| Aussie Words |
Definitions |
Comments |
| yabber |
Talk (a lot) |
Probably Aboriginal … and/or pidgin from jabber |
| yabby |
Small freshwater crayfish |
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| yahoo |
Noisy and unruly person |
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| yahooing |
Boisterous behaviour |
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| yakka, yakker |
Hard work, an Aboriginal term |
(Yagari language -'yaga') |
| yank |
American regardless of location |
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| yank tank |
An American car |
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| yankee shout |
A round of drinks in which everyone pays his own |
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| yeo |
Ewe, female sheep |
Scots dialect … also ewie or yowie (not the aboriginal forest monster!) |
| yewy |
U-turn in traffic ("chuck a yewy at the next traffic lights") |
I've always spelled it: U-ey … but I'm a bit of a pedant! |
| yobbo |
Uncouth, aggressive person |
Old Cockney 'backspell' slang: yob = boy |
| yonks |
Ages, a long time |
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| youse |
Plural of you (by the grammatically challenged) |
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| zarucker |
Police trooper |
(Appears in Manifold's "The Death of Ned Kelly"_ |
| zebra crossing |
Broad-striped pedestrian roadway crossing |
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| zed |
Australian and British pronunciation of "Z" |
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| zeds |
Pertaining to sleep (zzz) |
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| zonked |
Exhausted, rooted |
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