Reaction To AUSTRALIAN SLANG
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2024
- Reaction To AUSTRALIAN SLANG
This is my reaction to 28 AUSTRALIAN SLANG Words/Phrases (That You Need to Know!)
In this video I react to Australian culture by reacting to Australian words and slang that are commonly used in Australia.
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Just FYI, to all the people assuming prawns and shrimp are just 2 different names for the same thing, they're not, they're completely different species of crustaceans, as such, they exhibit numerous differences in habits and appearance, whilst they may taste and look relatively similar in the grand scheme of things they're quite distinct from each other.
Shrimp came about as an american twist to make it more recognisable for the american market!
Fecken Youngen's know feck all , Garlic Prawns on the Barbie are to die for .
Sarvo = This afternoon
Digger, Cobber, Fair Dinkum and Struth are older slang terms that may be all but extinct now.
I always get pulled up using uroo ,my grandparents always used that term and it's just stuck with me ,uroo
My dad said hoo roo, same thing😄
Yes, that was said a lot back in the day.
Catchyalata...
VB is visitors beer, because you wouldn't drink it yourself.
Very Bad would work too
It has a bit of a sharp bitter taste, which is great. old mate reconds xxxxdraught is a good one which lasted until full frontal ended, fair dinkum, it was a nice smooth drop. i drank a couple & probably one more, once..
Saying 'far out' these days no longer means 'cool' like in the 70's. It is more an expletive, a substitute for F word. Like if something goes wrong, you could say "ohh.. faaaar out" 😅
I never thought about that but 100% true. :)
“What do ya know?” It’s like a greeting akin to “how ya going?”, to which there are numerous comical replies:
“Eggs don’t bounce”
“Crow bars don’t float”
“Fat chicks use more soap”
Bank holiday here, perfect time for your vid too, Mate XD I love your content and the UK and Ireland have similar humour, so I prefer your shows. Slang depends on areas, Cozy for swimwear is Togs in other areas. Cigarettes can be ciggies, or tragically drurries. I say Mate, Far Out, but I have never ended a sentence with but. I am older, so grammar was pushed more for my generation. Thank you for yet another classic vid. I have to tell you my maiden name is Byres which makes me multiple cow sheds, because my Grandfather was Scottish XD
I use "far out, man!" or a version of that all the time. Usually, a negative expression when I have to watch my language and can't use my preferred words 😁
I do believe that every Gen has its own take on the Aussie slang. It can also be different in each state. In Victoria it’s not so much a ‘Cossie’ but ‘bathers’ for a bathing suit. An older Gen would be more likely to say I’m having a dart or ciggy for a cigarette. There will always be slang that will go extinct for eg ‘fag’ was a term
used for a cigarette one upon a time and is no longer used for obvious reasons. 1 last thing… shrimp and prawns are actually NOT the same sea creature.
While very similar in appearance, shrimp and prawns are two distinct species. Prawns tend to be larger than shrimp, and often taste sweeter. There are more varieties of shrimp, too. Both animals have 10 legs, but prawns have pincers on three pairs of legs, while shrimp just have one clawed duo.
Fag is not quite extinct and judge very carefully who you say this to:
Out for dinner somewhere with three gay guys,
"Excuse me, I'll be back in a minute".
"Where are going? Outside for a fag?"
"Only if I can find a cute one".
far out = a number of things..😅
It's funny 'bogan' is probably one of the Aussie slang words that most Aussie's can't really explain clearly.
It has become broader since the 80s
I remember when “bogan” first came into use it was described as the local equivalent of the USA word “redneck”. I don’t know if that would still apply.
SUPP. = 'Whats up'.
There are definitely regional things. Melbourne is its own little world, frankly. But everyone does the "yeah, nah". The "yeah" is an acknowledgment of what has been said, and the "nah" is the response. Same with "nah, yeah" - the "nah" is a reaction, and the "yeah" is the response. They are contextual, so would only be said that way in certain circumstances. And they are a well-mannered response, and even an appeasing response at times. "Drongo" is a bird, the spangled drongo. They are found in other countries, too. They have an insane repertoire of loud and creative calls. They do sound a bit crazy, hence it became an insult. "Far out" is an Americanism we adopted during the psychedelic drug era. The word they used for a cigarette is a localised Melbourne slang.
