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I'm a Taiwanese currently with working holiday visa in Australia, and this channel has been really helpful. From an Asian perspective, I used to only be able to tell something is western or not, and now I see how Aussie slang is just another whole new world. It's pretty intersting to discover how most of the content I've watched on TH-cam was quite American.
I was born and bred on Sydney's north shore and went out of my way to find the nicest guy I could - he was from Campbelltown but was the sweetest, kindest, most intelligent, hard working guy - I'm still married to him 45 years later, Mum and Dad absolutely adored my "bogan" boy @@ryanbishell2279
Ah, is that why then? There're still some of those around (at least here in Vic where I live). Though, 'servo' is just used for all petrol stations with or without them.
They'd have a mechanic shop. They'd also fill your tank, wash your windscreen, check your oil and washer fluid, and tyre pressure. Fill them if needed.
You can tell a Bogan by his mullet, flanno shirt, Winnie Blues up his sleeve, holding a tinnie, wearing moccos, doing doughnuts in his Holden ute, blasting Acca Dacca.
Barbecued King or Banana prawns are great! It has to be an open grille type barbecue so the flames can crisp up the shell, which makes it crunchy and quite easy to eat! If they're nice clean prawns, you can scoff the whole thing! Delish!
As a boy I worked as a 'bowser boy' (petrol bowser or petrol pump operator before automatic shut off pumps). We always asked, "Check ya oil, water, tyres and battery?" That was service at the 'servo' service station. Customers never had to get out of the car.
Puke - to vomit Sanger - sandwich Snag - sausage Dunny - toilet Loo - toilet Bog - toilet / feces Mozzie - mosquito Stinker - hot day Pissing down - heavy rain Buggered - worn out tired Sickie - day off Smoko - morning or afternoon tea Avo - avocado Ta - thanks Kip - sleep Dump - council garbage ground Dump shop - council shop to sell useful garbage
years ago a girl at my work complained about her boyfriend "he used to call me "Pet", now since he came back from Queensland he calls me "Mate" " so i said to her maybe he wants to go from petting to mating" she didnt get it
servo (short for service station) comes from a time back in the 50s and 60s when not only would someone fill up your car for you but would also check the oil. water and tyres and clean the windscreen for you. My first job was doing this during the summer holidays. You could click the bowser pump handle so that it kept pumping fuel into the car while you were getting these other jobs done and it would cut off automatically once it detected the tank was full. Removing the radiator cap to check the water level was a task fraught with peril on a hot summers day and required both a hand cloth and a sensitive touch. A good attendant could get all this done in the time it took your tank to fill.
I'm a Shell Auto Port driveway Attendant , in the 1980s where we concentrated on the customer cars not sold groceries. I learnt and teach others who grew up in softer times how to basically to take care of their car.
Plonk - Australian soldiers in World War 1 in France drank Blanc (white wine) and adopted the term Plonk (the sound of putting ice in water) to mean wine of all varieties. Getting on the plonk, was getting drunk on booze. Booze meaning to get inflated drinking alcohol originates in Holland and Germany in the 16th century. Off to the booza, off to the pub or hotel.
bottle-o has changed meaning.. it used to be the truck (or rather the man) that came around once every few months to collect the used beer bottles (and paid for them). last saw one in the 60s
@@roseberrycat horse and cart bottle-o came round until the early to mid 70s in Perth where I lived. The Milk-o went the way of the dodo in the early 90s I think. That was when I last used it anyway.
6:20 I believe Americans from the midwest also do the yeah nah/nah yeah thing too. 15:15 Kind of similar to this one is ending a sentence with "as". "Oh yeah, it's hot as". It's like we're too lazy to finish our simile🙂 I guess it's similar to the "as f***" (or af) that is quite common now, but we've been doing it for ages. Oh and another thing we do that Adam Hills pointed out is we ask a lot of rhetorical questions. Like we might say "How heavy is this rain?" not really needing or asking for an answer. It's just our way of saying "This rain is really heavy isn't it?" Not slang per se but a quirk of Australian speech.
I have kinda homesick now. Back home 3 months ago after 6 years living in Australia. This video makes me so happy but also miss the down under so bad!!!
Bog catchers or bog strainers for undies. Also "hawthorn undies" yellow at the front, brown at the back.. "Gosford skirt" for short skirt... (Just south of the entrance)
We nurses use the “ambo” singular when we refer to the paramedic who handed over the patient to us in ED. Or the “ambos “ when we refer to the number of paramedics in an ambulance. Usually 2. 😊
Ive always used ambo to refer to both the vehicle and the paramedic, in singular and plural. "couple of ambos went past me on the way here when I was on the highway"
I heard that there was an Admiral Vernon who was stationed in the Windies, and he usually wore a boat coat called a Grogram, so he was called Old Grog. It was the practice to give a rum ration every day, and sailors were able to save it up and have a drunken spree, which was a lot more fun, but the usual sore heads were there in the morning. To combat this issue, Old Grog ordered that the rum be watered down, which meant that it couldn't be stored, and this new concoction was named in his honour. Also, I am a biker, but am not a Bikie. The difference is that I ride a bike, but I am not a member of a Bikie gang. Live and learn.
I don’t eat prawns since I’m allergic, but the only time I have seen them on a barbie is when those tiny ones are used in a seafood skewer that is being cooked on a barbie, and it’s rare I see that even since they’re expensive, mostly only on a special occasion like Christmas Day or someone’s milestone birthday that they decided to celebrate with a barbie with quality foods, especially the meats like a slow cooked pork on a barbie to be shredded for burgers and gourmet handmade rissoles, handmade fancy herb infused gourmet butcher snags, T-bone steaks, spot roasted chook on a fancy bbq with an automated spit roaster, whole herb and lemon stuffed slow cooked barramundi ect, so it would make sense to cook some prawns in the seafood skewers too.
