Aussie Word of the Week A blue is a fight, dispute or row. You can bung on a blue, stack on a blue or turn on a blue.
To-do, set to, scrap, stand-up fight, slugfest, free-for-all, punch-up, dust-up, fistfight, fisticuffs, shindig, mother of all battles, battle royal. The Irish use the word donnybrook, among others.
Aggro: means angry, aggressive or something that may cause aggravation. “I hope my housemate cleaned up their dirty dishes because I don't want to get aggro.”
The OED has the verb as Australian and New Zealand slang from 1955 (the quotations use blueing and blued), and a noun blue as Australian and New Zealand slang (an argument, quarrel, fight, brawl) from 1944 which they suggest may be from to turn the air blue, meaning to swear.
Spit The Dummy
Meaning: (Verb) To spit the dummy means to be very upset or disappointed by something. A common slang term in Australia.
Words for “drunk”:
legless. off one's face. maggot (really drunk) pissed.
Digger became the general mode of address for Australian and New Zealand soldiers although its usage disappeared for the latter troops, who became known simply as Kiwi's. Australian soldiers in World War One soon adopted the term with great pride and continue to do so.
Used to describe a person who is acting like a baby. Someone who is pouting with little reason. Additional Information. Stop acting like a "Sookie lala"
(Australia, slang) A fool. (poker, slang, derogatory) A poor player who makes mistakes. (slang) A donkey (the animal).
Noun. eshay (plural eshays) (Australia, slang) A member of an Australian youth subculture favouring sportswear and electronic dance music, and commonly associated with criminal activity. (Australia, slang) A delinquent teenager; a chav.
To “throw shade” means to insult or say something unkind about someone.
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.
an angry, rough, noisy fight, especially one engaged in under the influence of alcohol: The wild, free-for-all western brawl in the saloon lasts two full minutes and constitutes the movie's opening scene. Slang.
A squabble is a fight but not necessarily a serious one. When we squabble, we have a little argument, probably about something not too important.
On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fistfight, such as: brawl, fisticuffs, run-in, scuffle, skirmish, and slugfest.
dinky-di (not comparable) (Australia, slang) Genuine, true. (by extension) Authentically Australian. Honest, on the level.
A sucker punch (American English), also known as a dog shot, coward punch, king hit or one-punch attack (Australian and New Zealand English), is a punch made without warning or while the recipient is distracted, allowing no time for preparation or defense on the part of the recipient.
Australians proudly pioneered the use of 'bonk' to mean having sex in the 1980s. And oh boy, once we appropriated 'bonk' as a sex term? We really appropriated 'bonk' as a sex term.
But the Australian slang for beer is amber fluid. Some states call it a pint, and in others, it is a schooner. Stubby meaning?
(lɑ di dɑ ) also lah-di-dah. adjective. If you describe someone as la-di-da, you mean that they have an upper-class way of behaving, which you think seems unnatural and is only done to impress people. [old-fashioned, disapproval]
If you have a lot of moolah, you're rich — you have plenty of cash. Moolah is a slang term that means "money."
Diggers: The word Digger has been around since the early days of the gold rush in Australia and anecdotally there is evidence that some Colonial Australians were given the nickname Digger because of their mining endeavors.
'Digger' was a colloquial name applied to Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) personnel that developed during the war (although the term was already applied to miners back in Australia and New Zealand).
noun a swimming costume. Compare bathers, cossie, cozzie, swimmers, swimsuit, togs. Also, costumes. Contributor's comments: I was grew up in Sydney and we always referred to swimming apparel as a swimming costume, costume or cozzies for short. Mens' swimming costumes were often referred to as simply Speedos.
“Mate” is a popular word for friend. And while it's used in other English-speaking countries around the world, it has a special connection to Australia. In the past, mate has been used to address men, but it can be gender-neutral. In Australia, you'll also hear mate used in an ironic sense.