Us Aussies like to abbreviate words and add an "O" onto the end. So a Service Station (where you get gas) is shortened to "Servo" - a shortened version of the word "service" with the "o" added at the end. Your Liquor Store is called a Bottle Shop here. So, it's known as a Bottle-o. An avocado is often called "Avo." What you know as sweat pants are the bottom half of what we call a track suit. Dacks is a slang term for pants, thus they get called "Tracky dacks." A cigarette is often called a "durry" - possibly derived from a brand of loose, roll-your-own tobacco called Bull Durham. So "Durham" became "durry." The phrase "No worries" can also be stated as "No wuckers" - a shortened version of "No wucking furries" ie: "No f*cking worries." I know that one's a bit confusing. People's names can be changed to different versions, too. For example, "Sharon" becomes "Shazza." Or "Barry" becomes "Bazza." Alcohol is called "piss" here. So if you're going to a piss-up, that's a party with copious amounts of alcohol. Getting "smashed" , "legless" or "maggoted" means you're getting very drunk. And if you've consumed way too much piss, you'll most likely chunder. Which means "vomit." That's all I can think of for now. As an Aussie, these terms are a part of every day life, so I don't tend to think about it too much.
Another couple words for "vomit" (chunder) can be spew, munt, and chuck. Plus an extra: "taccy" (so taccy comes from tactical munt - which is what someone would do early on at a piss-up if they got drunk too quick... so they'll go for a taccy munt, and that way they can continue drinking and keep the night going😂😂😂)
Haha I know right, but that's part of what makes these videos so much fun - it's like watching your favourite movie that you've seen thousands of times with someone who's never seen it before.
If you plan to come to Australia, one thing that will trip you up is the vast distances between places. An American couple arrived in Australia (not sure which state) they had booked a 4wd and wanted to go and see a certain place in the central part of the country. They stopped and got fuel at a small town before heading to this remote destination. The Pub/Servo usually records the people travelling to the destination. But the worker could not find the book. I don't know how long it was before they were reported missing ? But the local police went on a search, they found the 4wd in a bog hole and the female deceased along side the vehicle, a further search found her husband along the track back to the Pub. The police officer got in the 4wd and just backed it out of the bog. Most people have no idea that the outback is outback. You can drive for hundreds of kilometres without passing another vehicle.
Arvo (or arv) (afternoon) Spondoolicks / dollops (money) Take a squiz (look) Dial (face) Barker’s eggs (dogsh!t) Chook (chicken) Cackleberries (chook eggs) List goes on. There’s an Aussie dictionary over 500 pages. It’ll always evolve and be updated. If there’s a way to call something other than what it is, we’ll find it and make it nationwide.
Trousers are daks. Track suits (sweats) are trakkies. So sweat pants are trakky daks. Arvo is because Australians pronounce afternoon with a long A (ah) sound (like Ahf-ternoon) not like the Americans who say Aff-ternoon. But avocados are avos (just an a without the ar sound). Any word with an r in the middle can be changed to a za or zo ending. So Barry is Bazza, Larry is Lazza, Sharon is Shazza, Murray is Muzza, Lauren is Lozza. A cigarette is a durry so I suppose you can shorten that to duzza. Other common words are sunnies (sunglasses), brekky (breakfast), tinny (either a small aluminium boat or a can of beer), firies (firefighters) and tradies (tradesmen). Selfie is a word that started in Australia, as did No Worries (which can also be No Wozzas).
@@SnaykEyes77 yeah never heard of NO WOZZAS (makes sense tho)but 'no fucking worries' changed 2 "no wucking furries" & then shortened 2 'No WUCKERS' a combo of both. That's old school or maybe just regional..
Being a 70+ Aussie, to me slang depends very much on which State your in and which area of that state, each can have their own idea on slang, it’s a big country. They always do these things in cities, get outside the cities for a change and see how that goes. Some of these words and sayings I’ve never heard. A lot of this is not what I would call true Aussie slang
So true, growing up in Sydney in the 80s we never used the term 'bogan', the equivalent was 'westie', as in coming from the western suburbs. I first heard the word bogan in my teens from some Victorians.
Bogan is a Victorian term used to be derrogatory to low income earners on welfare. It was popularised by Kath & Kim for the most part. in the 70's each region used to have their own word for their lower classes usually dole bludgers. Australian slang was working man's and rural terminologies that made it into main stream over the years, Slang used primarily these days are a mixture of old Australian and Bogan slang.
I have to politely disagree nexus regarding true Aussie slang. I agree the old original slang definitely did not have the a lot of the current slang for sure. All languages evolve over time, dictionaries are always updated all over the world adding new words. It would only be natural for our unique Aussie slang to also evolve over time so calling it "not true Aussie slang" is not correct, it's all Aussie slang that has evolved. I am 60+ so you could probably teach me some of the older slang since you have ten on me. Cheers.😊👍
Hi mate, here is some clarification. Trackie dacks comes from track suit pants. Track suits are sweat suits. Track suit becomes trackie and dacks means pants. To dack someone is the pull down their pants. Servo comes from service station, which is an old term for what we would;d otherwise call a petrol station and you would call a gas station. In the old days, the service station attendant would fill your car for you and also check the oil and water and give the windscreen a clean. Bottle-o is slang for a bottle shop, which you would know as a liquor store. Liquorland is a brand of bottle shop. The slang for a swimming costume depends on where you live. I am from Victoria in Southern Australia and I would say bathers, or even togs, rather than cosie. "Yeah, nah" is a way of being polite to someone. If they think something is a great idea and ask if you want to come along, you might say "Yeah, nah" which indicates that "Yes, it's a great idea" but "Nah, I don't think I will this time", when actually you think it is a terrible idea. Lets tham down gently. We would say "Chuck a Uey" rather than "Pull a Uey". Chuck means throw (not sure if that is Australian specifically. "Have a chuck" or "Go for a chuck" means vomit. While we are talking about turns, we would say "turn right" rather than "take a right". Yes, a lot of Aussie slang is shortening the word and adding o (bootle-o, smoko [smoking break or just a break at work], rego [car registration or number [licence] plate], doco [documentary], avo [avocado]) or y or ie (bickie [biscuit = cookie], bookie [bookmaker = person who takes your bet at a horse race], sparkie [electrician], chippie [carpenter], Chrissy [Christmas], footy [football]. Ambo actually is ambulance officer/paramedic, not ambulance. We do not say "How are you doing?", we say "How ya goin''?". Shrimp in Australia are those tiny sea creatures you get in fried rice sometimes. What you call shrimp, we call prawns. Ending a sentence with "but" is a Queensland thing. Yes, piss can mean alcohol, as well as the waste product that you excrete an hour or so after you drink it. My dad used to call piss (the latter version) "beer with the fun taken out". Getting pissed means getting drunk. Where an American would say "He was pissed", we would say "He was pissed off" (annoyed). Yes, we tend to not emphasise "r"s in words, a bit like a Bostonian.
At 8:25 the kid talking about 'getting on the piss & getting smashed' gives the BEST example of an Aussie using 'but' instead of 'though' at the end of a sentence - "don't do it, but" 😂❤
Swimsuits have different slang names based on which state you grew up in. Here in WA we call them bathers - as in a bathing suit. Bathers - Western Australia (WA) + Victoria (VIC) Swimmers - New South Wales (NSW) Cossies - New South Wales (NSW) - Mostly in Sydney or other coastal areas Togs - Queensland (QLD) Queensland has the most state-specific slang and it's the closest thing we have to America's Florida.
Yeah, like when I went to school in Qld, we called your school bag a "port" (which is short for portmantua). We also referred to bear feet as "Queensland sand shoes". We also tended us the word "bevan" rather than "bogan".
Ryan, I have been watching you trying to figure out Australia since stumbling across your channel about a week ago. But seeing your utter bewilderment at hearing our language was just hilarious. 🤣
Dacks is slang for slacks, trousers, jeans, etc. Track pants for some people has become trackies, I’ve never heard tracky dacks, even though I understand it. Liquorland is a chain of liquor stores. Any local liquor store is the bottle-o. When you come here, you will hear different expressions to most of these, it depends on the circle of friends you keep. These people are very young and have developed their own generational slang, most of which I’ve only heard in these videos and never in social company. If you don’t understand something feel free to ask for clarification, because sometimes it’s not slang, it’s just the speed and accent. You’re already doing very well with your educated guesses! I’m proud of you, Ryan! 🇦🇺😍 Shrimp: in Australia, we think of shrimp as tiny prawns that seem to be imported from Asia, mostly found in cheap fried rice or used as dried shrimp paste. Prawns are bigger and King Prawns are bigger again, the length of your hand - it’s the King Prawns we cook on the barbecue. The reason “shrimp on the barbie” became a thing was due to Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee) who did a series of tourism commercials for Australia. We would say, stick some more prawns on the barbie, but having lived in the US, Paul said they call them shrimp over there, so the word became shrimp in the commercials, otherwise we would never have said shrimp at all, except when referring to a short friend or a little kid, “Come on, shrimp, let’s go eat!”
Big problem with this clip is that there are so many of the younger generation who like making up new terms for things, and believing them to be genuine Aussie slang, meanwhile the true slang words are slowly fading out. Being 70 years of age, many of the so called "Aussie Slang" words seen here were not heard of prior to about 20 years ago. Other problem with this clip is that many of the true Aussie slang words mentioned were not pronounced correctly
I'm 43 year old Australian and I don't remember speaking all these slang words as they use today. Sometimes I feel I need to get a slang dictionary to understand the young generation myself. I agree with you as they making new words up.
in addition to a previous comment, a 'bathing suit' can be called 'cossies', 'trunks' (for men), 'togs', 'swimmers' or 'speedos' (based on the original Australian company that makes swimming costumes). It tends to depend on where you grew up.
