triple J radio, Koby Abberton pointed out that "Bra" is a reference to the gang's suburb, Maroubra, and partly after the street slang for brother. Some members of the gang tattoo "My Brother's Keeper" across the front of their chest, "Bra Boys" and Maroubra's postcode "2035" on their backs.
on your Pat Malone. (Australian English, New Zealand English, informal) alone; without anybody else.
Noun. mollydooker (plural mollydookers) (UK, Australia, slang) A left-handed person.
In 2006, after years of working for others, Sparky & Sarah Marquis took their tale of love, hard work and determination and started their own brand, Mollydooker. The term itself being Aussie slang for a “left hander', was a befitting name as they were both Mollydookers.
Left-handed people are said to be good at complex reasoning, resulting in a high number of lefty Noble Prize winners, writers, artists, musicians, architects and mathematicians. According to research published in the American Journal of Psychology, lefties appear to be better at divergent thinking.
The countries that use right-to-left writing systems are predominantly Arab and Asian and they all have left-handedness rates below 6 per cent. In Muslim countries, the advantage of smudge-free handwriting is outweighed by the fact that the left hand is considered unclean.
But other research suggests that there are probably dozens of genes that play a role in determining whether we end up writing with our left hand or our right. On top of that, other studies have linked factors such as oestrogen levels and birth position to varying levels of left- and right-handedness.
Verb. (Australia, slang, dated) To kiss and cuddle; to canoodle.
Jumbuck is an Australian word for a 'sheep'. It is best known from Banjo Paterson's use of it in Waltzing Matilda.
someone who is seen alone or sitting alone (This term mostly used in school environments, not sure if it's still used).
Australians use a couple of other colloquial words for a hen's egg. The Australian English word googie or goog is an informal term that dates from the 1880s. It derives from British dialect goggy, a child's word for an egg. A closer parallel to the jocular bum nut, however, is the word cackleberry.
There are several folk etymologies for "pommy" or "pom". The best-documented of these is that "pommy" originated as a contraction of "pomegranate". According to this explanation, "pomegranate" was Australian rhyming slang for "immigrant" (like "Jimmy Grant").
After Dutch navigators charted the northern, western and southern coasts of Australia during the 17th Century this newly found continent became known as 'New Holland'.
Your dominant hand is the hand that you're more likely to use when you're doing fine motor tasks like writing, brushing your teeth, or catching a ball. When people say they are "right-handed," they imply that their right hand is dominant.
The surnames Kerr and Carr have been claimed, on the basis of folkloric and etymological evidence, to be associated with an increased incidence of left- handedness.