Pretty common in NSW. They have to be big King prawns, preferably green ones with the shell still on. Huge queues to get into the Sydney Fish Market on Christmas eve to get your seafood for the Chrissie barbie.
A mate of mine will often order half a kilo of garlic prawns to throw on whenever we have a big bbq as a group. Its annoying because it takes up an entire plate on the barbie 😂
Hi. I'm also from Melbourne. "No wuckers" was used back in the late 70s and 80s where I grew up in the Eastern suburbs. I think it is an old one that pops up each decade. Cheers.
Perth here - we go prawning in the estuary during summer, and will often take our little barbie, and cook some prawns directly from the water. At Christmas and New Year, I buy large King prawns, soak them overnight in soy sauce and garlic, throw them on the bbq. Very yummy for sure
We got that Paul Hogan TV commercial in The UK and we know what prawns are, so "throwing a shrimp on the barbie" came across to me as being very ungenerous as shrimps are tiny . A lot of those contractions are very commonplace here as well ... "pissed" for drunk has been used for decades .. "bevvy" for an alcoholic drink is sometimes used, but normally by scousers (those are people from Liverpool FYI), "pressie" for a present/gift and "cossie" for a swimming costume are used a lot ... incidentally has anyone else noticed that the map showing where in Oz they use "bathers" for swimming-costumes correlates with those regions and States where Australian Rules Football (a.k.a. "footy" or AFL) is traditionally very popular? 😀 Oh yes ... we use "footy" as a term for football in The UK as well, but normally here we would mean the game also known as "soccer".
A lot of similarities here. In north West England we say 'cossie'. We also use 'trackie bottoms' or 'trackie' for the whole fit. We 'do a U-ie' We get 'prezzies' Christmas is more like 'chrimbo' though. A bit more childish, we say 'Maccies' 'Bevvy', one of my favourite scouse terms. No worries
Terms for getting pissed aren't even countable. Contextually, you can say anything that sounds vaguely descriptive and we'll know what you mean. My favourite is when someone's off their tits on mdma we'd say they're pinging
For speeding in a car there is "fangin' it" and then there is the little old lady driver who "pootles along". Do you know the poem "The Intergrated Adjective" by John Patrick O'Grady, otherwise known as Nino Culotto who wrote "They're a Weird Mob".
Bottleo is a bottle shop now but in the 50s and 60s the bottleo was someone who drove a truck or car with a trailer driving around the streets calling out bottleo to buy your beer bottles
I'm a white Australian, born here. I've had BBQ'd prawns here...though only with Chinese people. Also, with Drongo, there is another famous name that came to mind - Bradbury - doing a Bradbury.
Grog shop, sells alcohol. Grog is strong alcohol, historically Rum in Australia. Grog is a strong alcohol mixed or diluted with water, originally provided as payment instead of wages to convicts and workers in the colonies of Australia.
Prawns and shrimp are both crustaceans with 10 legs, but they have several differences, including: Size: Prawns are generally larger than shrimp. Legs: Prawns have pincers on three sets of legs, while shrimp have pincers on only one set. Shell: Shrimp have a flexible, accordion-like shell, while prawns have a stiffer shell with overlapping segments. Habitat: Prawns live in subtidal sandy and rocky habitats, while shrimp live in all oceans, as well as freshwater lakes and streams. Taste: Prawns are generally considered to be slightly sweeter than shrimp, which have a noticeably salty and savory taste. Parenting: Shrimp carry their eggs on their abdomen after fertilization, but prawns release their eggs into the water.
Americans call all those edible crustaceans "shrimp"; Australians call them "prawns". If you have seen Forest Gump, his friend Bubba lists all the different ways of preparing shrimp, and Forest starts the Bubba-Gump Shrimp Company. The Paul Hogan ad where he says "put another shrimp on the barbie" was made for broadcast in the USA where they would understand "shrimp" but not "prawn". Australians have been complaining about it ever since but it was never aimed at them. Tourists, however, should never say "put a shrimp on the barbie", they'll get their heads bitten off if they do. For the information of that person who complained about barbecued prawns, I suggest she try some. They are really good.
@@ahdoodeclair We all know this, but as they said, biologically there is a difference between shrimps and prawns. That's why here in South Australia, in our major river, there are River Murray Shrimp and River Murray Prawns living side by side. The Prawns aren't Shrimp, and the Shrimp aren't Prawns, even though they superficially look very similar. Biologically, they're classified as belonging to two separate groups. Hopefully you're understanding that now!
Yes, "grog" did originate in the Royal Navy, and applies to rum with water mixed in with it. The Rum Ration was abolished in 1970. Amazingly the word "grog" has found its way into the Czech language (a country with no sea borders and no navy).
The “zz” names are usually names with an r at the break of two syllables. There is also the good old, shorten your name to the first syllable and add an “o” or “ie” to it… Davo, Tomo, Bronnie, Nattie…
I grew up in Melbourne. I’m now 70 yo (1954 vintage). One expression I still often use is … “fair dinkum”, I was surprised it didn’t feature in your clip. Perhaps one that just faded away ???
Mid 60's rural Qlder here. Funny how the slang we use can date us. I'm familiar with all of these except "muzzed". Slang comes & goes or drops of fashion. A lot of the newer ones like "dope" or "lit", I've heard & know the meaning but would never use myself. Conversely I use a lot of old fashioned slang & rhyming slang which sadly dates me & baffles the younger ones. I used to work with a bunch of great kids. They told me I so uncool that somehow I was also the super cool grand dad figure. Wtf? 😂 I'd like to think I'm reasonably well spoken but a while back I recorded myself. When I played it back I was mortified to hear the absolute bogan talking back to me. Ah well may as well accept the reality that I'm a bogan. Sigh!
Why is the American song: Route 66 pronounced as ‘Root 66’ when these days they say that they take route pronounced as rout. Will they sing the song as Rout 66?
