Plonk, chardy, and the goon of fortune Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol. It originally meant cheap, fortified wine but over time came to mean any cheap alcohol.
Some common street names and nicknames for alcohol include: Booze. Juice. Giggle juice.
Plonk, chardy and the goon of fortune
Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol.
(2) "grog", a Naval term originally referring to a rum and water mixture. In the Australian context "grog" was used to describe diluted, adulterated and sub-standard rum. In the early decades of the Australian colonies "grog" was often the only alcoholic beverage available to the working classes.
Alcohol has been central to Aboriginal-European social relations since occupation. It signifies more than simply another commodity and its use by Aborigines symbolically represents acceptance and inclusion within non-indigenous Australian society (Hunter 1993).
Grog is a term used for a variety of alcoholic beverages. The word originally referred to rum diluted with water (and later on long sea voyages, also added the juice of limes or lemons), which Edward Vernon introduced into the British naval squadron he commanded in the West Indies on 21 August 1740.
But the Australian slang for beer is amber fluid. Some states call it a pint, and in others, it is a schooner.
Tinnie and Amber Nectar
Both these slang words are in use in Australia to mean a beer. Tinnie was first used in the 1970s and referred to as canned beer. Amber nectar originated from the U.S. in the 19th century. Amber nectar can refer to lager.
What do they call soda in Australia? In Australia, they call soda a soft drink. This can be a term used in The United States of America as well but it's not as common as saying soda or call pop.
toper. A toper is “a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.”
Synonyms of heavy drinker (noun alcoholic) barfly. chronic alcoholic. chronic drunk. dipsomaniac.
alcoholic. alchie/alkey/alkie. bacchanalian. barfly.
The contents of the container are also productive, as with sack sopped, groggy, lushy, malty, rummy, swizzled, skimished, plonked, and bevvied. And the fact that the drinks are, by definition, liquid, has resulted in several more, such as soaken, wet, swilled, swash, sozzled, blotto, and liquefied.
Our favourites in the Independent office include 'symbelwlonc' – one of the earliest recorded words for 'drunk' in Old English – as well as 'splifficated' (1906), 'whiffled' (1927), 'pot-shotten' (1629), 'fox-drunk' (1592) and 'in one's cups' (1611).
Bottle-o. (Noun) Abbreviation of 'bottle shop', a store that sells alcohol. “Geez, there's a lot of bogans at the bottle-o.”
The most common and widely used slang term for wine in Australia is “plonk”.
Bottle-o: this is what Aussies often call a liquor store.
Budge: liquor. Origin unknown, but in common use by the latter half of the 1800s. A related term, budgy, meant drunk.
The use of the term "head" to refer to a ship's toilet dates to at least as early as 1708, when Woodes Rogers (English privateer and Governor of the Bahamas) used the word in his book, A Cruising Voyage Around the World.
It's hard to know for sure, but the widely-accepted explanation is that water and rum became known as 'grog' because Vice Admiral Vernon wore a grogram coat, and was nicknamed 'Old Grog' by his men. Grogram is a coarse, ribbed fabric made of silk.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are less likely to drink alcohol than other Australians. But those that do drink are more likely than other Australians to: drink at dangerous levels – both over a lifetime and on a single occasion. go to hospital for alcohol-related conditions such as liver disease.