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G'day again! On this page I am going to list our language Barriers, and I would be most pleased if any other Aussies reading this has something to add please email me and I will place it on this page, I really need help guys, to make this work! By the way these things are in no particular order, I just place them here as they come to me (laugh). And lets hope they come quick. LOL. Alrighty then, lets get to it!! And also if any of this offends, I apologise now! This is how we say and call things in the Land Down Under...I would like to just Thank a Friend of mine I met on ICQ for sharing some Aussie Slang with me...~smile~ Thankyou Chris, You are a great Aussie !!


*A*
Aussie- Australian, Dinky Di Aussie, True Blue.
A wet blanket= Someone who is boring or is a spoilt sport
A Load of Cods whallop= Bullshit, someone speaking shit!
Ant's pants = same as bee's knees
Ants in ya pants = won't sit still
Airy Fairy = something with not a lot of substance to it
'Ave agoodweekend = have a good weekend
Ankle Biter= Child, Little Tacker
Arse about Face= Back to front
Arse over tit= To fall over, to come a cropper
Arthur or Martha= When you don't know who or what you are, confused
Arvo= Afternoon
Aussie Rules= Australian Football
Aerial Ping Pong= Abbreviation for Aussie Rules
Alkie= Someone who drinks alot, an Alcoholic

*B*
Bangs like a Dunny Door= Whore, Women who like to have sex with different men
Barbie= A gathering of family and friends get together for a barbie
B.B.Q= A hotplate you cook on at a Barbie..Throw a shrimp on the barbie (laughing)
Bee's knees = really great
"Beats the shit out of me!" = wouldn't have a clue!
Bringing home the Bacon= The money earner of the household
Bun in the oven = pregnant
Buggered = broken or when a person is stuffed or had a long day
Bung on an act = lose one's temper or someone out for sympathy
Belly full of arms and legs = pregnant
Bacon = police
Better half= Same as other half
Bingle = A car accident
Bludge = doing as little as possible, when you should be working
boomer= Kangaroo
Bugger me dead = exclamation of amazement
Bullamankanka= any remote, backward place
Billy Lids= Kids as well
Blood and Blister= Sister
Bob's Your Uncle= No worries Mate, She;ll be right mate
Bread Winner= The money earner of the family
Bringing Home the Bacon= The money earner as well
Brown Nosing= Sucking up to the boss
Buggered if i know= Don't know, have no idea
Billabong= Watering Hole
Blind Mullet= When someone is under the influence of Alcohol,Drunk
Bark Hut= Shelter
Bombie= To run up and do a big splash into a swimming pool
By Jingo By Crikey= Expression of shock and surprise

*C*
Canuck = Canadian
Cheese and Kisses= Missus, Lady, Wife..
Chew the fat= talkative person, one who can go on and on
Chop short of a Barbie= Same as not the full quid also..
Chuck a spaz attack = lose one's temper or get carried away over nothing
Chuck a mental = Someone really losing their temper, out of control
Crack the shits = chuck a sad
Cling-on = dag
Cool Bananas = Means great, everything is cool..fantastic
Cop you later = farewell or goodbye
Chuck a wobbly= Throwing a tantrum, cracking the shits, spitting it
Chuck a uuuie = do a u-turn in motor vehicle
Crack Pot= Crazy person, madman, lunatic
Crust= Job, to earn the dough, money.
Close shave= Near miss, very close indeed
Cooking with Gas= Getting somewhere, Things working out the way you want
Crack the shits= someone who dose'nt get there own way
Cracking up= laughing and can't stop, losing it
Cuppa= Having a cup of tea
Copa Squat= Sit Down
Cyphon the Python= Male going to have a leek, going to the toilet
Crikey Moses= Shock and disbelief
Curry Muncher= Person of Indian Descent
Cold enough to freeze the Balls of a Brass Monkey= Bloody Freezing

