{"id":159,"date":"2012-08-10T18:13:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T08:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adventuresofameghan.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2012-10-28T01:12:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T15:12:45","slug":"slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventuresofameghan.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Slang"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ll be adding to this as I go but here’s what I’ve thought of for now \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
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Things People Use:<\/span><\/div>\n
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  • Mate<\/li>\n
  • G’day<\/li>\n
  • How ye goin? – Usually how people greet you as like a cashier or something<\/li>\n
  • Nuh – Like ya for yes, but for no<\/li>\n
  • Uni – University<\/li>\n
  • Lollies – Candy<\/li>\n
  • Brekkie – Breakfast<\/li>\n
  • Maccas – McDonald’s<\/li>\n
  • Prac (Practical) – Lab<\/li>\n
  • Bathers – Swim suit<\/li>\n
  • Thongs – flip flops<\/li>\n
  • Snag – Sausage<\/li>\n
  • Trackies – Track suit\/sweats<\/li>\n
  • Jumper – Sweater\/jacket<\/li>\n
  • Chuck (Say: Chook) – Chicken<\/li>\n
  • heych – the letter H (rather than eych)<\/li>\n
  • Heaps – they just use this a lot, at least in SA, it’s pretty much hella<\/li>\n
  • bogan – white trash or redneck<\/li>\n
  • 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.<\/li>\n
  • If it can be shortened, it is. Everything has an abbreviation.<\/li>\n
  • Goss – gossip<\/li>\n
  • Bloke<\/li>\n
  • Dunny – toilet<\/li>\n
  • Mack, pash – makeout<\/li>\n
  • You don’t chug a drink, you scull it<\/li>\n
  • Keen – as in, I’m so keen to go out tonight!<\/li>\n
  • Hey is added randomly sometimes, I’ll put an example next time I remember how someone used it<\/li>\n
  • Cheers rather than thank you or just kind of used generally for things<\/li>\n
  • They are confused when you refer to a handle of liquor<\/li>\n
  • D&M – deep and meaningful, usually referring to drunk conversations. I’m supposed to bring this back to the states by order of Nick<\/li>\n
  • Reckon – I reckon I sound funny when I use reckon but I’ve started doing it anyway. It’s contagious.<\/li>\n
  • Soz rather than sorry<\/li>\n
  • Dingo woop woop – the middle of nowhere\/Timbuktu<\/li>\n
  • Tea – dinner<\/li>\n
  • I could go an iced coffee right now rather than I could go for an iced coffee<\/li>\n
  • Munted – wrecked<\/li>\n
  • Dodgy – sketchy<\/li>\n
  • assume sounds like ashume, not really slang but I think it’s kind of funny<\/li>\n
  • Uggs can be Uggies<\/li>\n
  • Eskie – cooler<\/li>\n
  • Budgie smuggler – speedo (yes, I’ve actually heard this used in real life)<\/li>\n
  • Knackered – worn out, tired<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    Things I’ve been called (mostly by Birnie):<\/div>\n
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    • Sheila<\/li>\n
    • Bahz<\/li>\n
    • Mate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
      Water polo things:<\/div>\n
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      • They don’t use weak, like weak side strong side, as a thing to yell in a game<\/li>\n
      • Tumble turn – flip turn<\/li>\n
      • 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<\/li>\n
      • 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<\/li>\n
      • They shout “extra” for an exclusion rather than “we’re up” and it isn’t man up<\/li>\n
      • Balking rather than faking, although I think people know what I mean when I say faking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
        <\/div>\n
        Things People Don’t Use:<\/div>\n
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        • No one has said anything about shrimp on the barbie. Sorry to disappoint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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