littlealex's Aussie Lingo

[changeling]

littlealex posted a quiz on Aussie slang, but no one can see the results, so I decided to copy mine here so I could keep them. Also the little text boxes were too short, so I couldn't expand the definition properly. This may be of use to the non-Aussies on my flist, particularly Hedda, though she's probably heard some of them by now. ;)

Also featuring a couple of bonus words, to make up for the couple I either wasn't sure of, or hadn't heard.

Bludge
(verb)
1. To do nothing. e.g. "I was planning on going to the footy, but I just ended up bludging at home."
(adj.)
2. Easy, simple: "I thought maths was supposed to be hard, but that class was a total bludge."

Bludger
(noun)
1. One who bludges; a lazy person.
2. Dole bludger One who is lazing about on government subsidy. Derog.

Bogan
(noun)
An uncultured oaf; likely to be from the western suburbs of a city. A bogan's Saturday night of choice is likely to be hooning (cf hoon), swearing and going to the footy with his mates. Strictly speaking, it probably refers more to the lower classes (particularly the males thereof) of the cities rather than of any country dweller.

Buckley's
(noun)
No chance, no hope. As in "You've got Buckley's, kid." Apparently derived from some chap called William Buckley, an convict who absconded and lived with an Aboriginal tribe for some years; also a pun on the Melbourne company Buckley and Nunn.
Also: Buckley's and none, Buckley's chance, Buckley's hope.

Chock-a-block/chockers
(adjective)
Full up. "You can't get in; it's chock-a-block in there." or "I can't eat another bite. I'm absolutely chockers."

Crack on
(verb)
To hit on, to chat up, to flirt. "Of course I hit him! He was cracking on to my girlfriend!"

Crap on
(verb)
To rabbit on; to talk nonsense. "I wasn't listening. Suzie was crapping on about some boy, and I wasn't interested."

Esky
(noun)
A marvellous item for keeping beer cold at the cricket. An insulated box, originally made of styrofoam, these days more likely made out of plastic.

Flash
(adjective)
Spiffy; neat; impressive. "He thinks he's flash, but he wasn't very good."

Full on
(adjective; also, exclamation)
1. Impressive, overwhelming, intense, almost unbelievable. "I fell off a six storey building." "That's full on!"

Hoo-roo
(exclamation)
Greetings. Almost exclusively heard on Neighbours or Home and Away; I have never heard a real person use the expression. If you greet an Australian with this, they are likely to look at you as if you are soft in the head.

Hoon
(verb) hooned, hooning, hoons
1. To drive dangerously
2. To drive like a young male; ie, revving car at stoplights etc.
(noun)
3. One who hoons.

Nick
(verb)
To steal, to filch. "I would have brought the esky, but someone'd nicked it!"

Pom
(noun)
A Briton. There are several suggested derivations for this, but no one knows for certain. Often paired with the verb "whinging".

Snag
(noun)
Sausage.

Squiz
(noun); verb phrase 'to have a ~'
To have a look. "Have a squiz at that, Doreen! He's painted the whole thing pink!"

(to be) Stuffed
(verb)
To injure or damage. "I think I've stuffed the engine." "I can't come over today. I've stuffed my knee jumping a fence."

Trackie daks
(noun)
Tracksuit pants. Generally made of flannel and unattractive.

Waffle on
(verb)
To natter, or talk excessively. Slightly less offensive than "crap on".

Yobbo
(noun)
1. See "bogan".
2. Also, one who drives dangerously. "Some yobbo was tailgating me from Melbourne to Ballarat."

Yonks
(noun)
Ages; a long time.


Dropped the videos off today and went to KMart to read A Hat Full of Sky for an hour. I've been reading it in installments, as I cannot afford to buy it, or even clear my debts with the local library so I can borrow it (I've just checked, and it's $2.60. Which I can probably afford if I use some of the petrol money Steph gave me). I discovered that it is only $26 in KMart at the moment, so I am wondering if I could possibly sell a kidney or something so I can buy it. Because I need it. And I need it in hardcover. And $26 is at least $10 less than I paid for Wee Free Men in hardcover, and that was on discount at Borders. Want, want, want. Think I'll call Drake again tomorrow.

