You speak Strine very well. Pom or Pommy is often heard. Yank...an American (USA). Someone asked if I was Yank due to me different accent. I replied "How would you like it if I called you a Kiwi." He immediately said 'Sorry mate...Canadian!" Tradies include Chippies and Sparkies.
NRL isn't football it's rugby. NSW and QLD you got to understand it's not football it's rugby. Rugby is more British bulldogs with a ball not football.
@@vampyresgraveyard3307 I guess it depends on the context of the conversation. NSW is more rugby league than AFL focused as the majority of the rugby teams are in NSW. Vic, SA, WA, is more AFL focused as most of those teams are in those states. So it depends on which state you live in.
Being an Australian on holiday in Canada I found it amusing the Roots Clothing Company Tshirts with Roots Beaver on the front of the Tshirt a completly different meaning for an old Australian
I was in Singapore about 20 years ago and wandering around a shopping mall, and i saw a meanswear shop called "The Lifting Shirt Company" ("Shirt-lifter" at the time was a derogatory term in Australia for gay male)
16:28 There are servo pluggas but I wear surfie joes. Pluggas are good for showering in public showers and fixing your yabbie pump. Surfie joes are great on the sand but when you get into mangrove mud you will lose them. You hit the mud just lay down and crawl sometimes you can use your shins as snow shoes to spread the weight other times you have to slither. Don't be near a croc he can do all these things faster.
Just discovered your channel, you've been here coupla years now, I reckon you'd be able to have an entire convo using just the word 'mate' by now, if hubby has done his job and taught ya right 😀😂
This one doesn't get used anymore but red head people were called BLUEY apparently it goes back to the 1900s. And one state calls a beer bottle an ECHO. In 1977 South Australia put a 5 cent bottle deposit. The name ECHO was used to conger up images of the bottle returning to the brewery.
Oh I just learned this one from my uncle. Echo's were actually a specific type of bottle that was made by a local brewery. Older South aussies will use echo in place of a stubby, i.e. my uncle calls them all echo holders. The 5 cent bottle deposit was on all cans, so if that was the cause people would have been calling coke cans "echo"s
Still Bluey around here, as well as 'pineapple', and I grew up as a strawberry blonde and got the nickname 'bushfire'. Teacher in the early 70s gave it to me, still have it all these years later, the bastard!
7:33 Stubby cooler. Tallies used to be wrapped in news paper and tape as a cooler. That was the way in Comet when I was there in the mid 2000's. Oh and the $20 bucket. You drink it and can walk back to the bar you get your money back. ;) not likely.
When it comes to Servo, referring to Service Station, it comes from the days when most petrol stations also had an attached mechanic garage where by you could get your car "Serviced" i.e. oil change/mechanical work as well as filling up on petrol. Most petrol stations nowadays nowadays no longer have an attached mechanic garage but the nickname Servo has stuck around
When I was in the States Oregon had full service, there was no self service petrol. Just as well, the hire car had no oil on the dip stick! Bottle-O is not used in Melbourne or Victoria, we call it a bottle shop. There is a brand name of a liquor store called Bottle-O. Always been called Maccas (a slang term) since the first MacDonalds in Australia in 1971. Tasmania is not close to Antarctica its 5,000km away! However, there is no large land mass between Antarctica and Tassie.
TIL! I've never realised the service was a machanic's service. I always assumed it was like from when (maybe) there was a person who filled the tank for you
When I was in the oil industry we measured distance by the number of stubbies that could be consumed. eg. How far is it to Roma from here? Answer: About six stubbies.
Nailed it, Kaitlyn! Just two more to add that have popped up in the last couple of years. "Rona" and "iso". As in "yeah mate, just got the 'Rona so I'll be in iso for the next week"
Technically we don’t buy food from a “tucker shop”. They are usually called a “tuck shop”. When you start to eat your tucker, someone might say “tuck in” which means “let’s eat”.
@@christyzeeaquarianated2600 I'd say "Tuck Shop" is, in fact, a derivative of "Tucker". I remember it being used lots when I was younger and I can guarantee you would have heard it in some of the "soaps" used be the older guys.
I always thought of the really tiny things no bigger than an inch as "shrimps" and the much bigger ones as big as your finger were "prawns". I was thinking they were two different things. Prawns are the ones you peel and eat, and shrimp you would use as bait for fishing.
Technically prawns and shrimp are different. Commercially though shrimp are rarely eaten. They catch shrimp in Maine, but gulf shrimp are actually three different kinds of prawn. I guess maybe the Maine shrimp market was established first and gulf fish mongers didn't want to explain or just didn't know the difference.
A few others to add to the list: Ciggie, durry, dart, coffin nail: all of which are slag words for a cigarette. Bumper: cigarette butt. Although any kind of food can be called tucker, depending on where in Australia you are, a midday meal could be called either lunch or dinner. If it's called dinner, chances are the evening meal is called tea. If the midday meal is called lunch, chances are the evening meal is called dinner. However in some parts, the midday meal is called lunch and the evening meal is called tea and the word dinner is reserved for a fancy formal or romantic meal. Fritz and Devon (a type of processed meat); potato cake, potato fritter, and potato scallop (sliced potato fried in batter), middy and pot (beer glass sizes) are some common ones that change names from place to place. Some parts of Australia people end a lot of sentences and questions with the word "but", "too", or "at". Lastly, if you're not born and raised Aussie, be very careful with using the word c*nt, because even with other words added to it (eg: sick c*nt) it can still be an insult or a compliment. Sticking with that same example, a sick c*nt is usually a compliment, for someone that's an awesome person, but with the right tone it can also be used as an insult as in someone that's "sick in the head" in the sense of depraved, disgusting of mind/thought. The one way that it's used that is always an insult and it's the worst insult in Australia, is to call someone a sh!t c*nt. No one wants to be a sh!t c*nt.
