Forgotten Aussie slang and one liners

[landyfromanuthaland]

Whats some of the good ones we dont hear anymore and we best be politically correct to a certian degree, what makes an Aussie an Aussie,:wheelchair::twobeers::tease::bangin:

[dobbo]

Your a Slapnut

[roverfj1200]

Stone the crows..:D

[JohnE]

thats easy,


fair dinkum

tell that to a yank



john

[djam1]

"If I saw you lying in the gutter gasping for breath I wouldn't fart in your face"

[p38arover]

Your a Slapnut

We won't comment on "Your" being incorrect...

I've never heard that saying.

Ron

[JohnE]

just thought of another one, this I first heard over 30 years ago, in my youth

if it was raining virgins i'd be stuck in a sh*thouse with a p**ft**r,



john

[EchiDna]

http://www.abc.net.au/civics/globalcitizens/ozstrine.htm

for me stuff I used to hear but rarely do now:

bonzer
ya blood's worth bottling
Clayton's
woop woop
don't come the raw prawn
he's got 'tickets'
ridgy didge
grouse (victorian only?)
I called shotgun!
mad as a cut snake
flat out like a lizard drinkin

[dobbo]

We won't comment on "Your" being incorrect...

I've never heard that saying.

Ron


really, very suprised at that. A bloke I used to work with used the phrase all the time.

[CapeLandy]

Thanks for the post with the dictionary. Now a lot of the posts will make a little more sense for us foreigners
:)

[easo]

I'm sick of hearin "can I go to the bathroom". Its even on Home and Away.

What happened to wheres the, dunny
, thunderbox
, longdrop

Others, you little bobby dazzler.
, cobber
, mate. (now 'hey man').
, how things. (now whats up).

Should be taught in schools.:mad::D:D:D

[duff]

:)
It is Ron.... I fink ee myt B gettun at 'you're' spelling
;)


really, very suprised at that. A bloke I used to work with used the phrase all the time.

[EchiDna]

I've never heard Dobbo's saying either...
it could be a local term?

[1103.9TDI]

So hungry, I could eat the pus out of a dead Chinamans ear-from back in the Palmer River gold rush days......:D

[Ricey]

just thought of another one, this I first heard over 30 years ago, in my youth

if it was raining virgins i'd be stuck in a sh*thouse with a p**ft**r, john

Fair crack of the whip, could the message be 'I'm a horses hoof'?

[hiline]

stone the crows :D

[hiline]

your a little rip snorter :D

[p38arover]

Fair suck of the savaloy!

I still use that plus many of those mentioned by EchiDna.

[vnx205]

stone the crows :D
and starve the flamin' lizards.
making or working on a wigwam for a goose's bridle.

[dobbo]

Fair suck of the savaloy!

I still use that



I won't ask when

[Ricey]

hows about
'ya bloody scallywag'

[hiline]

frog and toad :D

[953]

No Wuccas:o
Cheers Dean.

[landyfromanuthaland]

Time to hit the farter
u nong
If brains was dynamite u wouldnt have enuff to blow your ears off
She can talk under water with a mouthfull of marbles
Stuff me roaming
Technicolor yawn
Chunda
Pickle me grandmother
Be up that like a rat up a drainpipe
If she had as many hanging out as what shes had in she,d be a porcupine
Struth
Stone the bloody crows
On me pat malone
Bang the bishop on the head
Me back teeth are floatin
Stuck like a shag on a rock

[hiline]

off like a brides nightie :o

[tombraider]

I've never heard Dobbo's saying either...
it could be a local term?

Either that or just targetted at Dobbo :cool:

[tombraider]

Get Faaaaaarrrrkkkkkeeeeddddd:angel:

[adm333]

...as happy as a one legged lezzo on a pogo stick

...as busy as a one armed taxi driver with crabs

... been up and down like a lift driver's ar3e h*le

... going off like a frog in a sock

... as dumb as a box of hammers

... ugly as a hatful of ....

