Our stomachs are rumbling. Care to share some slang words with us over brekkie? Or perhaps you spell it breaky or even breakie? Whichever way, that’s breakfast. The most important meal of the day. Naturally, after breaking our fast we looked through our database in search of other breakfast related words. Have you ever eaten … Read more
Eat a spoonful of cement and harden up because brickie is our word of the week. A brickie is a bricklayer. This piece of Aussie slang has been around for yonks and was recorded as early as 1900. You might say that brickie has cemented its place in the Aussie lexicon. You could even consider it a … Read more
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a footballer getting whacked on the head. Falcon originally meant being hit in the face with the ball but is now used to describe any accidental headbutt. The falcon originated from rugby league and is so called in honour of a famous incident involving the face … Read more
Anyone conscious of their receding hairline might want to snap on a cap because this week’s word of the week is as bald as a bandicoot. To be bald as a bandicoot means to be totally bald. This is a bit of a weird phrase given that bandicoots, small marsupials, are manifestly furry, not bald. Bandicoots are … Read more
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Another word of the week, that’s who. Knocker is this week’s featured word. A knocker is a person who’s always putting others down; one who doesn’t have anything good to say about anything. The kind of ratbag that Aussies have been hating under this title since at least the 1920s. To … Read more
Welcome to another edition of our monthly new words blog where we introduce some of the trendy new words our editorial team are tracking. With several major cities around the country reliving lockdown in recent weeks, the Aussie public have again used their time at home to invent new pandemic-related slang. Do you have dick-nose? It … Read more
Australians have been diligent in coining ironic phrases to denote the completely useless, and a warning, some of these phrases get quite colourful! Firstly, there are those with a rural flavour. Such as useful as a bucket under a bull, a dead dingo’s donger, a dry thunderstorm, a sore arse to a boundary rider, a wether … Read more
Welcome to our new words for July blog. We’ve got some treats for you this month, including cute animals and the latest Gen Z slang, but our first new word has more serious undertones. A drought baby is a child born in a period of drought, especially one having never seen rain. The word speaks … Read more
This week’s blog is cactus, that is, ruined, as in we aren’t going anywhere, the engine’s cactus. Someone in trouble is said to be in the cactus. No doubt referring to the dreaded prickly pear which once covered so much of the country, at least, before being eaten holus bolus by the cacto, the wondrous Cactoblastis cactorum moth which was introduced as a … Read more
A bunyip is a mythical Australian beast of amphibious nature that inhabits rivers and deep, dark pools, retreating to underwater caverns known as bunyip holes. They are so shy and stealthy that one has never yet been caught. The word for this animal is from the Aboriginal language Wembawemba of Victoria and Southern NSW. The bunyip is … Read more