I live in Aussie but I'm from NZ. We have lots of slang in NZ, but Qld is next level! I've never heard of duzza, I thought it was a durrie (a rollie?). I've never heard anyone say No Wozzas, I've heard No Waka's though. When you're in a shop and say thanks, it's pretty common for them to say "too easy" or "no dramas" (Qld). I've heard people say something like "so I went to the shop but". And I'm like but what! When I first moved here, I couldn't stand people calling me "darl" but it doesn't irritate me as much as it use too.
Tune your ears mate 😂 There are regional differences, so just because someone doesn't know it, could be its regional. Petrol station -Servo (gas station) The only one saying 'server' is you, they didn't. Sweat pants- trackie dacks or trackies. Liqueur land -bottle-o Swimwear=-cossies/cozzies/togs yeah nah Don't say shrimp on the barbie, no one says that. It's prawn. That came about from a series of tourism ads done in the 1980's. They used the word shrimp because they thought American's knew that word better. She said 'grog' not rug. smoko for break. drongo not drungo. I think you are mishearing a lot of the vowels. People may say ciggy, she said duzza.
In Victoria I had mates that called cigarettes a dart or durries, I assume in other regions it might be a duzza. Also for bottle-o, Americans would better understand it as a liquor store or if you are going for a big chain type name liquor barn, very similar to good ole Uncle Dan's 😜
Give the guy a break, hes willing to look into ads about Australia but when he does you criticize him coz he didn't hear properly. Aussie talk is one of the hardest to listen to in the world and we don't pronounce our words fully, as in every single letter, whereas all other countries do.
@@katherineschmidt2075 Lol, no criticism there, that's a joke mate. You sure you're Australian? Anyway I have been told he never reads his comments so it isn't worth bothering to comment anymore.
I found there’s also a difference between New South Wales/Victoria and the rest of the country with some slang words. I’ve seen lists where I don’t know half the slang - like “durry” for cigarettes as an example. I’ve never heard that used in any of the places I’ve lived. There are others, I just can’t think of them offhand. And yeah you need one with subtitles, I could tell you weren’t understanding what was being said because of our accent lol
In NZ, a bogan is someone who will wear black jeans, metallica tee shirt, drink Woodstock bourbon and cokes and drive loud unregistered cars, usually dungas (Sh*tboxe cars) Also after the Christchurch earthquakes Munted became the new description of broken stuff - "hows ya house? oh its munted" Also yeah no is a very kiwi thing, 'yeah no' is yeah I heard ya, but no I'm not doing it. Sweet as - things are good, 'how ya doing' 'Im sweet as bro'
I think the best advice I can give you when watching these Australian videos is to actually listen. So many times you get confused are simply because you haven’t listened properly. I know we speak fast sometimes but most things can be understood if you just take a second to actually listen and not talk over the top of the video.
Inflection can be very important..... if i said the food was good, but with a pause between good and but and an upward inflection on the but it would mean there was an issue with the food. If I say the food was good but with no pause between good and but and flat or downward inflection on but it means the food was in fact good.
Paul Hogan’s “shrimp on the barbie” was from an ad he made for Americans, so they used the word shrimp instead of prawn so Americans would understand it 😂.
Other types of slang are more said by the older generation such as rhyming slang. Dad would say hes 'off to ring his blood blister' but what he meant was he was off to call his sister (sister = blood blister). You also dont ask for the tomato sauce at a BBQ, instead youd ask for the dead horse. Tomato sauce = dead horse. Bascially just rhyme words with other words. ' Hurry up kids as we need to hit the frog and toad' (ie - kids get in the car as we need to leave and head off via the road). Let me have a 'butchers hook' (let me have a look). A lot of this stems from those with a UK background. Very similar to Cockney slang but still around in some parts of Australia.
Sharon = Shaz or Shazza Barry = Bazza Afternoon = Arvo That’s the big difference between Australians and Americans; we don’t pronounce our R’s even though they’re in the word.
Yeah, it depends where you are in Australia, the slang will differ, I’m from the outback, we speak a lot of different words compared to city people. The shrimp on a barbie thing was a tourist campaign in the 1980’s, tv commercial would say that to make it understandable to overseas tourists, Aussies never call them shrimp, we call them prawns but it’s the same thing.
There’s a whole other sub language in Australia other than English. Well to be honest there are a lot of other languages other than English. 🤣 We are multicultural, it is not unusual to hear many different languages spoken as you walk down the street, and the people are not tourists, they live here.
You should also note that the slang can differ from state to state. We don't call cigarettes 'duzza's' in Victoria. We'd call it a ciggie or a smoke. In NSW they call them 'dhurries'. And whether you smoke or not, if you take a break from something, you call it taking a smoko. That comes from the morning and afternoon breaks at work where the smokers all had a smoke/ciggie/dhurrie/duzza (and coffee).
I don't know if anyone has commented this, but a petrol station (gas station) is called the servo because you used to be able to get your car fully serviced there by the attendants (fill up on petrol, check oil, clean windshield, etc). Service = servo. Also, any store that is specifically for the sale of alcohol to take home and drink (not consume on the premises) is a bottle-o. Alcool selling shop = bottle shop = bottle-o.
Yes, gas station in Australia is a petrol station, we also call a service station (based on decades ago when you went to the petrol/gas station, and got a full "service", ie: petrol filled up, windows washed, check over of your tyres, so it became a service station. Servo is slang for service station. Liquorland is a "shop brand" like a walmart etc in US, but as the name suggests, Liquorland sells "liquor". In our slang this type of shop is known as a "bottle shop", where you buy bottles of liquor. We changed that to "Bottle-O" (don't ask me why!) - so just to be clear it basically applies to any place that sells liquor, not just liquorland. Love the term Macca's even McDonalds as in the US ones have tried to invent the term there, they love it so much. Smoko is a rest break or morning tea, something like that in the workplace. It comes from decades ago where you have morning tea and would go outside to smoke a cigarette. And yes you dic guess correctly, we DO call cigarettes, ciggies! We only say duzza, to represent a dozen ciagrettes. So it became a smoking break, which of course ended up being a "smoko". Even now in workplaces where smoking is strictly prohibited, we will still refer to these short work breaks as a smoko, even though no one will smoke. Drongo is an idiot because there is a bird called a drongo and if you look it up it is a bird that really is just appears to be stupid! Other words that mean the same thing include Dipshit, fuckwit, half wit, dickhead etc. Mongrel is based on something (usually dogs) that is not pure. So lets say a german shepherd mated with a great dane and then their half breed puppy later mated with a dalmation, it is called a mongrel because it has parts of Dalmation, German Shepherd and Great Dane in its blood lines - it is not a pure representative of any one of those breeds. So when we call each other a mongrel, we are basically saying we are half breed idiots. And we should point out, a bit like you said how southern US might have terms different to other parts of the US, the same is the case in Australia, and also different accents within our country. What is fritz in South Australia (SA) is called Devon ham in other places like New South Wales (NSW). Even the term school is said differently. In SA it is pronounced Sk-oo-lll. In NSW it is pronounced Sk-ew-ll. As for No Worries, that is absolutely very australian and NEVER said anywhere else on earth. But when Crocodile Dundee came out and some of the aussie slang came out with the movie, it got adopted elsewhere. So No Worries is now said all over the world, it blows me away to hear it in other countries, as is "See Ya" which means goodbye. However, if you think about it, why do we say "see ya" to a stranger we just had maybe a quick chat on the bus and we will probably never see again. No we don't generally "throw a shrimp on the barbie". As you probably worked out a barbie is a BBQ or a barbecue. Shrimps are prawns to us, and yes we will BBQ them from time to time but they are not our main BBQ food. We will BBQ things like chops and meat, very similar to what you guys use on outdoor grills. So I will put some 'prawns' on the BBQ from time to time like you might with fish, and it is yummy. Why then is this whole "shrimp" word used. Well going back to the years prior to.... yep Crocodile Dundee.... what we called prawns many other countries including USA knew them as shrimps - so our advertising to get tourists to Australia often used words like Shrimp because the countries it was marketed to would understand the term. Keep in mind we are talking 1980's when Australia was not really well known as a nation or its culture around the world. And piss. Oh that is a funny one. In America if you say you are pissed, it means you are angry. In Australia, if we say we are pissed, it means we are intoxicated, ie: drunk. So naturally if we get pissed when we drink, we might as well call liquor "piss". So if I say "I am getting on the piss tonight", it means I am going to have plenty of alcohol ("piss") with the intention of getting drunk. So then we are drunk at a party and we need to piss, ie: do a wee, we can't use the word piss, so we use the word "leak". I have drunk to much piss, I need a leak, means I have had too much to drink I need to go and have a wee, usually this means on a tree or wall, not necessarily be nice and go into the house and go to the toilet. So ..... fuck I need a leak, basically means our bladder is bursting. Your comment about Arvo and why is it spelt that way when it is supposed to be shortened from "afternoon". Honestly it simply comes down to phonetics. We will shorten things and then spell it phonetically! Has nothing to do with the actual spelling. Here's another one just to mess with your mind too, we often call things the opposite of what they really are. So if some one has red hair we will often given them the nickname "bluey". Don't ask me why, it is just our larrikan type nature. And then there is the stuff that could be used as either an insult or a funny type of response. I am sure you have them in the US too. So if someone does something stupid, you call them a dickhead (ie: you stupid idiot why did you do that) and you can say it in jest, or as a joke, with laughter. But you could also mean it, you dickhead, could mean you actually think they are an absolute idiot and you are not joking. So it comes out all in the tone.