A man was arrested taking fertilised budgerigar eggs out of Australia. He had tucked them into his speedos to keep them warm resulting in brief togs also being known as budgie smugglers ever since
Loved this 😂 soo funny - we certainly do like a good ‘short version of words’ - gotta love the Aussie accent/verbal language - I can understand why other countries do not understand our lingo
In California a Prawn is a BIG Shrimp.. Giant Ones... while Shirmp is slang for small, as well as what we call small medium and large shrimp. In the midwest they don't even know what a shrimp is.., unless they are Frozen.
The "Shrimp On The Barbie" thing is from a tourism campaign, "Come and Say G'day", that ran from 1984 to 1990, to attract sepos and poms down here. It was after the America's Cup win in 1983, and just before the first Crocodile Dundee movie in 1986. 😁 🙃🐨🇦🇺 p.s. a couple more aussie-isms for ya...😉 sepo - septic tank/yank - American pom - English/Great Britain. I think it's an abbreviation of Pride/prisoner of Mother England, hey, I could be wrong 🥴 Havagudun 😃
Bottle-os were individuals who drove (horse and cart) around the suburbs collecting (used) bottles. They would call out “Bottle-O” - 1d (one penny) a ❤bottle. 6d = 5 cents). Showing my age here, this was back in the 40’s and 50’s.
Prawns are marine, shrimps are fresh water/riverine, esp. along the Murray Darling river systems. (with Yabbies being the larger freshwater mini-lobsters. Yabbie was an aboriginal name)
I don't add an S before morning, afternoon or evening. I've never come across that ever and I've definitely never heard my friends/relatives/colleagues pronounce those words in that way ...and I've lived in Melbourne my whole life 😅 PS omg! Yes! We barbeque prawns every Christmas. They're delicious! The flavour is so intense and sweet!!!
Westies were a subset of yobbos. You could be from Erina, Dapto or even Matraville and display all the traits of a yobbo without being a few miles west of the ocean.
@@Simon.the.Likeable true that, possibly that's why bogun won in the end because it was a catch all for all these similar things... ie you couldn't be a westie in Dapto or Melbourne... you could be a yobbo or bogun... seeing Melbourne has a large population and the Sydney term was divided,... makes sense
@@drfill9210 Westie started as a slur amongst the surfers. At first in the '60s, they were called Parras, a diminution of Parramatta Pipeliners. Later in the '70s, Westie became more more popular as Sydney had sprawled out to Penrith. Adopting Melbourne slang was inevitable it seems. In the '60s the thought of a Sydney AFL team was an anathema yet now there are two.
I was surprised to hear a few (many) years ago it's meant to be "hooroo" but most people, including me, drop the H when they say it - like a lot of "H" words.
Haha, in some areas in Germany (e.g. Karlsruhe) people also use "hey" at the end of a sentence sometimes but with a falling tone instead of rising so it doesn't sound like a question. More like an emphasis, hey!
The French language do exactly the same thing when speaking the words that end with a consonant. They thread that consonant to the next word. Although not every sentence has that stretched final consonant of one word to the next, if you understand the French language, you can hear them say it.
I went to America about 16 years ago was a very long flight with stop overs had to wait 5 hours in LA to go to Ohio friends came to pick me up and asked me how was the flight my answer was I'm STUFFED they didn't know what I was talking about you should have seen the look on their faces so I had to explain it was Aussie slang for tired
On the piss, (Drinking alcohol, it applies more to drinking lots of beer). We know we are drunk when we have to piss for the third time. Pissed N broke, that means we've pissed our pay packet down the drain. Spent all our dosh (money) at the pub (public bar)
Although I know these Aussie sayings and words I don’t use very many of them. In my family it was considered common, uneducated or beneath us. That sounds snobby but we weren’t snobby or uppity. We were just ordinary Aussie folk. 🤣🤣 PS No wukkas was around in the 70’s!
When i lived in the USA I was called out for saying "stacks" Question: Do you have time to do this? Me: "yea stacks" Question: Do you have any money left to buy....whatever? Me: " yea stacks"
Colloquialisms are always interesting... since they often make no sense... you must have them explained. Slurs are another thing entirely... "Dywannnageddacoge" for " Do you want to get a Coke". I have been aced out of more than one job that required a Spanish speaker, when they would let some Mexican who only wanted another Mexican hired to "test" me, with this purposely sloppy diction often mixed with some regional colloquialisms. Those I often knew...but the mangled diction is really tough.. in any language... because it is entirely cultural.
i am australian born here to australian parents 5th generation aussie,lived in at least 5 country towns 2 of which had less than 500 people, at least 8 different suburbs of western sydney, pure bogan territory, so i think i can say i have a good handle of what is australian slang mate, best way to find out is someone is australian is to ask them to explain what is meant in the comedy skit australiana Austen Tayshus - Australiana (Official Uncensored Version) and ask if they can explain each word used, some of which are australian cities and towns and mountains and other aussie icons will :walla be there" is a cutting up of the word wallaby a australian animal, ''ill go if ding go's " a play on words of the word dingo a wild dog usually found out in central australia near the dingo fence which is the longest barrier of any type in the world. so here is a typical aussie conversation ive had with my mates so mate we are havin a barbie this weekend ,me and bazz and shaz are askin our mates to byo you know...bring the stubbies and the tinnies,and maybe some bundy and coke..ill buy the snags and bangers and mash,maybe bring the pav or buy one,and she will buy the wonder white,and we can throw some sprinkles on it for the kids,dont bring the tim tams this time they just melt in the summer sun..bring some bega cheese and ritz there softer than jatz. Righto Mate what time...oh you know ...yeah no worries mate,see ya then anyone willing to translate can reply..but any aussie thats lived here more than 20 years and knows aussie slang will know what it means
I remember being surprised by the amount of words that people learning English as a second language didn’t understand (I used to volunteer in our church “ESL” group). The funniest one to me was “chook” (chicken). I thought everyone would know that!