There is most certainly different slang for each state. I went to Western Australia and I had to go through an entire list until the person that I was talking to understood what I want. An example is bubbler or port rack in QLD as opposed to drinking fountain or bag rack in NSW.
Some of these are east coast, not west coast.
Two slang not used servo-,service station where you get petrol, bikkie- biscuit , old slang saying seldom used is stone the crows. Means shock or surprised
How to confuse the air sea rescue in far north Queensland:
Mateaye mateaye!
(Sounds like 'Mayday Mayday')
Cossie would be bathers in South Australia, but we civilized like that.
Howyagarn - How are you going?
No wucken forries - No fucking worries. I grew up on BBC shows on the ABC, in fairly inner Melbourne. I’ve got that ‘Cultivated’ accent that’s very articulate, like Cate Blanchett. My massage therapist cracked up when I used No wucken forries on him one day.
Bogan is like the US term Hillbilly
But different
Ta = thanks. I’m keen = yes I would like to do that.
on the certain dialects:
"cossie" is pretty well only found in Queensland. swimmers is usually used in sydney and bathers is for the rest of the country. Although everyone knows what these all mean, they just only really say one depending on where they are from
@@dried.weetbix XD I call them Togs and I'm from qld, but yes, we all know what the names mean.
@@goaway2803 yes i forgot about togs!!!
Never swimmers when I grew up in Sydney. Always swimming costume/cossie
Cossies is not a qld thing.. ever.. more a Melbourne thing I'd say.. we just say togs in qld
Dogs eye= meat pie
Dead horse= tomato sauce
G’day Cobber, Strewth that’s bonza.
You need to watch the interview John Oliver did with John Howard regarding gun control. A must watch
If I’m really busy, I’ll be flat out like a lizard drinking on a flat rock in the sun. Yes I do use it. Also cripes or cripey. If I’m surprised. And I like rhyming slang.
Fumo = fumigation (a shipping container)
Dashie = dash 8 small propeller aircraft for Qantaslink regional flights
Cosies for swimmers comes from swimming COStume…
Also called togs
Over the years I've both called it a cossie and swimmers.
And I’ve always called them bathers, never cossies
'Old mate' 😂
Far out, cool... yeah - I'm 70's high school era 💁🏻♀️
I like too far out. 70 high school as well.
Drongo is probably used by Boomers and Silent Gens more than us Xers. Some of the other slang mentioned by these ppl depends on your age and which state you come from. 'Cheeky' used to mean someone who talks back/gives you lip etc. Now, a cheeky bev means a quick drink. Any word that ends in a 'o' or 'ie' probably crosses generations: barbie, brekkie, brickie, tradie, sickie, servo, ambo, arvo etc. One word I miss hearing as a Gen Xer is 'daggy'. It means uncool/out of style/unfashionable and generally mildly embarrassing 😊
I am a Boomer and never said drongo. We did all say daggy
Bonza and crikey are a couple of good old school ones. I'm a Kiwi living in Aus so I like to throw in a crikey here and there just to take the piss.
Struth is another one. Actually I think the old stuff in probably better know internationally due to Crocodile Duddie and Steve Irwin than what is current.
Mr Inbetween has probably put Dimmies on the maps though (Dim Sim's)
@@Dug6666666 Mate I'm 70 and have NEVER heard anybody say Bonza - even my father's generation.
@@FionaEm I still call people a Dag and Cheeky I say to wee ones, being a little silly and I say Ta to them also. We are the best generation too, Mate XD
@@warrenturner397 Bonza Aviation thought it was a sufficiently ocker word to brand their budget domestic airline after it.
Even called one of their aircraft Sheila.
They have suspended the service after just a year of operation
Our first currency was rum so it's easy to just shorten everything because we're lazy
A Drongo is a very noisy bird found in QLD, maybe southern states too, and Asia I think. Using the term for a stupid person, according to Google derives from an Australian racehorse of the same name (apparently after the spangled drongo, D. bracteatus) in the 1920s that never won despite many places.
In Perth we have different slang than the eastern states. Everywhere except WA, is the eastern states. Swimming costume is swimmers or cozzie over east but in WA they are bathers.
