Contributor's comments: "Tilly" is an nickname members of the Defence Force (Army) use to describe the Tracked Load Carrier (TLC).
tilly (plural tillies) (Ireland) An extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.
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”.
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A ringer is the fastest shearer in a shearing shed. Recorded since the 1870s, the word comes from an earlier, now obsolete, sense, where a ringer was any person or thing that was superlatively good. A snagger is the opposite of a ringer: a shearer who works roughly or inexpertly.
Beaut. Meaning: (Noun) Basically short for beautiful, can be used to say that something is great, or that something looks good.
golden girl. HB. hottie. houri. jelly (rare slang)
Noun. fanny (countable and uncountable, plural fannies) (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) The female genitalia. [
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?
If you're feeling unwell, you could say you are crook. If someone is angry, you could say they've 'gone crook'.
Pash (pash) / Kiss
An indelicate description of kissing passionately, hence the name. Pashing typically leads to two things: pash rash (red marks around the lips caused by excessive kissing), and/or rooting (the crass Australian term for the birds and the bees).
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.
In Britain, Ireland, United States, Australia, New Zealand and, particularly prevalent in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nan, Nana, Nanna, Nanny, Gran and Granny and other variations are often used for grandmother in both writing and speech.
Meaning:Mighty in battle. Tilly is a girl's name of German origin, meaning “mighty in battle”. A variant of Tilda, an abbreviation of Matilda, this title is perfect for the powerful little girl who is ready to take on the world as though she owns it.
Our noddy, numpty noodledom
Nong might appear a straightforward shortening of ning-nong, but dig any deeper and things start getting murky. There are lots of sounds here suggesting foolishness, and for centuries people have been having fun with this, shifting these words, reshaping them, and shuffling them up.
adjective. Chipper means cheerful and lively. [old-fashioned]
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).
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".
Piglet, prawn, panther – the $5 note has ample tags. Others include the maroon and the Pammie, after tennis player Pam Shriver (fiver). Rhyming slang recurred throughout the purse, from Stewie (Diver/fiver) to Peter (McKenna/tenner) for the blue swimmer.
WHY DO AUSSIES CALL THEM THONGS? The word THONG means restraint, referred to as the piece of rubber that is used to slide between the big and second toe to keep the soul of the sandal.
boozer = [2] Someone who drinks a lot of alcoholic drinks, especially beer. bo peep = Look, e.g. “Have a bo peep at that over there”.
According to the third definition, a growler is an insulting word you can use to describe an ugly woman. Read Also: 101+ British Slang Insults.