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If you ever come to Sydney please stay away from the overrated places like any country there are a few I wouldn’t do much describe as overrated as over crowded if you enjoy beautiful scenery and quiet little spots us locals will I am sure help you out because some are just beyond beautiful 🇦🇺❤️
this is a subtle one. To explain i wlll set the scene. we were setting up camp at uluru . as we were doing our jobs i heard one of our mates say to himself . " here we go " That is a red light term. I jumped up just as we saw the camp ranger come to a fast halt in a cloud of dust . He called out , no fires at this camp. . When you hear HERE WE GO....its happening...
If it’s your turn to buy a round of drinks at the pub then it’s your “shout”..if you happen to “disappear” when it’s your shout...then that leads to the expression”he wouldn’t shout if a shark bit him”...flogging is also used here as “selling something”..as in “he’s flogging his old car on gumtree”...carton (of beer)is usually also known as a “slab of beer”..enjoying your videos from Melbourne..
Flogging has a few meanings eg: If you were in a fight and losing or losing a game of any kind you would be ,copping a flogging. Flogging a car means your really reving it It could be Flogging down with rain meaning it's raining really heavy. Or you could be selling something, you would be Flogging it off You could be addressing a child misbehaving you would say " keep it up and il give you a flogging,meaning you will hit them. I hope that confuses you lol
Don’t forget the the derogatory one that also is used a fair bit and that is “ Flogging yourself or himself” which means that the person is a bit of a dickhead and or is got high expectations of something or himself hence you would say to your mates “He’s flogging himself” as apart from the sexual connotation
grog - english naval term for rum and water - In early days in Sydney rum was the currency also see rum rebellion with Governor Captain Bligh (yes that one) and John McArthur
Great job as always. Just a couple of thoughts that came to mind. It has always been that small glass bottles of beer are called stubbies and large ones are long necks. That may be morphing as words often do. Back in the day the stubbie was short and fat, exactly like a Bundaberg Ginger beer bottle - it looks short and stubbie (I don't know if in the UK you say someone is a bit stubbie meaning short and fat, but that is where it originally came from - the bottle was short and fat). When my family and I moved too the US in the 90's for a few years a carton of beer was called a carton just like you said. When we got back it was as often as not referred to as a "slab." So if someone says they are getting a slab it is the same as what you discovered about "carton." Most people struggle to explain "fair dinkum." You did a pretty good job - true, integrity, honest, right are all ways you can use fair dinkum but it can also be used as a question." In the same way someone might say - " are you serious?" You can use "fairdinkum?" The thing with pants is one of those Americanisms that has come in. Just like when I was a kid people would say "lorry" as often as they would say "truck", "pants" started to replace trousers and shorts. Of course for underwear we still say "underpants" So we can wear long pants, short pants, and both with underpants. I have seen that in the UK you only use pants where we would use underpants.
beauty bottler ,or the shortened version (beaut,or beauty)Bonza ,grouse(great),fair dinkum,or 70s slang cool version(dead set) .Too easy i dont use as its a newer saying .bottlo,called the grog shop.in school primary ,in the 60s we had a tuck shop,but moving up to high school they called it the canteen.These were comonly used words and sayings in my life time.Rubber duck ,i wont say what it means??sorry just making that up.
Lollies got me a lot at the start, I didn’t realise they meant sweets. I’d get emails at work saying there were lollies in the kitchen, I’d turn up and think “oh, just sweets left, the lollies went quickly!”
Esky is the brand name of the early coolers. Like a Pom saying they are going to hoover, using the brand name for vacuuming. The shortened words, well we could all be economical with the alphabet, eg; G'day is just "good day". Hope you haven't needed a dictionary while out.
There are damn nigh millions of slang terms for cigarettes here. . . Durry, duzza, doogen (and a lighter can be a doogenblaster), dart, ciggy, fag. . . The list is truly endless as even differing social circles will use different terms.
Great vid. The goon bag on the clothes line is called "Goon of Fortune". Spin the clothes line and the person standing under the goon when it stops gets a refreshing taste of goon. Flog is also used to refer to a dodgy person.
As a Canadian it’s cool to see what words are similar and what are more similar to British English. Like pants, chips and scooners I can’t remember what else but those are all Canadian too like similar to Australia not British English.
