What is Aussie slang for football?

footy - the name for Australian football throughout most of Australia (with the exception of NSW, Qld and ACT); it refers to Rugby League Football in Sydney and Brisbane. Also the name of the ball itself. foopy - another term (relatively new) used to describe the ball.

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What do Aussies call football?

As is the case in the United States and Canada, association football is most commonly referred to in Australia as soccer. Historically, the sport has been referred to as association football, English association football British association rules and British football.

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Why do people say ball in AFL?

Ball!: usually yelled by spectators when an opposition player is tackled in possession of the ball. Short for "holding the ball".

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What is slang for ball?

By far, the most common slang term for testicles is balls. More crude but also common is nuts. Similar slang terms are stones and rocks. Gonads gives us the slang term nads (and the even slangier nards). There are many other terms, like bits and marbles.

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Is footy Australian slang?

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In New South Wales and Queensland, footy generally means rugby league. In Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania, it means Aussie Rules. For British backpackers, it means soccer.

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What is footy slang?

British English Slang – Footy. Meaning – Football or Soccer. Footy can be used to describe the game of football. The ball used in the game of football can also be known as a footy.

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What do Aussies call condoms?

dinger (Australian slang) franger (Australian slang)

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Why is soccer not called football?

The word "soccer" comes from the use of the term "association football" in Britain, and goes back 200 years. In the early 1800s, a bunch of British universities took "football" — a medieval game — and started playing their own versions of it, all under different rules.

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Is there another name for football?

The sport of association football is commonly called "soccer" in the United States.

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What do Americans call rugby?

In America, other sports began to emerge, one of which adopted the name football (from rugby football) and was the more popular sport in the country.

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What country invented football?

Football's modern origins began in England more than 100 years ago, in 1863.

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What do Aussies call sandwiches?

Sanger is an alteration of the word sandwich. Sango appeared as a term for sandwich in the 1940s, but by the 1960s, sanger took over to describe this staple of Australian cuisine.

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What do Aussies call lollipops?

It is short for lollipop. Now that all seems fairly straight-forward, until we learn that lolly is actually the Australian word for sweets – i.e. British lollies but without the sticks. In other words, the correct translation for “Süßigkeiten” in Australia is “lollies”.

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What do Aussie call flip flops?

The shoe known in Australia as a “thong” is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world.

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Is football called footy?

Australian rules football is known by several nicknames, including Aussie rules, football and footy. In some regions, the Australian Football League markets the game as AFL after itself.

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Is footy short for football?

You may hear the game referred to as AFL, Australian Football, Aussie Rules, or simply footy, and it is the indigenous sport of Australia that has been played for over 150-years.

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What is a Stig Aussie slang?

"Stig" is a pejorative referring to someone from a poor background with a poor dress sense (originating from the eponymous character in the children's book Stig of the Dump).

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What do Aussies call shorts?

Aussie slang is full of alternative words for our trousers and underwear. Reginalds or Reg Grundies are rhyming slang for undies, while bloomers are known as bum shorts in Queensland, and scungies in New South Wales and the ACT.

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What do Aussies call hot chips?

Definition. In Australia, chips can refer to 'hot' chips; fried strips of potato. Chips also refer to what are known in other countries as crisps.

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What do Australians call underpants?

Trackie dacks are tracksuit trousers, and underdacks are underpants or knickers.

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What do Aussies call a truck?

THE ''ute'' is to Australians what the pickup is to Americans: a blue-collar icon and a symbol of rugged independence. Utes are integral to everyday existence in the bush -- and, increasingly, to life in the city. What's a ute?

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What is Australian slang for girl?

2. sheila – woman or female.

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Who is the father of football?

Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". Among a long list of inventions, he created the sport's line of scrimmage and the system of downs.

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