Haha! Yeah nah. This is not the easiest slang video to watch & understand. There’s more out there, can’t remember their names though (but 😬). Keep looking, you’ll get there. The expressions on your face cracked me up 🤣 Good luck!✌🏼
Slang words in Australia can vary from state to state. Most Australians think we all talk the same... and to a large extent we do. BUT, there are definite words which change - for example, in Western Australia we say brief case. In Queensland they say "port". So if you go between states you can expect some initial confusion at times, something which I experienced myself the first time I went outside of Western Australia.
@@Linda-t3o Correcting me? really? When I have literally been working in Qld and heard them refer to BRIEFcases as ports? It may also apply to SUITcases, but my own personal experience was otherwise.
The German guy also mentioned pacific fair in the video and I wanna say that we also call the place PAC for short and people just know what your saying
This afternoon becomes sarvo, a cigarette is a smoke, the mid morning break at work is smoko. One thing that will confuse the crap out of you is ordering a beer. In New South Wales, in the city area you would probably order a Midi or a Schooner. In the bush if it is really hot you might order a five, which is five ounces of beer. But a schooner in Victoria, they call they call a midi a pot. It also changes in South Australia. Getting on the piss is a session at the pub or club.
This was filmed in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The shopping Centre is Circle on Cavil. The light rail stop is Cavil Avenue. Its just a five 5 minute walk away from the beautiful, expansive beach front and the exciting night time markets. Be sure to visit🙂✌️🇦🇺
Mate I have watched a few of your videos now and I like them. Question: Have you ever been diagnosed ADHD or similar. I have a good friend that you remind me of very much. Sometimes it can be frustrating communicating but once you remember that there is literally too much going on in their heads to contain, it puts a whole new perspective on communication. I wish you the very best mate. I'll subscribe.
As someone Mentioned before, some of the young people here make up slang that isn't really Aussie slang. I notices when I was in the USA , I had to change the way I said things just because no one could understand what I was saying as most Australians instead of saying the "er" at the end of a word, we would use "ah" Rocker would become like Rockah. Another phrase Australians use is "going up the street" which is basically saying they are going to the shops. Cossie, Bathers is really for swim suits or Budgie Smugglers for speedos. Also as someone mentioned , there are different slang terms and even pronounciations of words are different between states. Where I am from , it is common to hear people say "No Drama" instead of no problem. Also to say something is good is to say it is a Pearlah or Pearler where I am from. In Canada there is Toronto, In the area I live, there is also a Toronto but we pronounce it Tronno. Also city people also pronounce suburbs in my area wrong as well. I was once told by a group of US college girls that when I spoke, it sounded like a song.
A prawn is best boiled in salt water, cooled right down and peeled. You then eat as is, or if you liks spoiling things dip in a sauce. The most common homemade sauce is quick thousand island dressing, which is equal tom sauce and mayo, mixed together. Do you get long cucumbers, like 15" cut it in batons, slice along length, then slice, normally. Top with mango cubes and lay out prawns, great salad, if you don't like mango or prawns, to cue add avo chunks and really crisp crumbled bacon. You can put all of this together, but the prawn salad platter is betteras is. You can decorate with cut fresh figs. Mango or avo cubes, cut skin on cheeks, off mango seeds, or cut avo in half along langth. Hit seed with a knife blade itshould go in if sharp enough, then twist, to remove seed. If not soft, avo is not ripe, close up, seed in and leave for next day away from insects. Avos take 7 days to ripen after picking. If ripe cut down to skin in a diamond or square pattern. Then use a dessert spoon to scoop both fruits out close to the skin. The mango seed section is best peeled and eaten over a sink, with your elbows able to drip into the sink, or put little kids that need a bath in the bath-tub, and give 'em a seed. Fill the tub after they are done eating, they'll be very slippery little suckers. Did you get watermelon, as a kid, for seed spitting contests? Best is from the top of the steps 1 floor up at the back door. Spit into the back yard and watch how far it goes. So much fun, and easier to wash off the steps than inside the house.
Petrol station is a service station in AUS hence servo. Bottle (liquor) shop is a bottl-o, also a brand 3:00 Swimmers the word changes across states. Cossies (swimming costumes ie cossies), togs, etc depending where you live. Similarly a rockmelon in some states (NSW Qld) is a cantaloupe in others (Vic). 6:29 prawn(s) 6:49 good, but... (not to be confused with good butt! LOL) Baz & Shaz = Barry & Sharon One you def need to know is pissed = drunk, not angry. Angry is pissed off. Another one is rooting. When we root, babies are made. We don't root for our team!
However, when you’re totally rooted, that’s a different matter ;) Depending on whether you’re rooted because you were rooted a lot, or because you just did too much that day ;)
Lozza with the Shrimp 🤦♂️🤦♂️ We don't just call Shrimp, Prawns like its just another slang word we have, hahaha. Shrimp and Prawns are completely different species, yep, they're both hard bodied water creatures with 10 legs, but just like how spiders and scorpions are both hard bodied creatures with 8 legs, that's where the similarity ends.
It isn’t slang, it is Australian English. Slang is a whole other language especially for generations gone now. I didn’t use it much or my Mother would correct me fast. A Service Station is a Servo for buying fuel. No Server. We never say shrimp, my family only ever eat king prawns. That was an Australian Ad that Paul Hogan did for America. He is a Bogan. The not nice areas in our neighbourhood we call Boganville. Anyone who lives in Logan near Brisbane I have heard is called a Bogan. I haven’t been there so I can’t say. Truth is I don’t judge, some of the best people come from places called this and it wasn’t a word when I was a child. Your name is not safe here, we will find a way to shorten it and if it cannot be shortened we give you a new nickname. Our youngest daughter only has 3 letters in her name and between us and her siblings plus other relatives and friends. She has at least 10 different names, most longer than her name. She always knows who is speaking to her by what they call her. I think I have at least 4 of my own but she will always be Flossy to her Dad. I have always spoken the Queens English because it wasn’t a choice growing up at our house. Others than names but I do know what everyone is saying.
Gas is actual “gas”, where as what American’s call gas we call petrol…they are found at the Service Station or Petrol Station…which is shortened to the Servo
BOGANS - my family are Bogans WHATSGOINON? - what is going on? SERVO - gas station COSSIE / SWIMMERS - swimming costume AMBO - ambulance SMOKO - morning tea (at work) She must be a KIWI. (New-Zealander) BOOT - trunk of a car BONNET - hood of a car SHARON - Shasa PISSED - drunk THIS ARVO - this afternoon CIGGY - cigarette SKIP - Australian (usually the Anglo-Saxon variety)
grog, booze - alcohol, trackie dacks comes from tracksuit pants, servo is a petrol station aka gas station, botttle oh - you go get a bottle from the liquor shop so why mess with it, your going to the bottle oh (going to get a bottle of grog, or booze.....lol) we do tend to shorten names like sharon - shazza, barry - bazza etc but that goes for like butter - butta, monday - mondie, tuesday - tuesdi, etc, we use words for multiple purposes "going for a piss" - going to the toilet, "taking the piss" - making fun of, "going on the piss" going to get drunk, so it can get confusing, but it depends on how its being used......
Thought I might throw in a few old Aussie sayings to whet your whistle..... Flat out like a lizard drinking (working hard)... Dry as a dead dingo's donga ( Extremely thirsty, or the area you are in is bone dry)..... and when describing how dry it is where you live, particularly in the outback, the saying "Out here, it's so bloody dry, the crows have learned to fly backwards so as not to get dust in their eyes" ..... and of course there is the old adage "Well suck a dead dingo's donga" which is a term of surprise or disbelief of something you were just told. There are many of these sayings which are rarely used nowadays by the younger generation, specially city dwellers.
This video was hilarious to watch you watch it, I was even yelling at the tv because most of the slang words were not pronounced properly or clearly enough for you to understand. The other problem is depending on where you live in Oz & your generation also depends on what slang words you use for certain words. But was still good for a laugh.
As mentioned, one of the strongest and oldest characteristics of Australian english (and more than half the english accents worldwide) is there is no r sound at the end of a syllable. car bird door arvo pure chair bear berlin have no r sound, while ran rat trap ascribe do have an r sound. ar er ir ur or are pure vowels without even a small r sound (although the vowel is different from an a e i u or o without the r). This rule applies to many accents including in Wales, New Zealand, South Africa and most accents in England including "standard British English" or RP. There are also some accents in England (which usually doesn't have the r) and Scotland (which usually does) which have the r, but it is very soft or short at the end of a syllable. Pronouncing the final r (ie a rhotic accent) is most common in the US and Canada, although even there, there are a few people with a nonrhotic accent. These two english pronunciations predate the founding of the US. However at that time the rhodic form was more common in England, which is why we spell these words with an r (besides the r modifies the vowel so it is still useful to spell the r). By the 1800s the nonrhotic pronunciations was more common, which is why Australia, New Zealand most other former colonies are nonrhotic.
Liquor store = Bottello Gas station = Servo Christmas = Chrissie Shrimp = Prawns McDonalds = Maccas It’s okay = No worries mate Sharon = Shazza Afternoon= Arvo Ambulance = Meat Wagon Paramedic = Ambo Cigarette = Ciggie or Durrie Can of soda = Can of Soft Drink Sweat pants = Tracky Dacks Sweater = Jumper Swimwear = Togs Swim shorts = Boardies There are so many more Aussie slang words we Aussie’s use..