Hi guys we call the short one a stubby the long ones the long beer is called a king brown or longneck excuse the spelling I have dyslexia I'm sorry if I have if I have spelt it wrong
Hi guys, I really love your videos. But as usual I have to differ on some points. There is a worldwide misconception that in Australia we shorten words. We do shorten a lot of words, but we also use a lot of phrases which are longer than using a simple word. Some examples are Chinwag = talk, frog and toad = road, shake hands with a friend = have a piss (males only). The truth is that Australians often use longer words or phrases. It is with nouns that we shorten such as cigarette is shortened to ciggy, durry, fag, etc. Australian vernacular is far more complex and nuanced than most people realise. It is also a language that is about fun and enjoyment of life. Australians use language that makes everything less serious and therefore more fun, regardless of how serious things really are because in the end life is worth enjoying. But most important of all is when an Aussie says "do you need a hand?" or anything similar, it is a message to you that you will be okay, no matter what situation you are in, because you are going to be helped through it.
Love this segment…just learnt a couple of words that I didn’t know..😁.. Here are a some for you. Aussie slang for tomato sauce is dead horse and an ankle biter is a term used for a small child…Noah’s Ark is slang for a shark..👌
Hi folks. Just thought I'd say great job, I'm an Aussie and I enjoyed this video because it highlighted just how much slang is in such common usage, which I didn't even realise until I tried to compose this note, without using any lingo, in order that you might understand completely. Yes, I know, after the 5 or 6 years you've been here you're naturalised, I'm not intending to sound patronising, you're as maladjusted as the rest of us lol but truth be told, I set myself this challenge, more for my benefit than yours. It's quite challenging to do this quick note without using "ocker". Yours sincerely Paul Bourke Ps Something that you might find interesting that even a lot of Aussies don't know, unless they're well travelled is that in Australia the size of drinking glasses isn't totally standardised eg, a schooner of beer varies significantly in size from state to state, as does a pot, jug etc. Also the one sized glass has many names, a seven's is the same as a pony is the same as a butcher's etc, this is an example of one glass size with different names depending on the state. Other examples are weeds eg Patterson's Curse aka Riverina Bluebell and another weed, Cat Heads (Emex Australis) which are Three Corner Jack's in South Australia.
Hi Paul, thank you so much for watching 🥰 We didn't know about the differences in schooners across the states. We always did find it funny that the rules regarding sale of liquor vary across the country too
You forgot the most famous "MACCAS" for McDonalds. They are even calling themselves that at corporate level and sign posting their restaurants as MACCAS. The grub is always good at Maccas.
@@TheBAMFamalam some the older ones I grew up on was Blue Healers, Neighbours, Country Practice, Flying Doctors to name a few. Some our singers was Kylie Minogue, ACDC, John Farnham, Olivia Newton John just to name a few if want know or learn more 😀
@@traceyandrob13 The only one we haven't heard of is Blue Healers. John Farnham is regularly played in this house - occasionally he features over on our insta stories 🥰
@@Robert-cu9bm I remember my Mum having them at her 50th birthday party in the early 90's... she didn't hang it from the washing line though or drink from the bag 🙊
Haha that's so funny - they must have wondered why on earth her undies needed such care 😂 It still catches us out occasionally when people talk about their pants 😂
Budgie smugglers = mens togs, carton is slab in southern states, good on ya is sarcastic with a yeah in front of it, Ben unlikely to be Beno, more like Benji or Benjamin The Man, long made short, short made long. Great video though.
I like listening to you guys but there is nothing worse than someone using our Aussie slang when it’s sounds very false. Stubbies are also called echo. But stubbies can be tradies shorts that they wear…. fair dinkum also means ‘really’ . Caron of beer is also called a slab. Tucker also can be called ‘Grub’ . Togs is a very Queensland saying. Sook also can be said ‘stop been a girl’ which you will hear around men. People who are stingy are called ‘tight arse’. Kangaroos are called roos. Diarrhoea can often be said ‘I got the shits’ or ‘I got the squirts’. dead horse is tomato sauce.
