MsZenaPimpsAlot's blog: "Zena"

• Acca Dacca - rock band 'AC DC'
• ace – excellent
• ambo - Paramedic, Ambulance Officer
• ‘ang on – wait a moment
• arvo – afternoon
• Aussie - person from Australia (pronounced: Ozzey)
• ‘avago – have a go (usually ‘ya mug’ – you fool – is added); try harder
• bangaroo - marathon sex
• barbie – barbecue or BBQ
• barra - a barramundi fish
• bewdy or bewdy bottler – good; the best
• Beyond the Black Stump – far from the city; the outback
• bickie - biscut or cookie
• bingle – minor car accident
• bludger – layabout, one who wants something for nothing, person who does not work or works very little
• bluey – a swag or blanket roll
• bombed out – unsuccessful; also drunk
• bonza - excellent
• boys in blue - Police
• Brisbanites - people from Brisbane
• buckleys - no chance
• budgy smugglers - swimming atire, also referred to as 'togs'
• burl - 'give it a burl' give it a go; attempt something
• by crickey – an expression of surprise
• cactus – useless, broken
• cark it – to die
• cashed up – having plenty of ready money
• cheesed (off) – bored; fed up
• chewy – chewing gum
• chook – domestic fowl
• chook raffle – a lottery in which the prize is a chicken; usually held in a ‘pub’ (hotel)
• chuck a wobbly – go berserk
• cobber – friend
• cocky – know all; also a small farmer
• combo - combination
• come a cropper – to fall heavily
• cot case – a drunk or exhausted person only fit for bed
• cracking - excellent / get cracking - start something
• Darwin stubby - 2 litre bottle of beer
• deadhead – a stupid person
• deadly - excellent ("The Deadlys" is an award program to recognise the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to their community and to Australian society)

• dead marine – an empty beer bottle (also: dead soldier)
• dead set – certain; assured; used as an exclamation meaning ‘really!’
• dead set against it – uncooperative
• dingy - small aluminium boat
• dinky-di – genuine
• do your lolly (mellon; nana; loaf) – to get very angry
• dob in – to betray or report someone to the authorities; also to nominate someone for an umpleasent task
• don’t get off your bike – calm down
• drongo – stupid person
• dry as a drovers dog – extremely thirsty
• dunny – an outside toilet
• esky – a portable icebox (brand name)
• fair crack of the whip – ease up (also: fair suck of the surf)
• fair dinkum – honest; genuine
• fair enough – alright; acceptable
• fair go – a chance; also an appeal for fairness
• flake (out) – to collapse; to fall asleap
• flat out like a lizard drinking – lying prone; also rushed; extremely busy
• flush – having plenty of money
• fossick – to search for something
• freak out – to have an extreme reaction (good or bad) to something
• full as a goog (tick; boot) – drunk; full of food after a big meal
• game as Ned Kelly – very brave (Ned Kelly was a daring bushranger [robber] in 1878)
• gander - 'have a gander' to 'have a look'
• garbage – an exclamation meaning ‘what rubbish, I don’t believe you!’
• garbo - garbage collector
• g’donya – good for you; well done; can also be sarcastic; or mean ‘I don’t believe you’
• go off like a bucket of prawns in the sun – to create a commotion
• good one – an explanation of approval; or comment that someone is stretching the truth
• good-o – yes, alright
• goon - wine sold inside a bag and cardboard box
• goose - 'you goose' means 'you clown'
• gutful – more than enough (I’ve had a gutful of this – I’ve had enough)
• have tickets on yourself – to be conceited
• hit the deck – to duck; to put your head down
• hit the tin – put money in the kitty; to contribute to a collection of cash
• hoon – a stupid or uncultivated person; also a fast or wreckless driver
• hooroo – goodbye
• jackaroo - male working with cattle or horses
• joolaroo - female working as a jackaroo
• kero - kerosene
• kick in – to help out with money

• knee high to a grasshopper - a yong child (short)
• knock – to criticise, find fault
• knocker – a person who makes derogatory remarks
• larrikin – mischievous, wild or carefree person
• lations - family relatives or 'relations'
• like a hornet in a bottle – furious
• like a possum up a gum tree – moving fast
• like a rat up a drainpipe – moving even faster
• lingo – language
• loaded – extremely wealthy; also very drunk
• local rag - local newspaper
• longkneck - 750ml bottle of beer (also: tallie)
• mackas - McDonalds
• main drag - main road or street through a town
• mate – good or best friend; also used to greet someone as in ‘G’day mate’
• matilda – a blanket roll carried by a swagman
• Melbournians - people from Melbourne
• metho - methylated spirits
• mexicans - people from the state south of yours
• milko - milk home delivery person
• m’oath – my oath; on my oath. bloody oath - i agree
• mug – fool
• mulga – rough country (actually: a type of tree)
• muso - musician
• no-hoper – incompetent person; social misfit
• nosh up – a good meal
• nick – to steal
• nicked – to be caught; (I got nicked – I got caught) go away; (get nicked)
• nick off – to go away; expression meaning ‘lose yourself!’
• nifty – stylish; clever; shrewd to the point of dishonesty
• novocastrian - someone who was born in Newcastle / supporting the local rugby league team.
• ocker – the archetypal uncultivated Australian male
• outback – the inland country far away from large cities
• pear shaped - when things go wrong
• pint of beer - 570ml
• prang – minor car accident
• prawn - shrimp

