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A bad lot - bad, reprehensible, or evil person
A Bex, a cuppa and a (good) lie down - stock formula used to describe a
once popular method of relaxation (from Bex, a brand of pain
killer)
A big deal - important event; serious matter
A bit - modest sum of money: Reg had a bit on the winner of the last
race; Ann was left a bit when her grandmother died
A bit gone - mad; silly; insane
A bit more choke and (n) smb. would have started - statement to
somebody who has just farted loudly in public
A bit much - excessive or rude behavior
A bit of (o) a brothel - mess
A bit of (o) a picnic for a while (for the team) (sport)
unpleasant experience, troublesome accident, bad trot
A bit of (o) all right - something or someone that is more than all
right: lovely, eliciting admiration, beautiful even
A bit of (o) currie / A bit of (o) curry - hard time
A bit of (o) fluff - (demeaning term for) woman, especially one who
is superficially attractive
A bit of (o) how's your father - sexual intercourse
A bit of (o) skirt - (offensive) woman who a male is only interested
in for sexual purposes
A bit of (o) smooey / A bit of (o) smooy - sexual intercourse with
a woman
A bit of (o) understatement here - something or someone that is more
than all right: lovely, eliciting admiration, beautiful even
A bit on the nose smelly
A bit on the side - sexual relations outside of a marriage or
monogamous relationship
A bit rough - unfair or unjust
A bite short of (o) a bickie (bicky) / A bite short of (o) a bikkie
(bikky) - not very intelligent
A certain odd the field - call used by bookmakers in order to drum up
business, meaning that the favourite is offered at the odds called out
and all other horses are at better odds: Six to four the field!
A cup of (o) tea, a Bex, and a good lie down - stock formula used to
describe a once popular method of relaxation
A fair cop 1. just sentence; 2. discovery of a wrongdoer in the act
or with their guilt apparent
A feed, a frostie and (n) a feature / A feed, a frosty and (n)
a feature - food, beer and sex
A few alps short of (o) a range - stock phrases used to describe a
stupid person
A few bangers short of (o) a barbie / A few bangers short of (o) a
barby - stock phrases used to describe a stupid person
A few bites short of (o) a bickie (bicky) / A few bites short of
(o) a bikkie (bikky) - not very intelligent
A few bites short of (o) a biscuit - stock phrases used to describe a
stupid person
A few bricks short of (o) a load - stock phrases used to describe a
stupid person
A few cents short of (o) a dollar - not everything is in order (with
smb.s intellect)
A few chops short of (o) a barbie / A few chops short of (o) a
barby - not everything is in order (with smb.s intellect)
A few crumbs short of (o) a biscuit - neuron impaired
A few dice short of (o) Yahtzee - not very intelligent or mentally
incapable
A few French fries short of (o) a happy meal - not too bright
A few Holdens short of (o) a carpark stupid
A few sandwiches short of (o) a picnic - stock phrases used to
describe a stupid person
A few snags short of (o) a barbie / A few snags short of (o) a
barby - stock phrases used to describe a stupid person
A few snags short of (o) the barbie / A few snags short of (o) the
barby idiot
A few stubbies short of (o) a six-pack - stupid
A few tiles short of (o) a roof slow, not very quick
A few tinnies short of (o) a slab - slow in thinking
A.I.F. - deaf
A lot on the plate - a lot to do
A-OK - very good; functioning correctly
A-okay - very good; functioning correctly
A over T - fall heavily
A pox on (smb. or smth.)! - expression of annoyance directed towards
someone or something: A pox on panty-hose!; A pox on the
Council!
