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Angaston, South Australia: More Aussie lingo

December 15, 2013 Jim 3 Comments

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The Aussie vocabulary continues to amaze and amuse and confuse. Here are a few more of the words and phrases we’ve run into lately:

Ambo: Ambulance
Chokky: Chocolate
Chrissy: Christmas
Chunder: Vomit (used in the lyrics of the song “The Land Down Under” by Aussie band Men at Work)
Fossick: To hunt or search (“The prospector is fossicking for gold.”)
Lippy: Lipstick
Lolly: Sweets, candy
Make a quid: Earn a living
Petrol busker: Gas pump
Pokies: Slot machines
Postie: Mailman
Prezzies: Presents
Piece of piss: An easy job
Rellies: Relatives
Scratchie: Scratch-off lottery ticket
Shout: Turn to buy, as in beer (“I bought the last round, so it’s your shout this time.”)
Sunnies: Sunglasses
Stickybeak: Nosy person
Telly: Television
The Gabba: Brisbane’s cricket ground (where the first game of the Ashes cricket series was played last month). Short for Wooloongabba
The Waca: Perth’s cricket ground (where the current match with the Brits is being played). An acronym for Western Australia Cricket Association
Yewy: A U-turn. Making U-turns on busy streets seems to be a national pastime for Aussies.

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  1. Ray Sanford says

    December 16, 2013 at 6:40 pm

    It’s a piece of piss munching chokky in Angaston at Chrissy, watching the Waca on the telly without your relies trading prezzies. Time you came back here and shouted us all a beer before filling pup at the petrol busker, doing a yewy, and heading for Texas to make a quid.

  2. Cathy Sosa says

    January 1, 2014 at 6:25 am

    Wishing you and Jaime and happy and healthy 2014!!! Hopefully we will see you one of these days. Love from The Sosas, especially JD.

  3. Lisa says

    January 31, 2014 at 11:24 am

    I reckon you’ve got a few more to add to this after our conversations on Australia Day! Maybe some phrases Jim!

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