[Barra1]

drongo

[crump]

throbbin like a stocking full of grasshoppers.
could eat **** on a stick only I dont like wood.
as cunning as a ****house rat.
would shag a rat on a chain with sore eyes.
could eat the arrse out of a ragdoll.
fits like a finger in a bum.
black as a bats arrse.

[hiline]

i'm as drys as a nuns nasty :angel:

[QSDT]

Up at sparrows fart..

[QSDT]

It's as dry as a dead dingo's donger.

[Redback]

i'm as drys as a nuns nasty :angel:

or i'm as dry as a pommies towel:D

Eat the Rs out of a low flying duck

g-day china

how's it hangin

hit me and kick me, but don't f...king $hit me

gdayhowyagoinyaolbastard

howthefukareya

Bazza:D

[JDNSW]

Referring to fit of anything "like a rat's tail in a bucket"

John

[Frenchie]

Technicolor yawn


That's the American version. ;)

[Frenchie]

I'm sick of hearin "can I go to the bathroom". Its even on Home and Away.



Just got back from Canada - it's all washroom/bathroom over there. Had a discusion on this with my rellies - my cousin actually said that she would "rather call it a sh1tter than a toilet" :eek:

[cdrtravis]

I'm sick of hearin "can I go to the bathroom". Its even on Home and Away.

What happened to wheres the, dunny
, thunderbox
, longdrop

Others, you little bobby dazzler.
, cobber
, mate. (now 'hey man').
, how things. (now whats up).

Should be taught in schools.:mad::D:D:D

Too bloody right! Protect our national heritage! Kids need to be taught to talk Aussie.

[markyc]

fits like a finger in a bum.
black as a bats arrse.
:Rolling::Rolling:
Bewdy!

[rovercare]

You got buckley's or none:D

[Fusion]

" shut ya cakehole "
" put some dead horse on ya pie "
" want a kick in the ring gear "
" shut ya trap "
" your arms painted on "
" as useless as tits on a bull "
" bangers and mash "
" not enough room to swing a cat "
" couldn't drive a greasy stick up a dead dogs ar$e "
" dumb as dog **** "

gotta love bein an aussie :thumbsup:

[Redback]

" shut ya cakehole "
" put some dead horse on ya pie "
" want a kick in the ring gear "
" shut ya trap "
" your arms painted on "
" as useless as tits on a bull "
" bangers and mash "
" not enough room to swing a cat "
" couldn't drive a greasy stick up a dead dogs ar$e "
" dumb as dog **** "

gotta love bein an aussie :thumbsup:

Sorry English/Irish/Scottish slang

[Fusion]

Sorry English/Irish/Scottish slang

bummer :( thought it was aussie cos the old man said it heaps :D

[sweetpia007]

sheila (female)
cow cocky (cattle farmer)
drongo (an reference to someone who is an idiot)
ute (equivilent to an American pickup)
slab (carton of beer)

[JohnE]

Someone should compile all the ones we remember and release them gradually to the foreigners, maybe andy he started it!
who are probably reading this post with quizzical looks on their dials.



john

[stevo68]

Words like "dude" etc are banned in our house as is any American style type dressing. Nothing against the Yanks but that is there culture, around here it is mate or bloke :D

Regards

Stevo

[landyfromanuthaland]

I dont like the Americanization thats taking over, I aint no ****ing yank and sure as **** dont talk like one or watch too many of movies, I see it in the young teenagers becoming for more prevelent these days, white boys dont call each other ***** or bitch? or do they? whats with this caper?

[Barra1]

Whats some of the good ones we dont hear anymore and we best be politically correct to a certian degree, what makes an Aussie an Aussie,:wheelchair::twobeers::tease::bangin:

Fair crack of the whip, Andy. Once in a blue moon, you will get off your *rse and havago.Where the blazes do you get this bulls*it - the other side of the Black Stump. Fair dinkum mate you are unbelievable - some would say a sandwich short of a picnic - but us blokes reckon you are the best thing since tinned beer.:D

[Quiggers]

If ya carnt understand all this, then...

