24 *more* weird things australians say 🦘 pt.2
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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a video where i share my list of all the things australians say that i've never hear before :))
xo,
gab
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Good on ya can also be used sarcastically. "You: I tripped and fell in the mud. Them: Good on ya!"
I'm an Aussie and I've heard all of these except "go toilet" - well I've heard people say it but only about their pets
Usually "Go to THE toilet"
I've never heard an Aussie say "go toilet", but I think a lot of us mumble "to the" so maybe to the inexperienced ear it might sound like we're skipping it - "GO t_th_ TOILET"
She must be interacting with more refined Aussies than me because I rarely hear toilet, dunny or shitter is way more common in my line of business.
@mrsock3380 Tradie?
@@tim0e Metal trades, so not your typical white ute spends all day in the sun type of tradie, but equally crass.
We call a toilet a toilet. A bathroom is where you go for a bath, a shower or wash your hands. Most homes don't have toilet bowls in the bathroom but it is getting more common. God help anyone coming to my place and pissing in my bathroom!
I use to live i a block of flats and the toilet is in the bath room Exept it's to small for a bath just a shower, toilet and a sink to wash your hands
Australians always say powerpoint. never outlet.
Easy as, sweet as. We don't add as. You forget we like to shorten everything. So 'easy as pie', for example.
sounds more kiwi to me, easy as...
@@powertrip1050 If it was Kiwi it's have "bro" on the end 😄
@@-MacCat- 😀😀😀
The way we use as is unusual and undefinitional
I think you'll find that we're trying to tone down the bad language. 'Fuck' would be the most likely omitted word.
Hot chips: thick chips from a chicken and chip shop
French fries/fries: skinny fries (hot chips) you get from Maccas
Chips: potato crisps
"Yeah, Nah!" is another 🙃
…nah, yeah.
true.
Whadayareckon?
Nah, yeh?
Yeh, nah?
Thanks Gabrielle. As a 60yo Australian male I'd say there's probably a million and one (maybe this is another Australian saying?) different Australian sayings? It's actually very Australian to use short sayings and slang. It's nice to hear things from a foreigner's perspective, and we Australians take pride in our ability to sum things up in our particular Australian way. I think a lot of Australians would enjoy watching these kind of videos to see foreigners enjoy our mannerisms 👍👍👍
Mobile numbers are usually 4 3 3, and landline numbers are usually give as 4 4.
Ahhh okay, I would've never figure that out, thank you😊
Kinda stupid how we do mobiles 4 3 3 as 04 is the area code yet if we say a landline with an area code it would be (2) 4 4.
Now they are talking about using 05 for mobiles, I wonder will that get some new cadence?
Maybe it's because I live on state border, but we always give landlines as 2 4 4 (including area code). Mobiles are definietly 4 3 3, always very confusing when someone presents it differently
@@Vermiciousdepending on the number, but I often did my landline 2 3 3 because the first 2 numbers indicated town or district. Add the state area code for out of state people making it 2 2 3 3.
If someone then repeated my number back with a different cadence, I had trouble recognising it.😂
i give it out 3232 and it always throws me when someone gives it back as 433😄
Hi, I'm guessing you're in Queensland if you hear 'aye' at the end of almost every sentence which is not so common in the southern states.
I call a toilet a toilet formally but around friends it's a dunny or you just say I've gotta take a piss.
You're correct when you mention some phrases are said more by older people, I grew up with far more colloquial slang than is used now, some of which is picked up by the younger generations but so much slang is gone now.
Hooroo, gotta hit the frog and toad
Drink driving actually does make more sense than drunk driving - when you consider there are a whole range of drivers out there, at any one time, in Australia where their requirement will be 0.00 - ranging from professional drivers, operators, probationary drivers and the list goes on and on. You don't have to be drunk to offend.
also a shortening of drinking and driving!
Nobody says crisps unless they are brain rotted from watching too much American tv
Crisps is a British term its not from the US.
Going off has two meanings. Food going off - rotten, and when something has become very popular, like a party, going off.
Agreed. Food is either "(That's) Off" or "Gone off." "Going off" is definitely used for a party or a band.
@@-MacCat- Going off can be food as well - just before it has gone off. You can still eat it, but you better do it now (and my wife would probably throw it anyway)
You are wrong on a few of them. Never heard of salads being called veg. I think think you’re hanging Queensland too much.
