The billy is an Australian term for a metal container used for boiling water, making tea or cooking over a fire.
Bonnet: This is the hood of a car, on the same side where the engine is. Boot: This is the end of the car where the trunk is.
Etymology. Although there is a suggestion that the word may be associated with the Aboriginal billa (meaning water; cf. Billabong), it is widely accepted that the term billycan is derived from bouilli can, the name given to the empty cannisters used for preserving Soup and bouilli and other foods.
'Old Geezer' is Australian slang for an old man... and 'Old Geezers' are easy to spot. At a sporting event during the playing of the National Anthem, they will hold their caps over their hearts and sing without embarrassment.
The most quintessentially Australian is “Sheila”. This has, for a long time, been a slang term for a woman in Australia. More recently, it became a slang term for someone's wife or girlfriend. “I've got to go see the Sheila”, for example.
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”.
Dating back to the 17th Century, to bilk is to cheat, swindle or to evade a payment on a debt. Eelie is an obsolete Aussie underworld slang word for a confidence trick or the ruse by which a swindle is affected, probably extracted from eelerspee, an obsolete word for a con artist.
Contributor's comments: Little boys are also known as "savs" ie saveloys in Victoria, hence also a rhyming slang - saveloys = little boys (as well as the obvious) - called cherrios also in northern NSW.
Sheila = Girl
Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
The term "king brown" refers to the great size of individuals in the north and northwest of Australia, which can exceed 3 m (10 ft) in length; it is the largest and most dangerous elapid of those regions.
A billy is a small metal can used for boiling water over an open fire. It's short for billycan. It almost always means to 'make tea' but if you are sitting around an open fire (camping for example) and someone says “I'll boil the billy” this can just mean “boil some water” for coffee, tea or washing up water.
Early Australian settlers brewed their tea in a Billy; a metal can with a wire handle, filled. with water and suspended over an open fire. When the water boils, it is removed from. the fire with a forked stick, and a fistful of tea leaves are added.
The black billy can brews bush tea stands out in stark contrast to the vibrant colours of the campfire with its red, pink, orange and yellow hues. Damper (a kind of bread) is cooking in the coals nearby as we prepare for a wonderful family time around the campfire.
It's an exclamation when you're sort of presenting someone with something or you're trying to say that something is very easy and quick to sort of do, right. Bob's your uncle and it's done.
dill 2. noun. informal, mainly Australian and NZ a fool; idiot.
Beaut!/Beauty!: beaut, beauty or 'you beauty' is a very Australian way to say that something is great.
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.
To “throw shade” means to insult or say something unkind about someone.
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.
'Jack' was in general usage as slang for 'a policeman', but in World War I was adapted to 'a military policeman'. The 'military police' sense is attested in B&P, Digger Dialects, and F&G.
Chinwag or chin-wag is a very slang way of saying to have a chat.
There are a few specific Australian slang terms for boyfriend. One common one is to call them a wombat, or sometimes a possum. You may also hear “my fella”. Other than that, though, they mostly share their slang terms with other English slang, including terms like babe.
Today's obviously an expression episode, and the expression that I want to teach you guys today is, “To hit the sack”, “To hit the sack” or “To hit the hay”, “To hit the hay”. And both of these expressions just mean to go to bed, to go to sleep.