For some reason, my Black Books icon seems to be stuck on the second frame. This is very odd.

Comments

[tycho.livejournal.com]

One other one is "Full Sick" (adjective; also, exclamation) 1. Impressive, overwhelming, intense, almost unbelievable. Refers specifically towards cars. "That Supra is full-sick mate. She can go from 0 to 100 in 7 seconds."
Or is that considered to be more a wog-related slang than Aussie? I've never been absolutely sure of that one.

And also the term "Wog". Is it Aussie slang, or more than just that? Never been sure about that.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Fully sick. Fully sick.

And wog is Aussie.

This was not intended to be compleat.

[tycho.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I've heard several individuals use "full sick" instead of "Fully sick" before.

Ah, ok. *nods*

[rhakylia.livejournal.com]

what about "to cut sick"?

[darketherdream.livejournal.com]

Don't forget 'sick bro'.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I would have thought that was more of a NZ turn of phrase.

[darketherdream.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hear it enough...I iddn't know it was more of a NZ thing...

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the NSW coast is apparently where a lot of NZers have been settling in recent years.

[darketherdream.livejournal.com]

well, that would explain it...though it's seen very much as a 'wog' thing to say, people are always teasing them about it. They probably stole it from the NZers.

[missaustralia.livejournal.com]

Well, my sister says 'hoo-roo', but I spend enormous amounts of time looking at her like she's soft in the head, so I'm not sure that counts.

Also, my favourite slang word to confuse the Americans with use is "doona". Nobody gets it. It's fantastic.

Doona: quilt, bedspread. Actually, a bedspread is a flat sheet-like object, a quilt is a thick blanket with a removable cover, usually filled with feathers, a patchwork quilt is self-explanatory and a doona is a thick, wadding- or feather-filled blanket with a permanent cover. Somebody spent too much time working at Spotlight.

[littlealex.livejournal.com]

I can't hear 'hoo-roo' without thinking of Don Burke. And seeing his collection of jumpers. Man, Burke's Backyard has gotten so bad with the addition of the other guys. I liked it much better when it was just Don going around telling you all about plants.

[jilavre.livejournal.com]

When my sister came to live with me after several years in the glorious US of A *snort* She had trouble with;

Skanky
Dodgy
Hardcore

Which are ones I tend to use excessivly.

[melusinehr.livejournal.com]

That's so strange. I'm 'murrican and I use "skanky" all the time. I use "dodgy", too, but that's 'cause I lived in the UK for a while. And as for "hardcore"--I don't use it, but I know exactly what it means. And isn't it California surfer slang as well? Your sister is silly. :)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*nods* I would have said that skanky and hardcore were very 'Merican things to say. Dodgy's more British.

[jilavre.livejournal.com]

*nods* she is silly, but this was a few years ago so I'll give her a little bit of leeway.

hoo-roo!

[notfudge.livejournal.com]

I would like to point out to everyone who reads your journal, that those of us in the western suburbs aren't bogans until you're further out then thirty minutes drive from the city. Which covers me, clearly.

^_^

I am soft in the head!

Trackie daks
Ah yes, I have already cofused Hedda with, then explained, this phrase. Wordy. Thing.

Re: hoo-roo!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Noun phrase? Though I suppose trackie is an adjective, and daks is a noun...

but I is confuuused!

[metyounow.livejournal.com]

Just for the record, I had some clue of what you were talking about, just from context clues and yes. Quite amusing turn of phrase, that. But then again, I have a toboggan.

:D

[metyounow.livejournal.com]

*giggles*
Yes, I've already heard quite a few, but a lot I didn't know. Fascinating things, words...