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A recent Magazine article about the decline of Australian slang prompted readers to share some of their favourite expressions.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27888329
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The speech impediment that buggered me up, even more than the Birmingham dialect, was in Tennessee.

My self and a couple of cousins were driving from Toronto the Myrtle Beach SC and we stopped at a diner in Tennessee where to my surprise they were serving surprising English style food i.e. meat and two veg.   

The guy in the next booth was talking loadly (they were Americans after all) and at one point said he was/had been TARRED.   My head almost spun off it's socket, I thought blighmy surely they aren't still tarrin and featherin folks.    I could see no signs of tar anywhere and resumed my sausage and mash dinner.   

later on he said "I am so tarred I could sleep on Ma Mortens washing line......"

So, there's you lesson for today.    These Mericans almost speak English and the Ozzies r getting as bad, this is what happens when we leave these colonials to their own devices <sigh>

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Hit the frog and toad, get going home
Taking shank's pony, walking
head like a kicked in shit can-Bloody fulgy
horse hoof, Gay person
Bag Oh Fruit, Suit
Knock Shop, house of ill repute
Ranga, Redhead

just a few more there's thousands of em
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Hit the frog and toad, get going home
Taking shank's pony, walking
head like a kicked in shit can-Bloody fulgy
horse hoof, Gay person
Bag Oh Fruit, Suit
Knock Shop, house of ill repute
Ranga, Redhead

Looks like the lyrics to a Bob Marley record...
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Hit the frog and toad, get going home
Taking shank's pony, walking
head like a kicked in shit can-Bloody fulgy
horse hoof, Gay person
Bag Oh Fruit, Suit
Knock Shop, house of ill repute
Ranga, Redhead

Looks like the lyrics to a Bob Marley record...

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Another two you don't here a lot these days

 You Beauty and Piss Cutter = Very Good
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... Piss Cutter = Very Good

Could be awkward using that when I'm marking exam papers :lol:
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yes must admit that one should only be used in the correct surroundings and company
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You Beauty = you bewdy :link: bewdy - Wiktionary if we're being Australian here :) also Bonzer = good.

Cant say I've heard of piss cutter... maybe eastern states terminology :undecided: like "grouse" = good but not used here in the west.



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... Piss Cutter = Very Good

Could be awkward using that when I'm marking exam papers :lol:

I dare you  :mrgreen:
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You Beauty = you bewdy :link: bewdy - Wiktionary if we're being Australian here :) also Bonzer = good.

Cant say I've heard of piss cutter... maybe eastern states terminology :undecided: like "grouse" = good but not used here in the west.

 :whsaid: (not used in Tassie either!)

grouse or piss cutter...
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Piss cutter is one term that we used as young 'uns in the 80s.

Anyway, isn't most "Aussie slang" merely a ripoff of English cockney, particularly rhyming slang? And that shouldn't be surprising given our origins.
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Anyway, isn't most "Aussie slang" merely a ripoff of English cockney, particularly rhyming slang?
No! nothing alike at all :confused:


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Anyway, isn't most "Aussie slang" merely a ripoff of English cockney, particularly rhyming slang?
No! nothing alike at all :confused:
Actually, some of it is. Check some of Rick's examples above.
But it's evolved past that to encompass our weird Aussie sense of humour (sometimes a bit sick and often irreverent).
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Anyway, isn't most "Aussie slang" merely a ripoff of English cockney, particularly rhyming slang?
No! nothing alike at all :confused:
Actually, some of it is. Check some of Rick's examples above.
But it's evolved past that to encompass our weird Aussie sense of humour (sometimes a bit sick and often irreverent).
I've heard of Hit the Frog an Toad - Knock Shop and Ranga (aka - Bluey ) cant say I've ever heard of the others though which brings me back to one of my earlier statements that some of these could be region specific as other people " Westies = Sandgropers" I've questioned haven't heard of a lot of these sayings either.


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Anyway, isn't most "Aussie slang" merely a ripoff of English cockney, particularly rhyming slang?
No! nothing alike at all :confused:
Actually, some of it is. Check some of Rick's examples above.
But it's evolved past that to encompass our weird Aussie sense of humour (sometimes a bit sick and often irreverent).
I've heard of Hit the Frog an Toad - Knock Shop and Ranga (aka - Bluey ) cant say I've ever heard of the others though which brings me back to one of my earlier statements that some of these could be region specific as other people " Westies = Sandgropers" I've questioned haven't heard of a lot of these sayings either.

But; but.
Rick s a Westie, too.  ;)
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But; but.
Rick s a Westie, too.  ;)
I thought I'd seen somewhere Rick mentioned having been originally from the east and settled here :undecided: might have been someone else :undecided:


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But; but.
Rick s a Westie, too.  ;)
I thought I'd seen somewhere Rick mentioned having been originally from the east and settled here :undecided: might have been someone else :undecided:

I think you're right.
I think he's an adopted Sandgroper but formally a Crow Eater.
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But; but.
Rick s a Westie, too.  ;)
I thought I'd seen somewhere Rick mentioned having been originally from the east and settled here :undecided: might have been someone else :undecided:

I think you're right.
I think he's an adopted Sandgroper but formally a Crow Eater.
Yeah.
South Aussie: West Aussie.

Same diff.  :P ;)
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Don't tell anyone, but Doogie fits that bill too.  :happydance:

Edit. Mistyped that but "Doogie" seems to fit.
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But; but.
Rick s a Westie, too.  ;)
I thought I'd seen somewhere Rick mentioned having been originally from the east and settled here :undecided: might have been someone else :undecided:

I think you're right.
I think he's an adopted Sandgroper but formally a Crow Eater.
Yeah.
South Aussie: West Aussie.

Same diff.  :P ;)

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We still use the term shank's pony in conversation, deffo not Oz only that one.
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