As a life long Aussie, I say well done and ripper job. I remember back decades ago when we pulled into the service station we actually use to get service, the attendant would fill up the car with petrol and check air (pressure)in the tyres, water and clean the windscreen and that was the service station, you would also hand him the money, they would run inside the shop do the sale and bring the change back out to you, days long gone. So that’s where Servo came from, we got servo service. But good job explaining Aussie talk.
It's true, some of our slang words are disappearing but I am proud of the younger generations taking up the mantle and creating their own and still keeping it Aussie.
I think our slang is just getting too powerful so that it doesn't stay in aus for long. Selfie is aussie slang, but nowadays with the internet it can go the long way around the world to get from Melbourne to Perth so you don't always realise it's ours
Interested in the Macca's menu. I'm from the Illawarra originally, moved to CA in 2003 after meeting my husband online. Six kids later we are trying to move to Australia. Loving your videos so far
Just to make things a little more complicated a 'Tinnie' is also a slang term for a small aluminium boat the sort of thing you might go fishing out of the usually have a small 10 horsepower or less outboard on them. So you can chuck some tinnies in the tinny and be making sense.
Slight correction "footy" can refer to any of the football codes played in Australia (Rugby League, Rugby Union, Association Football/soccer, AFL). For instance in NSW if someone says they are most likely going to a game of Rugby League, whereas in the southern states it would likely be AFL.
The most Australian expression you can use is to describe someone you complains a lot as 'whining like as EH diff'. This is particularly Australian for three reasons: 1. It's a simile. There are numerous Australian expressions that humorously compare two things: 'He was off like a bride's nightie' or 'Dry as a dead dingo's donga'. 2. It references an iconic Australian made Holden car that was known for having a noisy transmission. 3. And classically shortens differential to diff.
Hard Yakka is a term appropriated from indigenous Australians in the mid-19th century. It comes from "yaga" which simply means work in the Yagara dialect.
it always surprises me that when yanks and pomms do these Aussie slang things, that they never include the word "bastard". in my younger days I remember reading somewhere that a a linguist at some university. had determined that Australia was the only country in the world where there was something like 45 ways to used the word bastard, only five of which were derogatory. It is all in the context and manner in which it is used.
Kia ora Bro. One of my Kiwi heroes is Edmund Hillary. I like his Kiwi humility. And I like his humanity. I like his wisdom, generosity, and humble approach, and his perseverance and determination, especially when involved in hardyakka. After he climbed Everest he said "I knocked the bastard off", in a typical Kiwi way. He is what I remember men to be like, more so than they are now. It is to do with a solid, humble kind of integrity and humanity. They could often shake on a deal. I believe Aussie blokes are the same. I feel that experiences our boys had starting in 1914 is what really helped us separately with our evolving national identities. And also our brotherhood. This week when 3 people were shot, it felt to me nearly as close to home as if it had happened here. There is a family feel to the connection. Anyway. Back to bastards... Another Kiwi bloke wrote a book called 'Bastards I know'. Crump, the author was also typical of a tough, loner, hunter kind of bushman living in back country backblocks. I wonder if the word prick 'll be used more in NZ more than before. We have a charity event happening this week. Our left wing prime minister was caught calling the leader of our very right-wing party "an arrogant prick" in parliament the other day, for which she immediately apologized. He then immediately said sweet as or something to that effect. Now they are standing up for pricks by auctioning the statement signed by the 2 leaders, and giving the proceeds to the Prostate Cancer society. It was one of the top news headlines in amongst the shootout, the war, a natural disaster and everything else. I think that being laid back, using slang, accepting differences and having a laugh and helping others... this is all a part of the ANZAC spirit- not just our own Kiwi way. Thanks mate, you Aussies are good bastards.
Fanny is also known as "front bum". A hairy fanny can resemble a "Map of Tassie", due to the outline. Drongo is another word which is mostly used by older people. True blue is very similar to Fair Dinkum. It means 'genuine". Sanga for me, not sanger. I'm happy to hear tourists say Crikey. It's always good for a laugh. As for avo, I use the short 'a' sound, as in apple or aggregate. That will confuse less people, but may take some time to get your tongue around.
Well done!!! You NAILED all the definitions. I bet the research for this video took you ages. You have even caught on to the notion that there are slang words that old people use, and some that the kids use and the words are moving about. I think once the parents catch on to a new word, the kids have to go and find another word for the same thing. When my boys were teenagers in the 90s, "totally sick" was the top rating value of 'awesome' or 'excellent' A movie would be "totally sick" if it was recommended highly. But as soon as I started using the term my boys stopped.
More often than not you wouldn’t say in the arvo, unless you were talking about a future arrangement, you would more likely say s’arvo (this afternoon)
It is the only ball that gets shortened to the first half of the word anywhere in the world. Go and kick the Footy, but nobody says go and bounce the Baskety, hit the Tennisy, Crickety, Golfy,
Yakka is the brand - famous for being tough and able to take a lot of punishment. Hard Yakka is what you do when wearing Yakka overalls, shorts or bib&braces type workwear.
Goon was originally a playful and shortened version of flagon "flagoon" of wine, the old container wine was served or transported in. Back before cheap wine was packaged in a box / bag combo, it was sold in a large 4L bottle called a flagon (1970s and earlier). Even older, a flagon would have been a pottery container with a wax covered cork.