There are certainly some Aussie sayings that sound less natural coming from us. As you can imagine moving from another country, there are some words/phrases you adopt and some you don't because it sounds a little odd. We'd not heard of the 'dead horse' before, good to know incase we ever get offered it 😆
Enjoy your vids however, do yourselves a favour and get the book call Aussie slang, it will give ya a laugh and broaden your vocab. Many of the slang you have stated aren’t used that often anymore and most of our slang is used more in statements ie; not the sharpest tool in the shed ( not to bright)
I always thought us using thongs for footwear is the original use of the word thong. I've never known them by any other name. The underwear version though started (by it's inventor) being called a G string. Slang changed the name to thong. Seems logical, you have a strap between your toes and you have a strap between your butt. I think that's how G string became a thong in other countries. Someone in America said when he buys his flip flops the description tag does actually use the word thong. It'd be nice to hear the full worldly evolution of the name of both footwear and underwear thongs. America, UK say flip flops, that's now. Australia has a strong UK an european first settlement heritage. G strings weren't around then. 0.O Is it like the chicken and the egg. Which came first?
@@andytaus1939 in the UK they are either pants or knickers (for women) - that's why we do a double take when someone starts talking about their pants here 😂
I don't think anyone has ever chucked a legitimate sickie lol. . . We all know youre not here on a Monday coz you got fucking hammered during your sunday sesh lol
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I’m in the US Arctic…everything I know about Aussie language I learned on Crocodile Dundee…1, 2, and regrettably 3.
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@@CowboyBike06 haha that's where Ben got his from before we moved too 🙊
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If you ever come to Sydney please stay away from the overrated places like any country there are a few I wouldn’t do much describe as overrated as over crowded if you enjoy beautiful scenery and quiet little spots us locals will I am sure help you out because some are just beyond beautiful 🇦🇺❤️
this is a subtle one. To explain i wlll set the scene. we were setting up camp at uluru . as we were doing our jobs i heard one of our mates say to himself . " here we go "
That is a red light term. I jumped up just as we saw the camp ranger come to a fast halt in a cloud of dust . He called out , no fires at this camp.
. When you hear HERE WE GO....its happening...
That's good to know... we will pay attention when we hear that now! On another note, we can't wait to go to Uluru! ❤️
If it’s your turn to buy a round of drinks at the pub then it’s your “shout”..if you happen to “disappear” when it’s your shout...then that leads to the expression”he wouldn’t shout if a shark bit him”...flogging is also used here as “selling something”..as in “he’s flogging his old car on gumtree”...carton (of beer)is usually also known as a “slab of beer”..enjoying your videos from Melbourne..
Thank you so much for watching 🥰 We hadn't heard the shark one before - we won't look quite so baffled if we do hear it now though, thank you 😆
Flogging has a few meanings eg:
If you were in a fight and losing or losing a game of any kind you would be ,copping a flogging.
Flogging a car means your really reving it
It could be Flogging down with rain meaning it's raining really heavy.
Or you could be selling something, you would be Flogging it off
You could be addressing a child misbehaving you would say " keep it up and il give you a flogging,meaning you will hit them.
I hope that confuses you lol
Haha your last sentence made us chuckle! It makes perfect sense to us... we must be real Aussies now 😆
Don’t forget the the derogatory one that also is used a fair bit and that is “ Flogging yourself or himself” which means that the person is a bit of a dickhead and or is got high expectations of something or himself hence you would say to your mates “He’s flogging himself” as apart from the sexual connotation
grog - english naval term for rum and water - In early days in Sydney rum was the currency also see rum rebellion with Governor Captain Bligh (yes that one) and John McArthur
With the Goon on the Hills Hoist, that's the great Ozzy backyard game of GOON OF FORTUNE lol, adds a touch if class to an afternoon lol
Oh haha 'Goon of Fortune' that hilarious, thank you so much for sharing!! 😂
Even better when one of the goons is a cocktail, rather than cheap wine. Real goon of fortune of that one lands in front of you
@@waterpolowizard haha this sounds like a real hoot 😂
this amused me so much
basically shorten everything and add O 🤣🤣 love it
Haha that's pretty much how it works 😆
Never knew we were like that!!
Hahaha! Great video guys..
