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Personal Favorite: "Yeah-nah" (as one word)
What's The Most Australian Thing You've Ever Heard?
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Fella #1: Hey, I've heard that you Aussies swear a lot. Is that true?
Fella #2: What!? Which motherf***ing kent son of a bitch said that to you mate?I call dan Murphy's, Dannose, for short
uncle dan's :)
She'll be right.
We love to say I hope I can do this by… But not doing it.
I guess it's an insurance policy to avoid disappointment.
A friend was once late because a kangaroo was trying to fight him
dingo took my baby
all right vegemite
The word "Aussie" itself is very Aussie.
How 'bout "Straya"?
Too bogan/redneck.
Every foreign friend of mine picks exactly the same thing when I ask them what Australian phrase makes the least sense to them:
'No worries'
no wuckers
I thought it'd be "fair enough"
Really? Depends on what you mean by 'foreign', I guess.. Brits fully get it, but it's really the Yanks that have lovingly adopted it and are actually using it.
ProbablyProbs won't be long before they forget the origin of it…They certainly aren't just using it because Australians are in earshot and to be made nice to. "No worries" even featured in an episode of something pre-Colbert on the TV, the other night.
Yep, definitely our main language 'gift' to the world in recent times. Keen awareness of it, well 'post-Cate', but definitely 'pre-Rebel' :)
I work daily with people from China and they have all fully adopted "no worries". It's brilliant!
even has the Aussie - Fair Dink'em in it.
The difference between Australia and New Zealand:
New Zealand: "She'll be 'right"
Australia: ""She'll be 'right, mate"Take a chill pill
Chill outAmerican
Rack off Bouncer!
Saw a mate of mine who is a notorious cheap skate (wouldn't shout if a shark bit him) walking down the street with only one thong on.
I called out "Hey Wally, lose a thong mate?".
He called back "Nah mate, found one!".
Nearly shit mi dacks
happened to me many times :)
(I thought dacks was daks?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCmyGg3vnM. This. One of the funniest Aussie things you'll ever see. Yeah nah nah nah mate.
Winnie Blues.get a dog up ya!
I've never heard this said - but bugger me if I didn't just have a giggle out loud!
i heard it on some aussie comedy show years back - cracked me up when I heard it.
I am still laughing about it. I absolutely must work it into a conversation at the next opportunity.
"If you don't like [something Australian] then go back to where you came from" seems to be a common Aussie response to any issues raised by anyone born outside of Australia. It avoids having to think about anything.
For issues raised by anyone born in Australia, then "suck it up" also avoids having to think about anything.
"suck it up princess" is perfect for the SJW brigade
There may be a snake in the toilet, but there's Aussie guys with a snake in their pants. They might even let you pat it.
Maccas.
A lot of my visiting friends think it's an amusing term for a fast food chain.
and then after we have said it for years McDonalds registers it for themselves (well I thought they did)
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2013/01/28/mcdonalds-australian-re…
No worries…. Only Aussies understand what it means!
Grouse
Rooted
Shithouse
gday mate how are yaaaa
that will be fine~
we will sort it out~
nahhhhh
yeahhhh nahhhh
'fkn' in front of any wordsHere's a phone conversation I heard whilst in a plumbing warehouse where the old aussie man calls an apprentice to bring him something from a workshop across the road:
Man: "Mate, couldya get over here & bring me one of those tap rings"
Boy: (presumably said: im busy, or cant be assed"
Man: "Mate, get of your F****** freckles and bring it here now"anything that comes out of the honey badgers mouth
"I had a blue with the wife"
"Nah, me back's crook"
roo loose in the top paddock….
"Get him on the Blowa"
"Lifes a c**t, then you marry one, then you die." (Borrowed from the poms and then modified for maximum impact.)
and
"Pop a Titty"
Running like a chook with its head cut off…
Ciggybutt brain, all day all night ciggies, unfknbelievable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmL72sgVdAQ
the actual word 'bogan'
Umm damo at the train station 😉
"Youuu Bloddy rippa!"
'Veggie mate'
"how you going, mate?"
Slightly off topic:
The "dingo ate my baby" is regarded as pretty damn Australian. Here's a personal story regarding it:======
My dad was friends with Michael and Lindy Chamberlain (of the "Dingo ate my baby" fame). After their acquittal they were living in a place called Coorongbong near the Central Coast of NSW. Coorongbong has a high population of Seventh Day Adventists (including a retirement village where my dad worked and he's now buried at, the Sanitarium food factory, a college and so on).
