Dirty-ish Aussie Slang Words that Confused Me as an American

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  • We all know Australian slang can be a bit confusing to learn, but when one word in Aussie English means something completely different in American English, it can lead to some awkward conversations with your Aussie mates.
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  • @helixator3975
    @helixator3975 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Had an American exchange student come to our high school in the mid eighties who proudly announced that one of her pastimes back home was “rooting” for her highs school football team …cheeky voice at the back of the hall called out “you can do that here if you want “…. brought the house down

  • @ummagummaman
    @ummagummaman 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

    First time in the US a lady was talking about an earthquake experience and how she fell FLAT ON HER FANNY. My friend and I were so confused thinking she did the splits or something 🤣

    • @evanevans1843
      @evanevans1843 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not wanting to show gender bias, we should also include "flat bagging" Roy and HG's non-paternalistic term. When a more vigorous and horizontal flat bag, it becomes a "battered sav."

  • @Dallas-Nyberg
    @Dallas-Nyberg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    My favorite is the variety of ways the word bastard is used here in Australia.....
    For example, you can be described as ....
    A mongrel bastard - A funny bastard - a sick bastard - A clever bastard - A useless bastard - An ignorant bastard - A dumb bastard - An interesting bastard - A fat or skinny bastard - a complete or total bastard - An absolute bastard - An old or young bastard - and on it goes...

    • @audralamenti8908
      @audralamenti8908 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You can do the same with c*nt, or most swear words. Context is everything.

    • @nolajoy7759
      @nolajoy7759 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My son was once called "an affable c**t" as a compliment 😮😂

    • @chrispowell6582
      @chrispowell6582 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Same can be used for c word. I think it’s all about context. It’s less about the body part and morphs into another meaning like the word ‘prick’ (the male body part) doesn’t relate to the body part when you call someone a f*cking prick.
      Ones in jest spoken in a light hearted manner:
      Funny c
      Silly c
      Stupid c
      Angry ones spoken with a bit more heat:
      Stupid c
      F*cking c
      C (on its own)
      Nasty c
      Etc.

    • @carbine5378
      @carbine5378 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      We’re special aren’t we?🤪🤭

    • @carolcox302
      @carolcox302 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@carbine5378 My word, cobber.

  • @nickfatsis9607
    @nickfatsis9607 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    Another one is "Rooted" meaning "I'm so fucking tired, I'm rooted" or if something is broken it's said as "My drill is broken, it's beyond repair, it's rooted"

    • @GregoryElliott1973
      @GregoryElliott1973 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah. It just means you're fucked

    • @davidlean8674
      @davidlean8674 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I love it how the Yanks root for their team. If my missus asked if I wanted to root for the team. I figure sure. We'll do that & then I'll watch the game on delay. 🙂

    • @profanegardener
      @profanegardener 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah but that's just a synonym for "fucked'.... so sorta same thing as Kaitlyn explained.

    • @davidlean8674
      @davidlean8674 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@profanegardener True. And it has been amusing Aussie schoolboys for decades before Kaitlyn was even conceived.

    • @adamjd7645
      @adamjd7645 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And all are loose synonyms for "fucked."

  • @jameslittleton4131
    @jameslittleton4131 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    'Fanny Pack', cracked me up when visiting family in Canada back in the 70s. Which is why i still have the one i bought from a popular chain store. Yep, i am the proud owner of a Roots Fanny Pack, which has a beaver on it to cover all the options. :D

    • @colinl9018
      @colinl9018 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nice Beaver.

    • @defenderoftheadverb
      @defenderoftheadverb 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sounds well and truly fuckable.

  • @fleachamberlain1905
    @fleachamberlain1905 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +189

    "Cracking on" = hitting on, not just flirting.
    "Crack on" = getting on with a task.

    • @paula-yr7pp
      @paula-yr7pp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I have never heard of crack on for flirting before just used for getting on with a task

    • @Rhythmattica
      @Rhythmattica 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wanting to get with a chick in the bar.
      "Yeh mate, you going to try and Crack on to her?"
      Or..
      "Im going to Crack on with the Job"
      Im guessing the saying comes from the whip, Where you crack a whip to get Cattle , etc moving..

    • @jemxs
      @jemxs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@paula-yr7ppthat guy over there just cracked onto me...made me 🤮

    • @gerardhogan3
      @gerardhogan3 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@jemxsthat BLOKE over there just cracked on me

    • @The_Slavstralian
      @The_Slavstralian 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yeah I've used "Crack on" to say " can we stop screwing around and get on with what we are doing " , AKA " Can we f**ken crack on or what? "

  • @marvindebot3264
    @marvindebot3264 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

    I don't understand why thongs confuse Americans so much. Up until the 70s flip flops were called thongs in the US as well, the underwear is named after the footwear, not the other way around. In some states, you will still hear them called thongs.

