Eh?

More Aussie slang.

What does it mean?

"Give it a burl."

A.) Throw it away / Destroy it

B.) Try using it / Make an attempt

C.) Look at it / Check it

Australian Dictionary "A"

ace = Excellent

ANZAC = Members of the Australian and NewZealand Army Corps in World War I. Anzac Day, which falls on April 25, is a national holiday. Delicious biscuits (cookies), made with oats and golden syrup, are also known as Anzacs.

amber fluid = Beer. “Lets have a quick transfusion of amber fluid.”
 

ankle-biter = A small child. See rug-rat.
 

apples = Everything’s under control, as in “She’s apples.”

arvo = Afternoon.
 

Aussie = Australian.
 

Aussie salute = The backward and forward waving of hands before the face to shoo away the flies.

Bazza & Davo...?

There is a popular Aussie habit of nicknaming mates and (friends) by embellishing the endings of their first names with an “o”. For example, if your name is David, you may find yourself being called Davo; likewise, Stevens can expect to be called Stevo; and Johns to be called Johnno. Names ending in “n” or “y” are often transformed by a “zza” ending. A Gary is almost invariably known as Gazza, Barry as Bazza, Sharon as Shazza.

Oi!

Australians love to make words shorter. 

One way we do this is by cutting off the end 

and replacing it with a -y or -ie. 

For example:

Foot ball - Footy

Chocolate - Chocky

Television - Telly

Barbeque - Barbie

Sunglasses - Sunnies

Cigarette - Ciggie

Board Shorts - Boardies

U-turn - Uie

Biscuit - Bickie

Budgerigar - Budgie

Present - Prezzie

Christmas - Chrissy

etc...

Strine

An interesting article about Australian slang..

Click the pic for a link

Fish food

In 1967, Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia went for a swim at the beach and was never seen again. Theories about his disappearance include kidnapping by a Russian submarine, eaten by a shark or being carried away by the tide. 

That's right. We lost our Prime Minister. He wasn't assassinated, we just lost him. He is recalled in the Australian vernacular expression "do a Harold Holt" (or "do the Harry"), rhyming slang for "do a bolt" meaning "to disappear suddenly and without explanation", although this is usually employed in the context of disappearance from a social gathering rather than a case of presumed death.

We also rather ironically, or perhaps as a joke, dedicated a swimming center to him. The "Harold Holt memorial swimming center"... after the man died in the water. We are strange country...

Fair go

Fair go

A resonable chance, a fair deal

"small business didn't get a fair go in the last budget". 

Australia often sees itself as an egalitarian society, 

the land of the fair go, 

where all citizens have a right to fair treatment. 

It is often used as an exclamation 

"fair go Kev, give the kids a turn!" 

Sometimes it expresses disbelief

"fair go, the tooth fairy?"

NUTS!

The word "nuts" can mean CRAZY,

when used as an Adjective.

So if someone says,

"You're nuts."

What they mean is,

"You're crazy."

SLANG

noob

(noun) : a person who is new to an activity

FLYJIN

A new word I have just heard is

"FLYJIN"

A combination of "Fly" & "Gaijin"

Used to describe the foreigners

who left Tokyo/Japan at the first sign of danger.

Some people

(mainly "flyjin" themselves)

are upset by this word.

I don't understand how it could make anyone upset ,

unless they are embarrassed about their actions.

They were in a difficult situation and they made a decision.

Savvy...?

September 19th was TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY.

So lets take a look at some SLANG words you can use if you want to sound like a PIRATE!

Ahoy - A pirate greeting, Something like "Hello!" or "Yo!".
Arrr, Arrgh, Yarr, Gar - Common pirate terms, which are used in different situations.
Avast - An order to stop and pay attention.
Aye - "Yes"
Aye aye - Conformation, taking order from the captain.
Belay - Usually means to tie something down but can also mean to stop or cancel something.
Booty – The treasures and other values plundered from the victim ships.
Bucko - A friend.
Davy Jones's locker - A graveyard for people killed or drowned at the sea.
Lad - A younger man.

Land Lubber - Someone who is not a skilled sailor.

Lass - A younger lady.
Maroon - To leave prisoners on island or desert coast.
Matey - A companion, a close friend.
Savvy - "Do you understand?"

Scallywag - A liar or cheat.
Sea Rover - A pirate, a pirate ship.
Shiver me timbers - Idiom for surprise, shock. Usually used when a ship is hit in combat.
Smartly - To do something quickly.
Sweet trade - Another term for the trade of piracy.
Walk the plank - When someone is forced to walk on a plank, with hands tied behind. Plank is extended over the side of a ship, and victim is usually forced to jump to water and drown.

Weigh anchor - "let's go", "get ready to sail on".
Yo-ho-ho - Salutation, expression of delight, (But will make you sound more like Santa than a pirate)

Well, now you can talk like a PIRATE. Also remember that pirates didn't go to school, so they had terrible grammar and would use "me" when they should have use "my". e.g "It's me ship."

"Good luck ye land lubbers"

* ye - is pirate speak for "you"

Slang of the day!

FISHY
[strange and suspicious]

When I saw the man in the dark coat on the corner watching me, I thought there was something fishy about him.

Canadian Slang

As I just came back from Canada I thought it would be nice to introduce you to some common words used around my home. Remember Canada is very, very big (the second largest country in the world) so of course these words are not used or well known by everyone.

Can you match the slang word with the meaning?

What....?

Ok this is rhyming slang that is used a lot in the UK

and sometimes in Australia. It's really easy all you have to do

is match the last word of the slang phrase with the

word it rhymes with from the meaning column.

BUSH TUCKER...???

Lets have a look at some words we use for

"TUCKER" (or "food") in Australia.

They are all mixed up so try to

match the words to their meanings.

Aussie Slang

Today's "SLANG" is from Oz (Australia). In Australia we have many unique words and phrases. So lets have a look at "ABBREVIATION" which is when we make words shorter. E.g Television = TV or "Telly" in Oz. Barbecue in Australia is a "Barbie", football is "Footy" and a cockroach is a "Cocky" but sometimes a cocky could be a "Cockatoo" which is a big beautiful bird with a yellow Mohican.

Abbreviation is also very popular in Japan, like "Famima" for Family Mart or "Macdo" for McDonald's. (In Australia we say "Maccas" for McDonald's)

Can you tell us some other "Japaneses" abbreviations?

The Big Smoke

This week we have some SLANG from AUSTRALIA.
"The big smoke" means the city.
Any city, so next time you are going to Osaka you can say,
"I'm off to the big smoke."

Slang of the Day!

Scrooge!

This character originates from Charles Dickens' 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. Scrooge was a man who hated Christmas and anything about the festive holiday season, often saying ''Bah Humbug''!! In the story, magically, three ghosts appear before Scrooge; the ghosts of his Christmas past, present, and future. In the end Scrooge learns that he should be nice and giving.

So from this story we have the term scrooge: a miserable person who is unwilling to give or share their good fortune with others.

Understand?

A. Hey, can I have a piece of bread please?

B. No you may not, just because I have an unlimited supply of bread, does not mean you can have some!

A. Hey come on, don't be such a scrooge!!

Slang of the Day!

All-Nighter - To skip sleeping inorder to spend serval more hours studying for a test or finishing some work. We pulled an all-nighter last night to finish the report. I'm so out of it, I had to pull an all-nighter at work last night!

October Slang

Spooky

If something is spooky it means it's scary or frightens us.

• ''It's spooky.''
  
• ''Haunted houses are spooky!''
  
• ''Be afraid! Be very afraid!!''