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 😁
Great job as always. Just a couple of thoughts that came to mind. It has always been that small glass bottles of beer are called stubbies and large ones are long necks. That may be morphing as words often do. Back in the day the stubbie was short and fat, exactly like a Bundaberg Ginger beer bottle - it looks short and stubbie (I don't know if in the UK you say someone is a bit stubbie meaning short and fat, but that is where it originally came from - the bottle was short and fat). When my family and I moved too the US in the 90's for a few years a carton of beer was called a carton just like you said. When we got back it was as often as not referred to as a "slab." So if someone says they are getting a slab it is the same as what you discovered about "carton." Most people struggle to explain "fair dinkum." You did a pretty good job - true, integrity, honest, right are all ways you can use fair dinkum but it can also be used as a question." In the same way someone might say - " are you serious?" You can use "fairdinkum?" The thing with pants is one of those Americanisms that has come in. Just like when I was a kid people would say "lorry" as often as they would say "truck", "pants" started to replace trousers and shorts. Of course for underwear we still say "underpants" So we can wear long pants, short pants, and both with underpants. I have seen that in the UK you only use pants where we would use underpants.
Thank you so much, it's funny how language evolves so much in one country, let alone across several English speaking countries 😁
As far as I’m concerned you’re Australian! Which makes you my brother and sister.
Thank you 🥰
I think a few of those quips mentioned are mainly used in Queensland. Here in Western Australia we have a few different ones.
Tell us! We'd love to hear some WA phrases!! 🥰
Great video. Visiting friends in Canberra next month and I am sure this video will be useful to understand them when there.
Haha you will defo get caught out, however we’ll prepped you are 😆 Have a wonderful time in Canberra 🦘🦘
@@TheBAMFamalam thanks for the heads up 😁😁
The large beer bottles are a long-neck or a king brown
Good to know, thank you 😁
Many of these expressions are from the English and Irish settlement which have diverged over time.
beauty bottler ,or the shortened version (beaut,or beauty)Bonza ,grouse(great),fair dinkum,or 70s slang cool version(dead set) .Too easy i dont use as its a newer saying .bottlo,called the grog shop.in school primary ,in the 60s we had a tuck shop,but moving up to high school they called it the canteen.These were comonly used words and sayings in my life time.Rubber duck ,i wont say what it means??sorry just making that up.
Phew, we were just about to remove the rubber ducks from the bathroom 😂
Hi Guy’s
Grub is also slang for food.
For example : You wanna go grab some grub?
Keep up the good work you lovely people.
Oh yes, that's also used for that in the UK. Thank you so much 🥰
@@TheBAMFamalam - and in the US, but not as often.
Oh, yes, we use Grub as dirty too. This we use much more frequently than the food version of Grub.
Lollies got me a lot at the start, I didn’t realise they meant sweets. I’d get emails at work saying there were lollies in the kitchen, I’d turn up and think “oh, just sweets left, the lollies went quickly!”
Haha yes! It just doesn’t seem right when you’ve always called them sweets 😂
Esky is the brand name of the early coolers. Like a Pom saying they are going to hoover, using the brand name for vacuuming. The shortened words, well we could all be economical with the alphabet, eg; G'day is just "good day". Hope you haven't needed a dictionary while out.
Oh, we never knew that, we learn something every day here 😁 Haha no dictionary, but we've had to ask questions... lots of times 😂
"Good on ya" can also be used sarcastically. When someone says something really stupid or does something stupid.
We also noticed that 'Are you okay?' is often used sarcastically 😆
You can tell what states people are from by the slang they use lol
We are learning that this week - we still wouldn't be able to tell yet though 😂
Also cigarettes can been called darts. So if you say you are going out to punch a few darts, it means you are going out for a cigarette or two
Gosh, we wouldn't have had a clue about this one! We would have assumed they were playing darts 😆 Thank you for sharing 🥰
There are damn nigh millions of slang terms for cigarettes here. . .
Durry, duzza, doogen (and a lighter can be a doogenblaster), dart, ciggy, fag. . . The list is truly endless as even differing social circles will use different terms.
Great vid.
The goon bag on the clothes line is called "Goon of Fortune". Spin the clothes line and the person standing under the goon when it stops gets a refreshing taste of goon.
Flog is also used to refer to a dodgy person.
