Testing my AUSTRALIAN SLANG knowledge
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Yes, there's not one person in all of Australia, who doesn't say "Chuck a sickie"
I would always check my payslip for how many sick hours i had. As soon as it it 7hrs i was like woohoo i can chuck a sickie, even if i wasnt sick😂
Just don't go to the cricket or some other televised event.
Me. And all active military personnel. We don't have 'sickies'. If we are sick we have to go to our medical unit and get a chit (a form PM101 Advice of Medical Condition) to take back to our unit to get sick leave. Harden the fuck up civilians.
Agreed!.
I’m the one person.
Legend! Chuck a sickie is definitely used. The AI did well!
If you like beer punk, this is our old song "Sickie".
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Oh yeh everyone says chuck a sickie!
Though I don't think the AI is quite right as 'chuck a sickie' only applies to instances where you are pretending to be sick. If you call in sick because you are actually sick you don't call it that.
We tend to chuck quite a few things in Oz: chuck a U’ee, chuck us a beer, mate, chuck some more snags on the barbie, etc
Chucking a sickie is a great Australian tradition with a very long history 😂
Ahahahahhaa I almost spat out my beer laughing @ "the neighbours rooting all night" (and you said you couldnt put it in a sentence)
Perfect example here on Aus 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
could have combined two of the questions and had a root in a ute.
@@TheZodiacz i used to have a sticker on my old HJ ute years ago, that said ,,,,get a root in a ute, the feeling's beaut🤣🤣🤣🤣
not cheering.... fornicating
There's an old joke about Australian men being wombats: eats roots shoots and leaves. Just put a comma after eats and roots and it makes perfect sense 😆
Well done! You did great! BTW in Australia "Ute" is pronounced "Yoot" 🙂
Yes yoot as in yootility.
Yes! Ute rhymes with Root 😂
"Did you say, 'Two utes?'"
As in, Rootin in the back of the Ute
@@sharaharper2253 I'm sure there are many people that have had a root in a Ute 😅
One of our female comedians used to tell a joke where she is asked which route she took to get to some place and she replied "that Kiwi I met on Saturday" So it can be a noun.
I absolutely love your reactions to some of our Aussie slang. Keep up the good work mate!!!
Chucking a sickie is literally taking a day off work - saying you're sick when you're not and usually planning it before hand - like at a Sunday sesh at the pub and you know your'e "Gunna chucka sickie" 😅
We had a guy at work who used to do this all the time, he was taking the piss, so everyone was just over him. We work shift work and he even called into the night shift supervisor saying he wouldn't be in the next day because he was feeling crook. The problem was you could hear the night club in the background. He also used to go to the bar right next to our building and when people went out for a smoke on night shift and saw him half cut in the pub it made things even worse. This was a regular occurrence so we were all happy when he got let go, took 3 years, though 😒.
@@utha2665 While It's a right of passage to chuck a sickie here in Straya, to let your work mates down repeatedly and think you're the 'goat' is just unAustralian. You should have covered him in chocolate sauce and rolled him in dessicated coconut to remind him of his Aussie values 😆 😜
For Someone that’s wasn’t born in Australia…. Well done 👏…. Round of applause to you …..you’ve listened well…. 10/10…. Now to pass the Australian citizenship test.
disgusting isnt it
I think he did.
Well done Ryan ! Perfect score and you used root in a sentence correctly , you would have also been correct to use it as in "I feel rooted " (I'm tired) or "my car engine is rooted" (its broken) don't you just love our language ? Now use the word "crook " 3 different ways
@@dean8764 Nah mate. Our use of language is rooted in simplicity. We use the same word for many things all the time. Bugger, piss, stuff, fuck, c*** and alot of other words have multiple uses and meaning.
For example -
I'm stuffed if I know. (I don't know)
I'm stuffed [to the brim] (I have eaten sufficient)
I'm stuffed (I am tired)
Get stuffed - (Piss off, go away)
Have you got the stuff? (undefined items)
Stuff it! (I give up)
Stuff it [in] (Fill it up)
"Fucked" is itself is a fill-in word for those examples of feeling tired and things being broken, so it is not really strange that root is also used.
The crook was feeling crook as he was hooked off his feet by a shepherd's crook and fell into the crook of the copper's arm and had a crook landing.
