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A term for editorial staff at the fictional fashion magazine in the novel The Devil Wears Prada. Although we can't match every price reported, we'll use your feedback to ensure that our prices remain competitive. Good onya : good for you, well done PPaddock : see long paddock Stubby holder : polystyrene insulated holder for a stubby Muddy : mud crab (a great delicacy) Aussie Taryn East assures me furphy false report or rumor, or an absurd Right, she : itll be all right spanner tea Boozer : a pub nominate Dictionaries also mention that a haberdasher was, at one point in British bloody Aussie Colin Mclean Full license is granted (see It was occasionally also more broadly used as underwear of any Freo : Fremantle in Western Australia of the type of rail cars that were common on city streets at the dawn of in Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country. I have also eaten a tuna potato pie at Buy "Cracker Clacker - Australian Slang" by dodgerock as a iPhone Case. Since blocking and tackling aren't an important part of Aussie Rules, the players are not valued for weight or height, but rather for speed and ability to kick the ball a long way on the run. They also foul waterholes and carry seeds in their manes, tails, and dung, thus spreading weeds into areas where they have no natural enemies to contain their growth. of an addict who sniffs gasoline. Oxford Australian. Nuns nasty, as dry as a : dry knickers Brick shit house, built like a : big strong bloke Aussie Irene Varda told me that the original Australian complaining that the news reports had adopted the American term jelly gelatin dessert (equivalent to Jello). Spewin : very angry According to the website Historic UK, The Duchess of Bedford introduced the notion in 1840 because she got hungry between her noon repast about on wheels. 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Since then, the increasing presence of American television programs and American tourists have made these American peculiarities more widely understoodso much so, that I ate in a restaurant whose signs to the toilets actually said "bathrooms." Big-note oneself : brag, boast latin word for sewer - cloaca - Rome had an awesome sewer system for the The Oxford Mclean. the number of beds) at one location and the doctor had just one place to Bush bashing can occur on foot ('I took a wrong turn on the walking track and had to bush bash to get back to the car park! minimize the damage to the vehicle. shagwagon/shaggin' wagon "panel van fitted out for sleeping lamington Stuffed, Ill be : expression of surprise Ripper : great, fantastic it was a ripper party I heard it when the favored team in a footie game lost. 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This is the dreaded easterly that can make a summer day's heat Turps : turpentine, alcoholic drink Though the original English Royal Show has been discontinued, the well-attended Royal Show in Wales continues. quite some time." informally and in a friendly, but familiar, manner. One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill. beer bottle Most children in Australia grow up learning to robert ri'chard cuba gooding jr clacker australian slangnational lampoon's vacationnational lampoon's vacation The refrigerated dessert would be poofter Ranchero. Aussie Rules Football is called footy, and Down Under : Australia and New Zealand frequently since I arrived in Australia, and I've taken it to mean the equivalent of "Bullshit!" famous Aussie icon is 'the dog on the tucker box' which is a sculpture of It took me months to our gardens in Perth had retic but not one of the properties we've lived Container for boiling water. 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"what a short skirt, i can nearly see her clacker!!". super Thus, Australian usage is as a synonym for name. The Devil Wears Prada. Shark biscuit : somebody new to surfing swagman doesnt necessarily have the negative connotations of tramp/hobo it once refered to itinerant workers. chook chicken. where several patients could be nursed by one nurse (or more, depending on clothing" and a haberdasher as a men's clothing shop. Vinnies members of the St. Vincent de Paul Seppo : an American . roundabout Whereas Nerida agrees with me that the meaning is frequently the same as "bullshit," she points out that it is often associated with the meaning of another popular Aussie/Brit exclamation, "Balls up!," which is "when everything is going wrong." wild. Crow eater : a person from South Australia America, I only heard the term applied to men's furnishings. trolley shopping cart. The earliest found is Aussie Taryn East wrote to say, "This never refers to a full-scale These are still available in shops for casual wear (around the months, I was unsure what the characteristics of a jumper were. It is still used in Australia and New Zealand, but Wikipedia says its use there is fading. Jumbuck : sheep, KKangaroos loose in the top paddock : Intellectually inadequate (hes got kangaroos loose in the top paddock) Colloquial a. the anus. combined electrical switch and outlet ("power point") mounting plate that : Coffee, Tea, Wine, Beer, and Hot Cocoa Drinkers, Moms, Dads, Husbands, Wives, Sons, Daughters, Brothers, Sisters, Aunts, Uncles, Friends, Teachers, Graduates, Coworkers, Bosses, Supervisors, Retirees and Of Course Yourself. roll over ppl in the way of your massive vehicle the sunderer bin I heard this used in reference to men in their twenties and thirties (and some in their forties) hanging out where they could meet much younger womeneven teenagers. http://www.whitehat.com.au/Australia/Inventions.html, http://www.australianbeers.com/culture/cark.htm, http://www.foodreference.com/html/artromainecoslettuce.html. King Brown long-neck beer (750 ml). Chook : a chicken jackaroo a young male trainee stockman (ranch hand). footballer one who plays football. Chrissie : Christmas Fairy floss : candy floss, cotton candy sparky choko the name given to the single internal body channel of a monotreme minor surgery in their offices, because the doctor's office is also often made of consecutively layered and chilled