brekky in British English (ˈbrɛkɪ ) noun. a slang word for breakfast.
/ (ˈbrɛkɪ) / noun. a slang word for breakfast.
Brekky: the first and most important meal of the day, Aussies call breakfast 'brekky'.
Macquarie and Oxford Dictionary list “brekky” and “brekkie” as the officially recognised forms. Q: So no “breaky”? A: Nope. After all, “breakfast” is the only word that makes that particular sound on a combination of “-eak”.
brekkie (countable and uncountable, plural brekkies) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Breakfast.
Brekkie is a slang term, but the proper term is still breakfast. Then between breakfast and early afternoon, about eleven o'clock, you might have either brunch [an amalgamation of breakfast and lunch], or elevenses. Then there's lunch. Some people call it lunch, others call it dinner.
5. brekkie – breakfast. Although it sounds like breakfast for kids, brekkie is the Australian meal everyone has in the morning.
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Or perhaps you spell it breaky or even breakie? Whichever way, that's breakfast. The most important meal of the day.
In Australian slang, breakfast is most commonly “brekkie,” “brekky,” or “breakie.” Any one of these three spellings may be used. This is the most widely used and is heard and understood throughout Australia.
Sheila = Girl
Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
Morn – Morning
Morn is an Australian slang word for 'morning', and is used as a friendly greeting. It can be used as a simple way of saying hello when you meet someone in the morning. For example, if you are running late to work and you see someone on the street, you could say “Morn!”.
Contributor's comments: The word "bubs" was short for "babies".
Woolies — Marijuana and crack or PCP.
large beer bottle: Give me a carton of emu king browns.
In Australian English, a "banger" has referred to a sausage since the time of the First World War. Before that in Australia, a banger meant a morning coat, or an unreliable motor vehicle. All of these are publicly documented by reputable lexicographers.
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. It derives from British dialect goggy, a child's word for an egg. A closer parallel to the jocular bum nut, however, is the word cackleberry.
Aussies have a plethora of names for sausages and the ways and contexts in which we eat them. Snag is perhaps the most famous slang term for sausages, followed closely by banger. Many of us grab a sausage sanga down at the local hardware store.
Loo. Toilet. An outdoor toilet is a Dunny and an indoor toliet is called a loo. So you might say, "You can use the dunny out the back on the loo in the front." And that's how you say "toilet" in Australian.
The Billy Lids (Australian slang for "kids")
For Australian National University linguist Anna Wierzbicka, these expressions are among the most culturally salient features of Australian English — expressions of informality and solidarity that are “uniquely suited to the Anglo-Australian ethos […] and style of interaction”.
One of the most infamous Australian idiosyncrasies is the word for flip flop: the 'thong'.