    • @Teagirl009
      @Teagirl009 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      THIS!😂.We call them the original name here. And yes in the US even up until the mid 80s they were known as Thongs. I'll accept jandals from NZ but I don't accept calling them flip flops, it sounds a bit silly naming clothing after the noise it makes.

    • @MrDisasterboy
      @MrDisasterboy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Teagirl009 don't the poms call thongs, flipflops? I think it's acceptable.

    • @iantaylor5292
      @iantaylor5292 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Sometimes also referred to as fanny flossers.

    • @alanhilder1883
      @alanhilder1883 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      The footwear was around long before the underwear.

    • @tonykisvardai2346
      @tonykisvardai2346 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I always think of Slides as flip flops, then there's thongs (kiwi jandals), none of which should be confused with sandals, which if you are an old bastard/c**t should always be worn with shorts and long white socks!

  • @tazgecko
    @tazgecko 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    "Bugger" is another word that's used often in Australia. "Bugger me I'm stuffed", "Bugger off", "He's buggered". I didn't even think it was a dirty word until on an US chat post I got told off for swearing.

    • @warrenmilford6848
      @warrenmilford6848 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I had this great American grade 7 schoolteacher who was at my school in QLD as part of an exchange program in the '70's. He was the best teacher I ever had, however, when chatting to him after school one day I used the word 'damn'. He was shocked and said I shouldn't swear like that and instead should use the word 'darn'. I nearly pissed myself laughing because me and the other kids regularly used every swear word going in our regular lingo.

    • @matthewbrown6163
      @matthewbrown6163 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bugger is a swear word & it has a disgusting meaning but compared to most it mild now.

    • @AndyViant
      @AndyViant 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The meaning has always been serious. Worse than F***, technically. We're just culturally used it it and the C bomb too.

    • @SupermanForever1979
      @SupermanForever1979 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's not a dirty word, and definately not through the assessment of an amercian. It's not an American term so they really can't declare what type it is.

    • @AndyViant
      @AndyViant 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SupermanForever1979 you know it's a direct reference to committing unnatural s3x acts, originally an*l s*x, but later b3stiality right?
      It was a crime punishable by the d3ath penalty.

  • @katzrantz
    @katzrantz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    "crack onto" is trying to pick up, crack on is getting on with it, especially when "it" is arduous.

    • @Scuzzlebutt142
      @Scuzzlebutt142 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Was gonna say, we use "Crack on" in New Zealand, and it means to get on with it, fairly certain is was the same in Fair Dinkum land as well.

    • @Rassskle
      @Rassskle 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Exactly, and I gotta busy day so I better get to it and crack on.

  • @dougstubbs9637
    @dougstubbs9637 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    Wombat…eats roots shoots and leaves.

    • @geoffcunningham6896
      @geoffcunningham6896 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      lol i used to live just out side of wombat funny little town :) there pub sold shirts with that saying on them lol

    • @kshred3043
      @kshred3043 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nah mate, that's a kiwi. Yet another aussie misappropriation. 😜

  • @sarahmacintosh6449
    @sarahmacintosh6449 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    I got sent to the principal's office twice in my first month of American kindergarten. Once was for asking the teacher for a rubber. The other was when i pulled out and used the Vicks vaporstick mum had sent me with for my cold. Not sure what the teacher thought was going on, but she didn't like me sniffing anything up my nose in her classroom! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @doodlegassum6959
      @doodlegassum6959 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Pulled out after requesting rubber.

    • @emceeboogieboots1608
      @emceeboogieboots1608 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@doodlegassum6959Rubber request denied!
      Pull out...Pull out😂

    • @doodlegassum6959
      @doodlegassum6959 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@emceeboogieboots1608 Alert!Alert! Vicks vapour stick deployed

    • @ashcustomworks
      @ashcustomworks 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That read like it was going quite differently until I clicked "read more"!! 😂

    • @MusiCatsKing
      @MusiCatsKing 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your mum shouldn't have sent you there with a cold anyway..

  • @peterhoz
    @peterhoz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +186

    Pissed is never angry in AUS. Always needs "off" added. Pissed is always drunk.

    • @marievandoorn73
      @marievandoorn73 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      And legless is the final stage of being pissed

    • @DaveOz-mx5oh
      @DaveOz-mx5oh 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      depends on *CONTEXT* "Someone broke into his car, he's still pretty pissed about it" - clearly he's angry, not drunk, given the context

    • @continental_drift
      @continental_drift 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@marievandoorn73 I always thought the final stage was "talking in braille".

    • @geoffmesser5091
      @geoffmesser5091 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@continental_drifttwo left legs and talking shorthand.