Anyhow. I was born in 1981, and Azaria was born in 1980. So as my dad befriended Michael and Lindy I would be sometimes taken to visit, and sometimes I think played with the other child Kahlia (it's all a bit fuzzy I was pretty young).
At some point however, as only a child could do, I must have realised the "Chamberlain" name was familiar like I had heard about in the news. I apparently (I don't remember it myself) said "What, like that dingo family?"
Well shoot. Pretty incredible that probably the worst thing I can possibly do in my life I did when I was, what, 7?
Stan Jurd, Johnny Tapp , Bundy clock , Snatch.
500 dollary-doos!
Mate, could you do me a favour and pop down to the servo to get us a pack'a Winnie blues and some bog rolls? I'm out here in the dunny
Hows my [insert clothing item or haircut]?
Reply with… She's bondi mate.
Them with a puzzled look.
You follow up with. Far from manly.
fair dinkum
The high rising terminal at the end of sentences? Where someone inflects their voice up at the end? And despite making a declarative statement they end it with an inflected questioning tone? Today we're goin' to th' footy?
Trent from punchbowl haha
I grew up in the country.. My old man's favourite saying was:
F'ing oath
k'noath, mate
Ken Bewdy
Yeah nah it's stuffed ay.
That's very South Australian, adding "ay" to the end of the statement.
Gosford skirt.
Austen Tayshus' Australiana… Here's the uncensored version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StcXGhuliRkbuy investment property and you'll be right
C-NT'S F-CKED
Ahhh Corked mi fkn leg
Got a bung leg ay
I'm a dry as a dead dingoes donga (I'm thirsty)
Calling someone a s—k c—t as a compliment is pretty darn australian
thought that was just leb talk?
Bogans too
Nek minnit
Know know know! You goat it wrong mate!
is HTFU Australian cants?
An American friend always commented on me saying, "Ah, it was brilliant." Don't think they use the word brilliant much in the US or not in the contexts we tend to use it in.
There are hundreds of good ones. My long term favourite is:
Dry as a dead dingo's donger.
Most popular is no doubt:
Straya (profanity)!
Fair Dinkum MATE!
Alf Stewart "flamin mongrel!"
gotta love Home & Away
Clacker
This story:
Man who used seatbelts for beer instead of children
http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/man-who-used-seatbelts-for…
yeeeeeeeeeeeep (need to be said inn this fashion)
(profanity) (profanity)
aye (i always use this one)
oooooiiiiiiii
make sure you drag your words!
Yeah, [person/thing/circumstance]'s a bit how's it goin'.
G'day
Calling kid by saying "oi, come here" which is not swearing but saying it out of annoyance. I wasn't born here but use it a lot and have been told that this is as Australian as you can get.
Straya! Aussie! (Though I'm not sure of this one because this only came in use recently in the past few years) ( Also I'm not sure if its considered a "True" Ozzie thing to say)
A few of my favourites, with translation, of course!
Fair dinkum mate? (Questioning someone's validity)
You bloody ripper! (Suggestion of good grace)
Huwyagoen? (Pronounced in one rapid motion; to enquiry as to someone's general wellbeing. Usage appropriate at any engagement).
Rip snorter! (An epic tale)
Noice sheila! (Sometimes seen as mysoginist, but often only intended as a compliment of anothers choice in female romantic partner/companion).
Get your hand off it! (Direction to stop flirting or to cease what might be seen as unnecessary compliments)
Aw come on! Turn it up! (Remarking that anothers recount or story is somewhat unfactua or embellished).
Bloody beautiful! (Remark of surprise/awe/satisfaction)
Two shakes of a lambs tail.. (Measurement of time)
You bloody bastard/s! (Positive retort/compliment)
Just get stuffed. (Insult)
'Bloody' seems to be a common term in my interpretation of Australian vernacular. As it happens I also use the term frequently, often without noticing how often I actually repeat the phrase!
G'day
Strewth
Sheila
Catch ya lata
C'ya lata
That's it Aye
didjabringabeer
telly
Dreamin
Snagga (sausage)
Arks instead of ask
Mongnever heard of Snagga , snag for a sausage. nothing like a good snag on bread with some tomato sauce.
no doubt a rework of snag or sanga (sanna?!?).
In country towns I've been called "cobber" instead of mate, those guys had the broadest Aussie accents I've ever heard
Worked with a Chinese buddy who was testing my knowledge of Aussie slang with some Aussie slang dictionary app, I was doing pretty well until "crack a fat"…
wow we forgot the most important one! MATE!!!
In anger or annoyance: 'Ah, for f*rksakes''
the poster of aussie slang in the toilets of the Bryron Bay Beach Hotel is great for this.
Going off like pork chop