Rooster = A guy. “ He's a good lookin' rooster”
(figuratively) A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
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.
Cobber is an Australian and New Zealand word for "mate" or "friend".
Contributor's comments: Another word for really drunk, or under the influence of excessive alcohol: "Chris was really maggot last night." Contributor's comments: to be really drunk: "I was really maggot last night."
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.
If you're feeling unwell, you could say you are crook. If someone is angry, you could say they've 'gone crook'.
Jumbuck is an Australian word for a 'sheep'. It is best known from Banjo Paterson's use of it in Waltzing Matilda.
Kanga. Kangaroo Check out that massive kanga! Kangaroos in the top paddock. To act, think, or behave in an eccentric, foolish, or nonsensical manner Did you see that bloke doing a wheelie at that intersection?
Nippers are young surf lifesavers, usually aged between 5 and 14 years old, in clubs across Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Unlike senior surf lifesavers, the majority of them do not patrol the beaches. The focus for Nippers tends to be on fun, and surf awareness.
Brocci: Broccoli, nature's little edible tree.
Snag. Source. [Noun] Definition: sausage, also used to refer to sliced bread and sausage combo, Australian hot dog. Example: “Grab a few snags for the party tonight!”
Chook: A chicken. In the show, it's wonderfully used in the phrase “made you look, you dirty chook.” See also: “Bin chicken,” an uncharitable name for the ibis, a bird whose long beak can make quick work of a rubbish bin. Dunny: A toilet, traditionally outdoors but more commonly now indoors.
The male chicken fertilizes the eggs, which allows them to develop into baby chicks. Roosters will protect the rest of the flock. It will guard the hens from predators, keeping them safe by keeping them together and sounding the alert if a predator approaches. A rooster will also defend them bodily against an attacker.
(a) a young woman, esp. a prostitute (but note cite 1882); thus chicken-chaser, chicken-hustler, a womanizer; also attrib.
According to Hangman, Bradley's callsign 'Rooster' comes from his tendency of waiting during the fight for the right moment, just like a rooster that waits for the sun to rise.
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.
Also called: chookie Australian informal a hen or chicken. Australian informal a woman, esp a more mature one. interjection. Australian a exclamation used to attract chickens.
Almost everyone I speak to mentions what they called "the Skippy factor" - a reference to the 1960s TV series, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, which encouraged Australians to see kangaroos as far too adorable to cook for dinner.
A billy is a small metal can used for boiling water over an open fire. It's short for billycan. It almost always means to 'make tea' but if you are sitting around an open fire (camping for example) and someone says “I'll boil the billy” this can just mean “boil some water” for coffee, tea or washing up water.
Contributor's comments: "by jingo" was used for an ice block on a stick in Townsville in the 60's.
fanging. hungry, craving: I'm fanging for a steak. Contributor's comments: I've also heard the term "I'm hanging for a fanging" to mean hungry - or more correctly "hangin' for a fangin'". Good on the fang means having a good appetite.
Plonk, chardy and the goon of fortune
Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol.
To describe the temperature, when it is cold you can use words such as 'freezing', 'chilly' and 'nippy'. "I went to Melbourne for the weekend. It was freezing!" "It's a bit chilly outside."
The term "esky" is also commonly used in Australia to generically refer to portable coolers or ice boxes and is part of the Australian vernacular, in place of words like "cooler" or "cooler box" and the New Zealand "chilly bin".