Dag appears in the phrase rattle your dags, which means "hurry up" and describes exactly what happens to those dried dags when a sheep starts to jog.
Aussie Slang – Expressions (A-Z)
Crack the whip – telling someone to hurry up!
Shake a leg!
(Exclamation) The term 'shake a leg is an old saying that means 'hurry up.
Cozzie – swimming costume • Cranky – in a bad mood, angry • Crook – sick, or badly made • Cut lunch – sandwiches • Dag – a funny person • Daks – trousers • Dinkum, fair dinkum – true, real, genuine • Dipstick – a loser, idiot • Down Under – Australia and New Zealand • Dunny – outside toilet • Earbashing – nagging • ...
Share: UNNECESSARY FUN FACT: Merriam-Webster defines Bonzer, or Bonza, as meaning Australian slang for first rate, excellent or awesome, while one urban dictionary entry says Bonza means Brilliant.
To biff means to fall hard. Also a biff is a person who isn't required to think much while doing his job but it could also mean to mess up/make a mistake.
bluey. / (ˈbluːɪ) / noun Australian informal. a blanket. a swagman's bundle.
Contributor's comments: The term 'povo' comes from the word poverty. Contributor's comments: [North Geelong informant] I would also say that this is used to describe someone who is tight arsed but not necessarily poor. Contributor's comments: poor and despised person: "Take no notice of him - he's just a povo."
Veg out: to veg out is to relax or chill out. Whinge: this is an Australian term for complain.
Shake a leg – This is an informal way to say hurry up. An example of it in everyday use would be Shake a leg and let's get going! Or Come on, shake a leg, we're going to be late!
Adjective. (Australia) Silly; characteristic of a dill.
Aussies have a lot of other words for drinking the amber fluid in quick or creative ways. Chug and neck are both ways to describe downing a drink quickly without pause, while chug-a-lug is a bout of drinking: a booze up.
Contributor's comments: "But" at the end of a sentence is used in Sydney where it is the same as putting "but" at the beginning of a sentence. Thus "But I didn't do it!" is the same as saying "I didn't do it, but!"
Mate. “Mate” is a popular word for friend. And while it's used in other English-speaking countries around the world, it has a special connection to Australia. In the past, mate has been used to address men, but it can be gender-neutral.
There are also a number of terms for Australia, such as: Aussie, Oz, Lucky Country, and land of the long weekend.
“My research shows the British and Irish working-class introduced most of the swearing we have in Australia,” Krafzik says. “It was cemented in those early colonial days.” The British officer class tended to rotate in and out of the colonies. The working-class settlers – and convicts – stayed.
Why Do Aussies Use So Many Abbreviations? Nenagh Kemp, a psychologist at the University of Tasmania, told Australian Geographic her theories behind why Australians use these shortened words so often. Her theory is that Australians use them as a way of coming across as more friendly and less pretentious.
This could occur because the word “no” is an example of what linguists call an open syllable, meaning it has no consonant at its close. This allows the speaker to lengthen the vowel and draw it out – a feature we love in different Australian accents!
1. G'day. One of the first things you'll hear when in Australia, is the classic “G'day, mate”, which is basically the same as saying, “good day”, or “hello”.
Buckley's chance – no chance, unlikely to occur, as in 'they've got Buckley's chance of beating Australia in the cricket'.
Bluey is an Australian nickname for a person with red hair. As a nickname, Bluey may refer to: Frank 'Bluey' Adams (born 1935), former Australian rules football player.
Irish immigrants arriving in Australia looking for labour gained a reputation as heavy drinkers and fighters, with 'blue' being local slang for a fight. The term evolved to come to mean a redheaded Irishman.
This has led to uninformed viewers questioning if the characters are boys or girls. Pearson has credited the decision of Bluey and Bingo being girls to resemble the real families of Brumm, Aspinwall and McCormack.