| Aussie Words |
Definitions |
Comments |
| 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) |
| roo |
Kangaroo |
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| roo bar |
Metal frame on front of vehicles to protect against kangaroo strikes |
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| root |
Have sexual intercourse |
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| rooted |
Tired |
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| ropable |
Very ill-tempered or angry |
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| rotten |
Drunk ("I went out last night and got rotten") |
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| rouseabout, rousie |
General stationhand / non-shearing shed-hand |
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| RS |
Lousy (rat shit) |
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| rubbish |
To criticize or tease |
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| rug up |
Dress for warmth |
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| rum cull |
Rich fool, an easy mark |
17/18th c. London street slang |
| run |
A station - a large country agricultural property |
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| ryebuck |
Genuine, fair dinkum |
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| sack |
To dismiss from a job |
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