I'm from qld and I have and never will finish a sentence with but. (Except for now XD because you can't use at either) We use togs, swimmers and bathers, but not cozzie. Thank you for another classic vid, Mate.
I disagree with “but” being a meaningless ending. In my experience it is merely misplaced such as, “Nice weather. Might rain later but.” On the other hand “Ay or hey” at the end of a statement (or simply, in Queensland, a rising inflection) is seeking assent or agreement. I could be out of date, but “bogan” would designate an uncouth person. Similar to “Occa”. One would not own up to being bogan any more than they would admit to being dumb.
I used to think that yeah nah came from the cricket pitch, where two batsman would make a run then make the judgement whether to make a second run. one batsman might be quick and ready for the second run, the other is in a better position to make the judgement and see danger in the second run, so he calls it off. 🏏🏏
Sheila is another old Aussie slang used for a female/woman (not so much a young girl). It was also used derogatorily for a group of men “they’re a bunch o Sheila’s”
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we had some bbqs where there were prawns usually on ice
I'm a Taiwanese currently with working holiday visa in Australia, and this channel has been really helpful. From an Asian perspective, I used to only be able to tell something is western or not, and now I see how Aussie slang is just another whole new world. It's pretty intersting to discover how most of the content I've watched on TH-cam was quite American.
No one in Sydney used bogan until Kylie Mole and Colin Carpenter said it on TV. Before that, they were yobbos.
Or Westies
Poiter!
I remember when bogan was Victorian slang. We used Yobbo in Newcastle as well until Comedy Company came along.
@@jackvos8047 I still like Yobbo. Or mostly Yob.
I was born and bred on Sydney's north shore and went out of my way to find the nicest guy I could - he was from Campbelltown but was the sweetest, kindest, most intelligent, hard working guy - I'm still married to him 45 years later, Mum and Dad absolutely adored my "bogan" boy @@ryanbishell2279
Servos used to have workshops attached for vehicle maintenance.
Ah, is that why then? There're still some of those around (at least here in Vic where I live). Though, 'servo' is just used for all petrol stations with or without them.
Same when i used to live in south oz@@AussieEnglishPodcast
Still do in Tassie
@@msyoungau
Shell road houses had a motto over the workshop.
"Service is our business"
They'd have a mechanic shop. They'd also fill your tank, wash your windscreen, check your oil and washer fluid, and tyre pressure. Fill them if needed.
You can tell a Bogan by his mullet, flanno shirt, Winnie Blues up his sleeve, holding a tinnie, wearing moccos, doing doughnuts in his Holden ute, blasting Acca Dacca.
lol or the mullets on his kids...
It only takes one checkbox to qualify. :)
Wearing a flanno
@@AussieEnglishPodcastI saw children with mullets at my daughter's primary school and I used to think, you're already behind the eight ball XD
I got 4/8. Don't discriminate I'm a person too
Barbecued King or Banana prawns are great! It has to be an open grille type barbecue so the flames can crisp up the shell, which makes it crunchy and quite easy to eat! If they're nice clean prawns, you can scoff the whole thing! Delish!
I need to give em a go!
what kind of weirdo eats the shell
There’s another Aussie term… scoff 😆
For those who do not know, it means to eat or devour, usually with enthusiasm.
As a boy I worked as a 'bowser boy' (petrol bowser or petrol pump operator before automatic shut off pumps). We always asked, "Check ya oil, water, tyres and battery?" That was service at the 'servo' service station. Customers never had to get out of the car.
Back in the early 90s my local small town servo would still fill the car up when my nan was driving
Puke - to vomit
Sanger - sandwich
Snag - sausage
Dunny - toilet
Loo - toilet
Bog - toilet / feces
Mozzie - mosquito
Stinker - hot day
Pissing down - heavy rain
Buggered - worn out tired
Sickie - day off
Smoko - morning or afternoon tea
Avo - avocado
Ta - thanks
Kip - sleep
Dump - council garbage ground
Dump shop - council shop to sell useful garbage
Chunder instead of puke. ;)
Ahh.. And Seppo - although that is more common in Sydney I believe.
@@bofollbring7751 never heard anybody who wasn't a bogan say chunder 😆
@@bofollbring7751 bogans say chunder 😂😂😂
Take a dump. Have a crap
I've always described a bogan as an aussie hillbilly.
but the show upper middle bogan showcased the non-hillbilly bogan 😆
I usually say they are like an American redneck.
years ago a girl at my work complained about her boyfriend "he used to call me "Pet", now since he came back from Queensland he calls me "Mate" " so i said to her maybe he wants to go from petting to mating" she didnt get it
bahahaha. I bet that went down like a ton of bricks.
@@AussieEnglishPodcast shes lucky it wasnt bricks , it went way over her head , i think she was a blonde at heart
I said Pet, I said Love, I said please.
😂
😂
servo (short for service station) comes from a time back in the 50s and 60s when not only would someone fill up your car for you but would also check the oil. water and tyres and clean the windscreen for you. My first job was doing this during the summer holidays. You could click the bowser pump handle so that it kept pumping fuel into the car while you were getting these other jobs done and it would cut off automatically once it detected the tank was full. Removing the radiator cap to check the water level was a task fraught with peril on a hot summers day and required both a hand cloth and a sensitive touch. A good attendant could get all this done in the time it took your tank to fill.
I'm a Shell Auto Port driveway Attendant , in the 1980s where we concentrated on the customer cars not sold groceries. I learnt and teach others who grew up in softer times how to basically to take care of their car.
Plonk - Australian soldiers in World War 1 in France drank Blanc (white wine) and adopted the term Plonk (the sound of putting ice in water) to mean wine of all varieties. Getting on the plonk, was getting drunk on booze. Booze meaning to get inflated drinking alcohol originates in Holland and Germany in the 16th century. Off to the booza, off to the pub or hotel.
bottle-o has changed meaning.. it used to be the truck (or rather the man) that came around once every few months to collect the used beer bottles (and paid for them). last saw one in the 60s
He used to come around our way with a horse and cart and call out “Poor man, the bottle-o”!