    • @dougstubbs9637
      @dougstubbs9637 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Wobbly boots

  • @shaunneal9981
    @shaunneal9981 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    I worked on remote mine sites in Aus and being called a c_nt is a term of endearment!

    • @Nathan-dk8zz
      @Nathan-dk8zz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Maybe you need to join the dots. :)

    • @ihateemael
      @ihateemael 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      here, that word is very "versatile" ! . . depending on the circles you mix in.

    • @stuarthynes6136
      @stuarthynes6136 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I worked construction as an electrician and my best mate worked oil rigs... that's how we answer our calls.
      Caring
      Understanding
      Nurturing
      Types.

    • @ihateemael
      @ihateemael 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@stuarthynes6136 Pearler! . . (good one)

  • @axle2327
    @axle2327 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    It's funny watching you "swear like an Aussie"
    So innocent 😂😂

    • @MusiCatsKing
      @MusiCatsKing 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nor just funny, it's a turn-on!

  • @kevinquinn7645
    @kevinquinn7645 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    My favourites are the use of similes like 'Off like a bride's nightie', 'Dry as a dead dingo's donga' and 'Busy as a one legged man in an arse kicking contest'.

    • @campbellhenderson9335
      @campbellhenderson9335 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Blue arsed fly...

    • @brilliantbutblue
      @brilliantbutblue 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Flat out like a lizard drinking.

    • @campbellhenderson9335
      @campbellhenderson9335 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@brilliantbutblue dry as a nun's

    • @brilliantbutblue
      @brilliantbutblue 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@campbellhenderson9335 : 🤣🤣🤣

    • @nolajoy7759
      @nolajoy7759 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Head like a bashed crab 😅

  • @dramoth64
    @dramoth64 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    An example of how much the word piss gets used for so many things here in Australia.
    So I was sitting around with some mates and Johnno said how about we go down the pub for a piss up. So we jumped in the car and pissed off down to the pub to get on the piss. So, as it always happens when you're sinking piss, I need to go for a piss. So I told the guys and pissed off towards the bog. As I was passing the bar, I bumped into a guy and knocked his piss out of his hand and man did he get pissed. So being a nice guy, I said sorry and brought him another pint of piss and kept going. At the end of the night, we were all too pissed to drive home, so we caught a cab. Then when we got back to my place, one of my pissed mates decides he's going to piss on the neighbours lemon tree. But the neighbour was up... and shouted out and scared the piss out of my mate.

    • @carolcox302
      @carolcox302 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wonderful, but better if he was pissed OFF.

    • @dramoth64
      @dramoth64 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@carolcox302 Doesn't need the off when Australians are talking. We're all about inflection and intonation. Australian is after all a very physical language. Remember I'm commenting from a first person perspective.

    • @carolcox302
      @carolcox302 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dramoth64 @peterhoz agrees with me. Pissed OFF. Pissed is drunk, never angry, in Australia. Has absolutely nothing to do with intonation.

    • @dramoth64
      @dramoth64 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@carolcox302 Geez, that guy is really pissed. Can be either pissed off or pissed as in drunk.

    • @littleblackcat2273
      @littleblackcat2273 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Pure poetry. :)

  • @kerrydoutch5104
    @kerrydoutch5104 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Crack on also means "keep going" as in "ok well better crack on"

  • @michaelfink64
    @michaelfink64 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    The meaning of "crack on" in Australia depends on the circumstance. If you say "crack on to"

    • @utha2665
      @utha2665 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Shag is more of a UK term, used way more often there, although it does get used to a lesser extent here. I'm surprised she didn't use any rhyming slang, especially calling someone a seppo. For Americans reading this, it's a little bit of a derogatory name for an American. But, as always, it depends on how it's used. Seppo is a contraction of septic, which is a contraction of septic tank, which is rhyming slang fora yank, which of course is an American. I know some in the south say they're not a yank, but what choice do you have? You're either a yank or a confederate and they didn't fare too well.

    • @bluedog1052
      @bluedog1052 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@utha2665 But then the birds need a shag or root too, especially if they're ones cracking onto ya.

    • @derekmills5394
      @derekmills5394 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When i was a youngster 'shag' meant to eat quickly (like the birds who swallow fish whole)
      It would be reasonable to say "Just gonna shag my dinner - need to get some work done in the garden before it's dark"

  • @mickcompagnoni1114
    @mickcompagnoni1114 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    @4:30. I propose a different hypothesis. To "Crack on" is to get going, to get on with it, to continue after a pause. i.e. "Nah, I've had a couple of beers. I'd better crack on." To make an attempt - "Yeah, I'll give it a crack."

