- Arvo – Afternoon
- Bail – to cancel plans
- Barbie – Barbecue
- Bathers – Swimsuit
- Beauty! – Great!
- Billy – Teapot (In the Outback on the fire)
- Brekky – Breakfast
- Brolly – Umbrella
- Cactus – Dead, Broken
- Choc A Bloc – Full
- Choccy Biccy – Chocolate Biscuit
- Chrissie – Christmas
- Cobber – Very good friend
- Coppers – Policemen
- Crook – Being ill or angry; ‘Don’t go crook on me for getting crook’
- Deadset – True
- Devo – Devastated
- Dunny – Toilet
- Fair dinkum – Honestly?
- Frothy – Beer
- G’day – Hello
- Going off – busy, lots of people
- Good On Ya – Good work
- Hard yakka – Hard work
- Heaps – loads, lots, many
- Lollies – Sweets
- Maccas – McDonalds
- No Worries – it’s Ok
- Pash – to kiss
- Piece of Piss – easy
- Reckon – for sure
- Rooted, knackered – Tired
- Runners – Trainers, Sneakers
- Servo – Service Station
- Snag – Sausage
- Stoked – Happy, Pleased
- Straya – Australia
- Stubbie – a big Beer
- Tea – Dinner
- Thongs – Flip Flops.
- Tucker – Food
- Ya – You
Other sources:
http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/australian-slang-phrases/index.html
https://www.australianexplorer.com/slang/phrases.htm
http://mentalfloss.com/article/61847/25-awesome-australian-slang-terms
http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html
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lunes, 22 de enero de 2018
Aussie Slang
Some of the most common words Australians use:
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