@@roseberrycat horse and cart bottle-o came round until the early to mid 70s in Perth where I lived. The Milk-o went the way of the dodo in the early 90s I think. That was when I last used it anyway.
A Condom can be called a “franga” in Qld.
Same in Melbs. I always thought it's cuz it's like putting the skin on the 'sausage'/ frankfurter. 😂
Frankston is sometimes called Franga
Nsw too
Yep, or a dinga
@bornodnoc1034 what's rubber and swings through the trees? A frangatan
6:20 I believe Americans from the midwest also do the yeah nah/nah yeah thing too.
15:15 Kind of similar to this one is ending a sentence with "as". "Oh yeah, it's hot as". It's like we're too lazy to finish our simile🙂 I guess it's similar to the "as f***" (or af) that is quite common now, but we've been doing it for ages.
Oh and another thing we do that Adam Hills pointed out is we ask a lot of rhetorical questions. Like we might say "How heavy is this rain?" not really needing or asking for an answer. It's just our way of saying "This rain is really heavy isn't it?" Not slang per se but a quirk of Australian speech.
or seeing someone washing their car in the driveway and saying to them "mine's next mate"
I have kinda homesick now. Back home 3 months ago after 6 years living in Australia. This video makes me so happy but also miss the down under so bad!!!
Bog catchers or bog strainers for undies. Also "hawthorn undies" yellow at the front, brown at the back..
"Gosford skirt" for short skirt...
(Just south of the entrance)
I loved the thumbnail so much I clicked onto the video without even reading the title 😂
Leave me alone I'm on SMOKO is a cool hit .😅
G'day mate 🇦🇺🌟
haha good one!
Chats (Punk Band?)
We nurses use the “ambo” singular when we refer to the paramedic who handed over the patient to us in ED. Or the “ambos “ when we refer to the number of paramedics in an ambulance. Usually 2. 😊
Ive always used ambo to refer to both the vehicle and the paramedic, in singular and plural. "couple of ambos went past me on the way here when I was on the highway"
I heard that there was an Admiral Vernon who was stationed in the Windies, and he usually wore a boat coat called a Grogram, so he was called Old Grog. It was the practice to give a rum ration every day, and sailors were able to save it up and have a drunken spree, which was a lot more fun, but the usual sore heads were there in the morning. To combat this issue, Old Grog ordered that the rum be watered down, which meant that it couldn't be stored, and this new concoction was named in his honour.
Also, I am a biker, but am not a Bikie. The difference is that I ride a bike, but I am not a member of a Bikie gang. Live and learn.
Thank you for all you do Mr. Pete and God bless you and your family
Thanks, mate! Did you learn any new slang terms in this one?
I don’t eat prawns since I’m allergic, but the only time I have seen them on a barbie is when those tiny ones are used in a seafood skewer that is being cooked on a barbie, and it’s rare I see that even since they’re expensive, mostly only on a special occasion like Christmas Day or someone’s milestone birthday that they decided to celebrate with a barbie with quality foods, especially the meats like a slow cooked pork on a barbie to be shredded for burgers and gourmet handmade rissoles, handmade fancy herb infused gourmet butcher snags, T-bone steaks, spot roasted chook on a fancy bbq with an automated spit roaster, whole herb and lemon stuffed slow cooked barramundi ect, so it would make sense to cook some prawns in the seafood skewers too.
Nailed it!
Pretty common in NSW. They have to be big King prawns, preferably green ones with the shell still on. Huge queues to get into the Sydney Fish Market on Christmas eve to get your seafood for the Chrissie barbie.
A mate of mine will often order half a kilo of garlic prawns to throw on whenever we have a big bbq as a group.
Its annoying because it takes up an entire plate on the barbie 😂
If you want to know what a Bogan is, watch the TV show HOUSOS
Hahaha good one
Some PC (politically correct) people thought the show was putting down people ho lived in public housing. The REAL Housos in fact loved it!
Rams doing Ewey"s are common in the bush.
The shrimp/prawn thing was a joke that everything in Australia is bigger and better. "That's not a knife... THIS is a knife!"
Yeah, that's right!
Hi. I'm also from Melbourne. "No wuckers" was used back in the late 70s and 80s where I grew up in the Eastern suburbs. I think it is an old one that pops up each decade. Cheers.
Ta.I watch or listen to your channel every time when I have free time,even during my work hours.and I am fond of Down Under
Cheers, mate! Did you learn any new slang terms in this one?
@@AussieEnglishPodcast yep.
I like it. It is Fair dinkum Aussie words
hehe awesome!
Perth here - we go prawning in the estuary during summer, and will often take our little barbie, and cook some prawns directly from the water. At Christmas and New Year, I buy large King prawns, soak them overnight in soy sauce and garlic, throw them on the bbq. Very yummy for sure
Also from Perth. I will give the prawns soaked in soy sauce and garlic a go this Crissie 👍
Amazing! I guess I just need to give it a burl
@@freeman10000 I hope you enjoy it. My whole family love them 😉 and Merry Christmas 🎄
@@freeman10000 I should have mentioned, some times I also add a large tablespoon of local honey to the marinade. It helps to keep the prawns sweet 🦐
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Nobody ever mentions “grouse” in these videos, ie “awesome” or “great”.
One of the most commonly used Aussie expressions imo.
Yeah it's gone the way of the dodo I reckon
@ dunno I use it all the time
Don't forget the Umbrella.. Brolly/ Brollie ..
That's British.
@0Zolrender0 .. Also Australian..
@@0Zolrender0 yeah....nah
We got that Paul Hogan TV commercial in The UK and we know what prawns are, so "throwing a shrimp on the barbie" came across to me as being very ungenerous as shrimps are tiny .
