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Written by Whizzbang   
Saturday, 01 November 2008

Here I am sitting once again at my desk reflecting on the domain name industry. I gave the team at Fabulous a call yesterday to find out how TRAFFIC Downunder is progressing; after all it is only two weeks away.

manfloatingDan Warner happened to be away (I thought that I flew a lot!) so I ended up speaking with Mike Robertson. My impression was that they were all pretty relaxed about how the event was coming together. Being only two weeks out I actually expected a little bit of panic but like many of the things that Fabulous are involved in they get a plan and follow it. The result is order from chaos and a quite confidence that can only come from everyone knowing what their supposed to be doing. Sounds good so far!

What really surprised me was the fact that there is going to be over eighty Australians attending. I thought that I knew all the Australian domainers but I obviously was very wrong. It will be great catching up with some familiar faces as well as making some new friends.

With all of the interest in TRAFFIC Downunder it was inevitable that a few were going to be exploring Australia and more than a few make the journey down to my home town of Melbourne. It's going to be great having an Aussie BBQ at my place with a stack of jetlagged Europeans and Americans. Let me know if you're going to be around on the 13th and I can see if we can squeeze a few more snags on the barbie and pass the "dead-horse" around. No guarantees with the offer as we're just about chock-a-bloc.

This brings me to a very important issue for all you international travelers. You need to learn the way the way us Aussie's speak. In the interest of international relations I thought that I'd provide you with a list of Aussie terms to help you out downunder. I would warn you that if you use some of these terms incorrectly then you may be in social disgrace :-)

Amber fluid: beer
Ankle biter: small child
Apples, she'll be: it'll be all right
Arvo: afternoon
Aussie salute: brushing away flies with the hand
Back of Bourke: a very long way away
Banana bender: someone from Queensland
Barbie: barbecue (noun)
Beauty: great
Bloke: guy
Bloody: very
Blowie: blow fly
Bludger: lazy person
Blue: fight
Bodgy: inferior quality
Bogged: vehicle stuck in mud
Boogie board: a hybrid, half-sized surf board
Bored shitless: very bored
Bottle shop: liquor shop
Brekkie: breakfast
Brizzie: Brisbane
Bundy: short for Bundaberg, Queensland, and the brand of rum that's made there
Bush oyster: nasal mucus
Bush telly: campfire
BYO: bring your own grog (alcohol)
Cab Sav: Cabernet Sauvignon
Cane toad: a person from Queensland
Chewie: chewing gum
Chook: chicken
Chuck a sickie: take the day off sick from work when you're perfectly healthy
Chunder: vomit
Click: kilometer
Cobber: friend
Cockie: cockatoo
Cook: wife
Cozzie: swimming costume
Crack onto: to hit on someone, pursue someone romantically
Crook: sick
Dag: funny person
Daks: trousers
Dead horse: ketchup
Dickhead: see whacker
Dill: an idiot
Dinkum, fair dinkum: true, real, genuine
Dinky-di: the real thing
Dipstick: loser, idiot
Dob in: inform on somebody
Dog: unattractive woman
Dog's balls, stands out like: obvious
Drongo: stupid person
Drop kick: see ‘dipstick'
Dummy spit: get very upset at something
Dunny: outside toilet

Esky: large insulated food container
Fair go: give the bloke a go
Flake: shark's flesh
Footy: Australian rules football
Fruit loop: fool
Full: drunk
Furphy: false
G'day: hello!
Galah: silly person
Gobful: to abuse justifiably
Gobsmacked: surprised
Greenie: environmentalist
Grog: liquor, beer
Gutful of piss: drunk
Handle: beer glass with handle
Hoon: hooligan
Hooroo: goodbye
Icy pole: popsicle
Knock: to criticize
Knock back: refusal
Knocker: somebody who criticises
Lair: flashily dressed young man of brash and vulgar behaviour
Lippy: lipstick
Liquid laugh: vomit
Longneck: 750 ml bottle of beer in South Australia
Lucky Country: Australia
Maccas: McDonald's
Mate: friend
Middy: 285 ml beer glass in New South Wales
Milk bar: corner shop
Mob: group of people
Moolah: money
Mozzie: mosquito
Mug: friendly insult
Nipper: young surf lifesaver
No worries!: Expression of forgiveness or reassurance
Ho-hoper: somebody who'll never do well
Nuddy: naked
Ocker: an unsophisticated person
Oz: Australia!
Pash: long kissh
Pav: sugar and creamy Australian desert.
Piece of piss: easy task
Perve: looking lustfully at the opposite sex
Piss: beer
Plonk: cheap wine
Pom: an Englishman
Pot: 285 ml beer glass in Queensland and Victoria
Prezzy: gift

Quid, make a: earn a living
Rick off: push off!
Rage: party
Rage on: to continue to party
Reckon!: absolutely
REgo: vehicle registration
She'll be right: it'll be all right
Rip snorter: fantastic Rock up: to turn up , to arrive
Roo: kangaroo
Ropeable: very angry
Rotten: drunk
Rubbish: to criticize
Sanger: sandwich
Schooner: large beer glass in Queensland
Scratchy: instant lottery ticket
Servo: gas station
Sheila: a woman
Shit house: poor quality
Shonky: dubious, underhanded
Shoot through: to leave
Shout: turn to buy (beer)
Slab: a carton of 24 bottles or cans of beer
Smoko: smoke or coffee break
Snag: sausage
Sprung: caught doing something wrong
Stickybeak: nosy person
Stoked: very excited
Stuffed: I'm tired
Sunnies: sunglasses
Surfies: people who go surfing
Tall poppies: successful people
Tallie: 750 ml bottle of beer
Thongs: cheap rubber backless sandals
Tinny: canof beer
Togs: swim suit
Too right!: definitely!
Trackies: track suit
True blue: patriotic
Tucker: food
Ute: utility vehicle, pickup truck
Vegies: vegetable
Veg out: relax in front of the TV
Wag: playing truant from school
Whacker: idiot
White pointers: topless (female) sunbathers
Whinge: complain
Wuss: coward
Yakka: work
Yobbo: an uncouth person
Zack: money - it isn't worth a zack

 
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written by newjersey, 03 November 2008
Thats a huge list of terms I have never heard of. I am popping them into my domain availability scanner now.
Fair Dinkum
written by Netfleet, 01 November 2008
Nice list!!

On the subject of TRAFFIC, I'd like to mention that all Netfleet (www.netfleet.com.au) members who are able to list a few .au's on the site are entitled to a US$295 discount on their TRAFFIC ticket!

So, if you haven't yet booked...

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