  • @tomsaunders383
    @tomsaunders383 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    My wife is Canadian and the one that cracks her up the most is head down bum up although working like a beaver is close.

  • @mjb7015
    @mjb7015 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    When I was in year 11 (16-17 years old), a couple of guys were joking around in maths class (we say maths in Australia, not math). When the teacher told them that any conversation had to be relevant to mathematics, the class clown quipped "I could go for a square root!" 😆🤭A pun that only works in Australia.

    • @sammidee4713
      @sammidee4713 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      The reason we sensible Australians say maths and not math, is because the full word is not mathematic, it is as you pointed out, mathematics. A plural word, therefore a plural shortening. Yanks don't get that difference.

    • @resourcedragon
      @resourcedragon 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Also from maths class:
      Can i √ u if u ≥ 18 ?

    • @vk3fbab
      @vk3fbab 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Just don't be caught maths debating.

    • @stephenpower8723
      @stephenpower8723 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@resourcedragon the correct formula is b4 i√u ru/18

  • @andrewh.8403
    @andrewh.8403 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    An old mate of mine was telling me about that day's geography class homework review about Tasmania, the place, not the state of mind. Teacher asked the class.. "Righto, show us your map of Tassie" It was the early 1980's, so we're pretty sure he knew damn well what he was saying. But for a bunch of randy teenage surfers, it was a hit.

    • @afpwebworks
      @afpwebworks 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I had a similar experience when our geography teacher in NZ in 1965 told us that the priincipal crop on farms in Raratonga was oranges. But the issue was their skin was fairly thick sompared to Californian oranges So teh pith was too thick too (the white fleshy layer between the skin and the fruit you eat). "In fact," he said, "you could say that Raratongan oranges were pretty pith poor." It had the class of 14-15 year old boys in fits of laughter for ages.

    • @vk3fbab
      @vk3fbab 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Map of Tasmania gets so many foreigners. Watch their faces when you explain it is priceless. I got my mates Mrs from Canada a beauty. They were going there and I asked if she had a map of Tassie. She said no, and I said she needed one. So she said loudly to everyone I need to get a map of Tasmania. All the Aussie blokes were on the floor laughing.

  • @Devinn777
    @Devinn777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Rootin in the Back of the Ute was a pretty popular Kevin Bloody Wilson song when I was a teenager in the 80s

    • @damiangordon8893
      @damiangordon8893 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      that is still a great song mate lol😂

    • @partymanau
      @partymanau 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Kev is a professor of Australian Language.

    • @carolyns99
      @carolyns99 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Rack off Normie by ... well I have no idea, but it was a great song.

    • @gemfyre855
      @gemfyre855 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "I rooted a girl who rooted a guy who rooted a guy who rooted a girl who rooted a guy who rooted a girl who rooted SHANE CRAWFORD" - TISM

  • @gordonmccabe6578
    @gordonmccabe6578 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Hey, the C---- word is often used as a term of endearment amongst blokes(men), "Hey! Howyagoin' ya cu>t?"

  • @6226superhurricane
    @6226superhurricane 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    a rubber is a condom or franger in australia too. we just know that unless you're about to have a root they're probably talking about an eraser.

  • @audralamenti8908
    @audralamenti8908 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    My grandfather always used Aussie rhyming slang. I can remember a few...
    dead horse=tomato sauce
    Pat Malone=alone
    ham & eggs=legs
    Al Capone=telephone
    Jatz Crackers=knackers (balls/testicles)
    Reg Grundys=undies (panties)
    have a Captain Cook=have a look

    • @gerardhogan3
      @gerardhogan3 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think you'll find it's called Cockney rhyming slang. They brought with the convicts.

    • @optimusmaximus9646
      @optimusmaximus9646 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@gerardhogan3 The English don't have a monopoly on rhyming slang and I doubt the average English Cockney would know who Reg Grundy was.

    • @vk3fbab
      @vk3fbab 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Watch the two Ronnie's sketch of the sermon in rhyming slang to see how the pommes do it.

    • @TheCaptainbeefylog
      @TheCaptainbeefylog 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Cheese and Kisses = missus (also see - Owner, breeder and trainer; Minister for War & Finances; Chief Cook and Bottlewasher; Trouble & Strife).
      Uncle Merv = have a perv.
      Butchers hook/Captain Cook = have a look.

    • @lindyjanekittel3987
      @lindyjanekittel3987 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      China plate = mate🙂

  • @Jack_Callcott_AU
    @Jack_Callcott_AU 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    The American swear-word that gets to me, I dare not write it down literally, is M-F. That seems to me so disgustingly rude, but it seems to be used in the USA a lot. It shocked me when I first heard it, many years ago, because it is clearly a reference to incest. So the Americans have one up on the Aussies, when it comes to swearing.