Strangely the only example I can think of when we do pronounce an r after a vowel is when it is not written in between words we are slurring together. So Australia and New Zealand can be pronounced "Australia-r and New Zealand" if we are speaking quickly.
It’s true. “No Worries” is a term that is unique to Australia and possibly New Zealand because I have literally never heard that term used anywhere else in the world.
The most common thing is shortening the word then adding -y or -ie: football = footy; sunglasses = sunnies; underpants = undies; barbeque = barbie; swimming costime = cozzie; mobile phone = moby; U-turn = u-ey; Ugg Boots = Uggies; moccasins = moccies; motorcyclist = bikie; chewing gum = chewie; mushrooms = mushies; tantrum = tanty etc etc etc. Sometimes, the afternoon/arvo even becomes 'arvy'. And I know you know what an Australian person becomes....
Just a quick comment.. Smoko refers to a short break like morning or afteroon tea, where as Crib is lunch time where I come from In the Hunter Valley NSW in industry. Workers in industry would say.. "Are you going for crib" meaning are you going for lunch (Blue collar workers that is)
Liquorland is a bottle shop where u buy alcohol. Servo is a service station or gas station. Bottlo is a bottle shop. Arvo afternoon, ambo is an ambulance. Grog is alcohol. Prawns are shrimps.
As a person who was born in Australia, I've used one or two of these. Macca's is my most often used one. I've never said a lot of these in my entire existence. Would have been great if the video you reacted to had subtitles. I think it would have facilitated your understanding because you're kind of guessing what they're saying. We have a pretty thick accent that's closer to British English than US English.
Detail for you: Bogan = badly dressed, mullet, prob a bit of a drinker but really... just a bogan.... 'Sgoin' on? = What's going on?; Petrol station = servo (service station); Bottle shop = bottle-o (not everywhere, but you'll be understood); swimmers/bathers = cossies (costume); Yeh, nah = No (as in, seriously no); chuck a U-ey = U-turn; Chrissy for Christmas (not by everyone, although pressie/prezzy for present is pretty normal); Ambo usually means ambulance staff rather than the ambulance itself. If someone says the the "ambos" came, they're usually talking about the paramedics in the ambulance! A "barbie" is a bbq, bevy is beverage (I think we got that from England); smoko is old fashioned - just means taking a break, which back in the day meant having a smoke. Not piranhas, but prawns. And definitely NOT shrimp. Bowlo = bowling club (basically a club that does lawn bowls, but most people don't go there for that. Get smashed = get drunk. "Don't do that, but" = you'd better not do that. But is used a emphasis. Oddly enough. Arvo = afternoon. Pronounced Ah-vo, with emphasis on the first syllable. And if you say "this arvo", you DON'T emphasise the first word! It sounds like "ThisAHvo". Both words run together with the emphasis on the AH in arvo.
Tracksuit pants = trackie dacks; Service station (petrol station) = servo; Bottle shop (sells alcohol) = bottle-o; bogan = lower class/rough; Swimwear = depends which state you live in but could be swimmers, cozzies (swimming costume), togs; This afternoon = this arvo; Ambulance = ambo (the car and the person); When you go outside for a cigarette (a smoke) / morning tea = smoko; Hardly anyone ever says 'it's good but' (except bogans); No-one says 'no wozzas'; We don't call prawns shrimp - they're prawns;
Used Yeah-Nah the other day... was during the public holiday and went to one of the only stores left open to get a drink... walked in and the lines to the checkouts were so long they curved around the store looked at it and went Yeah-nah and walked back out again.
Petrol station is service station hence Servo. The USA is the only place to call a liquid (petrol or even diesel) gas, because here in the UK LPG liquid petroleum gas is gas, or butane, propane etc... Cossy is short for swimming costume. Some of these started in England, but the Aussies have taken it to an art form...
A lot of those expressions are also Kiwi's natural language as well. No worries is SO Australian that this Kiwi has a cryptic version of no worries as a registration plate/tag for our car.
The use of the word 'piss' is likely to be confusing for Americans apart from describing the bodily function. "Pissed" means drunk. "Pissed off" means angry. So, if you are pulled over by the police and you are feeling a little angry, don't tell him or her you are "pissed". It won't end well. I am surprised that a key word was totally missed. "Strine" (a lazy pronunciation of "Australian") that refers to a strong Australian accent. For "no problem", "no wuckers" (I spelt it as it is pronounced) is often used. This comes from the Spoonerism "No Wucking Forries". Hint: Swap the initial letters on the last two words. "A "bogan" is an uncouth or unsophisticated person. This is best explained by example - watch the Australian comedy "Kath and Kim".
LOL there is an Australian slang that my fiance is freaking OBSESSED WITH!!! "Well we're not here to fuck spiders now are we?" Another one is "flat out like a lizard drinking" 😂😂😂😂😂
Afternoon = Arvo Petrol Station = Servo Swimming costume = Cozy Cigarette = Ciggy No = Yeah, nah Yes = Nah, yeah Shrimp = Prawn Drunk = Smashed, Pissed Aussies drop the "r".
Persevere! There are a number of You Tube channels presenting Aussie slang so you'll have lots of information to teach you. I was about to suggest that you must come to Oz. You could be an unofficial Aussie in the making!
I live in Australia and I don’t use half of these. I live on the south coast of Australia and I think a lot of these are use in Queensland which is towards the north of Australia
For some reason I haven't seen this video, you should see your face, it's like we aren't speaking English, ha. You have come along way. Happy Arvo, mate. 🇦🇺
Lauren was Taking the Piss when said going to cook Shrimp on BBQ, she was doing it the whole bit. Reason guy did not know one of those would be he is not from QLD, each State will have some differences and Aussies move around a lot before they Settle down somewhere, we have to keep visitors on their toes, cant make it too easy.
Bottle-o = Liquor Shop She said liquorland which is just one of many alcohol retailers....not lickyland haha....sounds like a place I'd like to go though..
If you talk about sport when you visit, don't ask " Who do you root for". You might collect a bunch of fives ( ie a fist). Ask who do they barrack for instead. To an Aussie, a root is the same as a screw which is the same as a F@#k Just greet everyone with "owyergoingmateorright" and she'll be as right as rain. Cheers
Service Station, servo = gas station, Arvo = afternoon, Togs/cossies = swim wear, Prawns = shrimp, Ambo = Ambulance, we also say Reckon a lot, bottle o = liquor store, getting on the piss means getting drunk, throw your leg over means having sex, taking the piss means your joking with them these are only a few omg I could probably write a book lmao! no kidding
There’s a lot of regional variations within Australia, so some things in this video don’t hold true across the country
The kid with the iga hat is what all the kids talk like these days
Yes it does Im sure everyone from brizzy to Perth would understand all these words
Think this is very QLD.
Us Aussies like to abbreviate words and add an "O" onto the end. So a Service Station (where you get gas) is shortened to "Servo" - a shortened version of the word "service" with the "o" added at the end. Your Liquor Store is called a Bottle Shop here. So, it's known as a Bottle-o. An avocado is often called "Avo." What you know as sweat pants are the bottom half of what we call a track suit. Dacks is a slang term for pants, thus they get called "Tracky dacks." A cigarette is often called a "durry" - possibly derived from a brand of loose, roll-your-own tobacco called Bull Durham. So "Durham" became "durry." The phrase "No worries" can also be stated as "No wuckers" - a shortened version of "No wucking furries" ie: "No f*cking worries." I know that one's a bit confusing. People's names can be changed to different versions, too. For example, "Sharon" becomes "Shazza." Or "Barry" becomes "Bazza." Alcohol is called "piss" here. So if you're going to a piss-up, that's a party with copious amounts of alcohol. Getting "smashed" , "legless" or "maggoted" means you're getting very drunk. And if you've consumed way too much piss, you'll most likely chunder. Which means "vomit." That's all I can think of for now. As an Aussie, these terms are a part of every day life, so I don't tend to think about it too much.
Another couple words for "vomit" (chunder) can be spew, munt, and chuck.
Plus an extra: "taccy" (so taccy comes from tactical munt - which is what someone would do early on at a piss-up if they got drunk too quick... so they'll go for a taccy munt, and that way they can continue drinking and keep the night going😂😂😂)
I have never heard munt ever 😂
I hope Ryan read this, as reading it would make things a lot clearer, plus your explanations are 👌🏻
@@starwyn7 ah im 22 yo, that probably contributes to that, and its also a Melbourne/geelong thing idk about anywhere else
Haha I know right, but that's part of what makes these videos so much fun - it's like watching your favourite movie that you've seen thousands of times with someone who's never seen it before.
If you plan to come to Australia, one thing that will trip you up is the vast distances between places. An American couple arrived in Australia (not sure which state) they had booked a 4wd and wanted to go and see a certain place in the central part of the country. They stopped and got fuel at a small town before heading to this remote destination. The Pub/Servo usually records the people travelling to the destination. But the worker could not find the book. I don't know how long it was before they were reported missing ? But the local police went on a search, they found the 4wd in a bog hole and the female deceased along side the vehicle, a further search found her husband along the track back to the Pub. The police officer got in the 4wd and just backed it out of the bog. Most people have no idea that the outback is outback. You can drive for hundreds of kilometres without passing another vehicle.
Arvo (or arv) (afternoon)
Spondoolicks / dollops (money)
Take a squiz (look)
Dial (face)
Barker’s eggs (dogsh!t)
Chook (chicken)
Cackleberries (chook eggs)
List goes on. There’s an Aussie dictionary over 500 pages. It’ll always evolve and be updated. If there’s a way to call something other than what it is, we’ll find it and make it nationwide.
