My neice spent some time going to school in Australia. Dont' ask me where, I am a bad aunt and forget the details!

She flew into Sydney, took a train up to Brisbane and then travelled a little further north from there. It was very difficult to get shoes back on the girl when she returned! She loved her time there!

It wasn't very long before she stopped speaking Austrailian Slang, with American Slang being her native language.

I recently came across an Australian Slang web site, and was wondering how current or accurate it is! Please let me know if you have ever said this:

A bit more choke and you would have started.

A few Kangaroos loose in the top paddock.

I'll have Adam's ale with my alligator pear in the arvo.

That's rather airy fairy.

JJT

Hahaha. That's funny.

A few Kangaroos loose in the top paddock. This one is pretty common, for "not all there", as in, " a bit slow", a few brain cells missing...

That's rather airy fairy. "A BIT airy fairy" instead of "rather". "Rather" sounds a bit more British to me..."

What about the rest of you?

My Dad actually says the "Bit more choke and you would have started" all the time.

I have said the Airy Fairy one a couple of times. I don't ever recall saying the adams ale one with the alligator though.

My actual favourite aussie slang is "a few stubbie short of a six pack!" Meaning someone is not quite with it.

What is everyone else's favourite slang sayings??

I don't ever recall saying the adams ale one with the alligator though.

But you know what it means, right?

How about:

Well that was a bloody bonzer bingle!

But you know what it means, right?

Nah I don't think I do know what it means. You might have to teach me how to speak Aussie!! :D

So what have you found to be your favourite aussie saying so far?? I like the bonzer bingle one too!! :)

I'll have Adam's ale with my alligator pear in the arvo.

I'll have a glass of water with my avacado in the afternoon.

I just made that one up!

I don't have a favorite saying yet, as I have only gotten up to "B" at this web site: Aussie Slang Dictionary (http://www.aussieslang.com/slang/australian-slang-a.asp?page=4)

JJT

I love the short and sweet ones.
Mate, Crikey, Shelia, Little Ripper, You Beaute, Bugger, Dead Horse -tomato sauce, 3kz- head, Plates of meat- feet. Throw another shrimp on the barbie.
I have never heard of this alligator one -alligator's are American, Aussie's have crocs - hence the Croc Hunter!

I-alligator's are American, Aussie's have crocs - hence the Croc Hunter!


That is exactly what I needed to know!!!

**scratching alligator pear off list**

JJT

Em,

I am the same. I basically use alot of the one's that you mentioned. But I guess the one that I use the most would have to be mate. I just can't help myself!! :)

And mate has so many meanings depending on how you say it :)

Crikey, I am flat out like a lizard drinking reading this, if I get up Im likely to come a gutsa & all me mates here would take the piss outta me :p

LOL I bet every Aussie gets this :thumbsup:

And we do NOT root for sports teams, well if we do we dont tell anyone :eek: we barrack :D

Ha ha

dreamer ;)

Nice one dreamer!! :) I was laughing my backside off when I read it!! It is absolutely fantastic!! I love the lizard part!! Oh and a good tribute to the croc hunter too!! ;)

And you are right, most aussie will understand that!! :)

Crikey, I am flat out like a lizard drinking reading this, if I get up Im likely to come a gutsa & all me mates here would take the piss outta me :p

LOL I bet every Aussie gets this :thumbsup:

And we do NOT root for sports teams, well if we do we dont tell anyone :eek: we barrack :D

Ha ha

dreamer ;)

Okay, I only got flat out like a lizard drinking, mate and barrack!!!

What did you say???

JJT

He he JJT!!

What it means is: Gee wizz he is flat out reading this and if he gets up off the chair or ground he is likely to fall over and it will look funny and his friends will give him a really hard time about it.

LOL!!

In American English that would have meant;

I am flat on the floor drunk and breaking wind (farting) and all my friends are going to urinate on me!!

ROFLMAO!!!!!!