A lot of those contractions are very commonplace here as well ... "pissed" for drunk has been used for decades .. "bevvy" for an alcoholic drink is sometimes used, but normally by scousers (those are people from Liverpool FYI), "pressie" for a present/gift and "cossie" for a swimming costume are used a lot ... incidentally has anyone else noticed that the map showing where in Oz they use "bathers" for swimming-costumes correlates with those regions and States where Australian Rules Football (a.k.a. "footy" or AFL) is traditionally very popular? 😀 Oh yes ... we use "footy" as a term for football in The UK as well, but normally here we would mean the game also known as "soccer".
A lot of similarities here. In north West England we say 'cossie'. We also use 'trackie bottoms' or 'trackie' for the whole fit. We 'do a U-ie' We get 'prezzies' Christmas is more like 'chrimbo' though.
A bit more childish, we say 'Maccies'
'Bevvy', one of my favourite scouse terms. No worries
Terms for getting pissed aren't even countable. Contextually, you can say anything that sounds vaguely descriptive and we'll know what you mean. My favourite is when someone's off their tits on mdma we'd say they're pinging
So it's you guys who gave us those, huh?
@@AussieEnglishPodcast Maybe the other way round. Most of them are particularly regional here, which is the strangest part.
For speeding in a car there is "fangin' it" and then there is the little old lady driver who "pootles along".
Do you know the poem "The Intergrated Adjective" by John Patrick O'Grady, otherwise known as Nino Culotto who wrote "They're a Weird Mob".
Bottleo is a bottle shop now but in the 50s and 60s the bottleo was someone who drove a truck or car with a trailer driving around the streets calling out bottleo to buy your beer bottles
I wouldn't be surprised if they were related and the term evolved from one to the other. very interesting!
I'm watching from Pakistan I wanna learn Aussie slang thanks sir it's great class
You should watch the course "How to speak Australians"
Hehe hope you learnt some new ones mate!
youve already done a great job with "wanna"
Victoria Bitter (Green Death) XXXX (Barbed Wire).
VB is the most popular packaged beer in the country. CUB is owned by the Japanese now. Asahi/Sapporo.
lol
Bush Chook or Emu Export is very popular in WA particularly in the country.
VB is only drunk by foreigners ie Australians from Restof (Australia)
I'm a white Australian, born here. I've had BBQ'd prawns here...though only with Chinese people.
Also, with Drongo, there is another famous name that came to mind - Bradbury - doing a Bradbury.
Can’t stop laughing at the budgie wearing Aussie ‘budgie smugglers’ - love our Aussie slang 🤣🤣🤣
Grog shop, sells alcohol. Grog is strong alcohol, historically Rum in Australia. Grog is a strong alcohol mixed or diluted with water, originally provided as payment instead of wages to convicts and workers in the colonies of Australia.
Prawns and shrimp are both crustaceans with 10 legs, but they have several differences, including:
Size: Prawns are generally larger than shrimp.
Legs: Prawns have pincers on three sets of legs, while shrimp have pincers on only one set.
Shell: Shrimp have a flexible, accordion-like shell, while prawns have a stiffer shell with overlapping segments.
Habitat: Prawns live in subtidal sandy and rocky habitats, while shrimp live in all oceans, as well as freshwater lakes and streams.
Taste: Prawns are generally considered to be slightly sweeter than shrimp, which have a noticeably salty and savory taste.
Parenting: Shrimp carry their eggs on their abdomen after fertilization, but prawns release their eggs into the water.
Wow, no kidding? I didn't realise
Don't forget the Murray River Prawn! Prawns and Shrimp both living together in fresh water.
Americans call all those edible crustaceans "shrimp"; Australians call them "prawns". If you have seen Forest Gump, his friend Bubba lists all the different ways of preparing shrimp, and Forest starts the Bubba-Gump Shrimp Company. The Paul Hogan ad where he says "put another shrimp on the barbie" was made for broadcast in the USA where they would understand "shrimp" but not "prawn". Australians have been complaining about it ever since but it was never aimed at them. Tourists, however, should never say "put a shrimp on the barbie", they'll get their heads bitten off if they do.
For the information of that person who complained about barbecued prawns, I suggest she try some. They are really good.
@@ahdoodeclair We all know this, but as they said, biologically there is a difference between shrimps and prawns. That's why here in South Australia, in our major river, there are River Murray Shrimp and River Murray Prawns living side by side. The Prawns aren't Shrimp, and the Shrimp aren't Prawns, even though they superficially look very similar. Biologically, they're classified as belonging to two separate groups. Hopefully you're understanding that now!
I'm actually proud of our Aussie slang. It's unique and endearing. It gives us our own language that only a true blue Aussie really get.
When I was at the Uni (Sydney University) important official events were carried out at the "Grey Tall", i.e. The Great Hall.
Melbourne University is called "Melbin Ewenie"
hahaha That reminds me of when I was a kid in Vic and we'd go on holidays to Phila Biland (Phillip Island).
Best phonetic Australian book ever 'How to talk Strine' by Afferbeck Lauder. It took me 10 years living here to even click what the trick name was 😂
Chook - chicken, although more a colloquial word than slang; even the ABC's gardening show uses "chooks' very often.
What about wagging, we used to wag school alot.
Yes and hope noone dobbed you in.
Yes, "grog" did originate in the Royal Navy, and applies to rum with water mixed in with it. The Rum Ration was abolished in 1970.
Amazingly the word "grog" has found its way into the Czech language (a country with no sea borders and no navy).
Hey at the end of a sentence is West Australian I remember my mam (from Yorkshire) used to say to me "Horses eat it" When ever I said Hey.
I am from QLD "Hay makes a bull fat staw makes him skinny take him to the sale and sell him for a guinea" I am in my early seventies.
The “zz” names are usually names with an r at the break of two syllables.
There is also the good old, shorten your name to the first syllable and add an “o” or “ie” to it… Davo, Tomo, Bronnie, Nattie…
did you get called Nashie? you might have in a footy team.
I grew up in Melbourne.
I’m now 70 yo (1954 vintage).