Trousers are daks. Track suits (sweats) are trakkies. So sweat pants are trakky daks.
Arvo is because Australians pronounce afternoon with a long A (ah) sound (like Ahf-ternoon) not like the Americans who say Aff-ternoon.
But avocados are avos (just an a without the ar sound).
Any word with an r in the middle can be changed to a za or zo ending. So Barry is Bazza, Larry is Lazza, Sharon is Shazza, Murray is Muzza, Lauren is Lozza. A cigarette is a durry so I suppose you can shorten that to duzza.
Other common words are sunnies (sunglasses), brekky (breakfast), tinny (either a small aluminium boat or a can of beer), firies (firefighters) and tradies (tradesmen). Selfie is a word that started in Australia, as did No Worries (which can also be No Wozzas).
No wuckers mate....
@@SnaykEyes77 yeah never heard of NO WOZZAS (makes sense tho)but 'no fucking worries' changed 2 "no wucking furries" & then shortened 2 'No WUCKERS' a combo of both. That's old school or maybe just regional..
Bonza.....
As an Aussie, I agree with this completely! Thanks for writing your all out 👍
Daks are underwear.
Being a 70+ Aussie, to me slang depends very much on which State your in and which area of that state, each can have their own idea on slang, it’s a big country. They always do these things in cities, get outside the cities for a change and see how that goes. Some of these words and sayings I’ve never heard. A lot of this is not what I would call true Aussie slang
So true, growing up in Sydney in the 80s we never used the term 'bogan', the equivalent was 'westie', as in coming from the western suburbs. I first heard the word bogan in my teens from some Victorians.
Bogan is a Victorian term used to be derrogatory to low income earners on welfare. It was popularised by Kath & Kim for the most part. in the 70's each region used to have their own word for their lower classes usually dole bludgers. Australian slang was working man's and rural terminologies that made it into main stream over the years, Slang used primarily these days are a mixture of old Australian and Bogan slang.
I have to politely disagree nexus regarding true Aussie slang. I agree the old original slang definitely did not have the a lot of the current slang for sure. All languages evolve over time, dictionaries are always updated all over the world adding new words. It would only be natural for our unique Aussie slang to also evolve over time so calling it "not true Aussie slang" is not correct, it's all Aussie slang that has evolved. I am 60+ so you could probably teach me some of the older slang since you have ten on me. Cheers.😊👍
Hi mate, here is some clarification.
Trackie dacks comes from track suit pants. Track suits are sweat suits. Track suit becomes trackie and dacks means pants. To dack someone is the pull down their pants.
Servo comes from service station, which is an old term for what we would;d otherwise call a petrol station and you would call a gas station. In the old days, the service station attendant would fill your car for you and also check the oil and water and give the windscreen a clean.
Bottle-o is slang for a bottle shop, which you would know as a liquor store. Liquorland is a brand of bottle shop.
The slang for a swimming costume depends on where you live. I am from Victoria in Southern Australia and I would say bathers, or even togs, rather than cosie.
"Yeah, nah" is a way of being polite to someone. If they think something is a great idea and ask if you want to come along, you might say "Yeah, nah" which indicates that "Yes, it's a great idea" but "Nah, I don't think I will this time", when actually you think it is a terrible idea. Lets tham down gently.
We would say "Chuck a Uey" rather than "Pull a Uey". Chuck means throw (not sure if that is Australian specifically. "Have a chuck" or "Go for a chuck" means vomit. While we are talking about turns, we would say "turn right" rather than "take a right".
Yes, a lot of Aussie slang is shortening the word and adding o (bootle-o, smoko [smoking break or just a break at work], rego [car registration or number [licence] plate], doco [documentary], avo [avocado]) or y or ie (bickie [biscuit = cookie], bookie [bookmaker = person who takes your bet at a horse race], sparkie [electrician], chippie [carpenter], Chrissy [Christmas], footy [football]. Ambo actually is ambulance officer/paramedic, not ambulance.
We do not say "How are you doing?", we say "How ya goin''?".
Shrimp in Australia are those tiny sea creatures you get in fried rice sometimes. What you call shrimp, we call prawns.
Ending a sentence with "but" is a Queensland thing.
Yes, piss can mean alcohol, as well as the waste product that you excrete an hour or so after you drink it. My dad used to call piss (the latter version) "beer with the fun taken out". Getting pissed means getting drunk. Where an American would say "He was pissed", we would say "He was pissed off" (annoyed).
Yes, we tend to not emphasise "r"s in words, a bit like a Bostonian.
Great and accurate explanation.
Thanks @@carokat1111
Your explanation of the 'yeah, nah' phenomenon *chefs kiss*
This is the size of a book
At 8:25 the kid talking about 'getting on the piss & getting smashed' gives the BEST example of an Aussie using 'but' instead of 'though' at the end of a sentence - "don't do it, but" 😂❤
Swimsuits have different slang names based on which state you grew up in.
Here in WA we call them bathers - as in a bathing suit.
Bathers - Western Australia (WA) + Victoria (VIC)
Swimmers - New South Wales (NSW)
Cossies - New South Wales (NSW) - Mostly in Sydney or other coastal areas
Togs - Queensland (QLD)
Queensland has the most state-specific slang and it's the closest thing we have to America's Florida.
Yeah, like when I went to school in Qld, we called your school bag a "port" (which is short for portmantua). We also referred to bear feet as "Queensland sand shoes". We also tended us the word "bevan" rather than "bogan".
@@michealbohmer2871 "sand shoes" are actual shoes like Dunlop Volley or similar not bare feet.
don't forget the "budgie smugglers".
@@leglessinoz yes, I know, it was*Queensland* sand shoes not simply sand shoes...that's the joke.
NSW coast when a kid- we also called cozzies "togs"
Ryan, I have been watching you trying to figure out Australia since stumbling across your channel about a week ago. But seeing your utter bewilderment at hearing our language was just hilarious. 🤣
Dacks is slang for slacks, trousers, jeans, etc. Track pants for some people has become trackies, I’ve never heard tracky dacks, even though I understand it.
Liquorland is a chain of liquor stores. Any local liquor store is the bottle-o.
When you come here, you will hear different expressions to most of these, it depends on the circle of friends you keep. These people are very young and have developed their own generational slang, most of which I’ve only heard in these videos and never in social company. If you don’t understand something feel free to ask for clarification, because sometimes it’s not slang, it’s just the speed and accent. You’re already doing very well with your educated guesses! I’m proud of you, Ryan! 🇦🇺😍
Shrimp: in Australia, we think of shrimp as tiny prawns that seem to be imported from Asia, mostly found in cheap fried rice or used as dried shrimp paste. Prawns are bigger and King Prawns are bigger again, the length of your hand - it’s the King Prawns we cook on the barbecue. The reason “shrimp on the barbie” became a thing was due to Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee) who did a series of tourism commercials for Australia. We would say, stick some more prawns on the barbie, but having lived in the US, Paul said they call them shrimp over there, so the word became shrimp in the commercials, otherwise we would never have said shrimp at all, except when referring to a short friend or a little kid, “Come on, shrimp, let’s go eat!”
I haven't heard anyone say the word "dacks" since I was in highschool (over 10 years ago).
"Come on shrimp" !?! Don't come the raw prawn with me Jeni10.
As a teenagers living in Queensland we called track suit pants 'tracky dacks'. That was over 45 years ago.
Never cooked prawns on barbie.
Big problem with this clip is that there are so many of the younger generation who like making up new terms for things, and believing them to be genuine Aussie slang, meanwhile the true slang words are slowly fading out. Being 70 years of age, many of the so called "Aussie Slang" words seen here were not heard of prior to about 20 years ago. Other problem with this clip is that many of the true Aussie slang words mentioned were not pronounced correctly
I'm 43 year old Australian and I don't remember speaking all these slang words as they use today. Sometimes I feel I need to get a slang dictionary to understand the young generation myself. I agree with you as they making new words up.
All words are made up.
63 yr old here. Some are old words I used to use, some are coming through.
It's all good
Glad I’m not the only one
I’m a young Aussie(17yr) and I use a lot of old slang as me dad n mum use it a lot, so I’ve grown up using the terms
Heh. The slang didn't penetrate past the accent.
Servo... "server?"
Grog... "rug?"
Drongo... "drungo?"
in addition to a previous comment, a 'bathing suit' can be called 'cossies', 'trunks' (for men), 'togs', 'swimmers' or 'speedos' (based on the original Australian company that makes swimming costumes). It tends to depend on where you grew up.
4:17 The moment that changed Ryan's life... forever
I live in Aussie but I'm from NZ. We have lots of slang in NZ, but Qld is next level! I've never heard of duzza, I thought it was a durrie (a rollie?). I've never heard anyone say No Wozzas, I've heard No Waka's though. When you're in a shop and say thanks, it's pretty common for them to say "too easy" or "no dramas" (Qld). I've heard people say something like "so I went to the shop but". And I'm like but what! When I first moved here, I couldn't stand people calling me "darl" but it doesn't irritate me as much as it use too.
Slang is used by bogans.. 😂 well, extreme slang anyway.. it sounds awful..
2:15 Gas station : Service station... servo.
Tune your ears mate 😂
There are regional differences, so just because someone doesn't know it, could be its regional.
Petrol station -Servo (gas station) The only one saying 'server' is you, they didn't.
Sweat pants- trackie dacks or trackies.