...you're a bl00dy dubbo! ya bogan!

Mum's sister had a car called a Rolls Cnardley...

Cnardley get up a hill....

GQ

[RonMcGr]

A dingo's breakfast (quick p*ss and a look around)

Another I have not heard since I was a kid, "We had one and the wheel fell off!"
(Never did know what that really meant, other than bad luck)

[Redback]

ave a ganda getaloada

crook as Rookwood (cemetary in Sydney)

dead set

good sort

fair crack a the whip

as black as ya Rs

[stevo68]

"Get a black dog up ya" to this day dont know the origins of that little pearler

Regards

Stevo

[crump]

rare as rocking horse poo.
as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
as busy as a one legged man in an bumkicking competition.
lower than a snakes bum.

I could eat a horse and chase it rider.
I'm so hungry my belly thinks my throats been cut.
as sick as ten dogs.

[waynep]

rare as rocking horse ****.
as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
as busy as a one legged man in an arsekicking competition.
lower than a snakes arrse.
I'm so randy I'd ferk a black snake with a festered arrse if someone would hold the head.
I could eat a horse and chase it rider.
I'm so hungry my belly thinks my throats been cut.
as sick as ten dogs.
She's so pretty, I'd eat a yard of her **** to get the smell of her bum.

:eek: must be a Queensland thing.....never heard them b4 ( except the first one )

many of the ones already mentioned ( not those above ) ae also common in NZ .......

beyond the Black Stump .....
and the proverbial "three dog night"
I couldn't give a fat rat's crack

[Killer]

Flat out, like a toad on the road.

Cheers, Mick

[p38arover]

Flat out like a lizard drinking
Rare as hen's teeth

[stevo68]

"Suck me sideways" :D

Regards

Stevo

[stevo68]

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rare as rocking horse ****.
as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
as busy as a one legged man in an arsekicking competition.
lower than a snakes arrse.
I'm so randy I'd ferk a black snake with a festered arrse if someone would hold the head.
I could eat a horse and chase it rider.
I'm so hungry my belly thinks my throats been cut.
as sick as ten dogs.
She's so pretty, I'd eat a yard of her **** to get the smell of her bum.

:eek: must be a Queensland thing.....never heard them b4 ( except the first one )
Hmm dunno about being QLD, more likely common to those mums and dads who are really brothers and sisters, you know that kinda scary place out whoop whoop,:eek:

Regards

Stevo

[easo]

Should be included in the imigration handout.

Look up this song,

six pack short, by the Sunny Cowgirls.

Easo

[Bigbjorn]

RN'ers - Worscestershire Sauce
Blood - Tomato Sauce
Blurters - green peas for pies
pi**ed as three shearers
dry as an Arab's fart
can fight like a shearer's cook
about as clean as an Afghan's underpants
Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down (bosses instruction to a green truckie)
Soup sandwich - meat pie
donkey man - Merchant Navy term for a fitter and turner
golden rivet - as in "take her down the tiller flat and show her the golden rivet"
tobermories - big wild bullocks, from Tobermory Station on the Qld. /NT border
mermaids - weight of loads inspectors ( c***ts with scales)
lie docket or swindle sheet - truckies log book
beans - pills taken by truckies, also called make-a-mile lollies
watchmaker's or Irish screwdriver - large ball pein hammer
mad mick - pick
kelly - axe
banjo - shovel
fat as a butcher's dog
thin as boarding house stew
sin bosun - seagoing term for a clergyman
proctologist's mate - ship's steward (usually but not always gay)
chippy - originally a shipwright, but now a carpenter as well
felt more *****s than a second-hand dartboard
up & down like a whore's knickers
full as a catholic school
full as a drover's deep freeze
tired as a drover's dog
skinny as a gin's leg
"did you go through to Central or hop off at Hornsby" - old Sydney means of enquiring how well a mate did on a date with a sheila.