    • @nolajoy7759
      @nolajoy7759 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      My son when much younger was doing the Die Hard/Bruce Willis quote but tried to clean it up in front of me..only got it mixed up and instead of mother-effers, came out with "Yippy ky aye, emmer-f*ckers!"

    • @carolcox302
      @carolcox302 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Couldn’t agree more. It’s horrible. At least good old Aussie swearing can be hilarious. Nothing vaguely amusing about this.

    • @johnscott6412
      @johnscott6412 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All of my family have a command of Australian native filth and none of us use that one. We don’t take ourselves seriously , but somethings go to far

    • @SimonAyling
      @SimonAyling 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow. I've used this word on and off, as a Brit, since I first heard it in 1982/1983 and never thought of the incestuous connotation.
      I always thought it related to the practice of bonking your mate's mum, which was (obviously) very poor form 😂

    • @colinl9018
      @colinl9018 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or they shorten it to Mofo.

  • @StevieB8363
    @StevieB8363 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Little kids asking for a rubber."
    You killed me!

  • @frankus54
    @frankus54 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    "This bastard said one of you bastards called him a bastard!" (Australian cricket captain asking the team to fess up as to who made an insulting remark to a British bowler). Most Australian words that sound like an insult are not meant as an insult. To make it clear, often they are a piss take rather than a put down. (Might need further explanation). Most older Australians won't use the C word in mixed company.

    • @warwickmudge4114
      @warwickmudge4114 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was thinking of mentioning that, there is definitely a huge difference in the generations when it comes to swearing. As you said a man whose say 50 to 60 years and older certainly won't use strong vulgarity especially in front of women. I'm gen X and even I sometimes feel a little shocked at the language of teens especially girls today! Also class of course plays a part.

  • @top40researcher31
    @top40researcher31 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    An indelicate description of kissing passionately, hence the name. Pashing typically leads to two things: pash rash (red marks around the lips caused by excessive kissing), and/or rooting (the crass Australian term for the birds and the bees).

    • @AndrewFishman
      @AndrewFishman 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wombat - Eats, roots and leaves.

  • @TheFman2010
    @TheFman2010 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    A thong is a narrow strip of leather. Hence, g-strings and flipflops get their alternate names from the fact that they appear to be made with thin leather strips.

    • @TS50AU
      @TS50AU 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Correct. Romans BC used 'thonging' to hold their shoes onto their feet, wrapped around their legs. Hence the the 'thong' being an item of footwear.

  • @lythsian
    @lythsian 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Cracking onto someone I've not heard for like 30 years. If someone said to me lets crack on, I'd assume they meant lets get on with it, lets get the show on the road.

  • @malalford
    @malalford 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    *crack on _to_ - hit on ( _not_ flirt)
    Crack on - get on with it

  • @schmuelking1535
    @schmuelking1535 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love that you used "taking the piss" as an explainer just naturally

    • @MrkBO8
      @MrkBO8 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      She's got that one nailed.

  • @razzo086
    @razzo086 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Damn how well you know Aussie slang and the small nuances is impressive for not growing up in Australia. I’m really impressed

  • @Rhythmattica
    @Rhythmattica 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Youve got to check out Carl Baron's Standup, where he talks about Discussing Thongs with an American.. Its truly brilliant!

    • @shaunneal9981
      @shaunneal9981 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Love that bit and Carl in general!

  • @user-cp4bz5we3b
    @user-cp4bz5we3b 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Love it when you talk dirty even though your explaining what we Aussies say in reality

  • @lightbearer313
    @lightbearer313 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There is also shag. A shag is a seabird called a cormorant, used in shag on a rock.
    However, it also has a second meaning, same as root, hence shaggin wagon and shagging.

  • @Deevo037
    @Deevo037 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember years ago watching an episode of Different Strokes when Dana Plato's character talked about falling and landing on her fanny, I had a mouthful of drink at the time and just about sprayed it everywhere.

  • @gardenersgraziers7261
    @gardenersgraziers7261 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "Cracked Off" has it origins from Campdrafting when the Judge cracks you off with his whip crack

  • @brilliantbutblue
    @brilliantbutblue 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Its a bit early on a Sunday morning for this 😂

  • @andrewh.8403
    @andrewh.8403 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I invented a term called the "Ol' Susanna moment". You know in those old westerns ,in the bar, the pianist is -always- playing Ol' Susanna, when the bad guy barges through the swing doors..and the pianist is always the first to stop?
    Yeah, that's the moment.
    That happened at the old Arizona Bar in Sydney many years ago. An American woman was shouting over the music and just when she said she fell hard on her fanny , the music finished. Everyone in the bar just stopped what they were doing...just for a second and then burst out laughing. "What? What did I just say?"......"Oh. Ohhh, sweet baby Jesus"...