Liqueur land -bottle-o
Swimwear=-cossies/cozzies/togs
yeah nah
Don't say shrimp on the barbie, no one says that. It's prawn. That came about from a series of tourism ads done in the 1980's. They used the word shrimp because they thought American's knew that word better.
She said 'grog' not rug.
smoko for break.
drongo not drungo. I think you are mishearing a lot of the vowels.
People may say ciggy, she said duzza.
In Victoria I had mates that called cigarettes a dart or durries, I assume in other regions it might be a duzza. Also for bottle-o, Americans would better understand it as a liquor store or if you are going for a big chain type name liquor barn, very similar to good ole Uncle Dan's 😜
Give the guy a break, hes willing to look into ads about Australia but when he does you criticize him coz he didn't hear properly. Aussie talk is one of the hardest to listen to in the world and we don't pronounce our words fully, as in every single letter, whereas all other countries do.
@@katherineschmidt2075 Lol, no criticism there, that's a joke mate. You sure you're Australian?
Anyway I have been told he never reads his comments so it isn't worth bothering to comment anymore.
I found there’s also a difference between New South Wales/Victoria and the rest of the country with some slang words. I’ve seen lists where I don’t know half the slang - like “durry” for cigarettes as an example. I’ve never heard that used in any of the places I’ve lived. There are others, I just can’t think of them offhand.
And yeah you need one with subtitles, I could tell you weren’t understanding what was being said because of our accent lol
We should talk about the potato cake argument. They're not scallops! Hahaha
I live in The Hunter valley NSw and it is common to use Durry for cigarette here.
Hahahaha 😂 I watch your channel now. A year after this clip. Now you always start with Happy Arvo! Love it 🩷
In NZ, a bogan is someone who will wear black jeans, metallica tee shirt, drink Woodstock bourbon and cokes and drive loud unregistered cars, usually dungas (Sh*tboxe cars)
Also after the Christchurch earthquakes Munted became the new description of broken stuff - "hows ya house? oh its munted"
Also yeah no is a very kiwi thing, 'yeah no' is yeah I heard ya, but no I'm not doing it.
Sweet as - things are good, 'how ya doing' 'Im sweet as bro'
I think the best advice I can give you when watching these Australian videos is to actually listen. So many times you get confused are simply because you haven’t listened properly. I know we speak fast sometimes but most things can be understood if you just take a second to actually listen and not talk over the top of the video.
We use the word "but" like the word "though" at the end of a sentence.
The party was bad. The food was good but/though.
Only bogans or the uneducated put the word 'but' at the end of a sentence.
Inflection can be very important..... if i said the food was good, but with a pause between good and but and an upward inflection on the but it would mean there was an issue with the food. If I say the food was good but with no pause between good and but and flat or downward inflection on but it means the food was in fact good.
Australia's don't do shrimps on the barbie, we do prawns.
NO ONE SAYS SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE…..we call them prawns 🍤 and we don’t regularly put them on the BBQ
Exactly...! who the hell could afford to do that even if we wanted to you gotta be rich to do that or rich to even want to do that...
We pronounce afternoon “arfternoon”. That’s why we put an “r” in arvo.
Paul Hogan’s “shrimp on the barbie” was from an ad he made for Americans, so they used the word shrimp instead of prawn so Americans would understand it 😂.
Other types of slang are more said by the older generation such as rhyming slang. Dad would say hes 'off to ring his blood blister' but what he meant was he was off to call his sister (sister = blood blister). You also dont ask for the tomato sauce at a BBQ, instead youd ask for the dead horse. Tomato sauce = dead horse. Bascially just rhyme words with other words. ' Hurry up kids as we need to hit the frog and toad' (ie - kids get in the car as we need to leave and head off via the road). Let me have a 'butchers hook' (let me have a look). A lot of this stems from those with a UK background. Very similar to Cockney slang but still around in some parts of Australia.
Sharon = Shaz or Shazza
Barry = Bazza
Afternoon = Arvo
That’s the big difference between Australians and Americans; we don’t pronounce our R’s even though they’re in the word.
Yeah, it depends where you are in Australia, the slang will differ, I’m from the outback, we speak a lot of different words compared to city people. The shrimp on a barbie thing was a tourist campaign in the 1980’s, tv commercial would say that to make it understandable to overseas tourists, Aussies never call them shrimp, we call them prawns but it’s the same thing.
There’s a whole other sub language in Australia other than English.
Well to be honest there are a lot of other languages other than English. 🤣
We are multicultural, it is not unusual to hear many different languages spoken as you walk down the street, and the people are not tourists, they live here.
You should also note that the slang can differ from state to state. We don't call cigarettes 'duzza's' in Victoria. We'd call it a ciggie or a smoke. In NSW they call them 'dhurries'. And whether you smoke or not, if you take a break from something, you call it taking a smoko. That comes from the morning and afternoon breaks at work where the smokers all had a smoke/ciggie/dhurrie/duzza (and coffee).
Yeah, I'm from Perth and I had no idea what they were talking aboiy when they Said duzza
I don't know if anyone has commented this, but a petrol station (gas station) is called the servo because you used to be able to get your car fully serviced there by the attendants (fill up on petrol, check oil, clean windshield, etc). Service = servo.
Also, any store that is specifically for the sale of alcohol to take home and drink (not consume on the premises) is a bottle-o. Alcool selling shop = bottle shop = bottle-o.
Yes, gas station in Australia is a petrol station, we also call a service station (based on decades ago when you went to the petrol/gas station, and got a full "service", ie: petrol filled up, windows washed, check over of your tyres, so it became a service station. Servo is slang for service station. Liquorland is a "shop brand" like a walmart etc in US, but as the name suggests, Liquorland sells "liquor". In our slang this type of shop is known as a "bottle shop", where you buy bottles of liquor. We changed that to "Bottle-O" (don't ask me why!) - so just to be clear it basically applies to any place that sells liquor, not just liquorland. Love the term Macca's even McDonalds as in the US ones have tried to invent the term there, they love it so much.
Smoko is a rest break or morning tea, something like that in the workplace. It comes from decades ago where you have morning tea and would go outside to smoke a cigarette. And yes you dic guess correctly, we DO call cigarettes, ciggies! We only say duzza, to represent a dozen ciagrettes. So it became a smoking break, which of course ended up being a "smoko". Even now in workplaces where smoking is strictly prohibited, we will still refer to these short work breaks as a smoko, even though no one will smoke.
Drongo is an idiot because there is a bird called a drongo and if you look it up it is a bird that really is just appears to be stupid! Other words that mean the same thing include Dipshit, fuckwit, half wit, dickhead etc. Mongrel is based on something (usually dogs) that is not pure. So lets say a german shepherd mated with a great dane and then their half breed puppy later mated with a dalmation, it is called a mongrel because it has parts of Dalmation, German Shepherd and Great Dane in its blood lines - it is not a pure representative of any one of those breeds. So when we call each other a mongrel, we are basically saying we are half breed idiots.
And we should point out, a bit like you said how southern US might have terms different to other parts of the US, the same is the case in Australia, and also different accents within our country. What is fritz in South Australia (SA) is called Devon ham in other places like New South Wales (NSW). Even the term school is said differently. In SA it is pronounced Sk-oo-lll. In NSW it is pronounced Sk-ew-ll.
As for No Worries, that is absolutely very australian and NEVER said anywhere else on earth. But when Crocodile Dundee came out and some of the aussie slang came out with the movie, it got adopted elsewhere. So No Worries is now said all over the world, it blows me away to hear it in other countries, as is "See Ya" which means goodbye. However, if you think about it, why do we say "see ya" to a stranger we just had maybe a quick chat on the bus and we will probably never see again.
No we don't generally "throw a shrimp on the barbie". As you probably worked out a barbie is a BBQ or a barbecue. Shrimps are prawns to us, and yes we will BBQ them from time to time but they are not our main BBQ food. We will BBQ things like chops and meat, very similar to what you guys use on outdoor grills. So I will put some 'prawns' on the BBQ from time to time like you might with fish, and it is yummy. Why then is this whole "shrimp" word used. Well going back to the years prior to.... yep Crocodile Dundee.... what we called prawns many other countries including USA knew them as shrimps - so our advertising to get tourists to Australia often used words like Shrimp because the countries it was marketed to would understand the term. Keep in mind we are talking 1980's when Australia was not really well known as a nation or its culture around the world.
And piss. Oh that is a funny one. In America if you say you are pissed, it means you are angry. In Australia, if we say we are pissed, it means we are intoxicated, ie: drunk. So naturally if we get pissed when we drink, we might as well call liquor "piss". So if I say "I am getting on the piss tonight", it means I am going to have plenty of alcohol ("piss") with the intention of getting drunk. So then we are drunk at a party and we need to piss, ie: do a wee, we can't use the word piss, so we use the word "leak". I have drunk to much piss, I need a leak, means I have had too much to drink I need to go and have a wee, usually this means on a tree or wall, not necessarily be nice and go into the house and go to the toilet. So ..... fuck I need a leak, basically means our bladder is bursting.
Your comment about Arvo and why is it spelt that way when it is supposed to be shortened from "afternoon". Honestly it simply comes down to phonetics. We will shorten things and then spell it phonetically! Has nothing to do with the actual spelling.
Here's another one just to mess with your mind too, we often call things the opposite of what they really are. So if some one has red hair we will often given them the nickname "bluey". Don't ask me why, it is just our larrikan type nature. And then there is the stuff that could be used as either an insult or a funny type of response. I am sure you have them in the US too. So if someone does something stupid, you call them a dickhead (ie: you stupid idiot why did you do that) and you can say it in jest, or as a joke, with laughter. But you could also mean it, you dickhead, could mean you actually think they are an absolute idiot and you are not joking. So it comes out all in the tone.