Hi Kaitlyn, welcome to OZ 😁have been a mean old bastard and taken the piss out of a few of my international friends for their lack of knowledge of the idiosyncrasy of our language and culture 😇 What hope do people have understanding when for instance a word that I find very offensive by its self "C U Next Tuesday" ( yes still retain my parental secret code , spelling 😛) can have so many meanings just by the tone used or word or words preceding it. There is even a unofficial tourism add in the NT " CU in the NT" that sort of eludes to it 😉 Enjoyed your video, as mentioned in other comment there are so many more to look at and there is even variants between states
root or rooting is a politer way of saying fing, shrimp and prawns are two different animals. drongo is also a bird galah tends to mean silly or over the top flamboyant and drongo tends to mean dull or stupid. map of tassie = fanny and a fanny might have a bush
Good list! I don't think I've ever used the term bottle-o but I know many do. Sometimes I say bottle shop. But usually just the name of the actual place like "liquor land" or "BWS". Or "Dan Murphy's" I love the term Tradie 😊. I've never used strewth in my life, definitely older, regional word. Same with Crikey. I've never said defo. But I have said devo! (devastated) lol.
So many slang words but not enough time, many have past their use by date like growing up I remember cobber it was used similar to mate, fag was a cigarette, then there is regional slang, my uncle told me that during WW2 on the Kokoda trail he asked for a tissue often pronounced tisha to roll a smoke and the other soldier said I see your Tasmanian, my uncle said how did you know, his reply was he had heard another soldier call them tissues instead of papers and he was also from Tassie. I looked up to my uncle as a small boy and as such believed everything he told me one of those things was the story about the samurai sword that hung over the fireplace, I asked him about it and his reply was it came from a Japanese officer in New Guinea who tried to run him through but my uncle managed to jump out of the way and in the ensuing melee managed to wrestle the sword off the Japanese soldier and swing it at his neck, my uncle then told me that the Japanese officer laughed and said you missed me and my uncle replied nod your head and the soldier nodded and his head fell off . Now my belief in those events was absolute such was the enthrallment created by the sense of delight and humour instilled in these stories along with them being expertly told by a kindly wonderful gentleman who would always take time to talk to a small boy and regail him with all kinds of stories all told with a mischievous twinkle in his eye, it was only much later in life that I found out that my uncle had turned what was a viscous life and death struggle that saw my uncle wounded before grabbing the sword and killing the Japanese officer into a head nodding adventure just for the sake of an inquisitive six year old boy. I know i'm off track but he also told me about how in the New Guinea jungle there were large leafed plants that when walked over took around six hours to spring back up and he remembered his platoon sleeping a few feet off the main trail and waking up to see twelve inches from his head still flattened leaves from a Japanese patrol that had passed in the night.
I've wondered what the difference is between US Maccas and our Maccas, in terms of taste. I've heard that our Maccas, and chain fast food in general, is nicer than in the US, even from the same chain. I'd love to see a comparison video.
I dont know about US maccas and our Aussie Maccas, but i can tell you there is a major difference in taste between AU maccas and Turkish Maccas. Turkish Maccas tastes bland, there is no seasoning in the burger patties and you have to ask for satchels of salt/pepper to give it flavour, also the condiments arent in the burgers you are given small condiment packets to put on the burger yourself. The buns are so sugary it tastes like your eating a cupcake.
Thanks! I've only had a few things from Maccas so far, so I'd love to order a bunch of food and give you guys a comparison (from memory) between US and Australia McDonalds 😄
Yeah it's because of the ingredients used (& we use less chemicals) and the quality of the ingredients, due to our high food standards. If you look at the number of ingredients in the fries in the US for example compared to ours. They use about 14, we use about 4. The chicken nuggets are another one. We have to have a very high percentage of actual chicken meat in ours. And beef quality etc. Our Maccas is more expensive though.
Avo and arvo are really easy to tell apart in an Aussie accent, but obviously not so with an American accent. Arvo has a long A sound where avo has a short a sound. For example the a in avo, is pronounced like the a in have. While the a in arvo is pronounced like the a in arm. Chalk and cheese really. Great job on all the others except for tuckershop, but others have explained that.
"Straya" is "Strine" - a psuedo-language of extreme Australian pronunciation. To translate "Strine" is the contracted version of "Australian". Just to add, "Goodonya" is probably a valid Strine spelling of "good on ya".
@@KindaAustralian I used to come in contact with visiting Americans quite often at work, and it became a fun pastime to say as much in slang as possible. You'd see the Americans being puzzled and say "I think they're talking English. It SOUNDS like English but i havent got any idea what they're saying."
Tinny is also a small boat generally made of Aluminium. And Tassie is not that cold if you come here in the summer you will burn very quickly I’m not kidding our 25 is more like 30 and the UV is very high compared to the mainland
In NZ a tinny is a small amount of marijuana, usually sold for $20, neatly wrapped up in a small, piece of tinfoil. I have never hear anything else called a tinny in NZ other than these small, long objects.
Great Job! You were spot on with almost all of the pronunciation and meanings and other USAmericans I've seen do such a slang list struggle with it more. So many words and phrases I've taken for granted all my life. It's been eye opening for me watching slang lists like this and realising how much English has diverged in each nation... New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Canada, the different countries and even counties in Great Britain.
Living in the USA, I used slang or as it's officially known as "Strine". I used to just ask people questions at work & they looked lost. My co-worker called a drink-a-thon (we hit the bars) at the last minute & my co-worker said he would "grab his thongs" & meet us there. I had to explain the Aussie Version Of Thongs LOL.
Great effort Kaitlyn, a couple more for you. "Pothole" refers to someone who is becoming a nuisance ie they are in the road. "Aspro" someone who is a bit slow on the job. Aspro is short for asprin - a slow working dope. Both terms were mostly used around building sites etc.
I once called my Boss "Blisters". He asked why. He was late to a barbie, where he was meant to be cooking, and I told him that blisters show up after the hard work has been done.
"Strewth!" is an older generation exclamation originating from "God's truth!" over a century ago. However back in those days expressing shock or surprise with "God's truth!" was considered swearing and was contracted to "strewth!" which made it a little less offensive for the period.
