SS6G14 The student will describe the cultural characteristics of
people who live in Australia.
a. Explain the impact of English colonization on the language and
religion of Australia.
• Slang is the use of informal words and
expressions to describe an object or condition.
• Slang is sometimes regional in that it is used
only in a particular territory.
• Example: in the South we use the slang word
“ya’ll” instead of saying “you all”
Can you think of any slang you use in
your daily life?
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Freshie: freshwater crocodile
Joey: baby kangaroo
Jumbuck: sheep
Roo: kangaroo
Saltie: saltwater crocodile
Chook: chicken
Bities: biting insects
Mozzie: mosquito
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Spit the Dummy: get very upset at something
Yabber: talk a lot
Whinge: complain
Walkabout: wander off
Chuck a sickie: to take the day off sick from work
Bonzer: great
Cark it: to die
Cranky: in a bad mood
Have a single short: to be silly
Keen as mustard: extremely enthusiastic
Spewin’: very angry
• Dag: a funny person
• Daks: pants
• Dead Horse: tomato
sauce
• Exercise Book: a school
textbook
• Fairy Floss: cotton candy
• Holiday: vacation
• Idiot Box: television
• Ivories: your teeth
• Joe: a police officer
• Kip: a nap
• Lemon Squash:
lemonade
• Lippy: Lipstick
• Lift: Elevator
• Matilda: sleeping bag
• Milko: milkman
• Nappy: diaper
• Pash: Kiss
• Wog: the flu
• Walkabout: a hike
• Barbie: barbecue (like a
gril)
• Bikkie: biscuit
• Billy: large tin can to
boil water over a
campfire
• Brekkie: breakfast
• Chewie: chewing gum
• Chokkie: chocolate
• Chunder: vomit
• Clobber: clothes
• Grundies: underwear
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Lollies: sweets
Loo: toilet
Sanger: a sandwich
Tucker: food
Bathers: swim suit
Prezzy: present or gift
Quid: money
Takeaway: take out food
Ute: pickup truck
Vedgies: vegetables
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Mob: group of people
Oldies: parents
Dag: a funny person
Journo: journalist
Ol’Man: father
Old Cheese: mother
Polly: politician
Shelia: a woman
Stickybeak: nosy person
Mate: buddy or friend
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Aussie: Australian
Bloke: man
Bogan: young, immature person
Bounce: a bully
Bushranger: outlaw
Cobber: friend
Dill: an idiot
Fruit Loop: fool
Greenie: environmentalist
Kiwi: a person from New Zealand
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Billabong: a pond
Brizzie: Brisbane
Bush: the Outback
Down Under:
Australia and New
Zealand
• Maccas:
McDonald’s
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Oz: Australia
Arvo: afternoon
Bustelly: campfire
Pictures: the
movies
• Rage: party
• Servo: a gas
station
• Unit: apartment