-a-rama (suffix) a) surrounded by or inundated by a specified thing:
tack-a-rama (something incredibly tacky); b) denoting a superb or
extreme example of a specified thing: spunk-a-rama (incredible
spunk)
A rooster one day and a feather duster the next - expression describing
the uncertainty of continued popularity or success
A Tim Tam short of a packet - not having full intelligence; stupid;
moronic (from the propriety name of popular brand of chocolate
biscuits)
A.V.Jennings marriage / A.V.Jennings marriage / A.V.Jenningss
marriage ones first marriage (A.V.Jennings is a builder in
Australia specializing in building houses for young married)
A.W.L. - absent without leave
A wake-up (to ) (n.) 1. fully aware of what is going on; 2. alert;
3. aware of someone's ruse, deceitfulness, hidden agenda, etc.
Abbo / Abo - abbreviation for aborigine (no longer a politically
correct term)
ABC - Chinese person born and raised in Australia (standing for
Australian-Born Chinese; in the US it is similarly used to stand for an
American-Born Chinese)
Abdul (WWI Military, obsolete) Turkish soldier
Abo - Aborigine; Aboriginal
Abs (weights) abdominal muscles
Abso-bloodie-lutely / Abso-bloody-lutely - positively; yes
AC/DC - attracted to both males and females as sexual partners;
bisexual
Ac-dc - bisexual
Acca - academic (university-type)
Accident - person born from an unplanned pregnancy: I was definitely
an accident
Ace 1. Excellent! Very good! 2. excellent; first in quality;
outstanding: The kids think he's ace; 3. successfully achieve,
complete, etc.: You aced that exam
Acid LSD
Acid head - one who takes LSD
Acid house - type of dance music
Acidic - having an acid house influence (of dance music)
Acker (n.) academic; pimple (abbreviated from acne)
Acre(s) - male testicle(s)
Act - pretending to be something you're not
Action - potentially sexually available people: checking out the
action
Add fuel to the fire - make a bad situation worse
Add insult to injurie / Add insult to injury - compound a grievance
already committed against someone
Add (smth.) to one's belt - acquire a favourable point
Adios goodbye
ADO -
accumulated day off
Adrian Quist pissed (rhyming slang), drunk
Adrian's / Adrians - rhyming slang for drunk. From tennis player's
name Adrian Quist. Quist rhymes with pissed, hence drunk.
Aerial (surfing, skating, etc.) controlled manoeurvre in which the
rider and board become airborne
Aerial ping pong / Aerial ping-pong / Aerial pingpong - Australian
Rules football
Aeroplane - airplane
Aesthetically challenged ugly
Afferbeck lauder (Strine) alphabetical order
Afghani dark - type of marijuana
After dark - shark
Afternoon delight - sexual intercourse in the afternoon
Aftie - afternoon
Aggers (adj.) aggressive: aggers to the max
Aggro / Agro 1. aggressive; dominating; 2. aggression; violence; 3.
aggravation; 4. well known puppet
Agot(s) testicle(s)
Agricultural shot (cricket) wild slog of the ball, usually over
square leg or mid wicket (so called as it is the sort of shot a farmer
might make)
Ai caramba - exclamation of dismay (Spanish; 19th C. slang, recently
re-popularised by the television show The Simpsons)
Ai chihuahua - exclamation of surprise
AIF - 1st or 2nd Australian Imperial Forces
Aint it the truth / Aint it the truth - expression of sympathy and
agreement
Air (sport) 1. amount of height gained when getting airborne:
Great air!; 2. (surfing, skating, etc.) controlled manoeuvre in
which the rider and board become airborne; aerial
Air fridge - 1. mean sum, quantity; 2. ordinary, not extreme: air
fridge person; air fridge man in the street; 3. average
Air guitar - pretence of playing an imaginary guitar: alone in his
room playing air guitar
Air hostess - flight attendant, aerial waitress and lifejacket
demonstrator
Air kiss - formalised kiss in which the cheeks sometimes touch but
never the lips
Air quotes - twitching of the upheld pointer and index fingers of both
hands to mark out a spoken word as a quotation or otherwise distance
oneself from the word
Airhead - empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous person
Airp's trek / Airps trek - mon painting, furniture, architecture, etc.
