Aussie Word of the Week Whip the cat, an Aussie slang expression since the 1840s, means to vent frustration over something that can't be changed. Essentially, to cry over spilt milk. From phrases to memes, cats appear again and again in our culture and language.
In urban slang, cat refers to someone that's a crackhead. Similar to how a cat clings onto you constantly meowing to get what it wants.. It also goes for someone that's in need of a cigarette, you'd usually hear someone say “why are you catting” Hope this helps.
On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cat, such as: kitten, kitty, pussycat, tabby, mouser, and tom.
To dog, as a verb, can mean to insult someone in front of his friends. In Australian slang it is used for a police informer.
' C*nt, the “C” word – Used when exchanging pleasantries between close friends or family member. If someone calls you the “C” word in Australia (and you haven't done anything to make them angry), then breathe a sigh of relief… it means you have entered the mate zone.
Chook: A chicken. In the show, it's wonderfully used in the phrase “made you look, you dirty chook.” See also: “Bin chicken,” an uncharitable name for the ibis, a bird whose long beak can make quick work of a rubbish bin. Dunny: A toilet, traditionally outdoors but more commonly now indoors.
A female kangaroo is known as a 'flyer' or a 'doe' and a male kangaroo a 'buck' or a 'boomer' (hence the nickname of the Australian men's basketball team, the Boomers). They live in social groups called mobs.
Bunnies v Bilbies. Apr 09, 2022. The Bilby is a native Australian animal sometimes called a rabbit-bandicoot because it has a long nose like a bandicoot and big ears like a rabbit. It is for this reason that some Australians consider replacing the Easter Bunny with an Easter Bilby.
dunny – a toilet, the appliance or the room – especially one in a separate outside building. This word has the distinction of being the only word for a toilet which is not a euphemism of some kind. It is from the old English dunnykin: a container for dung. However Australians use the term toilet more often than dunny.
Specifically, the catgirl (a woman with cat ears, whiskers, and sometimes paws or a tail) is referred to as a neko. Neko is also Japanese slang for “bottom,” or the submissive/receiving partner in a homosexual relationship. Additionally, neko is a high-level programming language created in 2005.
Molly. The term “molly” is a general term for a female cat of any age. Unlike male cats being called either “toms” or “tomcats,” a female cat would only be referred to as a “molly” and not a “molly cat.” This is the term used from the time a kitten is born and can technically be used her whole life.
The Cambridge Dictionary defines a “cool cat” as a fashionable person. I prefer the American Heritage Dictionary's slang definition of the word cool – composure or poise – because that so perfectly describes a cat's normal state of being.
? Cat lovers are called ailurophiles derived from the Greek word ailouros, which means "cat," and the suffix -phile, meaning "lover”.
(nautical slang) To do better than another in some respect.
Cockroach – someone from New South Wales. Dead horse – rhyming slang for tomato sauce. Devo – short for devastated, used to show how upset someone is, as in 'I'm devo that I dropped my pie on the ground'. Dodgy – not quite right, disagreeable or suspicious.
Mostly coined in Australia than anywhere else in the world, 'bluey' is (generally) used as an affectionate nickname for a redhead. It is thought by some to have derived from the early 1900s as a form of irony. Blue is evidently contrasting with red, thus being used as a joke.
The most common slang term for crocodile in Australia is simply “croc”. This is the one that is universally used and understood, thanks to its simplicity! There are a handful of other terms that are sometimes used, though, such as “flat dog,” “freshie”, “saltie” and “snapping handbag”.
'mob' — Australia - beef cattle. Dairy cattle - herd or mob.
What is an Australian kiss? An Australian kiss. is when you start off with a French kiss. and then you end up Down Under. @Sharam ❤️ Namdarian.
“My research shows the British and Irish working-class introduced most of the swearing we have in Australia,” Krafzik says. “It was cemented in those early colonial days.” The British officer class tended to rotate in and out of the colonies. The working-class settlers – and convicts – stayed.
noun. Also called: chookie Australian informal a hen or chicken. Australian informal a woman, esp a more mature one.