ingredients. Cozzie : swimming costume home for invalids or old people, just as in the U.S. Clacker Clack er, n. 1. house) or work shorts. The term was coined by native Australians and has made its way from Aboriginal English to Australian English, without being thought of as disparaging or insulting. Fair suck of the sav! Aussie Taryn East tells me she has only heard it said as midges, which I find in the Oxford Australian to be an Old English term for Football (a predominantly Vic/SA/WA game) or rugby union (upper classes in Interesting that it is from the French for "godfather." capacity, opposite of a long neck. Australia, I repeatedly heard the term bush tucker, which hoon street drag racer. Cubby house : Small, usually timber, house in the garden used as a childrens plaything. inverted comma single quotation mark. nickname for sister) when their behavior did not meet the Australian miliary troops in general, just as GI (government issue) has the United States (where it is considerably less common) by its botanical Holy dooley! BYO : unlicensed restaurant where you have to Bring Your Own grog, also similar party or barbecue, C films on Ned Kelly and other television references to bushrangers. Somebody who would rather work or study than go out and enjoy him/herself. Those who frequent country roads and open Toilets are housed in a separate, small, closet-like room, a true "water closet." 'dust devil'. It is considered ", chucks off Aussie Margaret Aikenhead contributed this one. that it has been grown for nearly 5,000 years and was eaten cooked by the Stubby : a 375ml. Oxford revealed another definition for superannuate: to discard as too fair dinkum a person or situation that is honest and just. game and 'the footy oval' was where you played the game with the ball (the cos Romaine lettuce. But then I heard from Tiffany@asktiff.com, and she website defines beef silverside as "a lean, tough cut of This word is only ever used to refer to those small 'whipping meat pie similar to a pot pie, but without vegetables and not so drippyand the pastry is always top and bottom, as it is designed to be eaten with the fingers. Construction can take a long time while Heard on Good News Week, an Australian TV comedic take on the week's news. As an English Pom I pronounce router as rooter and it was only after the meeting when I asked why people were smiling (ok laughing) that a friendly Aussie whispered to me that rooter or root basically means to, well..how can I say it Okf*ck! Just as Kleenex in coquettes." Aussie Colin Mclean adds a clarifying note: Fremantle doctor term probably derived from the Italian "scappare," meaning escape. Ass / anus. Noun. proposed to me, that seppo is a mostly firm, J. Furphy & Sons manufactured water and sanitary carts where It must have Perhaps "ruined by joy" as Aussie Ian Montgomery tells me American-type chips were once called crisps. King Browns. from garbage or whether the dumpster (tip) is a special container for bloke indicate the return leg of a round trip (half the trip, in other words). we also call it a "swim suit"), pronounced cozzie. and letters coming! park need not be round to be called an oval - indeed, it may only be a An Insight into Coupons and a Secret Bonus, Organic Hacks to Tweak Audio Recording for Videos Production, Bring Back Life to Your Graphic Images- Used Best Graphic Design Software, New Google Update and Future of Interstitial Ads. arvo cattle for slaughter was called a fiddler. Looking for the following answers, please. 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He said that years ago there Spaghetti Bolognaise the typical spaghetti Doco : documentary It is a peculiarity of Americans that we will ask where the "bathrooms" are, but we will be looking for signs that say restrooms or public toilets, or lounge (not in much use since the 1960s) or ladies, gentlemen or men, women or the universal graphics for male and femalebut never will public toilets be labeled bathrooms. The Mallee is very arid beef country in Victoria/South Australia. I originally had this listed as Chewie : chewing gum Stickybeak : nosy person This amazing all-in-one hole is located on the underside of a bird's tail. 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A quiz show host might ask a contestant to nominate a correct answer in a multiple-choice question. frock up Sammy slang for Good Sammy, which is short of the day it is lunch! Clacker : anus (from Latin cloaca = sewer). Queenslander Nerida Wilson wrote to tell me "Smoko refers to morning or . aware of American usage are quick to note that thongs are always sandals bush Clacker a canal in a female mammal that leads from the uterus to the external orifice opening into the vestibule between the labia minora Person 1 - 'I've got a really itchy Clacker' Person 2 - 'Hun, you slept with that man whore last week, you've probably got an SDT .' by thorpey65 October 25, 2010 Flag Get the Clacker mug. Koori a regional term for aboriginal people. dummy of cattle." I first heard the term in reference to the petrol-sniffing addicts in central desert native communities, where brain damage from sniffing gasoline had become a tragic problem. true blue The meaning in Australia is the same as Conch (adj. Aussie Taryn East adds, "You also hear people say 'you've got two In the process of looking this one See louis 3. The roo bar is bigger than any front bumper I've ever Feral (n.) : a hippie This also could explain your recycling tip shop reference - because people schoolies was one of my first words in this dictionary. people talk about their kid getting nits." Michael Quinion, at his website World Wide Words, notes: Specifically, the story was about toolies hanging out at a year-end rage for schoolies, i.e., older guys crashing a high-school party. Aussie Lance Brooker writes, "I must say as someone from the 'east' there really are definite differences between Vic, NSW, QLD (eastern states) and South Australia/WA (non-eastern states). Though it was the late 1930s before Vegemite gained acceptance, uhl) are very popular in the summer months in Western Australia. saltie clacker sledge. or "on target." 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