Airpsly fair billis - quite pleasant; mildly enjoyable
Airie-fairie / Airy-fairy 1. insubstantial, hare-brained, nothing
much, in one's dreams; 2. fancy; 3. vague
Aka - native companion
Akubra -
famed Australian-made felt hat, an essential part of country attire
Al Capone - rhyming slang for telephone
Alco - alcoholic
Alec - simple minded person, dupe
Alf - stupid person
Alibi - secret language used by schoolchildren in which normal words
are modified by adding into each syllable the sounds ullab; thus
hug becomes hullabug, You are a pig becomes Yullaboo
ullabar ullaba pillabig
Alice, the Alice Springs, Central Australia
Alkie / Alko / Alky alcoholic
All alone like a countrie dunnie / All alone like a country dunny -
without company; alone
All dolled up - dressed in one's best clothes
All ears
- listening attentively
All froth and no beer / All froth n no beer - full of himself
All Greek - (of someone's speech) unintelligible
All over - with great affection towards; excessively attentive to:
She was all over him as soon as he entered the room
All over (smb.) like a rash 1. excessively and sycophantically
attentive to (someone); 2. smother (someone) in kisses and cuddles; 3.
feel or fondle (someone)
All over the place like a mad woman's (womans) breakfast - be in
complete confusion and disarray
All over the place like a mad woman's (womans) custard - out of control
All over the place like a mad woman's (womans) knitting - out of
control
All over the place like a mad woman's (womans) lunch box - out of
control
All over the place like a mad woman's (womans) piss - out of control
All over the place like a mad woman's (womans) washing - out of control
All piss and wind / All piss 'n' wind - loquacious, but insincere
loquacious, but insincere
All ponced up - dressed up smartly; spruced up
All pooned up - all dressed up to go out; togged out in one's finest
(clipped form of poonce)
All prick and ribs like a drovers dog / All prick and ribs, like a
drovers dog / All prick n ribs like a drovers dog / All prick
n ribs, like a drovers dog thin
All shine, no shoes - fake, fraud
All smiles - very happy
All stations - Alsatian (dog)
All the go - something is right with it, popular
Alley 1. (n.) forte: It's right up my alley; 2. two-up school,
run on organised lines and under strict control; 3. (horseracing)
position at the barrier, drawn by a horse for a race: He went to the
front from a wide alley; 4) large playing marble
Alley oop / Alleyoop - exclamation of encouragement, exhortation, etc.,
some vigorous action or forceful effort
Alley up - pay up (a debt, etc.)
Alma grey - (obsolete) trey, threepence
Almond rocks - pair of socks (rhyming slang)
Alot - (common spelling error, but also used deliberately as a cool
spelling) 1. great deal: The traffic has eased up and we're cruising
alot faster now; 2. many; a great number or amount of: It was alot
of fun
Alrighty - yes; okay
Also-ran 1. (horseracing) unplaced horse in a race; 2. nonentity
Alterna (pref.) alternative; unconventional; not an ordinary or
run-of-the-mill example of: alternababe, alternateens,
alternadom, alternarock
Alternative 1. (of music) different to any of the mainstream genres,
such as that available on indie labels; 2. (of any aspect of popular
culture) not having a mainstream following
Aluminium - useful metal
Always in the shit - always in trouble
Amber - beer
Amber fluid beer
Amber liquid beer
Amber nectar
beer
Ambience - type of electronic dance music
Ambient - of or pertaining to a genre of music designed to induce a
calm mood in the listener; type of electronic dance music
Ambo - ambulance; ambulance officer
Amigo - friend
Ammo - ammunition
Amos and Andie / Amos and Andy / Amos n Andie / Amos n Andy
brandy
Amp - get excited; become thrilled: keep amping; totally amped
Amyl - chemical amyl nitrite, used as a sexual stimulant
Anaesthetist anesthesiologist
Anal 1. obsessive; 2. finicky; 3. fussy; 4. having to have
