This week we shine a spotlight on a quintessential piece of Aussie slang, a word famous the world over: sheila. A sheila is a woman. In use since the 1830s, sheila has its origin in a generic use of the common Irish girl's name.
Aussie Slang Words For Women:
Chick. Woman. Lady. Bird.
Stunner. To start off with a really good all-rounder, “stunner” is a common one that you can use. Most commonly, stunner is used to describe a person—often not to their face. So, someone who is particularly attractive would be a stunner: “I met this total stunner the other night,” for example.
Missus. A person's wife or girlfriend.
Certainly if you're in the US, your mother is your “mom” – short for “mommy” and in the UK, Australia and New Zealand it's “mum” – shortened from “mummy”.
Pommy or pom
The terms pommy, pommie, and pom used in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand usually denote a British person. Newspapers in Australia were using the term by 1912.
Bunny is an outdated slang term used to describe “a pretty, appealing, or alluring young woman, often one ostensibly engaged in a sport or similar activity.” For example, an attractive woman at the beach might have been referred to as a “beach bunny.” This phrase was popular in the '70s but quickly fell out of favor.
gin Offensive term for an Aboriginal woman. It is derived from the Dharuk word diyin, meaning woman, or wife, but it has come to be used as a highly derogatory term, often in connection with sexual exploitation of Aboriginal women by whites. Now when I get back here I'll get some blacks, must have a gin at least.
nuffy (plural nuffies) (Australia, slang, offensive) A person with a disability, particularly intellectual. (Australia, slang) A person who is stupid. (Australia, slang, cricket) Someone who an obsessive fan of a sport, particularly of cricket. quotations ▼
Beaut!/Beauty!: beaut, beauty or 'you beauty' is a very Australian way to say that something is great.
– Compliment them on their accent. This is sure to get their attention and will make them feel good about themselves. – Be direct. Australians are known for being direct, so if you want to get their attention, it's best just to come out and say what you're thinking.
noun. 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.
Bum nut's origin does not need much explanation—it's a humorous re-imagining of an egg as a roundish (nutlike) product of a hen's rear end. 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.
Australian slang. a foolish or ineffectual person.
According to the beliefs of Indigenous people from central Australia and Arnhem Land, Mimi are mischievous and capricious spirits who are believed to possess mystical powers and to live forever. Mimi taught the first Indigenous people in western Arnhem Land how to hunt and paint, and are often consulted by the people.
“Kwe'” is the Francis Smith Mi'kmaq dialect meaning “Hello”, or “Goei” in the Pacifique dialect. A local Mi'kmaq artist named Melissa Peter-Paul is who created this design for us, to be a conversation starter between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
Bunda- title of a marital class; a man of that class {Kabi} (Watson 1944: 26) Bundaberg - The city name is thought to be an artificial combination of bunda, the Kabi Aboriginal word denoting important man and the German suffix berg indicating mountain. Bunda is one of the moieties attributed to the Kabi Language Group.
babe. noun(offensive) attractive woman. bathing beauty. beauty queen. cover girl.
Foxy is another word that is used in English to describe a very attractive woman or man. You can say “she's foxy,” or “She is a fox,” although this word is not used so much nowadays (it's more 7o's slang).
The fifty dollar note is called a Pineapple, and a hundred dollar note a 'jolly green giant” or a lime or even a 'green tree frog'.
A two bob watch is a cheap and crappy watch, literally, one that only cost two bob. This phrase comes from the time when hat-makers worked with mercury, mercury poisoning causing brain disorders.
Ozzie. Meaning: (Noun) An alternative way to spell and pronounce Aussie, also short for Australian.
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. In Australia, you'll also hear mate used in an ironic sense.
HJs/Hungry Jacks: Burger King.