[hiline]

you hum dinger :D

[crump]

sticks out like dogs testicles.
as popular as a pork chop in Jurusalem.

as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike.
as hot as a $20 pistol.
as straight as a dogs hindleg.
as flash as a rat with a gold tooth.
as much front as a row of shops.

[olmate]

Beats a poke in the eye with a blunt stick
Would freeze the balls off a brass monkey
Head like a robbers dog
Head like a bucket of smashed crabs
Goes off like a frog in a sock

[Chenz]

A few of my favourites:

Head like a beaten favourite
Strike me lucky
Could eat a toffee apple through a tennis racquet - (applied to buck teethed women)
Busier than a one armed wallpaper hanger
Busier than a one legged bloke in an ar$e kicking competition
Choc a block
Snap out of it and wake up to yourself
Eat the poxy crutch on a low flying duck
Eat a baby's ar$e through a park bench
Up $hit creek

[rovercare]

Beaten by the ugly stick:D

Some even fell from the top of the tree and hit every branch on the way down:eek:

[olmate]

Busier than a one armed bricky in Baghdad

[LSBob]

Would freeze the balls off a brass monkey
I heard that one often in Tasmania during the '50s.
Also an NT one "big mobs" for anything greater than about 5 things.
not the sharpest tool in the shed.
like a Greeks wrestlers jockstrap
Throat feels like the scrapings from the Cockies cage
like a rat up a greasy drain pipe.
up *hit creek in a barbwire boat.
see a man about a dog.
a carton short of a slab
point Percy at the porcelain think that came from Barry Crockers movie
In PNG, Swan beer was always Buka Duck

[vnx205]

Would freeze the balls off a brass monkey

How many people know that this has absolutely nothing to do with the genitalia of primates?

[lewy]

figjam

[Redback]

Bangs like a dunny door in a hurricane

a kangaroo loose in the top paddock

goin out the mulga

sharp as a bowling ball ?? dunno about this one

grinnin like a shot fox

pommie shower

[hiline]

<insert sighing smilie here>

bangs like a dunny door in the wind

since when did we have hurricanes in Aus?

Inc? where's the sighing smilie :D:D:D

thats stuck on the dunny door and it aint smiling now ;)

[87County]

one that hasn't been mentioned so far is an expression favoured by some of my mates when out in the bush

they say that when camping all they get is a

"dingo's breakfast"

ie - a p!ss, a fart and a good look around

some variations include a "good scratch" with the above - can't you just picture it now:)

[Hymie]

How many people know that this has absolutely nothing to do with the genitalia of primates?

Me, its an old Naval term.

[tombraider]

How many people know that this has absolutely nothing to do with the genitalia of primates?

Me... Its where you keep your balls...

But if they get cold... your balls can fall through occasionally :p

[googe]

When my grandad seen a large person walking toward him in the street he'd say"gawd u'd need a cut lunch to get around them"

[djam1]

Dumb as dog $hit
Slip thier foreskin up over thier head and sew it up
Now for some Territory stuff
Mob
Big Mob
Plenty Propper Big Mob
Regarding Dogs
If it had $hit for brains it wouldnt even smell
If its brains were explosives they wouldnt even lift its ears.

[JohnE]

From an ex-pusser mate of mine, reckoned it had been around for years


scab lifter ( an army medic)


brass monkey supposedly the brass base plate/ triangle they stacked the cannon balls on ,when the weather froze the brass monkey shrunk and all the balls fell of.


john

[sschmez]

she's as ugly as a hat full of rrrrrrrrrrrrrrsoles

[sschmez]

you ain't properly pi55ed till ya got three days **** in ya pants

[sschmez]

thick/dumb as a moccassin/eggplant/box of hammers/thong

[Relay]

Still well used:

Ken oath!

[UncleHo]

G'day Folks :)

Fits/Tolerances,

Fits like a bum in a Bucket.

You could fly a plane through that gap.

The pistons go up flip over then back down.

Intelligence

1/2 dozen Kangaroos short in the top paddock.

