Slang

Meghan August 10, 2012
I’ll be adding to this as I go but here’s what I’ve thought of for now 🙂
Things People Use:
  • Mate
  • G’day
  • How ye goin? – Usually how people greet you as like a cashier or something
  • Nuh – Like ya for yes, but for no
  • Uni – University
  • Lollies – Candy
  • Brekkie – Breakfast
  • Maccas – McDonald’s
  • Prac (Practical) – Lab
  • Bathers – Swim suit
  • Thongs – flip flops
  • Snag – Sausage
  • Trackies – Track suit/sweats
  • Jumper – Sweater/jacket
  • Chuck (Say: Chook) – Chicken
  • heych – the letter H (rather than eych)
  • Heaps – they just use this a lot, at least in SA, it’s pretty much hella
  • bogan – white trash or redneck
  • I’m not Meh-gan here, I’m Mee-gan. I kind of like it. Also, it’ll be Meegs instead of Megs as a nickname.
  • If it can be shortened, it is. Everything has an abbreviation.
  • Goss – gossip
  • Bloke
  • Dunny – toilet
  • Mack, pash – makeout
  • You don’t chug a drink, you scull it
  • Keen – as in, I’m so keen to go out tonight!
  • Hey is added randomly sometimes, I’ll put an example next time I remember how someone used it
  • Cheers rather than thank you or just kind of used generally for things
  • They are confused when you refer to a handle of liquor
  • D&M – deep and meaningful, usually referring to drunk conversations. I’m supposed to bring this back to the states by order of Nick
  • Reckon – I reckon I sound funny when I use reckon but I’ve started doing it anyway. It’s contagious.
  • Soz rather than sorry
  • Dingo woop woop – the middle of nowhere/Timbuktu
  • Tea – dinner
  • I could go an iced coffee right now rather than I could go for an iced coffee
  • Munted – wrecked
  • Dodgy – sketchy
  • assume sounds like ashume, not really slang but I think it’s kind of funny
  • Uggs can be Uggies
  • Eskie – cooler
  • Budgie smuggler – speedo (yes, I’ve actually heard this used in real life)
  • Knackered – worn out, tired
Things I’ve been called (mostly by Birnie):
  • Sheila
  • Bahz
  • Mate
Water polo things:
  • They don’t use weak, like weak side strong side, as a thing to yell in a game
  • Tumble turn – flip turn
  • Center forward/other random things, they don’t seem to call it set at all, guys might call it set more than the girls do according to Nick
  • It’s a bounce shot and not a skip shot, someone said a skip is only if it does multiple bounces but I haven’t heard anyone actually use that
  • They shout “extra” for an exclusion rather than “we’re up” and it isn’t man up
  • Balking rather than faking, although I think people know what I mean when I say faking
Things People Don’t Use:
  • No one has said anything about shrimp on the barbie. Sorry to disappoint.

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