Aussie Words |
Definitions |
Comments |
ocker |
Uncultivated or boorish Australian |
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off-sider |
Assistant or partner |
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oil |
Information |
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old man |
Large (animal) as in 'old man kangaroo … by tranference (and pidgin use?) = large |
Old Man Plain', in "Across the Western Plains", means 'the big, wide plain'. |
oldies |
Parents - "I'll have to ask my oldies" |
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on a good lurk |
To have a good job |
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open slather |
Without restrictions |
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OS |
Overseas |
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outback |
The bush, or uncivilised uninhabited region |
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overlander |
A drover, herding cattle or sheep hundreds of miles over land |
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owyergoin |
How are you going? Often used with "g'day" and "Mate" |
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oy! |
An ocker's call; hey! |
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oyo |
On your own (flat or apartment) |
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Oz |
Australia, as in Oz-tralia |
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packed out |
Filled to capacity |
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packet |
Large some of money, an envelope |
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paddock |
Field or meadow |
In Australia, that COULD be 1000 square miles! |
pademelon, paddymelon |
Small (potorid) wallaby … Aboriginal word (Dharuk - 'badimaliyan') |
Confused with inedible African cucurbit, growing feral in Australia - 'Paddymelon' |
pally |
On friendly terms with |
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paper yabber |
Letter |
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parcel |
Package |
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pash |
Passion, infatuation |
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pastoralist |
Large-scale grazier |
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patent pill machine |
Revolver |
Image goes back to loading a cap-and-ball revolver |
pav |
Pavlova - a rich, creamy Australian dessert |
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pavement pizza |
Vomit |
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pavlova |
Traditional Australian meringue and cream dessert, named after Russian ballerina |
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pearler |
Excellent |
(Purler?) |
peel |
Shear (a sheep) |
"Peel the wooly overcoats of those monkeys!) |
peeler |
policeman |
(Anglo-Irish, from Sir Rober Peel) |
pen |
Shearing position or job (= 'stand') |
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perve (noun & verb) |
Looking lustfully at the opposite sex |
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pester |
Annoy or bother someone |
(Standard English?) |
petrol |
Gasoline |
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piccaninny |
Native child |
(International colonial) W. Indian creole from Spanish 'pequeno' |
piece of piss |
Easy task |
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piffle |
Nonsense |
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pig's arse! |
I don't agree with you |
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piker |
Someone who doesn't want to fit in with others socially, leaves parties early |
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pinch |
To arrest |
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pineapple, rough end of |
Stick, sharp end of; misfortune |
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pink (verb) |
Shear closely (so close that the pink skin shows through the wool) |
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pinkie |
Wine - local - young (bit short of the Beaujolais mystique) |
Term occurrs in song 'Ard tac', inter alia |
pint pot |
Tin-plated cooking/storage/container - specially made, not improvised like a billy |
Sometimes fits snugly inside the quart pot - horsemen's model is oval to pack better in saddlebag |
piss |
Alcohol, usually beer |
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piss turn, piss up |
Boozy party |
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piss weak |
No good, gutless |
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pissed |
Drunk |
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pissed off |
Annoyed |
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pivot on |
Consider |
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plant the foot (to the floorboards) |
Drive fast |
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plonk |
Cheap wine (contemptuous contraction of "vin blanc") |
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plurry |
(alledged) pidgin for "bloody" |
The Oxford blames this one on the New Zealanders and Maoris? |
poddy dodger |
Cattle rustler |
Strictly, someone pinching unbranded calves from careless neighbours |
poker machine, pokies |
Slot machine or fruit machine but with playing card pips |
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polly |
Politician |
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pom, pommy |
English person |
Imperfect rhyming slang = pomegranate - 'immy-granate' |
pommy bastard |
An Englishman |
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poofter |
Homosexual |
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port |
Suitcase (portmanteau) |
Not a Sydney term - common everywhere else |
possie |
Position |
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postie |
Postman, mailman |
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pot |
285 ml glass of beer (Victoria and Queensland) |
And the Sydney Journalist's Club |
pozzy |
Position - get a good pozzy at the football stadium |
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prad |
A horse |
(From Dutch 'paard') |
prang |
Accident or crash |
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prezzy |
Present, gift |
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prog |
Food |
Old Englis, ex Norse |
pub |
Any hotel |
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puddle |
Wash soil in tubs or troughs for gold ('often preparatory to cradling') |
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push |
Group or gang of people, such as shearers |
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putt-putt |
Any small vehicle |
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QANTAS |
Acronym for Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service |
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quack |
Doctor, especially if not very good |
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quart pot |
Tin-plated cooking/storage/container - specially made, not improvised like a billy |
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quick smart |
In a hurry |
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quid, make a |
Earn a living - "are you making a quid?" |
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quid, not the full |
Of low IQ |
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quids |
A lot of money |
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rabbiter |
Person trapping, poisoning or shooting rabbits for pay, bounty or skins |
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rage |
Party |
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rainbow sneeze |
Vomit |
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rapt |
Delighted, enraptured |
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ratbag |
Someone who does not behave properly |
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raw prawn, to come the |
To bullshit, to be generally disagreeable |
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razoo |
Fictitious coin, as "I haven't a brass razoo" |
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reckon! |
You bet! Absolutely! |
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red poppy |
The one at the top whom Aussies like to give a hard time |
Tall poppy (syndrome)? |
rego |
Registration, as in car rego |
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rellie |
Family relative |
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remittance man |
(Generally) Englishman whose family are prepared to pay him to not to come home |
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rhino |
Money (real money, not the cockies' 'shinplasters'!) |
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ridgy-didge |
Original, genuine |
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right |
Okay ("she'll be right, mate") |
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ring-in |
Impostor, unauthorised |
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ringer |
Fastest sheep shearer |
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ringer (Queensland) |
Stockman, cattle drover (required to "ring, mill & circle cattle") |
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ripper |
Great, fantastic |
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road train |
Big truck with many trailers |
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roly-poly |
Australian tumbleweed |
(roley-poley, rolly-polly) |