Insults

When the Lord was passing out Looks you thought he said Chooks and you weren't Hungry.

When the Lord was passing out Brains you thought he said Trains and you missed yours


:D;);)

[DeeJay]

Thick as two short planks.
Fartarsing around
I couldn't **** in the ocean if I were flyin over it.
Like a bum in a bucket
I hope your chooks turn into Emu's and kick your dunnie down.
And a couple that disappeared with decimal currency
You look like you lost a pound and found a shilling.
Look after the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves. - My grannie used to say that a bit.;)

[Bush65]

Like the cockie on a biscuit tin.

Arnotts used to sell biscuits in tins, with a macaw (type of parrot) label on the lid. The cockie was always on the outside and couldn't get the biscuits inside.

[p38arover]

I think it's time to move this to the Mud Pit

[landyfromanuthaland]

Full as a fart, p1ssed as a cricket, p1ssed as a newt,where were u when they were giving out the brains? holding the door open!, couldnt hit the floor if ya fell on it, ya had half a brain youd be dangerous, who dropped that one, far south as the crow flies.
From my days up the Territory
gammon,
cask of wine was a goon box, a drunken indigenous person was a c_ _ n full a goon.
Pollyfella was a policeman not something u filled a hole in the wall with
U wouldnt say the car was broken , for example u would say the car been ****ed.
Fix him proper one was repair it properly,
everything ends with eh or ay!

[landyfromanuthaland]

And ridgey didge

[100I]

I'm laughing so hard here now because I use most of Crumps regularly, and quite a few others too.
My Nana's probably to blame

[landyfromanuthaland]

Yes gotta love our dear old nannas,

[Tank]

Too bloody right! Protect our national heritage! Kids need to be taught to talk Aussie.
Here, Here, one word that $h!t$ me off no end is that insidious word "GUYS", everyone uses it even people like Steve Irwin used it, it is one word that should be banned, I hate it with a vengance, and I chastise anyone that uses it in a conversation with me, I will now go and see if I can find a life, fair dinkum, Sport, Regards Frank.

[Tank]

Guys annoys me also...

HOWEVER...

Its actually a pommie term. :D I read somewhere that it was taken up after Guy Fawkes attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The Americans have continued to use many "old english" terms up to this very day...terms like turnpike for example...and naming their sons with what are now considered to be female names eg Wendy, but which were male names in early days :D and vice versa with naming females with what are now considered male names such as Michael and Christopher :D (yep...female names in years gone by)

But I agree. They may be pommie terms but they were not in widespread use in early aust colonization AFAIK
NM, good old Guy Fawkes "the only man ever to enter Parliament With Honest Intentions", and they killed him for it, Regards Frank.

[LoveMyV8County]

Dunny budgie ( = large fly)

[Bigbjorn]

From my days up the Territory

cask of wine was a goon box,,


In north and west Qld, a wine cask is a gin's handbag.

[BMac]

Stick's like ***** to a blanket :D

[Dave110]

Sorry NM 'Wendy' was never intended as male name in fact it is a made up name for the play and later the book 'Peter Pan' by JM Barrie in 1904
so if there are any males out there called Wendy you need to go and have strong words to someone!

[Quarks]

I found a book yesterday, called "The Australian Language", by Sidney J. Baker.
It's absolutely chock-a-block full of slang (almost everything mentioned here is there!), but damned hard to read through, took an hour and a half to get through 50 pages :(.

Will try and find something when I get home today.
:)

[100I]

It's as easy as ****ting the bed & kicking it out with your feet:D

[ivery819]

At the pub.....

mean as cat turd,

standing on his pockets,

[Redback]

<insert sighing smilie here>

bangs like a dunny door in the wind

since when did we have hurricanes in Aus?