This is hilarious, even the name 'Goon of Fortune' is so funny 😆
As a Canadian it’s cool to see what words are similar and what are more similar to British English. Like pants, chips and scooners I can’t remember what else but those are all Canadian too like similar to Australia not British English.
Yes, there's alot of similarities to Canadian English 😊
The most famous tuckerbox is the statue just outside Gundagai, of the dog on the tuckerbox from the famous song.
In Victoria we call a box of 24 beers a Slab of beer and a 30 box of beer a block!😁👍
Good to know, thank you 😁
Look forward to Sunday nights, good honest humour.
Haha thank you so much for joining us 🥰
"Onya" is a shortened form of "good on ya". And down in Sydney, rather than "flogging" the car, we'd be "fanging it" 😉
Oh, glad you told us that, we'd have been very baffled by someone 'fanging' a car 😂
See here in Perth if you were 'fanging' it's because you deeply crave something.
"Fuck me whens smoko? I'm fangin' for a durry."
This vid snuck right past me last week!
Wine used to come in a one quart glass flagon. Some called it a flagoon. It was later abbreviated to just "goon".
Thank you for sharing, we hadn't heard that before 😊
Hi guys we call the short one a stubby the long ones the long beer is called a king brown or longneck excuse the spelling I have dyslexia I'm sorry if I have if I have spelt it wrong
Hi guys, I really love your videos. But as usual I have to differ on some points. There is a worldwide misconception that in Australia we shorten words. We do shorten a lot of words, but we also use a lot of phrases which are longer than using a simple word. Some examples are Chinwag = talk, frog and toad = road, shake hands with a friend = have a piss (males only). The truth is that Australians often use longer words or phrases. It is with nouns that we shorten such as cigarette is shortened to ciggy, durry, fag, etc. Australian vernacular is far more complex and nuanced than most people realise. It is also a language that is about fun and enjoyment of life. Australians use language that makes everything less serious and therefore more fun, regardless of how serious things really are because in the end life is worth enjoying. But most important of all is when an Aussie says "do you need a hand?" or anything similar, it is a message to you that you will be okay, no matter what situation you are in, because you are going to be helped through it.
You are very welcome to differ! You've got a great point - sometimes it is longer. The Aussie language certainly brings a lot of fun for us 😁🇦🇺
No Sunday show this week? My Sunday was ruined 😁😁
We will be back this Sunday at the usual time. We had some family matters that needed attending to xx
@@TheBAMFamalam 😉. Hope all is well.
Pretty accurate pronunciations and comprehensive.
Thank you ❤️
Good on ya is often used sarcastically as well. If someone is telling a tall one (a fib) and you know it's not true..."Oh, good on ya" 😉
Thank you for sharing 😁
It can also be used sarcastically if someone did something stupid in your presence.
Yeh right mate, good on ya. Ya drongo. (Sarcastic)
Yeah!. Really? Good onya mate, well done. (Praising)
Or Sonya
@@Robert-cu9bm Gonya
Your hair looks so pretty!! Bloody Oath. (I’m talking to yer wife, mate, not you!) 😂
I’m a lady, btw. Don’t let my name fool you. I’m not trying to steal your wife, mate! (I just like Cowboy bikes).
Haha you just gave us a big giggle! And, thank you so much for the compliment 🥰
@@TheBAMFamalam That warms my heart. Thanks for sharing!
A cold one - coldie obviously!
Obvs 😁
Love this segment…just learnt a couple of words that I didn’t know..😁.. Here are a some for you. Aussie slang for tomato sauce is dead horse and an ankle biter is a term used for a small child…Noah’s Ark is slang for a shark..👌
Glad you enjoyed it! We would have been lost if someone said 'Noah's Ark' to us 😂
@@TheBAMFamalam Glad you have come to live in Oz…You are a great family and and asset to our land, not to mention wonderful ambassadors too!❤️
@@4evaCavaliers thank you so much 🥰
Hi folks.
Just thought I'd say great job, I'm an Aussie and I enjoyed this video because it highlighted just how much slang is in such common usage, which I didn't even realise until I tried to compose this note, without using any lingo, in order that you might understand completely. Yes, I know, after the 5 or 6 years you've been here you're naturalised, I'm not intending to sound patronising, you're as maladjusted as the rest of us lol but truth be told, I set myself this challenge, more for my benefit than yours. It's quite challenging to do this quick note without using "ocker".