@@KindaAustralian Crikey is a similarly cleaned-up version of swearing (oooh, Steve Irwin). It's short for the blasphemous "Christ almighty", shouted as an exclamation to emphasize your surprise or shock.
Tinny for can of beer - they used to be made from steel/tin back in the day. Galah - a show off. Another word Yanks muck up is emu, by saying "e moo" rather than "eam you"And avocado shortened is just "av o", no "r" in that. And a classis is (life) buoy being said by Yanks as "boo e" instead of "boy"
This video must have taken you ages to do. Good job 😊 'Strewth' is a contraction of 'god's truth'. You're right, it's not that common anymore, but it's always fun to know words from our super-slangy past 😊 I actually say 'crikey' a fair bit. Steve Irwin eat your heart out 😅 Glad you included 'wanker'. I think we took that from the Brits, but it's a good one because when you use it, every Aussie knows exactly what you mean!
Footy can mean any of the codes of football, Rugby Union, Rugby League or Aussie Rules, but not Soccer. It is not Tucker Shop, it is Tuck Shop. Don't use the C word at all. It will be very hard to get right if you think you are using it like the locals in its non-offensive usage. Shrimp and Prawns are two different species. We use them for the correct animals. True Blue just means genuine, so it can mean a genuine Australia. You are more likely to hear Crikes, than crikey.
Great list. We'll make an Aussie of you yet! A couple of observations: #8 Strewth - an old English expression came out with the convicts - short for God's truth. #19 See you in the Northern Territory or CU-NT. It's an advertising slogan!!!! And my favourite not listed - DILIGAF, short for Do I look like I give a fuck? A great Oz expression, on a par with Flat out like a lizard drinking.
Great job. I've never heard of a 'goon' when talking about wine. We use that word but it means a foolish person. 'He's a bit of a goon'. Schools have never had a 'tucker shop', it's a 'tuck shop'. We do, however often use the word 'tucker'. 'Good tucker' , 'Bush tucker'. I've never used the word 'sick' in the context you mentioned but that's because I'm old 😞. I thought it was an American word. Never heard of 'defo'. I say 'crikey' and 'bonza' and 'hard yakka'. I also mostly wear overalls bearing that name on most days.
Crikey is actually the Australian abbreviation for Jesus Christ when used in the context of being exasperated and it’s also used in place saying ‘ Christ ol’ Mighty ‘.
Strewth. Derived from God's Truth. Term of general surprise, delight or a "fill-in" word to start a sentence, such as "Strewth, mate, I'm as dry as a pommie's towel. I could go a coldie". Popular a century ago, particularly in rural areas, has now almost faded from use, as has "dry as a pommie's towel". Tuckshop at school, not Tuckershop. True Blue = genuine. Apart from that, an excellent roundup of slang terms. Keep going, you will be a ridgy didge Aussie in no time.
You speak Strine very well. Pom or Pommy is often heard. Yank...an American (USA). Someone asked if I was Yank due to me different accent. I replied "How would you like it if I called you a Kiwi." He immediately said 'Sorry mate...Canadian!" Tradies include Chippies and Sparkies.
10:20 Tucker can also be grub. Good tucker good grub.
14:35 I think it is scrub , bush , the mally in some places then the outback. Just have lots of fuel and water.
I still use ' fairdinkem ' sometimes
footy also covers NRL too, not just AFL.
NRL isn't football it's rugby. NSW and QLD you got to understand it's not football it's rugby. Rugby is more British bulldogs with a ball not football.
@@vampyresgraveyard3307 I guess it depends on the context of the conversation. NSW is more rugby league than AFL focused as the majority of the rugby teams are in NSW. Vic, SA, WA, is more AFL focused as most of those teams are in those states.
So it depends on which state you live in.
the castle 1997 is a great movie
All migrants should be required to watch it so they can understand the Australian working class culture and lifestyle.
You could also add wombat, eats,roots and leaves.
Being an Australian on holiday in Canada I found it amusing the Roots Clothing Company Tshirts with Roots Beaver on the front of the Tshirt a completly different meaning for an old Australian
I was in Singapore about 20 years ago and wandering around a shopping mall, and i saw a meanswear shop called "The Lifting Shirt Company" ("Shirt-lifter" at the time was a derogatory term in Australia for gay male)
That's a bit like how much Americans laugh at Dick Johnson's name
Mate I would so buy a bunch of those Tshirts.
16:28 There are servo pluggas but I wear surfie joes. Pluggas are good for showering in public showers and fixing your yabbie pump. Surfie joes are great on the sand but when you get into mangrove mud you will lose them. You hit the mud just lay down and crawl sometimes you can use your shins as snow shoes to spread the weight other times you have to slither. Don't be near a croc he can do all these things faster.
Just discovered your channel, you've been here coupla years now, I reckon you'd be able to have an entire convo using just the word 'mate' by now, if hubby has done his job and taught ya right 😀😂
This one doesn't get used anymore but red head people were called BLUEY apparently it goes back to the 1900s. And one state calls a beer bottle an ECHO. In 1977 South Australia put a 5 cent bottle deposit. The name ECHO was used to conger up images of the bottle returning to the brewery.
Oh I just learned this one from my uncle. Echo's were actually a specific type of bottle that was made by a local brewery. Older South aussies will use echo in place of a stubby, i.e. my uncle calls them all echo holders. The 5 cent bottle deposit was on all cans, so if that was the cause people would have been calling coke cans "echo"s
Still Bluey around here, as well as 'pineapple', and I grew up as a strawberry blonde and got the nickname 'bushfire'.
Teacher in the early 70s gave it to me, still have it all these years later, the bastard!
7:33 Stubby cooler. Tallies used to be wrapped in news paper and tape as a cooler. That was the way in Comet when I was there in the mid 2000's. Oh and the $20 bucket. You drink it and can walk back to the bar you get your money back. ;) not likely.