Inc? where's the sighing smilie :D:D:D

Calling them Cyclones is a new thing, when i was growing up we called them hurricanes, a bit like tidal waves being call Tsunamis:spudnikwhat:

Just being pedantic maybe, little of Ron rubbing off maybe:p

or just being a boofhead to quote aussie slang

[Dave110]

My appologies NM
I was under the impression that 'Wendy' or versions of were nicknames of Gwendolin and that Wendy as a first name appeared after 1904 and that the male name used was Wendal or Wendall

I would still slap someone if I was named Wendy!

[Redback]

My appologies NM
I was under the impression that 'Wendy' or versions of were nicknames of Gwendolin and that Wendy as a first name appeared after 1904 and that the male name used was Wendal or Wendall

I would still slap someone if I was named Wendy!

Wendy is derived from Qwendolin (Welsh i believe) the English took alot of names and Anglofied (read changed spelling) them for easy pronunciation of the name.

Also in the Celt or Gaelic, alot of female and male names were often the same, Kerry is a prime excample, however the English decided that Kerrie would be female and Kerry male:twisted:

From what i know anyway, so your both right:D

Baz.

[Bigbjorn]

Beverley and Shirley were once male names

[Vandermorph]

I havent heard the word Shiela for ages

[JDNSW]

Calling them Cyclones is a new thing, when i was growing up we called them hurricanes, a bit like tidal waves being call Tsunamis:spudnikwhat:

Just being pedantic maybe, little of Ron rubbing off maybe:p

or just being a boofhead to quote aussie slang

According to Harbord's "Glossary of Navigation" (1938) the correct terminology is Hurricanes in the Atlantic and West Indies, Cyclone in the Indian Ocean, and Typhoon in the North Pacific - South Pacific is not mentioned. Tropical Cyclone is the general term.

Shorter OED confirms that the term "Cyclone" meaning a tropical revolving storm dates from the mid 19th century. Also notes that Hurricane dates from the mid 16th century and as well as referring to a West Indian Cyclone (the word is native American via Spanish) refers to any strong wind, specifically one of Hurricane strength.

So the term is hardly new - and hurricane has never been a technically correct term for use in Australia, even if you did grow up calling them Hurricanes.

Similarly, tsunamis have always (at least since the late 19th century) been the technical term for what was colloquially called a tidal wave.

I think in both cases it is a matter of detailed meteorological language moving into general speech as the general population becomes better educated about weather - perhaps partly at least due to TV weather broadcasts.

John

[Quiggers]

Carol still appears as a male name.

eg Carol Shelby, Carol Smith, Carol O'Connor etc

Nelson Bunker Hunt (who tried to corner the silver market maybe 20+ years ago), I believe, had a brother who's name was 'Bum'...

GQ

[Bigbjorn]

Flat as a s**t-carter's hat
Flat as a biscuit
Flat strap

[digger]

my old man always used...

"its about as much use as a sore **** to a boundry rider"
(a boundry rider rode the edge of properties either prior to fences or later to check fences etc and therfore spent a lot of time in the saddle....i think it explains itself!)

and pop used...

"dont give an old soldier the dry bible!"
(ww1 veteran...apparently reasonably common to hollow bible so as to carry bottle of appropriate "holy water"
which normally wouldnt be allowed)


(mind you I bought a 97 defender a number of years ago and the first thing the old man said was "why did you buy that "bastard" for? the only change they made to them from new was changing the tractor body for a car body and since 1950 the only bloody change I can see is the grill came forwards and the headlights popped out! )


digger

[austastar]

Hi,
I was working with a Kiwi ex shearer on the weekend, when he got his saw jammed in the wood.
He cursed the "son of a syphilitic sea-cock".
This of course immediately conjured up images of totally inappropriate naval behaviour below decks.
His other gem was "more chatter than a married magpie".

cheers

[MarknDeb]

you bl00dy ripper
dickwhit
numbnut
doodletwang

[disco_thrasher]

thats easy,


fair dinkum

tell that to a yank



john

or tell that to a septic tank

hows your bum for grubs (are you hungry)

[digger]

Austastar!

3 years and 9 days!! strewth thats a long time dormant!!

[DEFENDERZOOK]

well ill be ding danged........

theres a heap here ive never heard of before......

