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Bushfire. Bushfire is a distinctively Australian word. What we call a bushfire is called a “wildfire” everywhere else in the world. The name we’ve adopted comes from the Aussie habit of constructing expressions using the word “bush” or tacking on other words to “bush” (as in a “bush so-and-so”).
- Aussie slang hasn’t carked it, but we do want to know more ...
Writer C.R Read cautioned in 1853 “that Englishmen going to...
- Aussie slang hasn’t carked it, but we do want to know more ...
Although the term’s origin is Old English, meaning a strip of leather or hide, with its first known use being before the 12th Century, Australians apparently have the upper-hand in using the ...
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Jun 11, 2014 · Don't come the raw prawn with me - don't try and put one over on me. Go off like a bucket of prawns in the sun - cause a commotion ... But the glory days of Australian slang really arrived in the ...
A very interesting fact about Australian slang is that the words have nicknames. The Australians have a way of shortening the long words and using them in their day to day slang. For instance, “Afternoon” is “arvo, “Swimming trunks” is “swimmers”, “Journalist” is “journo”, “Sunglasses” is “sunnies”, “Mosquito ...
Writer C.R Read cautioned in 1853 “that Englishmen going to the Australian digging should search their souls and ask themselves ‘if they can stand a little colonial slang’”. This slang – our Australian slang – has been a lightning rod for pride, prejudice and confusion. “Dustbin language” writes one (not a huge fan), “people ...
But in Australia a snag is also one of several words for ‘sausage’ (others include snarler and snork). It is first recorded in 1937, and probably comes from British (mainly Scots) dialect snag meaning ‘a morsel, a light meal’. Snag has generated another, rhyming slang, term for the humble sausage: the aptly named mystery bag.
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Nov 13, 2011 · By the 1880s the 'prostitute's pimp' sense of bludger is found in Australian sources. In the Sydney Slang Dictionary of 1882 bludgers are defined as 'plunderers in company with prostitutes'. Cornelius Crowe, in his Australian Slang Dictionary (1895), defines a bludger as 'a thief who will use his bludgeon and lives on the gains of immoral women'.
