This is some great Aussie slang for food that has been in constant use since the 1850s. The original meaning is of a meal, that is, something to be tucked away (in the stomach). It is also used in a number of compound words, such as in bush tucker, food from Australian indigenous plants and trees.
Bush tucker, also called bush food, is any food native to Australia and historically eaten by Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but it can also describe any native flora, fauna, or funga used for culinary or medicinal purposes, regardless of the continent or culture.
But not all food slang is enticing — think snot block for vanilla slice. We received some vivid new terms in this unappetising category: dandruff cake for lamington, bachelor's breakfast for meat pie, dead fly pie for fruit mince pie, blowfly slice for fruit mince slice, and fart fodder for baked beans.
To “throw shade” means to insult or say something unkind about someone.
If you're feeling unwell, you could say you are crook. If someone is angry, you could say they've 'gone crook'. Crook can also be used to describe a criminal.
Let's start with the most common, most well-known, and most quintessentially Australian slang term for girls: Sheila. While everywhere else in the English-speaking world, Sheila is a specific person's name, in Australia it can be used to refer to any woman or girl.
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.
“Macca's” is a nickname for Mcdonald's. If you used the term Macca's in the U.S. or Canada, you'd get some funny looks. But the term is very common in Australia. In fact, McDonald's changed its name to Macca's at stores across the country for Australia Day in 2013 – and still refers to itself as Macca's today.
fanging. hungry, craving: I'm fanging for a steak. Contributor's comments: I've also heard the term "I'm hanging for a fanging" to mean hungry - or more correctly "hangin' for a fangin'". Good on the fang means having a good appetite.
(Australia) A pal, buddy, mate, friend; often used in direct address by one male to another.
Rooster = A guy. “
He's a good lookin' rooster”
Australians, however, invariably use the word prawn rather than shrimp.
Australian, British and New Zealand English uses "chips" for what North Americans call french fries. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" and "cold chips" are used.
Pommy or pom
The terms pommy, pommie, and pom used in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand usually denote a British person.
Australia's colourful bank notes are known by many colloquial names. The twenty-dollar note is referred to as a lobster, while the fifty-dollar note is called a pineapple, and don't we all want to get our hands on a few jolly green giants, that is, hundred-dollar notes?
Contributor's comments: The word "bubs" was short for "babies".
One of the most infamous Australian idiosyncrasies is the word for flip flop: the 'thong'.
As well as being a proud Aussie company Hungry Jack's is the master Australian franchise of the Burger King Corporation. But for reasons too boring to go into here, in 1991 the Burger King Corporation opened it's doors in NSW under the Burger King trademark.
Except you won't find Burger King in Australia because it's the only place in the world where Burger Kings are called Hungry Jack's. When Burger King got to Australia in 1971, it discovered there was already a local restaurant there called Burger King.
While some Australian speakers would pronounce “no” as a diphthong, starting on “oh” as in dog and ending on “oo” as in put, others begin with an unstressed “a” (the sound at the end of the word “sofa”), then move to the “oh” and then “oo”.
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. As you can probably guess, this term derives from the word 'stunning'.
Australia. In Australia, barbecuing is a popular summer pastime, often referred to as a "barbie". Traditional meats cooked are lamb chops, beef steak, and sausages (colloquially known as "snags").