• pot of beer - 285ml (a 'one pot screamer' is someone who gets drunk off very little alcohol). Also known as a 'middy' or 'half pint'
• pull your head in - stop acting that way
• rack off – to go away
• ranga - person with red hair (Julia Gillard former Australian Prime Minister - pictured right)
• rego - vehicle registration
• righto - alright
• ring-in – a substitute
• rissole - a type of meatball flattened out; or fat meat patty. (also: 'given the rissole' sacked or fired from employment.
• road train - a truck with many sections attached (some road trains are over a kilometre long)
• rort – a con
• sangers – sandwiches
• schooner of beer - 425ml
• ’scuse me - excuse me
• servo - a petrol station or gas station
• she’ll be apples, she’s sweet – it’ll be fine
• shoot through - to go somewhere else (or he shot through)
• shonky – poor quality

• shotgun - the front passenger seat of a vehicle
• shout – to buy drinks for everyone
• shrapnel - coins of a low denomination
• sickie – a day taken off work, but not necessarily because of illness
• skip – Australian-born (from Skippy the kangaroo [a TV show])
• skite – a bragger
• slack - work left over by a lazy person. To 'pull up the slack' is to do the work left over by others.
• a slash - to take 'a slash' or 'have a slash' - to urinate
• smoko – a break from work (originally a cigarette)
• snags – sausages
• speedo - vehicle speedomoter
• stinker – an objectionable person
• stone the crows – exclamation of astonishment
• stubby - a bottle of beer (330ml) or stubbie / a brand of shorts
• stubby cooler - used to keep your hand warm and a beer cold
• swag – a blanket roll of light bedding
• swagman – a man who travels around the country on foot and takes odd jobs usually in the outback
• Sydneyites - people from Sydney
• ratbag – a rogue; an eccentric person
• rubbish – to criticice; to mock
• servo - petrol station

• ta - thank you
• tall poppy (/syndrome) - a cultural tendancy to cut people down to size - criticise people who excell or achieve significantly / or publicly above others.
• ta-ta – goodbye
• Taswegins - people from Tasmania
• the ditch - water between Australia and New Zealand
• tinnie – a can of beer; a small aluminum boat
• too right – an exclamation meaning ‘I agree’
• top drop – a good beer or wine
• true blue – genuine
• tucker - food
• twit – a fool
• ute – open backed pick-up truck
• veg out – relax
• wag – to play truant
• wheelie – a noisy skidding turn while driving
• wheely bin - a council issued rubbish bin on two wheels
• whinge – to complain
• whopper – something surprisingly big
• woop woop - out in the middle of no where
• wowser – a killjoy; a prudish teetotaler
• write-off – a total loss
• wuss – spoilsport; afraid to have a go
• yakka – hard or heavy work
• yank - American
• yarn - to have a conversation
• yobbo – a loud or stupid uncultivated person
• yonks ago (or yonks and yonks ago) - a long time ago
• zonked (out) – tired out; exhausted

posted this as im always explaining what something means cheersssssssss

You know your Australian when:

1. You believe that stubbies can either be drunk or worn.

2. You've made a bong out of your garden hose rather than use it for something illegal such as watering the garden.

3. You understand that the phrase 'a group of women wearing black thongs' refers to footwear and may be less alluring than it sounds.

4. You pronounce Melbourne as 'Mel-bin'.

5. You believe the 'l' in the word 'Australia' is optional.

6. You can translate: 'Dazza and Shazza played Acca Dacca on the way to Maccas'.

7. You call your best friend 'a total bastard' but someone you really, truly despise is just 'a bit of a bastard'.

8. You think 'Woolloomooloo' is a perfectly reasonable name for a place.

9. You're secretly proud of our killer wildlife.

10. You believe it makes sense for a country to have a $1 coin that's twice as big as its $2 coin.

11. You understand that 'Wagga Wagga' can be abbreviated to 'Wagga' but 'Woy Woy' can't be called 'Woy'.

12. You believe that cooked down axle grease makes a good breakfast spread - you've squeezed it through Vita Wheats to make little Vegemite worms.

13. You believe all famous Kiwis are actually Australian, until they stuff up, at which point they again become Kiwis.

14. Beetroot with your Hamburger... of course!

15. You know that certain words must, by law, be shouted out during any rendition of the Angels' song 'Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again' And 'Living next door to Alice'.

15. You wear ugg boots outside the house.

16. You believe that every important discovery in the world was made by an Australian but then sold off for a pittance.

17. You believe that the more you shorten someone's name the more you like them.

18. Whatever your linguistic skills, you find yourself able to order takeaway fluently in every Asian language.

19. You understand that 'excuse me' can sound rude, While 'scuse me' is always polite.

20. You know what it's like to swallow a fly, on occasion via your nose.

21. You know it's not summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle and a seat belt buckle becomes a pretty good branding iron.

22. Your biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules for beach cricket.

23. You shake your head in horror when companies try to market what they call 'Anzac Cookies'.

24. You still think of Kylie as 'that girl off Neighbours'.

25. When working in a bar, you understand male customers will feel the need to offer an excuse whenever they order low-alcohol beer.

26. You know how to abbreviate every word, all of which usually end in "o": arvo, combo, garbo, kero, lezzo, metho, milko, muso, rego, servo, smoko, speedo, righto, goodo etc...

27. You know that there is a universal place called 'woop woop' located in the middle of nowhere, no matter where you actually are!

28. You know that none of us actually drink Fosters beer, because it tastes like piss.

29. You sleep with Aeroguard on in the summer and don't mind it as a perfume.

30. You've only ever used the words - tops, ripper, sick, mad, sweet, to mean "good" and when you place 'bloody' in front of it when you really mean it.

31. You know that the barbecue is a political arena.

32. You say 'no worries' quite often, whether you realise it or not.

33. You understand what no wucking furries means.

34. You've drank your tea/coffee/milo through a Tim Tam.

35. You own a Bond's chesty - in several different colors.

36. You know that some people pronounce Australia like "Straya" and that's ok.

And you will immediately forward this list to other Australians, here and overseas, realising that only they will understand.