  • @lena19191
    @lena19191 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lol ..100% spot on , please enjoy your stay in Australia , lots of Aussie love to you .

  • @trig1900
    @trig1900 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Consider also the extensions to some of those words. For example, root rat [don't think that needs an explanation... ^_^]; Pash [or Passion] Pit, used to refer to the Drive-In Movie theatres when they were a thing.; C*nt Act [also, something somebody does which is not considered good]; Crack On can also mean getting on with something. Knuckling down and working at it. Or, to have a crack can mean to have a go at doing something either difficult or the person may be doing it for the first time;

  • @bradwaters3891
    @bradwaters3891 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Love all the rum on the shelf

    • @optimusmaximus9646
      @optimusmaximus9646 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I see you are easily distracted 😜

  • @Geoskan
    @Geoskan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've only ever heard "to crack onto someone" in the context of "to hit on someone", never as "to flirt", and "to crack on" to mean "to go about a task". "Stop trying to crack onto everything in a skirt, mate, we really gotta crack on and get this finished."

  • @warg8728
    @warg8728 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Not sure but I think the term crack on comes from the bullock trains that used to travel the country, the crack of the whip to get moving. Also you will hear Brits say " let's get cracking" I think from similar origins.

  • @I.am.Sarah.
    @I.am.Sarah. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember when "The Nanny" first aired in the 90's I was with my then girlfriend and her sister and when the song came on and said "she was out on her fanny" we just pissed ourselves laughing as we couldn't believe they said that on prime time TV. We realised that "fanny" doesn't mean the same thing in the states lol.

  • @Teagirl009
    @Teagirl009 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Re Thongs - That was the original name for the shoes. The term thong is an old English term for a leather strap (in that shape) to hold the shoe together. Apparently In the US through the 70s and even up until the mid 80s they were also widely known as thongs. Until someone decided to call g-strings - thongs. So it's actually the underwear that has been named after the shoe, not the other way around.
    I'll accept jandals from NZ but I cant call them flip flops, it sounds funny naming clothing after the noise it makes😆.

    • @lordandrewbruceofthemcinne5046
      @lordandrewbruceofthemcinne5046 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How do you know that you have your thongs on incorrectly?
      They go flop-flip 🤣🤣🤣

  • @jillferguson9260
    @jillferguson9260 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love your vids. I build model kits as a hobby and I'm on a website with other kit builders around the world, but mostly Americans. Love my mates over there, but the language and cultural differences can be very amusing. I've also just subscribed. Good luck mate.
    Rob Ferguson

  • @Jack_Callcott_AU
    @Jack_Callcott_AU 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "Pash" is a real high-school word. I haven't heard it used much since I was at high-school myself.

    • @juliewoodman2439
      @juliewoodman2439 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      'Bashing the pash" was a popular phrase in the 50's.

    • @vk3fbab
      @vk3fbab 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What about Kath and Kim and Sharon getting Pash Rash. So funny.

    • @TheCaptainbeefylog
      @TheCaptainbeefylog 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Then there's the drink Golden Pash. Pretty popular here in QLD.

    • @gemfyre855
      @gemfyre855 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Immediately makes me think of Kylie Mole.

    • @AndrewFishman
      @AndrewFishman 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheCaptainbeefylog Passion Pop was also called the Pash back in the day.

  • @colinsmith3539
    @colinsmith3539 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    You could have also added bloody , not necessarily meaning bleeding blood everywhere , but an emphasis on the following word , e.g bloody hot , bloody mongrel , bloody bastard , bloody hell etc

    • @rjlchristie
      @rjlchristie 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Good Enlish slang that, origin: an abbreviation of "by our lady".

  • @brendanleach4735
    @brendanleach4735 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was in the states a few years ago and I met this bloke on the farm that I was working at and eventually we became mates.
    One night we were out at dinner and there was a few Australians at our table. During a lull in the conversation this bloke slapped me on the shoulder and said “ You’re not a bad guy. We should get together and bar up”.
    You could hear a pin drop. It was explained to him what that meant. He got up and left.

  • @gordonwallin2368
    @gordonwallin2368 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fun video. There's a clothing store named Roots here, and the last Olympics sponsored by Roots made all the Ozzies laugh. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

  • @rooster56100
    @rooster56100 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember back in the mid 80's I moved to the US for a few years with my American wife (now ex), we moved to Massachusetts, and after I got my first job with a woodworking firm, I think it was within the first 2 days they pulled me aside and politely asked me to stop using the 'c' word so much. I didn't even realize I was doing it.😁🤟

  • @stevegraham3817
    @stevegraham3817 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    A G String can also be called a G Banger even though it doesn't touch the G spot, but a lot of men wouldn't even know if it exists, let alone where it is. lol

    • @rjlchristie
      @rjlchristie 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      g spot isn't a fielding position in footy so who gives a feck where it is.