When it comes to Servo, referring to Service Station, it comes from the days when most petrol stations also had an attached mechanic garage where by you could get your car "Serviced" i.e. oil change/mechanical work as well as filling up on petrol. Most petrol stations nowadays nowadays no longer have an attached mechanic garage but the nickname Servo has stuck around
my dad still calls it a "garage" not even servo the old bastard haha
When I was in the States Oregon had full service, there was no self service petrol. Just as well, the hire car had no oil on the dip stick!
Bottle-O is not used in Melbourne or Victoria, we call it a bottle shop. There is a brand name of a liquor store called Bottle-O.
Always been called Maccas (a slang term) since the first MacDonalds in Australia in 1971.
Tasmania is not close to Antarctica its 5,000km away! However, there is no large land mass between Antarctica and Tassie.
TIL! I've never realised the service was a machanic's service. I always assumed it was like from when (maybe) there was a person who filled the tank for you
16:46 Croup Might be just our thing or an old saying.
When I was in the oil industry we measured distance by the number of stubbies that could be consumed. eg. How far is it to Roma from here? Answer: About six stubbies.
Nailed it, Kaitlyn! Just two more to add that have popped up in the last couple of years. "Rona" and "iso". As in "yeah mate, just got the 'Rona so I'll be in iso for the next week"
Also sanny for hand sanitiser
Grogalo is also bottle shop
Hi, Kaitlyn. You're a really "good sort". Thank you for coming to Australia.
Technically we don’t buy food from a “tucker shop”. They are usually called a “tuck shop”. When you start to eat your tucker, someone might say “tuck in” which means “let’s eat”.
Us oldies will remember The Dog on the Tucker Box, 5 miles from Gundagai. Maybe a seed in there somewhere.
I've only ever seen it used to refer to the school canteen. But you can use it when you start eating like "let's tuck in".
I was looking for the "tuck shop" comment (it kinda' drove me nuts hearing it referred to as "tucker shop" haha!)
@@christyzeeaquarianated2600 I'd say "Tuck Shop" is, in fact, a derivative of "Tucker". I remember it being used lots when I was younger and I can guarantee you would have heard it in some of the "soaps" used be the older guys.
"Tuck shop" is familiar from my school years.
Thanks Cobber.
I always thought of the really tiny things no bigger than an inch as "shrimps" and the much bigger ones as big as your finger were "prawns". I was thinking they were two different things. Prawns are the ones you peel and eat, and shrimp you would use as bait for fishing.
Shrimp have claws like mini lobsters. Prawns don't.
Technically prawns and shrimp are different. Commercially though shrimp are rarely eaten. They catch shrimp in Maine, but gulf shrimp are actually three different kinds of prawn. I guess maybe the Maine shrimp market was established first and gulf fish mongers didn't want to explain or just didn't know the difference.
14:05 for translation in New Zealand it is a chilli bin. I have worked with many scaffolders :D
I think it's spelled chilly, as in cold.
Pronounced, chully bun
@@blueycarlton fush chups
A few others to add to the list:
Ciggie, durry, dart, coffin nail: all of which are slag words for a cigarette. Bumper: cigarette butt.
Although any kind of food can be called tucker, depending on where in Australia you are, a midday meal could be called either lunch or dinner. If it's called dinner, chances are the evening meal is called tea. If the midday meal is called lunch, chances are the evening meal is called dinner. However in some parts, the midday meal is called lunch and the evening meal is called tea and the word dinner is reserved for a fancy formal or romantic meal.
Fritz and Devon (a type of processed meat); potato cake, potato fritter, and potato scallop (sliced potato fried in batter), middy and pot (beer glass sizes) are some common ones that change names from place to place.
Some parts of Australia people end a lot of sentences and questions with the word "but", "too", or "at".
Lastly, if you're not born and raised Aussie, be very careful with using the word c*nt, because even with other words added to it (eg: sick c*nt) it can still be an insult or a compliment. Sticking with that same example, a sick c*nt is usually a compliment, for someone that's an awesome person, but with the right tone it can also be used as an insult as in someone that's "sick in the head" in the sense of depraved, disgusting of mind/thought. The one way that it's used that is always an insult and it's the worst insult in Australia, is to call someone a sh!t c*nt. No one wants to be a sh!t c*nt.
11:18 is that near Idaho? :D
As a life long Aussie, I say well done and ripper job. I remember back decades ago when we pulled into the service station we actually use to get service, the attendant would fill up the car with petrol and check air (pressure)in the tyres, water and clean the windscreen and that was the service station, you would also hand him the money, they would run inside the shop do the sale and bring the change back out to you, days long gone. So that’s where Servo came from, we got servo service. But good job explaining Aussie talk.
The smoko is the place where you go to speak freely about work. Smokes sometimes involved.
Not bad at all mate.
I reckon you did pretty well.
It's true, some of our slang words are disappearing but I am proud of the younger generations taking up the mantle and creating their own and still keeping it Aussie.
I think our slang is just getting too powerful so that it doesn't stay in aus for long. Selfie is aussie slang, but nowadays with the internet it can go the long way around the world to get from Melbourne to Perth so you don't always realise it's ours
Smoko is morning and afternoon tea break. It's Tuck Shop and Gular. Always makes me laugh whenever I hear an American say "I'll Be Rooting For You"
Interested in the Macca's menu. I'm from the Illawarra originally, moved to CA in 2003 after meeting my husband online. Six kids later we are trying to move to Australia. Loving your videos so far
Just to make things a little more complicated a 'Tinnie' is also a slang term for a small aluminium boat the sort of thing you might go fishing out of the usually have a small 10 horsepower or less outboard on them. So you can chuck some tinnies in the tinny and be making sense.
Did you miss the word dunny? I know the cartoon Bluey helped introduce that word to a wider audience
13:33 Snag can also mean you have your fishing line caught on a rock or log.