[Hymie]

I fair dinkum nearly cried the other day.
I called a young Twenty Something "Cobber", then had to explain it to him, he'd never heard the term.
Get rid of "Guys" and "Dudes" and get Cobber back into Strine I say!

[midal]

As dry as a dead dingo's donger

[Narangga]

Book it up to the dust and let the rain settle it.

[rovers4]

RN'ers - Worscestershire Sauce
Blood - Tomato Sauce
Blurters - green peas for pies
pi**ed as three shearers
dry as an Arab's fart
can fight like a shearer's cook
about as clean as an Afghan's underpants
Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down (bosses instruction to a green truckie)
Soup sandwich - meat pie
donkey man - Merchant Navy term for a fitter and turner
golden rivet - as in "take her down the tiller flat and show her the golden rivet"
tobermories - big wild bullocks, from Tobermory Station on the Qld. /NT border
mermaids - weight of loads inspectors ( c***ts with scales)
lie docket or swindle sheet - truckies log book
beans - pills taken by truckies, also called make-a-mile lollies
watchmaker's or Irish screwdriver - large ball pein hammer
mad mick - pick
kelly - axe
banjo - shovel
fat as a butcher's dog
thin as boarding house stew
sin bosun - seagoing term for a clergyman
proctologist's mate - ship's steward (usually but not always gay)
chippy - originally a shipwright, but now a carpenter as well
felt more *****s than a second-hand dartboard
up & down like a whore's knickers
full as a catholic school
full as a drover's deep freeze
tired as a drover's dog
skinny as a gin's leg
"did you go through to Central or hop off at Hornsby" - old Sydney means of enquiring how well a mate did on a date with a sheila.

Most of the saying up till this lot have been heard in Tassie, but Brians list is new to me.

What about: " He's a rummin" meaning a rum one or different/perculiar.



Rovers4

[Gumnut]

fits like a ***** in a shirtsleeve,
If his brains were semen, he could't duff a flea,
two inseperable fools;- the wit brothers, half and f...,
freeze the walls off a bark humpy,
freeze the nuts off a tractor,
face like five miles of unmade road,
promiscuous girl;- skippy, town bike,
big ears;-lugnuts, wingnuts,
pompous twit;- mudguards- shiny on top, $h1t underneath,
leave quickly;-shoot through like a bondi tram,
floating turd;- bondi mullet (previous site of ocean sewage discharge),
cook;- bait layer,
old refrain;- who called the cook a c---, (respose by all) who called the c--- a cook!

That's enough for now, I'll hit the donkeys breakfast.

Andy

[THE BOOGER]

as reliable as a two bob watch
as queer as a 3 dollar bill
fitter and turner (army cook)

[rick130]

[snip]
fitter and turner (army cook)

and am I right in thinking this was as they " fit it into tins and turn it into ****" ? :D

[rick130]

and FWIW I read an article a little while back saying that a lot of these 'old' Australian idioms and slang were dying or dead already.

Funny thing was I hear the same terms/sayings they listed everyday :lol2:

Methinks the researchers needed to go beyond their university gates and beyond the sandstone curtain (those in NSW know what i mean) back into the 'real' Australia :p

Oh, and some friends just got back from a three week holiday in the US.
Apparently John let fly with a "stone the bloody crows !" at a lunch and everyone just stopped and stared.
They needed it repeated a few times and then translated :cool:

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

"Don't you come the raw prawn with me mate!"
"built like a brick ****house"
4x2 = Jew

[Tikirocker]

No time to read through the entire thread to see if my ones have already been posted, here's a few my family elders used over the years ....


"Hit the straps" = Get going to leave ...

"Park yer paw paw" = Take a seat ...

"Fair suck of the sav" = Fair go ...

"He's got a roo loose in the top paddock" = Blokes dippy ...

"Port" = A Queensland suitcase!

"More front than Mark Foys" = Foys was a huge David Jones like business in Sydney City back in the 20's.

