Went out for a drink with Dick last night, before embarking on an evening with my girls for dinner and a few drinkiepoos. He's out from Australia for a few days for a wedding and such (the oke hasn't really had a chance to settle in his new place of lieu, although did say he's bought a Ute and has seen a kangaroo in the wild. Highlarious. )He bought me this equally highlarious little book called Oz-isms.
Where such phrases and words can be directly attributed to the Ozzie dialect, (and here I was thinking many were of Brit origin. I was wrong.) Translated directly from this book, here are some of the words I found particularly highsterical:Bewdy - Beauty
Bluey - Redhead. (I thought that word started with a g?)
Bruce/Dong - A willy (How big's your bruce, Bruce?)
Brisvegas - Brisbane (abbreviated to Brizzy)
Cobba - a mate
Drongo - an idiot
Fizza - big build up; small outcome
Garbo - a trash collector
Hoyfaloy / Hoytee Toytee - upper class
Merkin - female nether region hair
Never Never - The outback
Pork pie - a lie (Is this cockney actually?)
Punished- smashed (love this)
Scrubba - a chav
Shark's biscuit - a body board (bewdyful)
Shemozzel - a large mess
Sparky - an electrician
Strewth - goodness me (I just love that the book includes this)
Tazzie - Tasmania
The Coathanger - Sydney Harbour Bridge
Trackiedacks - a tracksuit (most likely worn by a scrubba)
Unit - a big muscular man (Vernon is a Unit)
Vickta - a lawnmower (Can you just imagine: "The Vickta needs a Doctor, A Doctor for Vickta, Bruce - Doctor, Vickta! It won't start!")
Then there're the phrases:
Arse over tit - fall over
Blow ya stack - lose your temper
Did you come down in the last shower? - naïve
Fair dinkum - same as “True's Bob”
Flappin' ya gums - talking the hind leg of a donkey
Give 'em some curry - lay on the heat
Have a chardi and a vommi - drink wine then throw up
Lickedysplit - quick and smart
Lookamoy - look at me (Directly from the mouths of Kath & Kim)
No flies on you - you're sharp
Off like a bride's nightie - leave quickly
Pack a wallop - hit hard
Pain in ya pinnie - stomach ache
Tinny in a stubbie - beer in a cooler cup (they have an expression for this? Dinkum!)
Tight as a fish's arse - tight with cash (because fish's asses are toight?)
You pullin' me third leg? - you having me on? (And thereby yanking my Bruce?)
Two bob short of a quid - not the brightest crayon in the box
And my favourite favourite:
HAIRY CHEQUE BOOK - another name for a husbank.
C, Klo, L and I all went out and got a bit blotto, punishing ourselves on bottles of piss. (That's a beer FYI. A bottle of piss. Third time round: Highlarious)
