Forgotten Aussie slang and one liners

**Tank** · 12th October 2007, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Guys annoys me also...

HOWEVER...

Its actually a pommie term.

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

and vice versa with naming females with what are now considered male names such as Michael and Christopher

(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** · 12th October 2007, 10:31 PM

Dunny budgie ( = large fly)

**Bigbjorn** · 13th October 2007, 07:58 AM

Originally Posted by landyfromanuthaland

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** · 15th October 2007, 08:50 AM

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

**Dave110** · 15th October 2007, 09:05 AM

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** · 15th October 2007, 09:21 AM

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** · 15th October 2007, 09:23 AM

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

**ivery819** · 15th October 2007, 09:48 AM

At the pub.....

mean as cat turd,

standing on his pockets,

**Redback** · 15th October 2007, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

<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

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

Just being pedantic maybe, little of Ron rubbing off maybe

or just being a boofhead to quote aussie slang

**Dave110** · 15th October 2007, 09:58 AM

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!

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