"Bloods worth bottling" = Self explanatory.

"Hit the turps" = To drink ...

"Wingnut" = Idiot ...

"Sumphead" = A bigger idiot ...

Si.

[Marshall]

I know this is not PC but...
"more ass than a bus load of poofters" - A very lucky chap

[THE BOOGER]

and am I right in thinking this was as they " fit it into tins and turn it into ****" ? :D

Yep fit perfectly good food into pots and pans and turn it into s**t:D

[Tusker]

Who is up for a seven course lunch?

And one from the leaf sprung era of yesteryear:

If you drove over a two bob bit you could tell which side was up; the Queen or the kangaroo.

Regards
Max P

[Redback]

Calling someone a Globite = Hard Case

Dry as a Pommies towel

Dry as a Nuns Nastey:angel:

Wouldn't be dead for quids

Howyagoin yaold bastard

Bangs like a dunny door in a hurrican

[Basil135]

Busier than a one armed wall paper hanger

Flat out like a lizard drinking

I could eat a horse & chase its rider

His language was so bad, he could make a warfie blush

[sashadidi]

he is as tight as a bulls arseh..... going uphill in fly season

[dswatts]

Rippa

[Disco Inferno]

'ooroo or hooroo.

Practice it at least once a day and see what reaction you get.

[V8Ian]

Sticky beak.

[JBM770]

How many people know that this has absolutely nothing to do with the genitalia of primates?

The cannon ball holder on a ship was made of brass and was called a monkey. I think it held 3 balls on the bottom row in a triangle with 1 on top.

When it was cold the monkey would shrink at a lower temp than the balls and the balls would be too big for the monkey and therefore fall off of it.

James

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

"no within Coo-ee".

"ya dago bastard"

[scoteye]

Like the cockie on a biscuit tin.

Arnotts used to sell biscuits in tins, with a macaw (type of parrot) label on the lid. The cockie was always on the outside and couldn't get the biscuits inside.


On the outide looki' in :D

[woody]

me old man reckoned that I was a life member of the 'Pistol Club'
Drink till Midnight - P-ss til Dawn
and that I was normally fuller than a state school port rack and the old girl reckoned that I was p-ssing me life up the wall;)

[rovers4]

When something has gone wrong somewhere: "things are crook in Tullorook".

"Beauty bonza" for excellent.

"Give us a gander" for let me have a look.

"Strike a light" for thats a good idea.

"put a block in the hole" for shut the door.

"were you brought up in a tent" ditto.

"do the block" for tour the Aust mainland,
and also for getting mad at someone or something.

"he's the ant's pants" to describe someone as ideal.

Also "bee's knees" and "duck's guts".

Rovers4

[THE BOOGER]

no ones said kick the bucket or **** a brick:o

PS the bird on the biscuit tin is a rosella not a macaw

[ramblingboy42]

I use most of those everyday,but I find sayings like 'in the kelvinator" ..."on the blower"..."wheres the bog house"...."cactus"....."its the ducks guts'....."ya bloody galah"....."grinnin like a shot fox"....."come a gutzer'.....theres heaps more I can put here but its when I use them these days I have to explain what I'm saying, If I use the yank crap talk(seppo lingo mate) I can be understood

[Narangga]

"put a block in the hole" for shut the door.

"were you brought up in a tent" ditto.


Rovers4

Where did you tie up your horse?

[THE BOOGER]

was your mother a bubble dancer? was your father a glass blower? your not see through so get out of the way of the telly:)

[rick130]

I use most of those everyday,but I find sayings like 'in the kelvinator" ..."on the blower"..."wheres the bog house"...."cactus"....."its the ducks guts'....."ya bloody galah"....."grinnin like a shot fox"....."come a gutzer'.....theres heaps more I can put here but its when I use them these days I have to explain what I'm saying, If I use the yank crap talk(seppo lingo mate) I can be understood

As I said a page back, use those terms outside the big smoke and no one bats an eyelid, they're normal, everyday terms still :D