In NZ we have picked up many aussie terms.G'day is almost institutionalised now but my favorite has to be the one started by the highly respected Mr Kevin B... Wilson being DILLIGAF.I find it particularily useful.lol

Ludo,

I also like the DILLIGAF!! :) And yes it can be very useful!! :)

my father uses alot of the slang,
hit the frog and toad (road)

see a man about a dog (when we would ask where he was going) i think it sorta meant mind your business.

true blue
bonza
beudy
rubbidy (pub)
tin lids (kids)

There are so many, it is funny to think that not everyone understands what we are saying, my sister lives in Florida and she was saying sometimes she will tell her daughter to put a jumper on and her husband looks at her funny. Or kimbie and he says diaper.

I always thought "to see a man about a dog" was for code for going to the bathroom.

No... my mistake, that is to "go see a man about a horse"......

JJT

Okay........ how about this one:

G'day mate, ya wanna lob in this arvo for a sanger and a tinnie?

JJT

JJT, You did great!!! :) I would love to come round for a sandwich and a beer!! :thumbsup:

Going to see a man about a dog can mean a few things though. I have used it when I have not wanted to tell the person who I am going to see and what for.

My Uncle used to have a saying that even a few aussie's had trouble understand and it was 'don't count your chickens until the horse has bolted!!' Meaning don't count your chickens till they hatch.

My Uncle used to have a saying that even a few aussie's had trouble understand and it was 'don't count your chickens until the horse has bolted!!' Meaning don't count your chickens till they hatch.

That sounds like a confused mix of 'don't count your chickens before they hatch', and 'don't close the gate after the horse has bolted' which seem to have almost opposite meanings...

Exactly!!! That was his point!! He was a bit backwards!!! LOL

Similar to the mixed up sayings "I'm no rocket surgeon" or "brain scientist" that i've been hearing recently... hahaha Maybe your uncle was onto something!

I think that he may have been onto something!! LOL

JJT, I just found my Mum's slang dictionary and here are a few for you.

Pull Your Head In: Telling someone to mind their own business
Chock-A-Block: Absolutely full
Pearler: Wonderful

Pull Your Head In: Telling someone to mind their own business


While i do hear this one quite often, i've never heard it in that context. When i've heard it it meant more along the lines of "use some common sense!"

Grouse mate, but i'll need a cut lunch and a billy of tea to get there :)

Amanda, the dictionary I am going off is the John Blackman's one and I personally don't agree to quite a few of the things in here. It was written about 15 years ago too!! :)
Here's an old one for you!! :) Ridgie Didge!!! :)

Jherek, I use grouse alot!! :) It's a favourite of mine!!

See what happens when you leave the Motherland? ;)
Both nations took a perfectly good language and completely ruined it!!


Rach x
(Waving Union Jack and singing "Rule Britannia")





Actually, gettting out of the UK was the best thing I ever did! But don't tell anyone!!

Trust the pommie to come out with that!! ;) You make me laugh Rach!! :D

When I was a kid, my dad used to go out every Friday night telling us whe was "going to see a man about a dog". And every Saturday morning we got up and went downstairs to see if Dad bought the dog. He'd get up with a rotten hangover and just laugh! It took us years to figure what he meant!!

One thing my Dad used to do to us was take us for a drive when we were younger and he would take us for these drives out in the bush and when we would ask where we were going he would say that he was taking us to the "mad house". I was about 5 and it took until I was about 10 to realise what the mad house was!!

Bugger has to be my fav aussie word.
That and Drongo!

Water the horses-Take a leak!

You can't beat "point percy at the porcelain" LOL

Or "technicolour yawn".

Mel,

I use drongo alot!! :)

Wissy,

I have never heard those two!! :) Might have to try them out this weekend at Bathurst and see how the boys take it!! :)

Or raining over china :P

Ya wouldn't be dead for quids now would ya

Drongo!

Love it! I think I will start using it!

"point percy at the porcelain"

uh..... what guys do when they use the restroom?

"technicolour yawn".

praying to the porcelain god? ralphing, upchucking, booze/food recall? watching dinner in reverse???

raining over china

china as in porcelain?

Ya wouldn't be dead for quids now would ya

I have no idea! uhh...... need money?

JJT

Raining over china - porcelain yep

Ya wouldn't be dead for quids now would ya - my interpretation "everythings great"

Struth mate, it's true blue! Fair dinkum.