*D*
Dad and Dave= Having a shave
Dead Horse= Tomatoe Sauce
Dog & Bone= Telephone
Daylight Saving = putting the clock forward to make it lighter for later in the day
Drop your guts= Someone who has just relieved gases, farted, fluffed, popped
Dag = someone who doesn't dress cool, like a "dork", a term of endearment usually for a humourous friend BUT literal meaning is shit stuck to a sheeps rear end!
Dandy gray russet - colour of a sheeps fart.
Donkey's Years = A long time between anything.
Dead Rat up your ass: When someone's fart is so bad that you can't breathe.
Dingoes breakfast = no breakfast at all
duna= duvet, comforter
Dribble shit= Someone who talks a load of bull..LOL
Dummy= Something a baby sucks on, or it could mean stupid.
Dogs Breakfast= Is when you seen vomit on the ground, its known as this or things are in a shambles
Didgeridoo= Aborignal musical instrument
Don't come the Raw Prawn with me= Don't speak shit!!
Dogs Breath= Someone with Bad Breath

*E*

*F*
Fag=cigarette,smoke,durry,tailor made,nail in the coffin,a fag is also a gay person
Faggot=This is someone who is gay.
Final straw = Thats it, not taking no more crap, enough is enough
Franger = condom
Freeze the balls of a brass monkey = cold
Froth at the mouth = lose one's temper
Feeling up to shit= Not feeling well, also referred to when one is hungover
Fit as a Malley Bull= Could mean fit or stuffed depending on the situation
Flat out like a lizard drinking= Doing Nothing, slacking it
Fair Crack of the Whip= Enough is enough, Settle down,
Fairdinkum=Is that right, true, real, honest
Fair suck of the sav= Someone replies this to someone that is giving a hard time
Flog the log= Man masturbating
Free Willy= A male not wearing underwear
Friend= mate, cobber, buddy, pal, digger, bosom buddy,
Fender Bender= Someone who is Trendy

*G*
G'Day= hello, hi, how ya going
Good-bye= bye, seeya, catch ya, later, toroo, catch ya round like a bad smell
Great galloping goannas = surprise or amazement
Go Drown yourself = Means the same as Jump in the Lake

*H*
Have a Growl or a Fang= Something to eat
Heaps/giving heaps =lots/giving trouble
Hit the fart sack= Males say this when they are going to bed
Hit the frog & toad= to get going, leave, go home, to hit the road
Had the ridgey didge = out of order, broken
Hair of the dog = an alcoholic drink taken as a relief first thing of a morning for a hangover
Hammer and Tong : Going real fast when doing anything, such as driving a car.
Handy as tits on a bull= useless
Having a foot in the Grave = A older person
Hit the frog and toad =go on a road trip, leave, time to go home
Hooning = racing around like a mad thing (a regular bat outa hell) eg - hooning around in the car!
Hoo roo = farewell or goodbye
Hokie Pokie= Cells in a Police Station
Honky Dory= Means all is well and Happy.
How much can a Koala Bare= How much can one take
Howzat = WOW - wasn't that a good one??
Humbugging=Bludging of others
Hungover= waking up from a night on the piss
Humpy= Aboriginal shelter

*I*
Icing on the cake= Can mean good or bad, bad as in the final straw..and good as in, topping off something good that happened

*J*
jocks= men’s underwear
Joe Blake= Snake
Joe Bloggs = an unknown name/person
Jump in the Lake = Say this to someone who is giving you the shits

*K*
Kangaroo short in the top paddock = same as chop short of a barbie (BBQ)
Knickers = (as in - don't get your knickers in a knot) = underpants (don't get all upset over it)

*L*
Land Down Under= Australia
Lemon= Lesbian, a fruit
Lock up= Cells in Police Station as well

*M*
Mad as a cut snake= Someone who is'nt scared of a thing
Mad as a Malley Bull= Mad or crazy as
Mad as a Shithouse Rat= Just Plain Crazy
Maggotted= Rolling Drunk, Pissed, Absolutely Blind
Me ole china Plate= Mate
Meat Pie= My eye
Mad as a butchers axe = crazy
Meat wagon = ambulance
My home is my Castle= what nearly every man calls his home

*N*
Nackered= Plain stuffed, buggered, tired, had enough of what one is doing
No Worries= Same as well and Happy, and She'll be right means the same to
Nail in the coffin = Doing something more thats bad for you, as in having another smoke
Narky = see stroppy
No need to Cream yourself = Someone refers this to someone when they are carrying on, getting upset for no reason
Non Alcoholic Drink= soft drink, cool drink, fizzy drink
North and South= Mouth
Not the full Quid= Not all there in the head..