Someone acting obnoxiously over east I have heard them use the term Wacker. WA says Wanker. No subtlety there.
One word that is very Aussie slang is dunny, that's a toilet. Don't hear to many GenZer's saying but many older Aussies still do.
BTW, I was born in England (Kent) but have lived in Australia since the late 60's.
He didn't go far enough with the Germans. A local would say "Goin to Pac Fair this arvo" 😉😅
As a child I literally thought "cossie" was a unique word for your swimmers. I learned later on
Queenslanders call them togs.
There is actually a place in Australia called Bogan.
Oh and there are Aussies that are bogans but not all Aussies are bogans.
Chook for chicken and crook for sick. So a sick hen is a crook chook.
Never heard drongo used in the wild here. Yes we do have shrimp which are small prawns. No we don't drink Fosters but the UK version is much much better. Hey or Hi is more used as a greeting than Gidday. Yeah But is as popular as Yeah Nah. Struth... know it but never heard it. Cobber, nup. Mate I believe is East End London in origin... etc. etc.
Cossies is a Southern thing. Up north theyre just called togs
As with all languages and the people who speak them, slang is dependent upon the class of people using it. 'Nah and yeah' are not words I here often.
Yeah nah nah yeah I have never heard where I live
This was quite a fun clip.
Yeah, nah or nah yeah is kind of polite modification to what you are saying, rather saying an outright no. Perhaps put like this, yes I hear what you are saying but no, you are wrong. It is a curiosity and while I think it is been around for perhaps three or more decades, it wasn't around when I was young. Perhaps it replaced the similar polite modification when you disagree with someone; Err, I am not too sure about that.
It is perhaps a stereotype that Asian people don't like to say no directly, so it might be hard to get a straight answer but from my experience with a Cambodian workmate, who I did like, every reply to anything I said, "No brother, you're wrong".
Bogan is a rather hard word to define, but you know one when you come across one. You can use the word among friends or family. As we say to our brother at times, 'Don't be such a bogan'.
Nah good Bogans love a laugh. Bogan is an identity. It can be beautiful or hateful.
Bogan...Australian, for Red Neck
Yer, Nah. I'm wearing tracky dax this arvo, spose I'm a Bogan.
u are my favourite content leech
Far out brussel sprout. If you say but at the end of a sentence you're a bogan lol. 😉
Living in Sydney in the 70s it was all being a westie not a bogan.
Far out brussle sprout!
Im what people would call a bogan and im proud of it I couldn't give a damn what people call me everyone can get beeped as far as I'm concerned as long as you don't hurt anyone else dress say do what you want and if they don't like you that's their problem
I have a T-shirt with Yeah Nah on it. :)
Djavagoodweeken?
Sritemateaye!
Whadjagedddupto?
Awwnotmuch 😅
Yobbo is similar to bogan 😂
Yeah there are a lot of three to four? words contained in aussie slang, blokes out back are bit difficult to understand..mate
Yeah naa Yeah your right. you can see or analyse a persons thought pattern before they make up their mind, sometimes a person could be in two minds about a topic as well..nstuff, sort of, But NAA, Yeah she doesnt add up there boss..mate i havnt the braincell to process much more. giday or gidnight :)
Yeah/nah mate.Always.
Owyadoin'?
Swim suit, for a man is DTs!
also called dick stickers
i reckon a very small difference in slang and the way its used can be noticed in othere states around oz,,, s.. i can name a few/ ripped! means goodnight in oz!!. Incidentally I was walking along a footpath 2 FAAAFN people speakjing NOOOOO canna understand the abuse, but it was loud. Ive had to stop a blew outside a busstation between SSEENNcr and bus driver, And this young 24/. prick wanted to avago! Im staring at this guy thinking, i can tackle you and it would be so easy, because he swor to granny.. a nono :-|
Yeah Nah, use that 1 all the time.
Frog & Toad = Road
That's not Australian. It's English, cockney saying similar to, same as apple and pears = stairs
That is actually originally Cockney
She'll be orite yet who is she 😂
DILLIGAF
I use that a lot, particularly when someone is whinging about something I did. 😎
Thanks to Kevin Bloody Wilson.