The question of whether you skol or scull a beer is one we have covered more than once. But how about getting the beer in the first place. Visitors to Australian shores are often flummoxed by the range of names we give our beer receptacles. And even more confusingly, these words refer to different sizes … Read more
This week we are paying tribute to the great Australian gum tree. From the Snowy Mountains in the Great Dividing Range to Tasmania, Darwin, Far North Queensland and beyond, the landscape is dominated by the beautiful Australian eucalypt, so named from its gummy sap. By definition, a gum tree is any tree or shrub of the myrtaceous … Read more
This week we have a slang phrase for you to listen out for while you’re at the beach…
Don’t be a derbrain. Read our weekly Aussie slang blogs instead.
This week at the Macquarie Dictionary, we are playing by Rafferty’s rules…
The term Brisvegas, a portmanteau of Brisbane and Vegas, originated in Queensland in part with ironic reference to the river city’s lack of showy opulence…
Stunned mullet is a classic piece of Aussie slang from the 1950s that refers to a person who is completely and utterly stunned, amazed, dazed or otherwise stonkered…
The football season may be over but we thought there was still time for some state versus state rivalry. This week’s Aussie Word of the Week is Cabbage Garden…