Lived in Australia for 60y, some of these I've never heard of. One you should look into is "Yeah, nah, yeah": when younger people are answering a question, they often start off with this.
A lot of those are kinda regional. I heard many of those in Queensland, and I'm a southerner. Especially "Ah, true" which I first heard in Cairns.
Salad is cold veggies, veggies is hot veggies
Aussie here and I have to admit I had a few chuckles with your observations. Another one is when you say it's your shout meaning it's your turn to buy the beers or drinks. If you shout the bar it means you buy everyone in the bar a drink.
Yayy I get so excited when I see you've uploaded!!
Aussie here as well... Suggestion: If you want to demonstrate the Aussie accent *DONT* move your mouth as much. Be lazy! Thats the trick! Have a look how the Aussie mouth moves ... not alot!!! Also - Saying 'Aye' after sentances is more a NSW and QLD thing, rather than a Vic (or SA?) thing..
Yeah SA here, we don't use it either
These might be a bit anachronistic but:
Strewth
Tucker
Knackered (tired or broken)
Stuffed (as above)
Rooted (as above)
Shlackered (drunk)
Like a rat up a drainpipe
“No you’re right” as the polite response when someone apologises in a social situation
Yeh Na 👍
Mate, you're a lexicographer! 👏
Good on ya can also be used sarcastically
#12 "good on ya" Is also very often used sarcastically if you do seomthing stupid :D
As is "champion"
So true about the phone number, I always say mine grouped into 4 3 and 3
Also, we say we’re going to THE toilet, not going toilet, and we often call it The Loo 😉
"Fizzy drink" and saying "ay" all the time immediately clocks this as queensland
I've haven't heard anyone in Qld or Australia say fizzy drinks 😂😂😂. We call em soft drinks
saying go to the toilet is pretty common "go toilet" I,ve never actually heard anyone say that.
as an aussie i can say adding as at the end of words is because we would shorten sentences like sweet as f*ck to sweet as or easy as f*ck to easy as
Salads are cold veges that you’d have in a burger or roll or a side plate. Shredded carrot is salad. Julienne carrots are veg. Cold potato is salad. Hot potato is veg. Lettuce is always salad. Cold spinach, salad. Hot spinach, veg.
wait till you hear about the greatest aussie word "garn" or "get a dog up ya"
Some of this is standard British English (and slang), some Australian regional, and some 'early school leaver'! Remember too that 29% of people living in Australia were not born there and another 20% have at least one parent who was not born in Australia.
The toilet one is actually "Im going to go to the toilet" but the way we lazily drawl and the speed we speak at means the "to the" part comes out as a barely vocalised vowel-ish sound between go and toilet.
Also if someone says chips with no context they mean bags of chips. If the only context is from a hot food place they mean hot chips, if its from a place that it could be either they will specify.
You butchered righto but you nailed thanks aye.
Its called Drink Driving because our biggest anti drunk driving campaign was "If you drink and drive youre a blood idiot" ergo drink driving.
People using different cadence with numbers pisses me off. Especially when they cant stick to which word theyre going to use for 0.
The whole 'as' thing is just short for 'as sin/piss/shit/fuck...'
Easy as sin, hot as fuck, hard as shit, dumb as piss, etc.
All the expletives are mostly interchangeable, but whenever anyone says 'easy as', 'sweet as', or whatever, know that that's just the simplified, more conventionally family-friendly version of what they actually mean.
Kid, I'm a 74 year old Aussie Male, and, by heck, You are doing VERY well!.
When giving someone my phone number, this Aussie gives the first four digits in one "chunk", then after that, who knows? 😅
"Go toilet"?
sweet as, easy as....that's kiwi, mate.
Yeah I thought that's something we pick up off the kiwis
I only started saying it after working around a heap of them
Fizzy drinks were always "cool drinks". But nowadays many people just say fizzy drinks because it fizzes. Probably more accurate. like coke, lemonade, fanta etc.
South Africans share some of those expressions with Australians.
The as ending i first started hearing from new zealanders and has started being used by some aussies. The aye is a queensland thing i had never heard it until i visited rural queensland.
"Beaches as, bro."
It's always funny hearing foreigners analysis on our vocabulary 🤣
Salads doesn't mean veg, but in the context of a burger i kinda does.