Haha! Yeah nah. This is not the easiest slang video to watch & understand. There’s more out there, can’t remember their names though (but 😬). Keep looking, you’ll get there. The expressions on your face cracked me up 🤣 Good luck!✌🏼
prawns and shrimp are actually two different species
Slang words in Australia can vary from state to state. Most Australians think we all talk the same... and to a large extent we do. BUT, there are definite words which change - for example, in Western Australia we say brief case. In Queensland they say "port". So if you go between states you can expect some initial confusion at times, something which I experienced myself the first time I went outside of Western Australia.
We say suitcase.. in the West..
QLD and NSW say port.. for suitcase
@@Linda-t3o Correcting me? really? When I have literally been working in Qld and heard them refer to BRIEFcases as ports? It may also apply to SUITcases, but my own personal experience was otherwise.
The German guy also mentioned pacific fair in the video and I wanna say that we also call the place PAC for short and people just know what your saying
This afternoon becomes sarvo, a cigarette is a smoke, the mid morning break at work is smoko. One thing that will confuse the crap out of you is ordering a beer. In New South Wales, in the city area you would probably order a Midi or a Schooner. In the bush if it is really hot you might order a five, which is five ounces of beer. But a schooner in Victoria, they call they call a midi a pot. It also changes in South Australia. Getting on the piss is a session at the pub or club.
This was filmed in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
The shopping Centre is Circle on Cavil.
The light rail stop is Cavil Avenue.
Its just a five 5 minute walk away from the beautiful, expansive beach front and the exciting night time markets.
Be sure to visit🙂✌️🇦🇺
Mate I have watched a few of your videos now and I like them. Question: Have you ever been diagnosed ADHD or similar. I have a good friend that you remind me of very much. Sometimes it can be frustrating communicating but once you remember that there is literally too much going on in their heads to contain, it puts a whole new perspective on communication. I wish you the very best mate. I'll subscribe.
I don't think being reminded of someone means they have the same disorder
As someone Mentioned before, some of the young people here make up slang that isn't really Aussie slang. I notices when I was in the USA , I had to change the way I said things just because no one could understand what I was saying as most Australians instead of saying the "er" at the end of a word, we would use "ah" Rocker would become like Rockah. Another phrase Australians use is "going up the street" which is basically saying they are going to the shops. Cossie, Bathers is really for swim suits or Budgie Smugglers for speedos. Also as someone mentioned , there are different slang terms and even pronounciations of words are different between states. Where I am from , it is common to hear people say "No Drama" instead of no problem. Also to say something is good is to say it is a Pearlah or Pearler where I am from. In Canada there is Toronto, In the area I live, there is also a Toronto but we pronounce it Tronno. Also city people also pronounce suburbs in my area wrong as well. I was once told by a group of US college girls that when I spoke, it sounded like a song.
A prawn is best boiled in salt water, cooled right down and peeled. You then eat as is, or if you liks spoiling things dip in a sauce. The most common homemade sauce is quick thousand island dressing, which is equal tom sauce and mayo, mixed together.
Do you get long cucumbers, like 15" cut it in batons, slice along length, then slice, normally. Top with mango cubes and lay out prawns, great salad, if you don't like mango or prawns, to cue add avo chunks and really crisp crumbled bacon. You can put all of this together, but the prawn salad platter is betteras is. You can decorate with cut fresh figs.
Mango or avo cubes, cut skin on cheeks, off mango seeds, or cut avo in half along langth. Hit seed with a knife blade itshould go in if sharp enough, then twist, to remove seed. If not soft, avo is not ripe, close up, seed in and leave for next day away from insects. Avos take 7 days to ripen after picking. If ripe cut down to skin in a diamond or square pattern. Then use a dessert spoon to scoop both fruits out close to the skin. The mango seed section is best peeled and eaten over a sink, with your elbows able to drip into the sink, or put little kids that need a bath in the bath-tub, and give 'em a seed. Fill the tub after they are done eating, they'll be very slippery little suckers.
Did you get watermelon, as a kid, for seed spitting contests? Best is from the top of the steps 1 floor up at the back door. Spit into the back yard and watch how far it goes. So much fun, and easier to wash off the steps than inside the house.
Petrol station is a service station in AUS hence servo.
Bottle (liquor) shop is a bottl-o, also a brand
3:00 Swimmers the word changes across states. Cossies (swimming costumes ie cossies), togs, etc depending where you live. Similarly a rockmelon in some states (NSW Qld) is a cantaloupe in others (Vic).
6:29 prawn(s)
6:49 good, but... (not to be confused with good butt! LOL)
Baz & Shaz = Barry & Sharon
One you def need to know is pissed = drunk, not angry. Angry is pissed off.
Another one is rooting. When we root, babies are made. We don't root for our team!
Queensland's call Rock melon Rock melon
However, when you’re totally rooted, that’s a different matter ;) Depending on whether you’re rooted because you were rooted a lot, or because you just did too much that day ;)
Lozza with the Shrimp 🤦♂️🤦♂️
We don't just call Shrimp, Prawns like its just another slang word we have, hahaha.
Shrimp and Prawns are completely different species, yep, they're both hard bodied water creatures with 10 legs, but just like how spiders and scorpions are both hard bodied creatures with 8 legs, that's where the similarity ends.
It isn’t slang, it is Australian English. Slang is a whole other language especially for generations gone now. I didn’t use it much or my Mother would correct me fast. A Service Station is a Servo for buying fuel. No Server. We never say shrimp, my family only ever eat king prawns. That was an Australian Ad that Paul Hogan did for America. He is a Bogan. The not nice areas in our neighbourhood we call Boganville. Anyone who lives in Logan near Brisbane I have heard is called a Bogan. I haven’t been there so I can’t say. Truth is I don’t judge, some of the best people come from places called this and it wasn’t a word when I was a child.
Your name is not safe here, we will find a way to shorten it and if it cannot be shortened we give you a new nickname. Our youngest daughter only has 3 letters in her name and between us and her siblings plus other relatives and friends. She has at least 10 different names, most longer than her name. She always knows who is speaking to her by what they call her. I think I have at least 4 of my own but she will always be Flossy to her Dad.
I have always spoken the Queens English because it wasn’t a choice growing up at our house. Others than names but I do know what everyone is saying.
I can relate, my English Nan would correct all my words and my accent for that matter. lol
I was Flossy as a child too! 💞
Gas is actual “gas”, where as what American’s call gas we call petrol…they are found at the Service Station or Petrol Station…which is shortened to the Servo
BOGANS - my family are Bogans
WHATSGOINON? - what is going on?
SERVO - gas station
COSSIE / SWIMMERS - swimming costume
AMBO - ambulance
SMOKO - morning tea (at work)
She must be a KIWI. (New-Zealander)
BOOT - trunk of a car
BONNET - hood of a car
SHARON - Shasa
PISSED - drunk
THIS ARVO - this afternoon
CIGGY - cigarette
SKIP - Australian (usually the Anglo-Saxon variety)
grog, booze - alcohol, trackie dacks comes from tracksuit pants, servo is a petrol station aka gas station, botttle oh - you go get a bottle from the liquor shop so why mess with it, your going to the bottle oh (going to get a bottle of grog, or booze.....lol) we do tend to shorten names like sharon - shazza, barry - bazza etc but that goes for like butter - butta, monday - mondie, tuesday - tuesdi, etc, we use words for multiple purposes "going for a piss" - going to the toilet, "taking the piss" - making fun of, "going on the piss" going to get drunk, so it can get confusing, but it depends on how its being used......
Not the "Licky land" 😂😂😂
A prawn is larger than a shrimp. Shrimp in Australia means small.
Liquorland is a store that sells beer, liquor etc no worries is also a NZ slang.
Thought I might throw in a few old Aussie sayings to whet your whistle..... Flat out like a lizard drinking (working hard)... Dry as a dead dingo's donga ( Extremely thirsty, or the area you are in is bone dry)..... and when describing how dry it is where you live, particularly in the outback, the saying "Out here, it's so bloody dry, the crows have learned to fly backwards so as not to get dust in their eyes" ..... and of course there is the old adage "Well suck a dead dingo's donga" which is a term of surprise or disbelief of something you were just told. There are many of these sayings which are rarely used nowadays by the younger generation, specially city dwellers.
This video was hilarious to watch you watch it, I was even yelling at the tv because most of the slang words were not pronounced properly or clearly enough for you to understand. The other problem is depending on where you live in Oz & your generation also depends on what slang words you use for certain words.
But was still good for a laugh.
Every Aussie face palming when U said shrimp on the Barbie rather then prawn. haha love this vid tho mate
As mentioned, one of the strongest and oldest characteristics of Australian english (and more than half the english accents worldwide) is there is no r sound at the end of a syllable. car bird door arvo pure chair bear berlin have no r sound, while ran rat trap ascribe do have an r sound. ar er ir ur or are pure vowels without even a small r sound (although the vowel is different from an a e i u or o without the r). This rule applies to many accents including in Wales, New Zealand, South Africa and most accents in England including "standard British English" or RP. There are also some accents in England (which usually doesn't have the r) and Scotland (which usually does) which have the r, but it is very soft or short at the end of a syllable. Pronouncing the final r (ie a rhotic accent) is most common in the US and Canada, although even there, there are a few people with a nonrhotic accent. These two english pronunciations predate the founding of the US. However at that time the rhodic form was more common in England, which is why we spell these words with an r (besides the r modifies the vowel so it is still useful to spell the r). By the 1800s the nonrhotic pronunciations was more common, which is why Australia, New Zealand most other former colonies are nonrhotic.