    • @stevegraham3817
      @stevegraham3817 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@rjlchristie 🤣🤣🤣

  • @robert9407
    @robert9407 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’m an Aussie (came to Oz in 1957 when I was 7 now 74)and have called flip flops “Thongs” since they first arrived in the late 1950s so it can’t because they are ladies underwear such as pantie’s or knickers (UK, Australia and even USA.) In New Zealand they call them Jangles. Hope all thar makes sense.🤣

    • @derekmills5394
      @derekmills5394 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Jandals - was the original manufacturer here - He said it came from "Japanese Sandals"

  • @vk3fbab
    @vk3fbab 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Words that go with the C word down under. Fat, lazy, poor, stupid, dumb, smart, small, huge, tall, short, clever, smelly, drunk, pissed, old, rich, skinny, bald, hairy and even nationalities like Indian, Pommy/English, seppo / American. We have quite a fondness for that word that most Americans will never truly appreciate.

  • @daviddempsey8721
    @daviddempsey8721 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My favourite thing is Air on a g-string… just like the classical music.

  • @godamid4889
    @godamid4889 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I liked this before I even saw it. And I wasn't disappointed.
    I played for the Rivcoll Bushpigs. A bushpig eats, roots, shoots, and leaves.

  • @sheilbwright7649
    @sheilbwright7649 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Context is everything "crack on" can in some circumstances can mean make an effort or a better effort eg "If I don't crack on I'll never get it finished"

  • @ChiChi-dy9qi
    @ChiChi-dy9qi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am very impressed with the amount of Rum on your shelf. Noice!

  • @Aquarium-Downunder
    @Aquarium-Downunder 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think I saw at the shops some weeks ago in B-town

  • @terryjeisman7550
    @terryjeisman7550 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was on a bus in Sydney, when a young girl got on wearing a sweat shirt with "I'm rooting for the LA Rams" emblazoned across it. She couldn't understand the look of horror on the faces of the ladies on borad and the smirks from the blokes. I suppose someone explained it to her as the sweat shirt was not seen on the morning bus again.

  • @randomfaz3867
    @randomfaz3867 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh you need a vid on rhyming slang! Dog'n'bone etc

  • @carbine5378
    @carbine5378 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi Kaitlyn, you mentioned pash, have you heard the expression ‘pash rash’, meaning a rash that a female could get on her face after making out, presumably from a male’s 5 o’clock shadow. Crack on also means to get on with it, it depends on what you are talking about. A lot of our phrases have more than one meaning.

  • @pjkkerr
    @pjkkerr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For the very best Aussie swearing, listen to Kevin "Bloody" Wilson singing "The Kid (He Swears a Little Bit)".

  • @darrylblanch8463
    @darrylblanch8463 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Knackered". Doesnt just mean castrated, it also eans "exhausted or very worn out". 🇦🇺🍺😊

  • @YobboBear
    @YobboBear 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey Kaitlyn I think I saw you at the shops the other week :)

  • @channelsixtyeight068_
    @channelsixtyeight068_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's so funny to hear our slang discussed.

  • @anthonypirera7598
    @anthonypirera7598 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Katlin great video and yes The States and Australia are different 😂

  • @viviennegasson4961
    @viviennegasson4961 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Crack on can also mean to get on with it. Eg “I don’t want to do this work, but know I have to so I will just crack on with it”

  • @erikmardiste
    @erikmardiste 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That got me when I went to school here , being from canada

  • @JohnJ469
    @JohnJ469 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Another thing that might confuse Americans is aussies referring to their beer as "Sex in a canoe". It means it's f*cking close to water.

    • @rjlchristie
      @rjlchristie 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      US beer, not Ozzy amber..

  • @DaDamuse
    @DaDamuse 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    haha i enjoyed this, nice and honest...and true lol

  • @dougsinclair3596
    @dougsinclair3596 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In Australia Crack on also means try and endure, get on with something/Task to crack on is to work on work harder to get through something.

  • @daneflynn4979
    @daneflynn4979 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It should be noted we will pick on people with funny names. We don’t mean anything by it. It’s a sign of affection here.

  • @Ekka007
    @Ekka007 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Pissed as a fart! LOL

  • @johnfoster7626
    @johnfoster7626 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Bastard" is also a very common slang phrase we use here. I think its pretty common everywhere.

  • @paula-yr7pp
    @paula-yr7pp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The English and Scottish use the C word in conversation all the time as well but still not as much as Aussies

    • @RandomStuff-he7lu
      @RandomStuff-he7lu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Bogans use it a lot.