Hmmm okay good to know!
Yes but who puts vegies on a burger?
We say salad sandwiches though, because we use things that are normally in a salad, lettuce, tomato etc. if I hear veg sandwich I always think it must be grilled veg.
@@judithrussell9162yep, salads are cold, usually uncooked.
I think "copy" is just one of your mates adding radio jargon to their everyday vocabulary.
Roger, is more commonly known I think.
In Western Australia "drink driving" is also called "pissy driving" a lot. As in "I dunno what I'm gonna say to the boss, I got done for pissy driving last night."
or pissy steering
I’m WA, never heard of that!!
On the piss yes, but …..
@ We obviously move in different circles...
As an Aussie I can confirm about half of these as things we say often
maybe in QLD but not out here in the wild
Bear in mind that not all Australians use exactly the same slang. The same as not all Americans say "Y'all", it's often a regional thing although many of the older colloquial terms tend to be more widespread and probably more socio/economic than regional.
Many terms have historic roots, eg "chunder" meaning "to throw up" comes from our WW2 diggers (soldiers) who got seasick on the transport ships. Before throwing up across the rails, as a courtesy to everyone on a lower deck, they would (try) to call out "Watch under!! which quickly evolved into Chunder (watCH-UNDER), shortened for simplicity and because, well, we like to abbreviate words.
Even the term "Diggers" came from the fact out WW2 soldiers spent much of their time digging trenches.
Struth, originally stolen from the Poms (English people) is another, but adapted by us as an abbreviation of "It's the truth", a term usually used to express surprise at hearing something surprising or even just surprised in general.
There's many Aussie phrases that have similar origins.
I think it was WW1 that you're referring to.
I always thought that strewth came from God 's truth.
@NicholaWallace Yes, sorry, you're completely correct. I was thinking one thing and wrote another 🙄, doh.
The original English version was, as you said, from God's truth. Apparently we changed it to mean It's the truth, or so I've read (if it's on the internet it's gotta be true 🤒).
chips are chips and chips are chips because chips are made of potatoes and chips are made of potatoes
Are you after chips, or chip chips?
ah, 'champion'. A great example of how any complement in Australia can equally be an insult, all depending on how you say it. Tone is everything. Even words that you can't imagine being anything but an insult (CU in the NT), can be used with great affection.
You call our sayings weird quite often and you are right. In fact there was a comedy movie made in the 60's called "They're a Weird Mob". It was based on the obervations of an Italian immigrant who was trying to make sense of our slang.
Nino Cullotta, or John O'Grady as his nom deplume
The people that say Ay at the end are the New Zealands. That's a key way of working out if someone is from New Zealand or not. Some Aussis will say it as a question almost at end of sentence. Sort of a polite way of clarifying. But NZ use ay for everything.
Salads - are referring to fruits and vegetables that form part of a salad. So meaning tomatoes (which actually is a fruit), lettuce, beetroot... Same concept as salad dressing.
As an Australian, I have heard all of these bur only use some of them. My friends in the UK also talk about food having gone off so it originally comes from the UK not Australia .
Yeah, say "Gonna go to the toilet."
Good video thanks! Not fact checking, but some explanations which might help...
2. "Easy as". This comes from "as easy as pie". What we do here is shorten things. Why do we have so many of the most venomous creatures in the world? Same thing. It's hot, so we want to use as little energy as possible, and "as easy as pie" becomes "easy as".
4. "Sweet as". See (2) above. Comes from "as sweet as candy" or "as sweet as pie". We're not adding "as" at the end, we are shortening longer sayings. "Pretty as" is not "pretty" with "as" added to it, it is "as pretty as a picture" with three words removed!
6. Chips in a bag are called chips, but if there is no context then crisps might be used to make sure the message is clear. When it comes to hot items, we refer to what McDonald's sell as fries, but the thick ones are called chips, or hot chips if context requires it.
8. "Champion"! There are a few reasons you might use this. If someone does something nice for you, you might say "champion" to them, as well as thanks, to show that you are extra grateful and think they are awesome, but if someone tells you the weather is going to be really nice tomorrow, you might also say "champion" to that too. It's basically someone or something that is really good (or heaps good, as you will find out below!).