The wombat - an animal that eats roots shoots and leaves
Your delight at the word ‘Root’ kills me. It’s sort of a high school term… usage: ‘I bet he’s a great root’ … it’s not as rude or severe as the f word. Hope that helps Ryan 😂
Defo not a highschool term, me and my other mates 40+ still use it a lot
@@kritaan1 lol well yeah, perhaps it was when we used it most lol
I'm 62 and I'm a good root :)
Not to be confused with the term rooted
Root has been around for donkeys. I'm 49 and have always used that term.
Use of "root" examples: "Dave is rooting some shiela from Woolloomooloo", "She's a good root", "Wanna root?".
Don't forget Dead Root! 😁
Careful telling an Aussie which sporting team you support Ryan 😂
"A root in the moot" can get confusing for a non-Australian. 🤣🤣
@@PhantomFilmAustralia I prefer to root a moot!😁
Also another word for looking for something as in rootin’ around
You used that perfectly, that's exactly what you would say if your neighbours were going at it all night long.
Ootility vehicle? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fair dinkum can also mean that what you’re saying is the truth. “The dog chewed my homework, fair dinkum!”
Esky is actually a brand name but it’s come into the vernacular more than the company would probably like.
🤔Yeah Esky gets used like Velcro, the most popular Brand name that took over meaning the product name
Are you kidding? All that free advertising. Esky have been around 70 years. It's amazing some dingbat snowflake hasn't started crying about cultural insensitivity because they named the company after Eskimos.
Like Ugg boots, an Aussie invention.
@@elizabethscott7660 Some American tourist discovered our Ugg boots and took the idea home with him and started making them in the US! Our Ugg boot inventor took him to court but only got a partial win. The American boots cannot be sold in Australia. Not sure if they can successfully police that but ALL AUSSIES should make sure their UGG Boots are made in Australia from Australian sheepskins! 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
It can also be used to question the truth of something.
The dog ate my homework!
Fair Dinkum?
Fair Dinkum!
Well done Ryan… chuck a sickie to celebrate ha ha ha. All the best from Melbourne Australia
Don't open the door Ryan! 😱 Clearly you know your slang, "did you get a r*** last night" was a fairly common question in the past! If you can breeze through that, you can breeze through our Australian Citizenship Test - try that one out! Take care, happy arvo! 🧐👍
In _My Cousin Vinny_ when he said, _"Is it possible, the two utes..."_ every Aussie leaned in wondering what two trucks did. Lol
There is an old Aussie joke, Why is a Wombat like an Aussie man? - He eats, roots and leaves.
Well done Ryan. A couple of annoying things about it though was (and you picked it up) thongs are footwear (flip flops) and we generally take them off to walk in the sand, unless it is extremely hot, but we wear them almost everywhere other than the beach. And esky is strictly not a slang word for a cooler. It is an actual brand name of the original coolers, but since other brands have come along everybody just calls them esky’s irrespective of their actual brand.
Probably from the word Eskimo . From a cold place.
Thong being described as "beachwear" in many places will bring to mind a g-string...
It's like the word hoover which is a verb but Hoover became the brand name of a vacuum cleaner, now people use it for any vacuum cleaner regardless.
@@eshiestrik2756 Are you from Great Britain? I believe that you blokes say you hoover your carpets, but here in Australia we just say vacuum the carpets. Another example of brand names used in the context of their use is “I’m going to whipper snip the lawn” ie a line trimmer. Whipper Snipper is a long lost brand name.
Can also say mate, I had a root in the back of the Ute next to the esky when I chucked a sickie last week with some bogan shelia who works in the local servo and wears thongs instead of shoes. Fairdinkum I did. 😜. We will make an Aussie out of you yet Ryan, LOL.
Well said👍
😅😅😅
The most common form of foreplay, the husband rolling over in bed and saying "Wanna root?". Although I think this was more a Bogan thing.😆
Your sentence with root is correct use of the term 🤣This old joke has meaning when you understand Aussie slang.........
"Why is a man like a wombat? Because he eats, roots and leaves".
An Esky isn't called an 'Esky' because of Eskimos, but it was a brand name for a portable cold box with frozen bricks in it to keep food cold [although it's plausible the company was saluting Eskimos when dreaming up the name, but ordinary Australians aren't thinking of Eskimos when saying the word]. I don't know if the brand still exists or not, but the name has stayed on for all similar boxes.
Yeah it comes from eskimo. They used to have cartoon eskimo people as part of the logo
Yes, the brand Esky was short for Eskimo. We had one for years in the 70s and 80s.
Lol, he used root in a sentence perfectly right after saying he wasn't sure how to use it in a sentence
Samuel L. Jackson used the Aussie term "root" correctly in Pulp Fiction.
