| PEOPLE |
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Ankle biter : |
small child |
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Aussie : |
Australian |
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Bastard : |
an unpleasant person; affectionate appellation, e.g. what you been doing, you old bastard? |
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Battler : |
a hard worker only just making
a living |
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Beaut / beauty : |
great, fantastic |
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Bingle : |
minor car accident / fight |
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Block, do your : |
get angry |
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Bloke : |
man, guy |
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Blokey : |
behaving 'manly' |
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Blow in : |
stranger |
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Bludger : |
layabout |
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Bogan : |
young, immature person |
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Bounce : |
a bully |
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Brickie : |
bricklayer |
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Bushie : |
someone who lives in the Bush |
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Bushranger : |
outlaw |
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Cadbury : |
a cheap drunk (a glass and a
half) |
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Clayton's : |
fake, substitute |
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Clucky : |
feeling broody or maternal |
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Cobber : |
friend |
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Cockie : |
farmer. Also a cockatoo |
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Cook : |
one's wife |
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Cranky : |
in a bad mood, angry |
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Crook : |
sick, or badly made |
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Dag : |
a funny person, nerd |
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Dero : |
tramp, hobo, homeless person
(from "derelict") |
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Digger : |
a soldier |
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Dill : |
an idiot |
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Dipstick : |
fool / idiot |
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Dog : |
unattractive woman |
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Dole bludger : |
signing on illegally |
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Drongo : |
a dope, stupid person |
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Figjam : |
Someone who has a high opinion
of themselves |
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Fisho : |
fishmonger |
Frog in a sock :
(as cross as a) |
sound angry |
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Fruit loop : |
fool |
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Full : |
drunk |
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Galah : |
fool |
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Garbo, garbologist : |
municipal garbage collector |
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Greenie : |
environmentalist |
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Grey hairs : |
old people |
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Gutful of piss : |
drunk |
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Gyno : |
gynaecologist |
Brass razoo :
(hasn't got a) |
he's very poor |
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Hoon : |
hooligan |
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Jackaroo : |
a male farm hand |
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Jillaroo : |
a female farmhand |
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Journo : |
journalist |
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Jumped up : |
stuck up |
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Kiwi : |
person from New Zealand |
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Knocker : |
somebody who criticises |
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Larrikin : |
a joker |
Mallee bull:
(as fit as a) |
very fit and strong |
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Mate : |
buddy, friend |
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Milko : |
milkman |
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Mob : |
group of people |
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Mongrel : |
despicable person |
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Mongrel : |
nasty person |
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Mug : |
gullible person |
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Nipper : |
young surf lifesaver |
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No-hoper : |
somebody who'll never do well |
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Not the full quid : |
not bright intellectually |
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Oldies : |
parents |
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Ocker : |
an unsophisticated person |
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Offsider : |
an assistant / helper / partner |
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Piker : |
social misfit / drop out |
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Polly : |
politician |
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Pom /pommy : |
an Englishman |
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Postie : |
postman |
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Quid, not the full : |
of low IQ |
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Rapt : |
pleased, delighted |
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Ratbag : |
mild insult |
Raw prawn :
( to come the) |
to be generally disagreeable |
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Reffo : |
refugee |
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Rellie : |
family relative |
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Ring in : |
substitute |
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Rotten : |
drunk |
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Salvos : |
Salvation Army |
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Screamer : |
party lover |
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Shark biscuit : |
new surfer |
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Sheila : |
a woman |
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Shonky : |
dubious, underhanded |
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Skimpy : |
barely clothed bar staff |
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Sook : |
soft or inoffensive person |
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Spunk : |
a good looking person |
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Stickybeak : |
nosy person |
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Stuffed, I feel : |
I'm tired |
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Surfies : |
people who go surfing - more
than they go to work! |
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Swaggie : |
swagman |
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Swagman : |
tramp, hobo |
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Tall poppies : |
successful people |
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Tall poppy syndrome : |
the tendency to criticize successful
people |
Tickets :
( to have on oneself) |
to have a high opinion of oneself |
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Truckie : |
truck driver |
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True blue : |
patriotic |
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Two pot screamer : |
person who gets drunk easily |
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Up oneself : |
have a high opinion of oneself |
Useless as :
an ashtray on a motorbike |
Incompetent or unhelpful |
Useless as :
tits on a bull |
Incompetent or unhelpful |
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Vejjo : |
vegetarian |
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White pointers : |
topless (female) sunbathers |
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Woos : |
coward |
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Wombat : |
a person who eats, roots and
leaves |
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Wowser : |
spoilsport |
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Wuss : |
coward; nervous person or animal |
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Yobbo : |
ignorant person |
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Youse : |
you (plural) |
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