Prawns are a larger version of a shrimp. Shrimp in Australia means you are short.
That brings back some primary school memories for me
Liquor store = Bottello
Gas station = Servo
Christmas = Chrissie
Shrimp = Prawns
McDonalds = Maccas
It’s okay = No worries mate
Sharon = Shazza
Afternoon= Arvo
Ambulance = Meat Wagon
Paramedic = Ambo
Cigarette = Ciggie or Durrie
Can of soda = Can of Soft Drink
Sweat pants = Tracky Dacks
Sweater = Jumper
Swimwear = Togs
Swim shorts = Boardies
There are so many more Aussie slang words we Aussie’s use..
arvo = afternoon
avo = avocado
Cigarette is also called either a Gaf or a Dart or just a smoke
When I was younger we would call them a 3 letter word beginning with F. Going outside to have a quick F. Or mate can I bum a F off you
Gaf?
Durries
@@macdac9861 read it backwards.
Strangely the only example I can think of when we do pronounce an r after a vowel is when it is not written in between words we are slurring together. So Australia and New Zealand can be pronounced "Australia-r and New Zealand" if we are speaking quickly.
It’s true. “No Worries” is a term that is unique to Australia and possibly New Zealand because I have literally never heard that term used anywhere else in the world.
The most common thing is shortening the word then adding -y or -ie: football = footy; sunglasses = sunnies; underpants = undies; barbeque = barbie; swimming costime = cozzie; mobile phone = moby; U-turn = u-ey; Ugg Boots = Uggies; moccasins = moccies; motorcyclist = bikie; chewing gum = chewie; mushrooms = mushies; tantrum = tanty etc etc etc. Sometimes, the afternoon/arvo even becomes 'arvy'. And I know you know what an Australian person becomes....
A chewy(chewing gum) a shoey(beer drunk from a shoe) toey(aggressive) ...
Just a quick comment.. Smoko refers to a short break like morning or afteroon tea, where as Crib is lunch time where I come from In the Hunter Valley NSW in industry. Workers in industry would say.. "Are you going for crib" meaning are you going for lunch (Blue collar workers that is)
Liquorland is a bottle shop where u buy alcohol. Servo is a service station or gas station. Bottlo is a bottle shop. Arvo afternoon, ambo is an ambulance. Grog is alcohol. Prawns are shrimps.
As a person who was born in Australia, I've used one or two of these. Macca's is my most often used one.
I've never said a lot of these in my entire existence.
Would have been great if the video you reacted to had subtitles. I think it would have facilitated your understanding because you're kind of guessing what they're saying.
We have a pretty thick accent that's closer to British English than US English.
You’re doing very well.
Generally we don’t pronounce a hard “r”.
We speak too fast and we speak in strine.
You need to explain what Strine is. He's clearly having trouble with our accent let alone the slang ppl use.
petrol stations, are also called service station which does mechanical repairs.
Liquorland. It is a bottle shop where you buy alcohol. We call it the bottle-o. Petrol station is a servo.
Detail for you:
Bogan = badly dressed, mullet, prob a bit of a drinker but really... just a bogan....
'Sgoin' on? = What's going on?; Petrol station = servo (service station); Bottle shop = bottle-o (not everywhere, but you'll be understood); swimmers/bathers = cossies (costume); Yeh, nah = No (as in, seriously no); chuck a U-ey = U-turn; Chrissy for Christmas (not by everyone, although pressie/prezzy for present is pretty normal);
Ambo usually means ambulance staff rather than the ambulance itself. If someone says the the "ambos" came, they're usually talking about the paramedics in the ambulance! A "barbie" is a bbq, bevy is beverage (I think we got that from England); smoko is old fashioned - just means taking a break, which back in the day meant having a smoke. Not piranhas, but prawns. And definitely NOT shrimp.
Bowlo = bowling club (basically a club that does lawn bowls, but most people don't go there for that. Get smashed = get drunk. "Don't do that, but" = you'd better not do that. But is used a emphasis. Oddly enough.
Arvo = afternoon. Pronounced Ah-vo, with emphasis on the first syllable. And if you say "this arvo", you DON'T emphasise the first word! It sounds like "ThisAHvo". Both words run together with the emphasis on the AH in arvo.
Tracksuit pants = trackie dacks; Service station (petrol station) = servo; Bottle shop (sells alcohol) = bottle-o; bogan = lower class/rough; Swimwear = depends which state you live in but could be swimmers, cozzies (swimming costume), togs; This afternoon = this arvo; Ambulance = ambo (the car and the person); When you go outside for a cigarette (a smoke) / morning tea = smoko; Hardly anyone ever says 'it's good but' (except bogans); No-one says 'no wozzas'; We don't call prawns shrimp - they're prawns;
Used Yeah-Nah the other day... was during the public holiday and went to one of the only stores left open to get a drink... walked in and the lines to the checkouts were so long they curved around the store looked at it and went Yeah-nah and walked back out again.
Sweat pants are trackie daks, service station is a servo and a bottle shop is a botlo
Gas stations in Australia are called service stations. We just shorten them to 'servos'.
Petrol station is service station hence Servo.
The USA is the only place to call a liquid (petrol or even diesel) gas, because here in the UK LPG liquid petroleum gas is gas, or butane, propane etc...
Cossy is short for swimming costume.
Some of these started in England, but the Aussies have taken it to an art form...
A lot of those expressions are also Kiwi's natural language as well. No worries is SO Australian that this Kiwi has a cryptic version of no worries as a registration plate/tag for our car.
Paul Hogan was told to say shrimp because apparently Americans would not understand prawn. 😁
Aussie slang is really a sub-language never really realised it till I started watching this show and you really have to grow up with it 😀
Petrol Station = Service Station, which gets shortened down to 'Serv', with an 'o' added on the end becomes "Servo"
petrol station is a "SERVO" (service station) harkens back to when your car was fuelled and "serviced" by an attendant
Smoko short for Smoke break = short work/smoke break which can include food and coffee or other beverage
The use of the word 'piss' is likely to be confusing for Americans apart from describing the bodily function. "Pissed" means drunk. "Pissed off" means angry. So, if you are pulled over by the police and you are feeling a little angry, don't tell him or her you are "pissed". It won't end well.
I am surprised that a key word was totally missed. "Strine" (a lazy pronunciation of "Australian") that refers to a strong Australian accent.
For "no problem", "no wuckers" (I spelt it as it is pronounced) is often used. This comes from the Spoonerism "No Wucking Forries". Hint: Swap the initial letters on the last two words.
"A "bogan" is an uncouth or unsophisticated person. This is best explained by example - watch the Australian comedy "Kath and Kim".
LOL there is an Australian slang that my fiance is freaking OBSESSED WITH!!!
"Well we're not here to fuck spiders now are we?"
Another one is "flat out like a lizard drinking"
😂😂😂😂😂
servo short for service station which is a petrol station. any place where you get alcohol to drink at home is a bottle o or bottle shop
Ryan you are hilarious!!
I can’t believe I missed this video - the birth of “happy arvo”!
Afternoon = Arvo
Petrol Station = Servo
Swimming costume = Cozy
Cigarette = Ciggy
No = Yeah, nah
Yes = Nah, yeah
Shrimp = Prawn
Drunk = Smashed, Pissed
Aussies drop the "r".
Persevere! There are a number of You Tube channels presenting Aussie slang so you'll have lots of information to teach you. I was about to suggest that you must come to Oz. You could be an unofficial Aussie in the making!
slang is also different state by state, you can travel to another state and get thrown by unfamiliar vocab
I live in Australia and I don’t use half of these. I live on the south coast of Australia and I think a lot of these are use in Queensland which is towards the north of Australia
Different states may have different slang for the same item ..or cossie, trunks, etc are swimming costumes
Jean Caust In the different states of Australia sayings can be a bit different and the accent can be slightly different as well. We don't say shrips
For some reason I haven't seen this video, you should see your face, it's like we aren't speaking English, ha. You have come along way. Happy Arvo, mate. 🇦🇺
Its usually used as follows "see you tomorrow arvo" nobody says happy arvo but I love you say this it may take off 😂
Lauren was Taking the Piss when said going to cook Shrimp on BBQ, she was doing it the whole bit.
Reason guy did not know one of those would be he is not from QLD, each State will have some differences and Aussies move around a lot before they Settle down somewhere, we have to keep visitors on their toes, cant make it too easy.
Bottle-o = Liquor Shop
She said liquorland which is just one of many alcohol retailers....not lickyland haha....sounds like a place I'd like to go though..
Liquorland is a chain of bottle shops, but any bottle shop is a bottle-o. Servo short for service station ie gas station. What's going on = scarnon
If you talk about sport when you visit, don't ask " Who do you root for". You might collect a bunch of fives ( ie a fist). Ask who do they barrack for instead. To an Aussie, a root is the same as a screw which is the same as a F@#k
Just greet everyone with "owyergoingmateorright" and she'll be as right as rain. Cheers
Service Station, servo = gas station, Arvo = afternoon, Togs/cossies = swim wear, Prawns = shrimp, Ambo = Ambulance, we also say Reckon a lot, bottle o = liquor store, getting on the piss means getting drunk, throw your leg over means having sex, taking the piss means your joking with them these are only a few omg I could probably write a book lmao! no kidding
Petrol is used in the UK, NZ and AUS, it’s gas……therefore petrol stations. Same with Prawns they are really large shrimp.