Yours sincerely
Paul Bourke
Ps Something that you might find interesting that even a lot of Aussies don't know, unless they're well travelled is that in Australia the size of drinking glasses isn't totally standardised eg, a schooner of beer varies significantly in size from state to state, as does a pot, jug etc. Also the one sized glass has many names, a seven's is the same as a pony is the same as a butcher's etc, this is an example of one glass size with different names depending on the state.
Other examples are weeds eg Patterson's Curse aka Riverina Bluebell and another weed, Cat Heads (Emex Australis) which are Three Corner Jack's in South Australia.
Hi Paul, thank you so much for watching 🥰 We didn't know about the differences in schooners across the states. We always did find it funny that the rules regarding sale of liquor vary across the country too
well done for also writing it slowly so they could understand
My favourite is pair of pluggers 😂
Yes, that's not one of the well known ones! 😁
Being van Aussie l never realized how much we shortened our language / sayings lol..
The Aussies are well know for shortening everything 😆🇦🇺
"Popper" was a brand name for uht juice in a box. Lots of brands now with similar products.
Oh, that makes sense. Thank you 🥰
You are now true blue Aussie’s 😃
❤️🇦🇺
On ya good on you
Perfect, even shorter 😁
😂
It’s hard to shorten Ahmed 😂
Avocado- avo
Afternoon - arvo
Don’t get caught out 🤣
Giving it a flogging comes from, "flogging a horse."
You forgot the most famous "MACCAS" for McDonalds. They are even calling themselves that at corporate level and sign posting their restaurants as MACCAS. The grub is always good at Maccas.
Melbourne had the only McDonald's in the world that changed it signage.
Yes, we missed that one!
Macca's you missed and now you living you looked into any Aussie older shows or singers/ actor's and actress because there been a few over the years.
Yes, Maccas for McDonalds! We don't watch much TV, apart from Home and Away, which as everyone knows, we LOVE 😁
@@TheBAMFamalam some the older ones I grew up on was Blue Healers, Neighbours, Country Practice, Flying Doctors to name a few. Some our singers was Kylie Minogue, ACDC, John Farnham, Olivia Newton John just to name a few if want know or learn more 😀
@@traceyandrob13 The only one we haven't heard of is Blue Healers. John Farnham is regularly played in this house - occasionally he features over on our insta stories 🥰
An Aussie invented the goon bag. Wine in a large satchel which is in a box.
Have you seen the goon bags they use to ship wine around the world.
@@Robert-cu9bm I remember my Mum having them at her 50th birthday party in the early 90's... she didn't hang it from the washing line though or drink from the bag 🙊
Great vid!
Thank you so much 😁
A another name for short pants is Stubies a lot of tradies wheat shorts that are normally stubies
We hadn't heard that, thank you 😁
My daughter went to cousins in UK. She said don't put my pants in the dryer. She came back to seeing her undies all over the house 🤣
Haha that's so funny - they must have wondered why on earth her undies needed such care 😂 It still catches us out occasionally when people talk about their pants 😂
Stone the flazins crows Maz streuth
Yessss! We missed those two! Thanks @SlowSteadySteve! ❤️
Budgie smugglers = mens togs, carton is slab in southern states, good on ya is sarcastic with a yeah in front of it, Ben unlikely to be Beno, more like Benji or Benjamin The Man, long made short, short made long. Great video though.
Thank you so much for watching 🥰
Ben looks like he's put a few slabs away?
We can't resist a cold one... or several on a summer's evening 😉
I've subbed to ya channel
Thank you so much 🥰
Pretty good but is one i used to here.
They seem to use the word but instead of tho
You missed being angry which everyone here calls ( spitting the dummy )
Spewing mate
Spitting the dummy out is used in the UK also. Spewing is an Aussie one though 😊
The Many meanings of MATE .😀 and Bastard 😉
Oh haha! I personally can't say mate to people, as it sounds sarcastic with my accent 😂
I like listening to you guys but there is nothing worse than someone using our Aussie slang when it’s sounds very false.