Congratulations you are an honorary Australian now!!!!
Well done, nobody will be pulling the wool over your eyes when you come to Oz 😊👏
Workers in Australia get paid sick leave, You are allowed a few single days off sick without a doctor's certificate so to take a day off because you have a hangover, because the waves are good for surfing, because you are on a promise, or for any other non medical related issue is to "chuck a sickie". You ring the office, say you are sick, and tell them you will be in tomorrow. All's good.
I don't think Americans use the term "on a promise"
@@thelibraryismyhappyplace1618 There's his first question in the next quiz.
😂Yes, you are entertaining Ryan!😂
If you were looking for how to use ‘root’ in a sentence, a classic example would be: “Havin’ a root in the back of the ute.”
There is also the term “Dud root” which means somebody who isn’t very good at intercourse 😅
So proud of ya mate 👏👏👏
Thanks
Thanks so much Louise! -Ryan
Thongs isn't just beachwear at all! We literally wear them everywhere: shops, park, library, pub, you name it, we wear thongs there.
It's part of our National Dress isn't it? 😆
That last one was really an "all of the above" kind of situation.
- We do call certain vegetables "roots", including appending the term to some names (e.g. Americans call them beets, we call them beetroots).
- When you cheer on a sports team you are "rooting" for that team.
- We do use the word "root" as a substitute for sex.
I was so excited for you as you kept getting the questions right!
aw mate, lol, I love this video. very well done 👏 😊 I used to chuck a few sickies lol
perfect use off root in a sentence and correct use of chuck a sick also..it is generally a term to call in sick to work when you are not sick haha :P
50 years ago we had a couple of American students come to our Australian school for a 12 month exchange program. Unfortunately at a sports event one student asked some girls who they were rooting for!!!
The AI did a pretty good job (as you did, Ryan) but some of them were a bit off. I would say "fair dinkum" often means real or really rather than fair ("That was fair dinkum unbelievable" or "Fair dinkum?" = "Really?"). I agree that breckie just means breakfast, not a particular type of breakfast and that a better description of thongs is flip flops rather than beachwear. Ute is actually pronounced "yoot", like the start of utility. Having said that, it is amazing that you could generate a pretty decent quiz so quickly using AI.
G'day Ryan. Thank you again for a great video. I am a little scared about how close Chat? whatever it is, it is so close to being accurate. One main discrepancy was the "What does the term Thongs mean?" Well in Australia thongs are flip-flops, yes. Unless you put them on the wrong foot, then they are flop-flips. Again, just kidding. In all honesty, they are not just beach footwear. Yes we wear them on the beach because the sand is so hot it will burn the soles of your feet to a bacon crackle, but we wear them everywhere for the same reason. We wear them walking on the street, or across the road because everything on the ground is hot enough to fry eggs and bacon and turn your feet into bacon crackling. Come visit Australia in the summer and check it out for yourself :)
"This beer is like a root in a canoe it's so close to water"
get it right at least - the answer is "because it's f**king close to water" not "so close". You missed out the whole point of the word "root"!
A+ mate you legend. Cheers 🍻
We are so proud of you.
Haha. That's why we laugh when we hear that song 🎵 So, it's root root root at the old ballgame 🎵 😅😅
I laugh at the line in "Jesse's Girl"- _"I wanna tell her that I love her, but the point is probably moot."_ 🤣🤣
Root can be used many ways like “ you are rooted”
Yep! If someone's "up shit creek" they're definitely "rooted"😅
@@Lynnie_14 🤘🤘😂😂😂😂
I chucked a SICKIE today and had BREKKIE then drove my UTE to find a BOGAN who stole my THONGS found him this ARVO behind the SERVO he was ROOTING a SHELIA😂
Well done and most of them are still used now 👏👏👍👍❤️❤️
You would have got extra points for 'Feral Cheryl's rootin' in the ute' but, well done. 👍
A Ute isn't just any utility vehicle, it's not a van, it's what you would call a Pick Up Truck. It has a cab in the front usually 2 seats, but you can also get duel cabs that have 2 front and 2 back seats. At the back is a flat tray, either a well back that has panel sides (as in most US Pick Ups) or a tray back which has a tray with drop sides.
Congrats Ryan, you’re an honourary Aussie. 🇦🇺
You used the word root perfectly, i was waiting for a strange sentence but you naild it and i thought 🧐 holy shit that sounded normal as fvck 👍and an ooot is a yute (ute) i have 3 of them , cheers mate
You did well amazing 🎉 you definitely are learning a lot about Australia 😁
Good on ya, mate! You're an Honorary Fair Dinkum Aussie now; you passed the test.