Riming Slang ~ A Cunning Stunt, The Ultimate Complement. Also ~ Gravel & Grunt.
"Fuck me dead", you forgot that one, you hear that a lot if you watch Dash Cams Australia, the faze is self explanatory!
Actually in NY and the states in general decades ago we called flip flops thongs. They lost that moniker when thong swimsuits came around.
Also if you're tired you're tuckered out
Kaitlyn you should get Mark to teach you some rhyming slang. My grandfather used to use it a lot.
Slight correction "footy" can refer to any of the football codes played in Australia (Rugby League, Rugby Union, Association Football/soccer, AFL). For instance in NSW if someone says they are most likely going to a game of Rugby League, whereas in the southern states it would likely be AFL.
my pop always said "Hooroo" when it meant see ya later or bye.
I used to work with someone that did that back in the 00s. even then I thought it was weird cos it wasn't used all that much.
Devo: devastated
“Oh man I’m so devo about the footy score”
Flog and tossa should be on your list
Cracked the shits, pissed off or angry
Galah can also be used to describe someone who's loud
The most Australian expression you can use is to describe someone you complains a lot as 'whining like as EH diff'. This is particularly Australian for three reasons:
1. It's a simile. There are numerous Australian expressions that humorously compare two things: 'He was off like a bride's nightie' or 'Dry as a dead dingo's donga'.
2. It references an iconic Australian made Holden car that was known for having a noisy transmission.
3. And classically shortens differential to diff.
Hard Yakka is a term appropriated from indigenous Australians in the mid-19th century. It comes from "yaga" which simply means work in the Yagara dialect.
Bottle o is a chain store
it always surprises me that when yanks and pomms do these Aussie slang things, that they never include the word "bastard". in my younger days I remember reading somewhere that a a linguist at some university. had determined that Australia was the only country in the world where there was something like 45 ways to used the word bastard, only five of which were derogatory. It is all in the context and manner in which it is used.
Your correct you clever bastard
Kia ora Bro.
One of my Kiwi heroes is Edmund Hillary.
I like his Kiwi humility. And I like his humanity. I like his wisdom, generosity, and humble approach, and his perseverance and determination, especially when involved in hardyakka.
After he climbed Everest he said "I knocked the bastard off", in a typical Kiwi way.
He is what I remember men to be like, more so than they are now. It is to do with a solid, humble kind of integrity and humanity. They could often shake on a deal.
I believe Aussie blokes are the same.
I feel that experiences our boys had starting in 1914 is what really helped us separately with our evolving national identities. And also our brotherhood.
This week when 3 people were shot, it felt to me nearly as close to home as if it had happened here. There is a family feel to the connection.
Anyway. Back to bastards... Another Kiwi bloke wrote a book called 'Bastards I know'.
Crump, the author was also typical of a tough, loner, hunter kind of bushman living in back country backblocks.
I wonder if the word prick 'll be used more in NZ more than before.
We have a charity event happening this week.
Our left wing prime minister was caught calling the leader of our very right-wing party "an arrogant prick" in parliament the other day, for which she immediately apologized. He then immediately said sweet as or something to that effect.
Now they are standing up for pricks by auctioning the statement signed by the 2 leaders, and giving the proceeds to the Prostate Cancer society. It was one of the top news headlines in amongst the shootout, the war, a natural disaster and everything else.
I think that being laid back, using slang, accepting differences and having a laugh and helping others... this is all a part of the ANZAC spirit- not just our own Kiwi way.
Thanks mate, you Aussies are good bastards.
7:19 Tallie for a 750ml bottle.
Fanny is also known as "front bum".
A hairy fanny can resemble a "Map of Tassie", due to the outline.
Drongo is another word which is mostly used by older people.
True blue is very similar to Fair Dinkum. It means 'genuine".
Sanga for me, not sanger.
I'm happy to hear tourists say Crikey. It's always good for a laugh.
As for avo, I use the short 'a' sound, as in apple or aggregate. That will confuse less people, but may take some time to get your tongue around.
As Aussies, we don’t realise just how much we say “reckon” and “heaps” until we go overseas!
Well done!!! You NAILED all the definitions. I bet the research for this video took you ages. You have even caught on to the notion that there are slang words that old people use, and some that the kids use and the words are moving about. I think once the parents catch on to a new word, the kids have to go and find another word for the same thing. When my boys were teenagers in the 90s, "totally sick" was the top rating value of 'awesome' or 'excellent' A movie would be "totally sick" if it was recommended highly. But as soon as I started using the term my boys stopped.
You haven't commented on the 'djava ' construction (as in djavagooweegen ) or the classic ' yeah-nah ' phrase.
Words for emergency vehicles or personal might be something people should know (ambo, firie, etc)
More often than not you wouldn’t say in the arvo, unless you were talking about a future arrangement, you would more likely say s’arvo (this afternoon)
Australian schools sell food and snacks at tuck shops (or canteens), not 'tucker' shops.
It is the only ball that gets shortened to the first half of the word anywhere in the world.
Go and kick the Footy, but nobody says go and bounce the Baskety, hit the Tennisy, Crickety, Golfy,
Hard Yakka is a workwear brand
Yakka is the brand - famous for being tough and able to take a lot of punishment. Hard Yakka is what you do when wearing Yakka overalls, shorts or bib&braces type workwear.
@@johnangelico667 Hard Yakka is the brand
croc can also be said "what a croc of shit" 😜 meaning that's a load of crap or BS. 😂
Footy is the greatest sport ever created.
Mc shitters is also maccas
Goon was originally a playful and shortened version of flagon "flagoon" of wine, the old container wine was served or transported in. Back before cheap wine was packaged in a box / bag combo, it was sold in a large 4L bottle called a flagon (1970s and earlier). Even older, a flagon would have been a pottery container with a wax covered cork.