12. "Good on ya". This can be used in different ways. If your mate tells you that they got a promotion, you might compliment them by saying "good on ya". Alternatively, if your mate accidently knocks over the can and spills paint all over the carpet, you might sarcastically say "good on ya". It can mean both good job and terrible job!
14. "Thanks heaps". "Heaps" can be used on its own or added to different words. When asked if you are enjoying something, you might say it is "heaps good", or when asked how many people were at the game, you might just say "heaps", and if your team won the game, you'd be "heaps happy".
18. "Righto". You'll find that we shorten a lot of words (see 2 above) and then add "a", or "o", or "ie" to the end, or in this case just add them to existing words (a rare example of us making something longer, rather than shorter). A tradesman is a tradie, a paramedic is an ambo (from ambulance), and McDonald's is Macca's. The word selfie comes from Australia and is a perfect example of this...
22. Drink driving. I see your point, but counter that you aren't necessarily drunk if you've been drinking. Basically, it is yet another example of us shortening the term "drinking and driving" to simply "drink driving".
yeah...nah! Sanger short of a picnic = Crazy person.
Don't say "Good on ya" lol we say it to be passive aggressive
We say it as a positive as well. It’s all in the tone
Haha I could see this both ways👀
@@GabrielleLindaaa or just "on ya, mate!"
Happy to see a new upload :)
Awe thanks for watching😊
Another one if someone doesn't like something you did you tell them to " Suck it and see".
Aussie from Perth here (but my wife is from Penzance UK) Going to the toilet i always say going to the "Loo". A common word i use frequently is "Cheers" instead of thanks.
When with my mates i often say "Maaaaate" instead of saying hello. "Just chillin" is another common one i say. Us Aussie's generally have a wicked sense of humour and we like to shorten many words and put a twist on them for a laugh and they stick. Names we always play with and often use nicknames we make up. As you know we are very chilled & polite people and my Uk wife reckons i have anb uncanny knack of talking to any stranger in a good way (it blows her away as she was never brougt up like this)
2: easy as
Also heard: easy peasy; easy peasy, nice & sleazy; dead easy.
3: bloody oath
Also heard: 'n oath (ie. glottal stop+in oath)
9: no drama
Also heard: no drama llama
13: go toilet
Also heard: hit the sh**ter; hit the bog; bombing battleships; have a slash; shake hands with the unemployed; let it all drop out
15: salads
Usually: salad (singular), eg. a salad sanger
17: fizzy drink
Also heard: lolly water (older, tho)
Me mum used to love a good shandy when I was next to knee-high to a grasshopper, & I've grown to appreciate a lovely bit of a shandy as I close in on pension territory
18: righto
Related: goodo, or good-oh; Dulcie Deamer, back in the day, had a piece titled "Everything's Good-oh"
21: ah true
Also heard: the 'ah' is drawn out, like a really long time, usually for comedic purposes; yet to hear a group harmonise the 'ah' tho
22: drink driving
shortened from "to drink & drive"
25: phone numbers
it varies; I was working for the DVA back in the day, so with the area cose, 8 digits were read out 2+3+3; the first group is the area code; nowadays I go for 4+3+3, again, the 1st 4 being the mobies' equivalent for area cods, since each carrier will have different digits, each starting with '04'
1300 numbers likewise 1300 + 3 digits + 3 digits (similarly for 1800 numbers)
"Easy as", "sweet as", etc are just more polite since you are just leaving the third word off, which is pretty much always "fuck". So for example "easy as" is a polite abbreviated version of "easy as fuck". Wasn't that obvious?
people are mumbling if you think they're saying 'go toilet'. They are mumbling the 'to the' part.
Nailed it. Too easy.
Hah right on theme🙏👍
If anyone breaks from the 4 3 3 mobile number rhythm, it's probably because they have consecutive numbers that fall outside that grouping like 0410 AA BB CD rather than 0410 AAB BCD. Granted that's really jarring and they should stick to convention.
I have a triple number as my number, and I usually say it as that, which kind of breaks the rhythm
@SalisburyKarateClub ugh awful 🤣
Australians always used to say root for the word "route". But now I'm hearing people copying the americans and using rout (or rowt) for route. I see rout and route as different words so should be said differently.
Good on ya - can also be used to taunt someone who has said or done something you think is a bit dumb.