Hey Ryan, when are you bringing your lovely family to Oz for a holiday? I've seen a couple of your live vids where people are donating to your channel, is this to save up for a vacation for you guys? Coz I think your Aussie fans would defo be up for that! We'd love to have you here for sure.❤
“Oot” hahah … it’s not oot say it like you with a t on the end 😂😅
That's was very good! And I'm allowed to say that cause I'm an Aussie😊
I die a little inside every time an American pronounces UTE as 'OOT'.
Yes, a crack up!
... Just had the thought that crack up could be one of the questions in a future test! 😂
Some of our letters in the alphabet vary just a little with pronunciation. We say you for U , yout = ute
It's as bad as emu pronounced emoo 🤣🤣
My Uncle (back in the 60's ) would welcome my Mum (his sister-in-law) and me into his house !! in a very down to earth manner just 2 words "Wanna root"...My Aunty would be yellin' at him n chasing him around the kitchen with the broom...whilst we where pissin' ourselves laughing He was a bloody scallywag !! R.I.P. Uncle Killa (his nick name) I'm 76 now and when I hear the word root, my mind flashes back to that first time we was greeted by my naughty Uncle!!
Good use of root at 4:48 I believe many tired Australians have used that as an excuse to chuck a sickie
Yes. Re: root, people sometimes say they are "having a root" or "lookin' for a root". It's sort of crass, in a way.
Congratulations, you have just past your Australian Citizenship test. 🎉🎉🎉
When I needed to "chuck a sickie" I did not call it that. ONLY to myself I used to call it a "safety valve day" when i needed a break. but there are important RULES
1. the voice - make sure you sound poorly when you make the call. Do not text it. You can do a very convincing rendition of "I think I am coming down with the flu" - of course you know that by Sunday night you will "feel better" BUT do not mention that.
2. Do NOT schedule it as a day to go somewhere nice - some one will see you. And someone may blab - I NEVER went out on any "safety valve day"
3. Such a day may be needed if you have an assignment due to be handed in that week to your lecturer (I worked and studied)
4. One of the BEST days to schedule one of these days is FRIDAY as then you can still claim you were also sick on Saturday and did not feel better until Sunday night. BUT if you schedule a THURSDAY you will need to take FRIDAY too. because no one gets better overnight with the "??flu??" And when you ring on the Friday for that second day you will need to sound sicker.
5. Do NOT choose a MONDAY as your sick day - as the people who handle the stats in human resources are taught that people who are budding alcoholics or getting into weekend drug binges are more likely to need Monday off. (i do not drink alcohol, and i would never vape nor smoke nor take illicit drugs - so those issues would not apply to me in any case)
6. If you are silly enough to go shopping on your "sick" day then odds on you will run into someone from work. If challenged let them know you had to pick up the medication the Dr wants you to take and make a "sniffling" noise I let then know you are on your way home as you do not feel right. Practice the "sniffling" voice at home to ensure you have an excuse to get back home asap
7. LAST but NOT LEAST - never share these rules with a work colleague
I had a friend in high school nicknamed wombat and it was always said that a wombat - eats roots and leaves. (can you see the double meaning?)
Aussies that go to thailand are called butterflies cuz they fly in fuck and fly out
The Full saying is.. eats, roots, shoots and leaves
Yep. There were/are t-shirts with it too.
Was he from tassie by any chance?
@@kritaan1 "Blowflies" might be a better term for them.
Well done! You have passed the citizenship examination and we look forward to your arrival to our sunny shore.
The story of the development of the Ute goes back to the farmer who wanted a vehicle he could take the wife to church in on Sunday and use the same vehicle to take the pigs to market next day.
The result was the first ute, short term for utility vehicle.
Goes back to the time of the Depression when a farmer could only afford 1 vehicle.
Many farmers converted old soft top 4 door vehicles into buckboards by making a 2 door cab with a wooden tray. Mate of mine had a 1926 Dodge buckboard still in use 50 plus years later.
Not fast but perfect for idling along following a mob of sheep.
Root can also mean wrecked - as in "man I am rooted after that workout" or "the car's rooted"
That was excellent to watch. We never root for the team 🙃. 🇭🇲
I knew a lovely girl many years ago, now deceased, sadly, who was very keen to root the team, or at least selected members of it.
