'There's no need to be so aggro.'Īiry fairy - Vague. 'And to add insult to injury she said I was ugly!'Īerial ping pong - Australian Rules Football.Īggro - Aggressive. (Also giddy goat.)Īdd insult to injury - To make things worse than they are already. 'I think Bruce is a bit AC-DC.'Īct the goat - Behave in a silly manner. (Also - Bonzer, beauty, grouse) 'That meal was really ace.'ĪC / DC - Bisexual. Also 'base over apex' as in 'He tripped and went A over T.'Īce - Excellent. There is no hard and fast rule for how this gets done but it is something you learn by listening to the sound.Ī bit more choke and you would have started - Said if someone farts loudly.Ī over T - Short for ' arse over tit', Going head over heels. It is very common for names to be changed by adding either the letter 'o' or the letters 'ie', as in Johnno for John or The addition of 'o' and 'ie' to words and names. Our thanks to Charley and Ed for some new additions to the list. WARNING - Aussie slang can be rude, irreverent and politically incorrect. Not all the slang listed here originates in Australia but most of it is in fairly common use. I have tried to include only slang that is in common use today and that a To only one area of Australia or use archaic slang that has fallen out of use.Ī lot seem to just make things up that nobody ever says just to fill up the pages of their books. ![]() Many so called 'slang dictionaries' include words or sayings that are specific Since then the list has grown and grown and I guess it could now be recognised as one of the biggest collections of Aussie 'get an handle' on some of the common slang terms in use today. Originally I just sat down and put a few Aussie slang terms together thinking it would help those from other countires If you can help, please click the 'Donate' button above. We fund everything we do ourselves so we need a bit of ![]() Without income this website will die so if you enjoy the page how about making a smallĭonation to help us keep going. In fact, the only one of the three mentioned here that was originally contrived to be offensive was Yankee.īy the by, being from the deep south I cant say that I was awfully pleased at being referred to as a Yank, myself, but chose not to make a fuss about it.This is our MOST popular page but Google won't put ads here because it is too 'rude'. After all, none of these phrases are racially demeaning and hopefully respondents to my query understand where/how these appellations originated. Of course I understand that much of this depends on just who says it and how its said, but I mean generally speaking. Taking the long way round to this, are you English offended to be called Limeys? Are the French offended to be called frogs? (In case you think that I somehow provoked this, Id walked into the place, took off my cap, nodded to the barkeep and had said, Pint of Old Speckled Hen, please. That was the extent of my conversation.) Occasionally it was obvious that it wasnt a term of endearment, including in a pub in a small town where one kind gent went so far as to say, ∻leedin Yanks, King George shouldve set them all alight ![]() On my last trip to England (as on previous trips) I was almost constantly referred to as a Yank. 90% of the time this was in a friendly and/or lighthearted manner, but not always.
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