Have you ever played Wheel of Goon, with a wine-bag attached to a Hills Hoist/ clothesline?
There are probably some good depictions on UA-cam.
...And out beyond the Outback is Woop-woop.
Hi Kaitlyn, welcome to OZ 😁have been a mean old bastard and taken the piss out of a few of my international friends for their lack of knowledge of the idiosyncrasy of our language and culture
😇 What hope do people have understanding when for instance a word that I find very offensive by its self "C U Next Tuesday" ( yes still retain my parental secret code , spelling 😛) can have so many meanings just by the tone used or word or words preceding it. There is even a unofficial tourism add in the NT " CU in the NT" that sort of eludes to it 😉
Enjoyed your video, as mentioned in other comment there are so many more to look at and there is even variants between states
'Chock a block' or 'Chokko'- full, the freeway was chokko- not moving.
root or rooting is a politer way of saying fing, shrimp and prawns are two different animals. drongo is also a bird galah tends to mean silly or over the top flamboyant and drongo tends to mean dull or stupid. map of tassie = fanny and a fanny might have a bush
Good list! I don't think I've ever used the term bottle-o but I know many do. Sometimes I say bottle shop. But usually just the name of the actual place like "liquor land" or "BWS". Or "Dan Murphy's"
I love the term Tradie 😊.
I've never used strewth in my life, definitely older, regional word. Same with Crikey. I've never said defo. But I have said devo! (devastated) lol.
In Victoria Bottle shop defiantly, Bottle-O never, maybe back in the 1970's but not after that.
Bottle-O is a chain as well, so not really slang. We use "bottle shop"
No one around us use the ‘C’ word. It might be used among younger guys / gals but it is a revolting word.
Wow. No-one around me ever uses the 'C' word. It's revolting.
Thanks that was great I you have covered all our saying.
OK Bonza (just another word) for great
A Goon was originaly a Class bottle that held a half gallon ( imperial gallon that is) ofwine usally White
So many slang words but not enough time, many have past their use by date like growing up I remember cobber it was used similar to mate, fag was a cigarette, then there is regional slang, my uncle told me that during WW2 on the Kokoda trail he asked for a tissue often pronounced tisha to roll a smoke and the other soldier said I see your Tasmanian, my uncle said how did you know, his reply was he had heard another soldier call them tissues instead of papers and he was also from Tassie.
I looked up to my uncle as a small boy and as such believed everything he told me one of those things was the story about the samurai sword that hung over the fireplace, I asked him about it and his reply was it came from a Japanese officer in New Guinea who tried to run him through but my uncle managed to jump out of the way and in the ensuing melee managed to wrestle the sword off the Japanese soldier and swing it at his neck, my uncle then told me that the Japanese officer laughed and said you missed me and my uncle replied nod your head and the soldier nodded and his head fell off .
Now my belief in those events was absolute such was the enthrallment created by the sense of delight and humour instilled in these stories along with them being expertly told by a kindly wonderful gentleman who would always take time to talk to a small boy and regail him with all kinds of stories all told with a mischievous twinkle in his eye, it was only much later in life that I found out that my uncle had turned what was a viscous life and death struggle that saw my uncle wounded before grabbing the sword and killing the Japanese officer into a head nodding adventure just for the sake of an inquisitive six year old boy.
I know i'm off track but he also told me about how in the New Guinea jungle there were large leafed plants that when walked over took around six hours to spring back up and he remembered his platoon sleeping a few feet off the main trail and waking up to see twelve inches from his head still flattened leaves from a Japanese patrol that had passed in the night.
I think fresh water crocodiles are more common?
I've wondered what the difference is between US Maccas and our Maccas, in terms of taste. I've heard that our Maccas, and chain fast food in general, is nicer than in the US, even from the same chain. I'd love to see a comparison video.
I dont know about US maccas and our Aussie Maccas, but i can tell you there is a major difference in taste between AU maccas and Turkish Maccas. Turkish Maccas tastes bland, there is no seasoning in the burger patties and you have to ask for satchels of salt/pepper to give it flavour, also the condiments arent in the burgers you are given small condiment packets to put on the burger yourself. The buns are so sugary it tastes like your eating a cupcake.
Thanks! I've only had a few things from Maccas so far, so I'd love to order a bunch of food and give you guys a comparison (from memory) between US and Australia McDonalds 😄
@@KindaAustralian Your old McLean's Burgers in USA were called McFeasts here & disappeared in the 90's.
Umm MacDonalds fries in Australia contain only 3 ingredients where as in the USA the contain 16 ingredients
Yeah it's because of the ingredients used (& we use less chemicals) and the quality of the ingredients, due to our high food standards. If you look at the number of ingredients in the fries in the US for example compared to ours. They use about 14, we use about 4. The chicken nuggets are another one. We have to have a very high percentage of actual chicken meat in ours. And beef quality etc. Our Maccas is more expensive though.
Tassie, ripper place but you forgot to mention the map of Tassie (ask Mark about it).
Avo and arvo are really easy to tell apart in an Aussie accent, but obviously not so with an American accent. Arvo has a long A sound where avo has a short a sound. For example the a in avo, is pronounced like the a in have. While the a in arvo is pronounced like the a in arm. Chalk and cheese really. Great job on all the others except for tuckershop, but others have explained that.
"Straya" is "Strine" - a psuedo-language of extreme Australian pronunciation. To translate "Strine" is the contracted version of "Australian".
Just to add, "Goodonya" is probably a valid Strine spelling of "good on ya".
My sunnies are also my normal glasses. Transissions lenses FTW!
Strewth - Bugger me Uncle
Mickey mouse means shit job in NZ but Aussies say it to mean grouse as in good
I think Australia and the U.K has the best slang but more so Australia.