One expression I still often use is … “fair dinkum”,
I was surprised it didn’t feature in your clip.
Perhaps one that just faded away ???
Mid 60's rural Qlder here. Funny how the slang we use can date us. I'm familiar with all of these except "muzzed". Slang comes & goes or drops of fashion. A lot of the newer ones like "dope" or "lit", I've heard & know the meaning but would never use myself. Conversely I use a lot of old fashioned slang & rhyming slang which sadly dates me & baffles the younger ones. I used to work with a bunch of great kids. They told me I so uncool that somehow I was also the super cool grand dad figure. Wtf? 😂 I'd like to think I'm reasonably well spoken but a while back I recorded myself. When I played it back I was mortified to hear the absolute bogan talking back to me. Ah well may as well accept the reality that I'm a bogan. Sigh!
Dope and Lit are yank slang. Any self respecting Aussie should avoid them
'Heard that difference between shrimps & prawns - shrimps have 2 pairs of front segmented legs, while prawns have 3 pairs.
8:50 we Aussies often substitute in a schwa vowel sound. So we're not saying "The sarvo" we're saying "thus arvo"
Why is the American song: Route 66 pronounced as ‘Root 66’ when these days they say that they take route pronounced as rout. Will they sing the song as Rout 66?
Different names for beer sizes - stubbie (also for shorts), schooner, etc.
In Sydney a bogan was a Westie!
A man was arrested taking fertilised budgerigar eggs out of Australia. He had tucked them into his speedos to keep them warm resulting in brief togs also being known as budgie smugglers ever since
yes i have used Ambo to describe a single ambulance officer
And firie for fireman, sparky for electrician, chippy for carpenter…
love sweet chilly prawns on the barbie.... marinade squired prawns (peeled) and have them in a foiled tray to keep the barbie clean .
Loved this 😂 soo funny - we certainly do like a good ‘short version of words’ - gotta love the Aussie accent/verbal language - I can understand why other countries do not understand our lingo
'morno's' vs 'smoko' for morning tea is another one you could draw a map with
Hey Pete! How r u? In Portuguese there's a slang very similiar in form and meaning to drongo: It's mondrongo. My grandpa used to say it a lot.
In California a Prawn is a BIG Shrimp.. Giant Ones... while Shirmp is slang for small, as well as what we call small medium and large shrimp. In the midwest they don't even know what a shrimp is.., unless they are Frozen.
The "Shrimp On The Barbie" thing is from a tourism campaign, "Come and Say G'day", that ran from 1984 to 1990, to attract sepos and poms down here. It was after the America's Cup win in 1983, and just before the first Crocodile Dundee movie in 1986. 😁
🙃🐨🇦🇺
p.s. a couple more aussie-isms for ya...😉
sepo - septic tank/yank - American
pom - English/Great Britain. I think it's an abbreviation of Pride/prisoner of Mother England, hey, I could be wrong 🥴
Havagudun 😃
Good ones! Cheers, mate!
Buggie smugglers had a new meaning when a person caught at the airport with tranquillised birds in his underpants 🤔😂
Bottle-os were individuals who drove (horse and cart) around the suburbs collecting (used) bottles. They would call out “Bottle-O” - 1d (one penny) a ❤bottle. 6d = 5 cents). Showing my age here, this was back in the 40’s and 50’s.
Doing a screaming u-ie as the tires would squeal as you did the u turn. Most places in Sydney doing as u turn is illegal.
Haha good one. Wow, really? You can't do U-ies in Sydney? Is that because the streets are so narrow?
Did you ever chuck a yucky?
Also "chuck a chewie"
@@AussieEnglishPodcast U can definitely do U turns in Sydney. It's a big city.
@@cjod33 To be more specific you can't do a U turn at the traffic lights on main roads. On a smaller side street you can.
Prawns are marine, shrimps are fresh water/riverine, esp. along the Murray Darling river systems. (with Yabbies being the larger freshwater mini-lobsters. Yabbie was an aboriginal name)
I’m in Melbourne too and at school in the 70s we used to say togs, but now it’s pretty much bathers.
Oh no kidding? Interesting! but never cozzie?
@@AussieEnglishPodcast never. Only those weird Sydneysiders said cossies 😂
I don't add an S before morning, afternoon or evening. I've never come across that ever and I've definitely never heard my friends/relatives/colleagues pronounce those words in that way ...and I've lived in Melbourne my whole life 😅
PS omg! Yes! We barbeque prawns every Christmas. They're delicious! The flavour is so intense and sweet!!!
Another Aussie term. Woop Woop. as in "I don't want to live out in Woop Woop"
The other side of the black stump
Barbecued prawns is something I've done for 40 plus years and will continue to do as long as my local supermarket sells prawns!
So, if you do a Maccas run, you have to make 2 trips? One to go to Maccas, and one to get some food ... ;-)
Bogan is a Victorian word that won out over "westie". From NSW
@@drfill9210 I'm a Westie true and through.
Westies were a subset of yobbos. You could be from Erina, Dapto or even Matraville and display all the traits of a yobbo without being a few miles west of the ocean.
@@petercrispin2129 so am I, I just never knew it half my life
@@Simon.the.Likeable true that, possibly that's why bogun won in the end because it was a catch all for all these similar things... ie you couldn't be a westie in Dapto or Melbourne... you could be a yobbo or bogun... seeing Melbourne has a large population and the Sydney term was divided,... makes sense
@@drfill9210 Westie started as a slur amongst the surfers. At first in the '60s, they were called Parras, a diminution of Parramatta Pipeliners. Later in the '70s, Westie became more more popular as Sydney had sprawled out to Penrith. Adopting Melbourne slang was inevitable it seems. In the '60s the thought of a Sydney AFL team was an anathema yet now there are two.
You say too-roo. I say oo-roo (like Don Burke always used to say).
I was surprised to hear a few (many) years ago it's meant to be "hooroo" but most people, including me, drop the H when they say it - like a lot of "H" words.
