Aussie Slang

[Missy]

Okay all you blokes and shielas out there, let me know if this website is an accurate account of common Aussie slang. (By the way, what is Strine?) I'm trying my hardest to understand Rule, but I fear it may be more than a mere language barrier! It could be that I'm a drongo, or Rule is not the full quid. What do you think?

Also, this must be the "nice" version. Shlarpa is not included. ;)

http://goaustralia.about.com/library/weekly/blstrine.htm?PM=ss11_goaustralia

[Rule303]

Well, me ol china plate, I took my fizz and had a Captain Cook and I reckons it's ridgy didge.

;)

[Missy]

Rule, you're making it tough on me! ::)

Only one of those was in my linked dictionary, but I could tell by the layout of the sentence what you're trying to say. However, I can't figure out fizz - drink, coffee, shower - I won't go on as they become increasingly personal - nor can I figure out China Plate, although I'm sure it's either an endearing or derogatory term. (Better be the first :-\) I will have to find a much better source for your slang!

[Rule303]

You'd be flat out like a lizard drinking then to get the jist of that.

[Missy]

Found a better site - but far from all inclusive!

http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html#V

http://www.koalanet.com.au/shared/images/watch1a.jpg

[SauceyDish]

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OK Wannnabe, how much did Rule pay you to start this thread? Â*Just be careful if he suggests 'pashing'! Â* ;)

[cascade]

oi saucey, nutin wrong with a good old pash dear !

o.k.

china plate = mate
flat out like a lizard drinkin = have you seen a lizard drink ?, "very busy " !
fizz - squizz, ie: gander (also male goose) ie: captain cook - a look !
ridgy didge - spot on, true, etc..
drongo = bonehead, idiot
jist = hang ie; get the 'jist' of, get the 'hang' of,
bloke = male human
sheila = female human

full quid = 1 dollar, total sense ( ie: half a quid, not all there in the head !)

as for 'schlarpa' = a version of the female human, usually over 30 years old

opposite being 'schninney' - a version of the female human, usually between 17 and 30 years old

now dont get me going on 'codswobble', 'bollocks', 'tockley', 'old fella', 'bazza', 'barry crocker' (you should be able to guess that one meant 'shocker', getting the drift?)

others

- kangaroo short in the top paddock = short on grey matter
- stubbie short of a six pack = short on grey matter
- sandwich short of a picnic = short on grey matter

blah blah blah, i cant belive people have a website about that stuff, i could have made a fortune !!

cheers and beers cascade

[Rule303]

as for 'schlarpa' = a version of the female human, usually over 30 years old

opposite being 'schninney' - a version of the female human, usually between 17 and 30 years old



Hey come now cascade... don't confuse the multitudes. You've raised your eyebrows at a schlarpa or two and they were definitely under 30. (but you still went home alone...ha ha)
And I bet you made that up yourself about schninney

[SauceyDish]

oi saucey, nutin wrong with a good old pash dear !

Well, that all depends! Â* :-*

[Missy]

OK Wannnabe, how much did Rule pay you to start this thread? Just be careful if he suggests 'pashing'! http://www.plauder-smilies.de/biglaugh.gif


I must admit, I was slightly afraid to find the definition to 'pash' and thought I would spit the dummy when I found it. But it's just a good, long, passionate kiss! In Europe, they're pashing everytime you meet! And if they don't pash, they perve!

http://animatedgif.net/lipsmouth/kissing_e0.gif

[TasTrooper]

Strewth fellas, I wouldn't touch this thread with a barge pole. ;)

[Missy]

She'll be apples, Tas - ;)

[Rule303]

Hey me china plates, let's take off like a bondi tram to the rubbidy dub for pigs ear or two.

[Missy]

I think that one is going to require a trip to Waldenbooks!!

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[Rule303]

Not everything can be found in a hook or by crook. :-\

[cascade]

o.k for the masses i'll translate once again

bondi tram = just dangerous, often with failing brakes !
rubbidy dub = pub
pigs ear = beer
strewth = crikey = wow
bonza = tops = beauty
she'll be apples (pick the tasweigan) = she'll be right (the most famous of them all)
as for strine ? even i dont know that one, maybe a typo that was meant to be strewth

saucey and net and peaches, i love a good pash, i think rule has prob forgotten what foreplay is ? and afterplay he difines as 'can i call you a cab?' or 'do you have a cigarette?'

oouuucchhh, just fell off the chair with laughter, didn't mean it rule ;)

::)
crikey, all this yabber, how is a Sook supposed to get her yakka done around here? How will I ever become tall poppie?

;D gaaaaawd, did that make any sense at all?

ummmmm... Rule... Tas... about that "map of Tasmania" ya were talking about in chat the other day....
I know what that means now!!! ;D

Cascade... pash to ya :-*

Hooroo

[Rule303]

o.k for the masses i'll translate once again

bondi tram = just dangerous, often with failing brakes !

NOT!! was once the fastest way to get From Bondi to Sydney. Trams came every 10 mins. The pharse means "quick and efficiently fast"


as for strine ? even i dont know that one, maybe a typo that was meant to be strewth

I'm stunnned!! A Queenslander that does not know that one!
Strine comes from the Cunnamulla-fulla yokel pronounciation of Australian.
Sounds like Oss-try-inn... Hence Strine.

saucey and net and peaches, i love a good pash, i think rule has prob forgotten what foreplay is ? and afterplay he difines as 'can i call you a cab?' or 'do you have a cigarette?'

Yeah but ,,, At least I'm taking the windsor for a swim, unlike yourself. Let's face it... It's not worth a how's ya father when Clyde don't ride .

oouuucchhh, just fell off the chair with laughter, didn't mean it rule ;)

pigs prosterior ya didn't.
In the words of Bugs Bunny, spoken by Mel Blanc... "You know of course this means war..."

[Rule303]

Somebody asked in another topic if this was the son of a gun, so hence I made an "along the coast" to bring this topic back to the "shop till ya drop"


;D

[deputeedog]

Geez...how did I miss this thread... :o Rule...I once heard
someone say;"What have the Aussies done to the Queen's English"? :-X ;D

[Actiondefence]

Not too dissimilar from Cockney rythming slang then!

[Rule303]

Not too dissimilar from Cockney rythming slang then!


That would be it's origins...


And did you know, that rhyming slang was introduced back in 'ol mother England to create a sort of a coded language to allow people to speak to each other in the presence of the upper crust and police/traps/troopers without being understood by them.

[Actiondefence]

Yep I did know that one!

Up the apples and pears - up the stairs
On the dog and bone - on the telephone
New barnet (or Barnet fair) - New hairstyle
Score - £20
Monkey - £50 - I think!
Old Bill - Police
Pigs - Police - As the first vans used by police in London were old butchers delivery vans, so because of the smell...
Bobby's - Police - Came about as the man who was responsible for creating London's first police force (now called a police service) was a Mr Robert Peel. Hence Bobbies and thus hence, "Keep your eye's peeled" for keep your eye's open re the police!

Of course there are many many more examples of rythming slang as Rule pointed out it was at one point nearly a complete language! Kinda makes me think of the way they speak in the film A Clockwork Orange....

[Rule303]

Yep I did know that one!

Bobby's - Police - Came about as the man who was responsible for creating London's first police force (now called a police service) was a Mr Robert Peel.Â* Hence Bobbies and thus hence, "Keep your eye's peeled" for keep your eye's open re the police!



Even used in Australia til as recently as the 1960's...

peelers - meaning police. Comes from Peel's police.


In my part of Australia, the often used derogatory name for police is Dogs.

I used to take a lot of offence at that till it was pointed out to me that a dog is man's best friend.

;)