*O*
On the slops= Someone on the Piss, Beer
Other side of timbucktoo = any remote place
Off ya scone = drunk
Onya = good on you
Off ya tits= Drunk or stoned
Off like the clappers= Going really fast

*P*
Pigs= Police
Piss like a shiela= Male putting shit on another Male
Pissed= Drunk,full as a goog, blind, rolling drunk,smashed,plastered, out of it.
Pissing in your pocket= When someone is sucking up to you, wants something
Paddy wagon = police car
Police = boys in blue
Pommie=Englishmen
pouch of paws n' claws =pregnant
Put on a turn = create a scene
Prang= Accident
Popa Vein= To freak out, carry on a bit..You say to someone who is doing this " Oh come on, don't Popa Vein" LOL
*Q*

*R*
Raincoat = condom
Rare as rocking horse shit = hens teeth = non existent
Ridgey Didge = the real thing, speaking the truth
Roo= kangaroo
Rug Rats= Children, Little tackers

*S*
Sanga= Sandwich..
Sheila=girl,women,good sort, and female is known as a sheila
She'll be cool= Again the same as Bob's Your Uncle
Shit hits the fan= trouble, keep away, someone going off, every thing out in the open
Shithouse= toilet, other names that mean the same are,loo,dunny,crapper,throne
Shit the bed in the Morning= When one gets to work early..which for most is strange (laugh)
Sit on the throne= How it is described when going to the toilet
Seeing your best friend = man going for a pee
She'll be right mate = (a form of good old australian apathy)...nothing is a bother
Stone the flamin' crows = exclamation of bewilderment
Strewth = surprise or amazement
She'll be dandy = everything is cool, good
Stumped = Can't think no more, or haven't a clue what someone is talking about you say " well you have me stumped"
Spunky = A sexy guy or sheila
Smells like a dunny door on a prawn trawler= speaks for itself
Shit a brick = exclamtion of stress
Shit faced = drunk
Slug = lay around and do nothing
Smell the bacon = the cops are here
Stress out = get uptight
Stress head = some one who is uptight
Stroppy = cranky, irate, narky
Sky Rocket= Pocket
Slug= Mans penis, snail without a shell..
Sour Pop= Lesbian also
Spit the dummy= same as Chucking a wobbly
stuffed =tired, screwed up, had enough of.
Sultana Bran = Raisan Bran
Snagger or Snag = Sausage..
Specs=sunglasses, sunny's, shades
Steak and Kidney= Sydney, Australia.
Strangle a python= Male describing himself going to the toilet
Stubbie short of a sixpack= Same as not the full quid..A bit thick.
Shafted= When someone has a lend of you
Squizzy Taylor= To have a Look or to Check something out, to have a Sqizz
Stack it= To have a Prang, accident
Shaggin Wagon= Panel Van
Skull= To down a drink in one hit, usually a Beer
Stitched up= Same as shafted

*T*
Tally ho = farewell or goodbye or cigarette rolling papers
The other half= Referring to either partner, spouse
The Plod= Police
The back of Bourke = any remote place
The blackstump = any remote place
Thingamebob = term for an object when actual name is forgotton
Thingamejig = when your trying to think of someones name and can't remember
This Arvo = short for this afternoon
Thunders Rolling= Mothers on the loose, Deep shit, Trouble
Turn it up = Same as Fair crack of the whip
Tin Lids= Kids, children
Tinny=can of beer, aluminum dingy
Trouble & Strife= Wife
Taken to the cleaners= Been Had

*U*
Up at a Sparrows Fart= Have to get up early for work or something
Up th' duff = pregnant
uni =university
Up the creek= Polite way of saying you are Up shit creek without a paddle
Up shit creek without a paddle= You have blown it, done something which is hard to undo

*V*
Vegemite= A True Blue Aussie spread for Spreading on Bread, whatever
Veg Out = same as slug
Visitor to Vegemite Valley= Poofter

*W*
Walloper= Police
Wanker= Idiot
Warwick farm= Arm
Whosiwhatsit = term for a person when their name is forgotton
Wig-warmer = a hat
Who let fluffy off the chain= same as farted,popped, dropped your guts
Whomajigger = term for a person or thing when the actual name is forgottton
Watch the Box= Watch the TV, or Tele.
Water the horse= Male going to the toilet
Wife = the dragon lady.
Wig-wam for a gooses bridle = same as thingamajig
White Cuppa= To have tea with milk added

*X*

*Y*
Yank=American
Your shout/who's shout= the next round of alcoholic drinks

*Z*
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