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Agreed! There are so many fun words to say from both countries 🙂
@@KindaAustralian I used to come in contact with visiting Americans quite often at work, and it became a fun pastime to say as much in slang as possible. You'd see the Americans being puzzled and say "I think they're talking English. It SOUNDS like English but i havent got any idea what they're saying."
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Tinny is also a small boat generally made of Aluminium. And Tassie is not that cold if you come here in the summer you will burn very quickly I’m not kidding our 25 is more like 30 and the UV is very high compared to the mainland
Can be both Stan. Yes, the boat, if small, is a tinny but so can a beer can here in FNQ.
@@kenphillips8074 As I said a tinny is also a small boat . But thanks anyway
In NZ a tinny is a small amount of marijuana, usually sold for $20, neatly wrapped up in a small, piece of tinfoil.
I have never hear anything else called a tinny in NZ other than these small, long objects.
Great Job! You were spot on with almost all of the pronunciation and meanings and other USAmericans I've seen do such a slang list struggle with it more. So many words and phrases I've taken for granted all my life. It's been eye opening for me watching slang lists like this and realising how much English has diverged in each nation... New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Canada, the different countries and even counties in Great Britain.
Sheila was a real common one back in the day.Meaning young lady
if i was gonna say "avo" i would say it's like saying "have-oh" but without the h.
Living in the USA, I used slang or as it's officially known as "Strine". I used to just ask people questions at work & they looked lost. My co-worker called a drink-a-thon (we hit the bars) at the last minute & my co-worker said he would "grab his thongs" & meet us there. I had to explain the Aussie Version Of Thongs LOL.
FANNY FRONT BUM
Oh.. The word "Bush" can be added also...
Nailed it again. You 've got Buckley's chance of getting all the words in 1 vid. But you did get heaps. No wuzzes, you will get your diploma shortly.
Great effort Kaitlyn, a couple more for you. "Pothole" refers to someone who is becoming a nuisance ie they are in the road. "Aspro" someone who is a bit slow on the job. Aspro is short for asprin - a slow working dope. Both terms were mostly used around building sites etc.
I once called my Boss "Blisters". He asked why. He was late to a barbie, where he was meant to be cooking, and I told him that blisters show up after the hard work has been done.
"Strewth!" is an older generation exclamation originating from "God's truth!" over a century ago. However back in those days expressing shock or surprise with "God's truth!" was considered swearing and was contracted to "strewth!" which made it a little less offensive for the period.
So THAT'S where it came from. Good to know!
@@KindaAustralian Crikey is a similarly cleaned-up version of swearing (oooh, Steve Irwin). It's short for the blasphemous "Christ almighty", shouted as an exclamation to emphasize your surprise or shock.
Tinny for can of beer - they used to be made from steel/tin back in the day. Galah - a show off. Another word Yanks muck up is emu, by saying "e moo" rather than "eam you"And avocado shortened is just "av o", no "r" in that. And a classis is (life) buoy being said by Yanks as "boo e" instead of "boy"
People still use "sick" or "fully sick"? I haven't heard that since the early 2000s.
This video must have taken you ages to do. Good job 😊 'Strewth' is a contraction of 'god's truth'. You're right, it's not that common anymore, but it's always fun to know words from our super-slangy past 😊 I actually say 'crikey' a fair bit. Steve Irwin eat your heart out 😅 Glad you included 'wanker'. I think we took that from the Brits, but it's a good one because when you use it, every Aussie knows exactly what you mean!
Fair suck of the sauce bottle cobber! I reckon this sheila is a dead set bonza. She'll be a dinki di ocker in a jiffy, fair dinkum
Map of tasie ,!
Footy can mean any of the codes of football, Rugby Union, Rugby League or Aussie Rules, but not Soccer.
It is not Tucker Shop, it is Tuck Shop.
Don't use the C word at all. It will be very hard to get right if you think you are using it like the locals in its non-offensive usage.
Shrimp and Prawns are two different species. We use them for the correct animals.
True Blue just means genuine, so it can mean a genuine Australia.
You are more likely to hear Crikes, than crikey.
Great list. We'll make an Aussie of you yet! A couple of observations:
#8 Strewth - an old English expression came out with the convicts - short for God's truth.
#19 See you in the Northern Territory or CU-NT. It's an advertising slogan!!!!
And my favourite not listed - DILIGAF, short for Do I look like I give a fuck? A great Oz expression, on a par with Flat out like a lizard drinking.
I use the word “crikey” quite a lot.
Great job. I've never heard of a 'goon' when talking about wine. We use that word but it means a foolish person. 'He's a bit of a goon'. Schools have never had a 'tucker shop', it's a 'tuck shop'. We do, however often use the word 'tucker'. 'Good tucker' , 'Bush tucker'. I've never used the word 'sick' in the context you mentioned but that's because I'm old 😞. I thought it was an American word. Never heard of 'defo'. I say 'crikey' and 'bonza' and 'hard yakka'. I also mostly wear overalls bearing that name on most days.
We used to call cask wine "Chateau Cardboard" !!
Goon is a shortening of flagoon, derived from flagon which was the type of bottle that cheap wine once came in.
Crikey is actually the Australian abbreviation for Jesus Christ when used in the context of being exasperated and it’s also used in place saying ‘ Christ ol’ Mighty ‘.
Yep. pretty much what Steve Irwin is known for saying.
I think it was used during ww1
Strewth. Derived from God's Truth. Term of general surprise, delight or a "fill-in" word to start a sentence, such as "Strewth, mate, I'm as dry as a pommie's towel. I could go a coldie". Popular a century ago, particularly in rural areas, has now almost faded from use, as has "dry as a pommie's towel". Tuckshop at school, not Tuckershop. True Blue = genuine. Apart from that, an excellent roundup of slang terms. Keep going, you will be a ridgy didge Aussie in no time.