Meaning: (Noun) Chow is an informal term for a meal used in certain English-speaking countries. It is often used in Australia as slang for dinner.
Some people in Britain and Australia refer to their main evening meal as "tea" rather than "dinner" or "supper", but generally, with the exception of Scotland and Northern England, "tea" refers to a light meal or a snack.
repast. He proclaimed it a splendid repast. blowout (slang) collation. nosh-up (informal)
The typical meal served and eaten on the Australian dinner table would be a red meat dish with at least three or four different varieties of fresh vegetables. Whether it is rump, porterhouse or fillet, fried, grilled or barbecued, steak and vegetables is by far our most popular dish.
Contributor's comments: In Tasmania 'dinner' is usually the meal (or snack) eaten in the middle of the day; though, if the midday meal is a snack it may be referred to as 'lunch', especially by school children, ie it's lunch-time. 'Tea' is the evening meal.
Oddly enough, the word dinner comes from the 11th century Old French word disner, which meant “to eat breakfast.” As the word was absorbed into English as dinner, it came to refer to the “main” meal of the day, the timing of which changed over the centuries.
Decoding Australia's colourful food slang. "I could eat the bum out of an elephant. Let's have some tucker." Translation: I'm really hungry.
The term "esky" is also commonly used in Australia to generically refer to portable coolers or ice boxes and is part of the Australian vernacular, in place of words like "cooler" or "cooler box" and the New Zealand "chilly bin".
If you call your evening meal 'supper' you're officially posh, according to survey. A nationwide study into our the eating habits of British people has settled an ongoing argument about what our evening meal should be called.
“Arvo” directly translates to “afternoon”. You may hear people say “This arvo I'm going to surf,” or ask you “What are your plans this arvo?”
5. Sheila = Girl. Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
Bogan. (Noun) An uncouth or uncultured person, usually. See also: feral, ratbag, reptile, bevan etc. “I can't understand that bogan's broad Australian accent.”
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.
Of course Australians call them 'zooper doopers'
They probably remind you of hot summer days as a kid. You may recognise them as ice pops, or associate them with a certain Mr Freeze. Or maybe you don't.
In Australia, the Five Dollar note alone has at least fourteen nicknames. Like in the UK, it is called a “fiver”, but other names include “a Fairy Floss”, a “Galah”, a “Skydiver”, a “Pink Lady”, or a “Pink Snapper”.
If you're feeling unwell, you could say you are crook. If someone is angry, you could say they've 'gone crook'.
noun 1. a person who is poor: They can't afford to go - they're real povos.
And on NPR, food historian Helen Zoe Veit points out that in the past, especially in farming communities, the noon meal was the biggest one of the day. Which would explain why, in certain parts of the south, the word 'dinner' has persisted as a reference to the noon, rather than evening, meal.
In British English, the midday meal is commonly referred to as "lunch". The term "lunch" is used to describe the meal that typically takes place in the middle of the day, usually between 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM, and is often a light to moderate-sized meal.
Up until the start of the 20th century, the main meal was what we now refer to as "lunch," which was formerly called "dinner" because that was when Americans ate the largest meal featuring multiple courses, grand portion sizes or both. The evening meal was called "supper," which was much lighter and more informal.
Eventually, in Australia, tea came to mean a hearty meal in the evening, even though it would be rather a long time before afternoon tea really fell out of fashion. So, it's simply a muddling of terms.