From Far North Queensland. Byjingo = it was a water ice block- like Icypole. Port = school suitcase. Pad= school notebook.
Never hard of Muzzed. I used to be called Muzza when I was in high school.
hahaha yep. I've a friend called Muz (surname Murray), but had never heard 'muzzed'.
Haha, in some areas in Germany (e.g. Karlsruhe) people also use "hey" at the end of a sentence sometimes but with a falling tone instead of rising so it doesn't sound like a question. More like an emphasis, hey!
I don’t know if it still is true but a redhead was known a Blue!
That was common years ago - say in the '40s or the '50s.
and Blue is another word for "fight" ... e.g. he had a blue with his mate.
Shrimp are used for bait. Can't imagine anyone eating them though - except a fish
We were using “no wucking furries” in Sydney in the 1970’s and had shortened it to “no wukkers” in the early 1980’s
The French language do exactly the same thing when speaking the words that end with a consonant. They thread that consonant to the next word. Although not every sentence has that stretched final consonant of one word to the next, if you understand the French language, you can hear them say it.
The add was made for the US. Apparently the Americans didn't know what a prawn was so they called them shrimps.
I went to America about 16 years ago was a very long flight with stop overs had to wait 5 hours in LA to go to Ohio friends came to pick me up and asked me how was the flight my answer was I'm STUFFED they didn't know what I was talking about you should have seen the look on their faces so I had to explain it was Aussie slang for tired
haha that's great! I'll have to remember to mention that in a future vid. Hadn't realised "stuffed" was so Aussie
On the piss, (Drinking alcohol, it applies more to drinking lots of beer). We know we are drunk when we have to piss for the third time. Pissed N broke, that means we've pissed our pay packet down the drain. Spent all our dosh (money) at the pub (public bar)
Although I know these Aussie sayings and words I don’t use very many of them. In my family it was considered common, uneducated or beneath us. That sounds snobby but we weren’t snobby or uppity. We were just ordinary Aussie folk. 🤣🤣 PS No wukkas was around in the 70’s!
the sunny coast is the one dirty green colour that reps boardies my beach towel towel says life's better in boardshorts
lol really?
In Afrikaans we say ja nee (yes no) to agree with someone/something - it's also slipped into South African English where we say yeah no
When i lived in the USA I was called out for saying "stacks"
Question: Do you have time to do this?
Me: "yea stacks"
Question: Do you have any money left to buy....whatever?
Me: " yea stacks"
I've always called cigarettes darts. Woolies for Woolworths is a really common one now. And bludge/er/ing
Colloquialisms are always interesting... since they often make no sense... you must have them explained. Slurs are another thing entirely... "Dywannnageddacoge" for " Do you want to get a Coke". I have been aced out of more than one job that required a Spanish speaker, when they would let some Mexican who only wanted another Mexican hired to "test" me, with this purposely sloppy diction often mixed with some regional colloquialisms. Those I often knew...but the mangled diction is really tough.. in any language... because it is entirely cultural.
i am australian born here to australian parents 5th generation aussie,lived in at least 5 country towns 2 of which had less than 500 people, at least 8 different suburbs of western sydney, pure bogan territory, so i think i can say i have a good handle of what is australian slang
mate, best way to find out is someone is australian is to ask them to explain what is meant in the comedy skit australiana Austen Tayshus - Australiana (Official Uncensored Version)
and ask if they can explain each word used, some of which are australian cities and towns and mountains and other aussie icons will :walla be there" is a cutting up of the word wallaby a australian animal, ''ill go if ding go's " a play on words of the word dingo a wild dog usually found out in central australia near the dingo fence which is the longest barrier of any type in the world.
so here is a typical aussie conversation ive had with my mates
so mate we are havin a barbie this weekend ,me and bazz and shaz are askin our mates to byo you know...bring the stubbies and the tinnies,and maybe some bundy and coke..ill buy the snags and bangers and mash,maybe bring the pav or buy one,and she will buy the wonder white,and we can throw some sprinkles on it for the kids,dont bring the tim tams this time they just melt in the summer sun..bring some bega cheese and ritz there softer than jatz.
Righto Mate what time...oh you know ...yeah no worries mate,see ya then
anyone willing to translate can reply..but any aussie thats lived here more than 20 years and knows aussie slang will know what it means
I find it funny that the first word was bogan, and then in the second interview the girl was quintessentially bogan in the nicest way.
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. Loved it haha
Smoko is having a break for morning tea
I remember being surprised by the amount of words that people learning English as a second language didn’t understand (I used to volunteer in our church “ESL” group). The funniest one to me was “chook” (chicken). I thought everyone would know that!
Bathers are what I grew up saying 😊❤
I'm from qld and I have and never will finish a sentence with but. (Except for now XD because you can't use at either) We use togs, swimmers and bathers, but not cozzie. Thank you for another classic vid, Mate.
English also use Pissed regularly. I don't know about Canadians, but I expect so.
I disagree with “but” being a meaningless ending. In my experience it is merely misplaced such as, “Nice weather. Might rain later but.” On the other hand “Ay or hey” at the end of a statement (or simply, in Queensland, a rising inflection) is seeking assent or agreement.
I could be out of date, but “bogan” would designate an uncouth person. Similar to “Occa”. One would not own up to being bogan any more than they would admit to being dumb.
I agree. It is a substitute for 'though'.
I used to think that yeah nah came from the cricket pitch, where two batsman would make a run then make the judgement whether to make a second run. one batsman might be quick and ready for the second run, the other is in a better position to make the judgement and see danger in the second run, so he calls it off. 🏏🏏
Interesting if true! I like it
For Cricket Its ,,.. Yes ,, No ,, Wait ,, Sorry....
Sheila is another old Aussie slang used for a female/woman (not so much a young girl). It was also used derogatorily for a group of men “they’re a bunch o Sheila’s”
Bird another name of women