I feel spoken to 😆 except the go toilet one. Never heard that. Its always go to THE toilet/loo/dunny/shitter
ta ! I reckon "aye" is from kiwi not really oz. The MS powerpoint slides actually called "deck" lol
older people will also call a younger person "champ" as a compliment.
you're right about a boot of a car.
Yeh no worries champ
No River Murrays , no chicken curries ...
Giving phone numbers in random collections is a bery boomer kind of thing to do. They for some reason think it is cute or interesting to group whatever numbers they find important or interesting, when theyre actually just being annoying as fuck.
Which is just another way of saying boomer i spose.
French fries makes no sense.
Chips makes sense.
No, we say go to the loo
The Brits say bloke, that's where it came from.
Here's a scene from the iconic Australia movie "They're A Weird Mob" that might interest you. It shows the confusion of an Italian immigrant who has just arrived in Australia in the early days(50's, 60's) and is grappling with the Aussie slang. ua-cam.com/video/65qdMttVaEo/v-deo.html . In this clip he's confused when he's told it's his shout in a bar-very amusing.
You do your business in the bath. So you go to the bathroom? There are other words for toilet but I will not say them here. One is need to inspect the plumping.
Yeah, Nah & Nah, Yeah. See if u can work that one out. Some bogan started it and now we all day it 😂
Sound production tip: Turn the volume down on the click sound effects so they aren't 1000x louder than your voice.
salads=salad, veges=vegetables, not salad.
Im not weird, ur weird !! 😂
We say 'go TO the toilet' or 'going to the loo' . NEVER have I heard anybody say go toilet.
Drink driving is because you are over the allowed limit even if you aren't drunk, you can still be DUI. -- Driving under the influence.
You's been carrying on like a pork chop cobber.. fair dinkum an bonzer.. I'm chucking a sickie this arvo
We dont say aye in Melbourne !
Do you mean ‘ey as in hey without the aitch? Aye is a Scottish term, ouch aye (eye)
i know that i used to live in Scotland@@trevorcook4439
"Good on you" means "yay for you", "well done" or "good job".
Elephants have trunks at the front so it makes sense we call a rear end a boot
It's the Queenslanders who tend to add "aye" after a comment. Like, "Jeez, it's hot aye?" Aye is short for "isn't it" or "do you agree"? Independently minded people don't use most of these expressions. I enjoyed your observations though. Thank you.
Are you in Queensland? The "ay" verbal tick is only really common in that state.
I think you’ve misheard 13.
We don’t say “go toilet”.
It’s just that the “to the” bit is shortened to a “uh”.
“gunna go thuh toilet” 😄
Only Brits call chips "crisps"
I am guessing you are in Queensland. Queenslanders have less words to use than the rest of the country, so things get abbreviated to accommodate.
This was great 🤣 I think we say our phone numbers in groups of 4 3 3, because they all start with 04xx
Another expression for going to the toilet is going to the loo.
Hot chips and it’s either chips or crisps for in the bag.
Some of these are really Kiwi slang adopted by Aussies
Chips is pretty straight forward. But you're having the influence of american culture, so some people say crisps now. I expect that will continue. But I say chips for both. With a hot meal you will have chips. But if you have a party you will have nibbles and chips. "too easy!"
Please leave Queensland .
never heard anyone say fizzy juice in australia ever.
there's a few there you need to be careful with.
champion like you said is like legend, don't call anyone champ though unless you want to get in a fight. champ means you think you're the greatest but i don't (to put it politely)
good on ya, could mean you stuffed up or messed up, context and tone matters here if you spill a drink on someone and they say good on ya they are basically saying "you idiot"
if you won a prize and someone say's good on ya they mean i'm happy for you that was fortunate. or if you got a job, award etc something you worked for it means "well done"
if you say "good on ya champ" guess what happens next.
In the 70s in Tas, soft drinks were called cordials
no on goes toilet but they might take a dump in the loo, or drop the kids off at the pool
With Good on ya, sometimes (tends to be more in the country) you'll hear just onya, or onya mate, which is the same thing, but shortened
They're all pretty good except "go toilet". It's not a thing here - may be idiosyncratic to someone you knew or maybe a family. LIkewise a toilet is a toilet, a bathroom isn't a toilet, though if you are headed to the bathroom to use a toilet within it you might say you're going to the toilet
Drink driving comes from a contraction of "(don't) drink and (then) drive"