    • @geoffmesser5091
      @geoffmesser5091 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@RandomStuff-he7luthe worst are truckies on Channel 40.

    • @partymanau
      @partymanau 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Scotts are Aussies that live in the Nthern Hemisphere.

  • @alcampbell5831
    @alcampbell5831 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Getting very drunk you may say "I got totally shit-faced last night."

  • @listey
    @listey 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shattered is one.
    In Australia means devastated, heartbroken etc
    Elsewhere is used to mean exhausted, tired etc

  • @banjopluker8254
    @banjopluker8254 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very educational for an Aussie, I just thought some of the wards you mention where just English not Australian english

  • @danielbell3281
    @danielbell3281 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thong means a flexible leather cord which is why it gets used for the underwear and the footwear and both is vaguely correct

  • @markbernier8434
    @markbernier8434 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Crack has such a wide range of uses. It used to be two words. Crack, as in whip, and Cracique (Irish gaelic, obsolete) meaning having a good time or having fun. Just try saying "I''m only here for the crack" in the US. Or totally confuse everyone and tell them you are going to a ceilidh.

  • @stevebourke9769
    @stevebourke9769 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Spot on again.

  • @continental_drift
    @continental_drift 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Believe it or not I once lived in a street in Brisbane called "Fanny Street".

  • @ihateemael
    @ihateemael 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "dead as a dingo's donger" , it's broken.
    "it's a dry argument" , let's have a drink then.
    "bugger me" , i'm surprised.

  • @davespanksalot8413
    @davespanksalot8413 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Pissed in a sentence: This pissed fella who's pissed his pants is pissed he's been banned from the bar.

  • @mariaobrien1747
    @mariaobrien1747 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lots of ways to describe being pissed/drunk:
    Pissed as a nit
    Pissed as a trough lolly ( paradichlorobenzene block to deodorise a public urinal)
    Rotten as a chop

  • @jitterstheclown
    @jitterstheclown 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We also refer to G - Strings as G Bangers😝

  • @Sam-zu8pc
    @Sam-zu8pc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Guy at my work from Connecticut told me how they store pumpkins etc in a root cellar- he was a bit shocked when I told him that means something entirely different in Australia 😂

  • @industrial-steampunk
    @industrial-steampunk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    G banger another name for a g string, a lot of slang in Australia although understood by most Australians can be regional in use

  • @aussiefarmer8741
    @aussiefarmer8741 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In relation to the C word. If 2 blokes are good mates and they are talking and 1 reveals to the other something he did that would be bad, often the other would call him very slowly , "YOOOUU C_____NT. Then they both would piss themselves laughing. Hope that helps. LOL. We are a weird Mob. That's the name of a 1960's Aussie movie you should watch. It's about an Italian who comes to Aust as an imigrant and the culture shock he experiences. It's a comedy. "They're a weird Mob. Title.

  • @ozboomer_au
    @ozboomer_au 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A couple of things here...
    One of the more 'uncomfortable' words ((for Americans or Australians, I dunno where it started) tends to be 'route'.
    Ok, because of 'computing history' let's say, both American and Australian folks talk about the computer device as a 'router' (ROW-tah: row as in cow)... and consistently, Americans will talk about an alternate 'route' (ROWT) to the office... but we'll talk about a 'route' (ROOT: as in tree root). I was kindof confused when I first studied hydrology (in the late '70s) and owing to 'sensitivities', we had to call a topic 'runoff routing' (ROWT-ing). Still, the general usage here is an alternate route (ROOT) to the office; saying it the other way will make a lot of people squirm a bit...
    I don't know.. but I wonder about the 'crack' usage... With the Irish heritage, you'd talk about 'the craic' ("crack"), which is mostly defined as 'a good time'.. or a jokey thing, so... meh..

  • @caltravels9454
    @caltravels9454 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Crack On, for me means get on with it, keep going.

  • @mfitzgerald130
    @mfitzgerald130 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Pash is just a kiss 👍🙂✨

  • @whatsupshittafabraans1926
    @whatsupshittafabraans1926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Crack on, also means get on with it or continue doing what ever, a physical crack in material will naturally grow or continue until it snaps or finishes, example , Let’s crack on with getting this done. And the c word is overused and not pronounced correctly, my mother hated the word and it wasn’t allowed, but on her death bed, she described my ex-wife perfectly, she said C*nt like I’ve never herd it before, that moment will always be with me and makes me feel proud that she knew how to express it perfectly.

  • @AussieChic888
    @AussieChic888 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    🦘🦘🦘🦘 G'DAY MATE AND WELCOME TO OZ ❤

  • @psychosis7325
    @psychosis7325 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bloody crack up hearing Strayan spoken all proper.