Stubbies are also called echo. But stubbies can be tradies shorts that they wear…. fair dinkum also means ‘really’ . Caron of beer is also called a slab. Tucker also can be called ‘Grub’ . Togs is a very Queensland saying. Sook also can be said ‘stop been a girl’ which you will hear around men. People who are stingy are called ‘tight arse’. Kangaroos are called roos. Diarrhoea can often be said ‘I got the shits’ or ‘I got the squirts’. dead horse is tomato sauce.
There are certainly some Aussie sayings that sound less natural coming from us. As you can imagine moving from another country, there are some words/phrases you adopt and some you don't because it sounds a little odd. We'd not heard of the 'dead horse' before, good to know incase we ever get offered it 😆
"Good onya" isn't always a compliment. If someone backs into your car, you might say that, followed by "ya f***** idiot"
I'm devo if I can't have an avo in the arvo at smoko.
We love an avo in the arvo too 😁
Does anyone say ‘Bonza’ or is that the equivalent of ‘Groovy’ and not said anymore?
I haven't heard anyone use it (only me 😂)
@@TheBAMFamalam Groovy!
@@tarapenny3616 haha 🤣
Flogging is getting a beating;
Yes, we have heard it used that way too, it has so many meanings 😁 Thank you so much for watching 🥰
A belting, a hiding
The normal name for a carton ot stubbies is a slab not a carton
Enjoy your vids however, do yourselves a favour and get the book call Aussie slang, it will give ya a laugh and broaden your vocab. Many of the slang you have stated aren’t used that often anymore and most of our slang is used more in statements ie; not the sharpest tool in the shed ( not to bright)
Haha I'm sure that will give us a good giggle, thank you 😁
Been better ( how’s it going ) 😂
Map of Tassie...lady bits.
Well not quite....it’s the bit above the lady bits!
Hahahahaha we've not heard about this before! 😂
This is amusing…lol
Glad you enjoyed it 😁
I always thought us using thongs for footwear is the original use of the word thong. I've never known them by any other name.
The underwear version though started (by it's inventor) being called a G string. Slang changed the name to thong. Seems logical, you have a strap between your toes and you have a strap between your butt. I think that's how G string became a thong in other countries. Someone in America said when he buys his flip flops the description tag does actually use the word thong.
It'd be nice to hear the full worldly evolution of the name of both footwear and underwear thongs.
America, UK say flip flops, that's now. Australia has a strong UK an european first settlement heritage.
G strings weren't around then. 0.O
Is it like the chicken and the egg. Which came first?
No wackas, no worries.👍
Yeah rightyo. Ya slang isn't that good. Alot of them have many meanings but all depends on context
Bloody oath is the same as the UK's blimey
We do like 'bloody oath', it's sounds very dramatic 😁
As well as being in agreeance. The same as saying "absolutely!"
Geez, old mate copped a flogging in darts aye.
Gee wiz, that man was well and truely beaten in his darts tournament wasn't he.
Haha we love your translation 😆
Underwear, undies,reg grundies
We still instantly think of undies when we hear the word pants… it may take us a few more years to get used to that 😆
@@TheBAMFamalam So what do you call "underpants" aka "undies"? LOL.
@@andytaus1939 in the UK they are either pants or knickers (for women) - that's why we do a double take when someone starts talking about their pants here 😂
Chucking a sickie. Taking a day off work etc pretending to be sick.
I don't think anyone has ever chucked a legitimate sickie lol. . . We all know youre not here on a Monday coz you got fucking hammered during your sunday sesh lol
This guy, who's an absolute flog, was flogging his car but, really, it had been flogged all its life.
😂
Should never stick a thong down ya dacks.😂
One should definitely never do that 😂
@@TheBAMFamalam unless your trying to impress. 🤫😂
@@Danger_Mouse3619 😂
Just bang in a few Yah Nahs
You'll be sounding like a local in no time.
Flogging a dead horse aka pointless
A few stubbies short of a six-pack
Haha, thanks for sharing this one 😆
Or one sandwich short of a picnic. 😂
A few roos loose in the top paddock
Have a cup of concrete, and harden the F up.
If you're feeling a bit ordinary, you're probably a bit crook 😉
Also a bit of a dill , drongo … not real bright
Yes, great ones! Thanks for adding those 😁