Well, there was this girl in our town.......
Kevin bloody Wilson has a song called rooting in the back of a ute. On a blanket with the tailgate down.
Nicely done, mate!
Hard to "Chuck a Sickie" for me. Just landed work from home with my employer and a great pay rise as well. Livin the dream but no more "Sickies" unless in hospital.
Lol, I use Fair Dunkum quite often!
Chuck a sickie is very common.
You are Australia's honorary Aussie. You make me laugh when I watch your videos. And ute is pronounced yout
Number 10- Get rooted! 🤣😂
“D’ya get a root last night mate?” Would be one correct way to use it, alternative context could be “Fancy a root?”, “He’s not a bad root!”.
Lol chuck a sickie every day I hear that lol
Uses of 'Root' in context:
"I feel rooted" - you feel worn out or possibly sick, alluding to how you feel when exhausted from sex.
"This machine is rooted" - the machine is broken, possibly beyond repair.
"I'm going to have a root tonight" - I'm going to have sex tonight.
But 'root' is now an older generation thing; the youngers don't always know the word now.
I really enjoy the interaction you have with Australians Ryan. It’s a bit of fun. I think you could get our accent down pat if you can just learn how to stop the R pronunciation. Try placing the tip of your tongue in a down position maybe touching the back of Botton front teeth. Say, Happy Arvo and the R will be silent.
you're an honorary Aussie mate! Welcome aboard!
Well done Ryan. Some of the answers were a little vague and you still came through. Time to become an Aussie.
G'day Ryan,
Oooot 😂😂😂😂😂 ute is pronounced Yout like Root, I have a 2012 Holden Ute SS,
most people call it a Commodore which was Holden's 4 door Family sedan & wagon as it shares the same front panels but there are no Commodore Badges on it & Holden just call it Ute.
Chuck a sickie is most definitely used.
'Rooted' can mean 3 different things in Australian slang:
'We rooted'- had sex
'Me phone's rooted'- broken
'I'm rooted'- exhausted
I was so confused at first but than I realised what you were saying😂 ute is pronounced you- t (rhymes with boot)
fair dinkum is an interesting one cause I've heard a couple of different meanings to it. Yeah people commonly use it to say something is fair and reasonable, but my dad for example says it the same one someone would say "crikey". "OH fair dinkum!" and that's the most common way i've heard it be used in my life time
Root in a sentence: He acts just like a Wombat, he eats roots and leaves.
"She's very rootable"!
You are officially an honorary Australian citizen ☺️
Wanna root? lmao that’s how you use it hahaha 😂😂😂
Utes are not a generic term. They are a car design that's almost unique to Australia.
The most iconic ones are muscle cars, with the front of a sedan and flatbed on the back.
Unfortunately, since the Australian car factories closed down some time ago, utes are slowly becoming extinct.
Yep and they're not call bloody "oots" 🫤😄
@@sandgroperwookiee65 cut him some slack he’s an American so what do you expect
Not so, the four wheeled drive ute like the nissan navara ,hilux etc would be the biggest selling type of vehicle in OZ
@@j10-b03 yeah nah. He's been covering Australian stuff for long enough now. He's let himself down and he's let his Country down! 😆😂🤣😉
Onya Ryan👍 😁
We chuck a lot of things.
Chuck a sickie
Chuck a skid
Chuck a U-ey
Chuck a fiver in the tin
Chuck a wobbly
Chuck a ball
Chuck on a shirt.. and good ole mate , Chuck Chunder.
Root , roots , rooted , rootable , Rootrat.
Don't forget to Chuck a Party.
@@PhantomFilmAustralia Yes..too right.
@@PhantomFilmAustralia
Chuck a brown eye.
Chuck a boomerang.
You’ll have to look up a video about the Australian Ute (yoot)… which is not a van!
We may as well just knight this guys an honorary Aussie.😂. He’s passed the phase 1 test. See how he goes out at Yulara for 8 months and then complete his training.
Ryan you have now earned citizenship 😁
If your neighbours were rooting all night long I guess they were Aussies.
Ryan you’d make a great Aussie.
"Thongs" are not just beach wear - they are worn in casual settings and no they aren't tiny G-strings, they are footwear (I think they are called "flip-flops" in the States).
I think you could become an Aussie, congrats
You got the last one right in that sentence.
Omg you said Ute and oote and I'm DED 😂😂😂
You need to watch Kath and Kim. You'll learn a lot ... especially about Bretty being a dud root 😆