everything in strict order, set up perfectly neatly, etc.: Don't be
so anal (from psychoanalytical terminology, relating to an anal
character or the anal stage)
Anal floss - G-strings or other items of skimpy underwear that rides up
the anal cleft
Anal retent - excessively anal person
Anally retentive - excessively meticulous and rigid about minor things
Anchor(s) brake(s)
Ancient history - information or events of the recent past which are
common knowledge or are no longer relevant: As far as I'm concerned,
he's ancient history; finished or gone irrevocably
Andie Capp / Andy Capp - crap; defecate
Andie Maguire / Andy Maguire - fire
Angel gear (motoring) neutral gear, especially when used to coast
downhill to save fuel
Angel's kiss / angels kiss - piss
Angle of the dangle - pertaining to an erection of the penis
Anglo - (often derogatory) Australian of Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Celtic
descent
Animal 1. disgusting person; 2. highly-sexed person; 3. (car sales)
very dirty car
Ankle - despicable person (so-called because "an ankle is three feet
lower than a cunt")
Ankle biter / Ankle-biter / Anklebiter - child, infant
Ankles (insultingly) three feet lower than a cunt, or the only thing
seen out of the boss's arse; suckup
Annie Louise / Anny Louise - cheese
Another
nail in the coffin smb. is smoking another cigarette
Ant's pants / Ants pants 1. height of fashion;
2. high opinion of themselves
Anthem - song or piece of music seen indicative of, or encapsulating
the feelings and ideas of, a particular subculture
Anthemic - (of music) regarded as an anthem
Any old Joe blow - anyone you don't even know, someone you do not know
the name of
Any tic of the clock - very soon
Anyhow mate! - saying used to
change the subject when talking (usually when they bored with what you
are saying)
ANZAC - Australian & New Zealand Army Corps
Anzac - member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (see
digger)
Aorta - composite but non-existant Authority which is held responsible
for practically
everything unpleasant in the Strine way of life; personification of the
benevolently paternal welfare State to which all Strines - being
fiercly independant and
individualistic - appeal for help and comfort in moments of frustration
and anguish: Aorta build another arber bridge; An aorta stop half
of these cars
from cummer ninner the city - so a feller can get twirkon time.
APC - quick wash (initialism from the phrase Arm Pits and Crotch,
punning on the brand name of a former headache powder)
Ape - large, uncouth, boorish man
Ape hangers (pl. n.) motorcycle or bicycle handlebars so curved that
the handles are above the level of the rider's shoulders
App - application
Apple eater - someone who lives in the state of Tasmania (apple growing
state) Apple Islander someone from Tasmania
Apple Isle - Tasmania
Apple sauce - horse
Apple tart (n., v.) fart: He apple tarted
Apples 1. okay, alright; 2. stairs (from rhyming slang apples and
pears)
Apples and pears stairs (rhyming slang)
Apricot(s) testicle(s) (reproductive glands)
Aras 1. bottle; 2. arse
Are you right? - typical shop assistant's greeting meaning "Can I help
you?"
Arfie-darfie / Arfy-darfy - secret language used by schoolchildren
Argie bargie / Argie-bargie / Argy bargy / Argy-bargy - tedious;
argumentative
Argue the toss 1. dispute a decision or command; 2. go on arguing
after a dispute has been settled
Aris 1. bottle; 2. arse
Aristotle 1. bottle; 2. arse (1: straight rhyming slang; 2:
secondary rhyming slang, bottle and glass = arse)
Ark Ellerie / Ark Ellery - mon painting, furniture, architecture, etc.
Arkahn's top / Arkahn's top (Strine) I can't stop
Arm Arm / Arm-arm childs appeal to his mother for help: Arm arm,
makim stop
Arm pit smth./smb. stinking; terrible
-aroonie (suffix) used to make colloquial or slang forms of nouns
and adjectives: It was a buzzaroonie; complete stifferoonie;
Muzzaroonie (Murry); smashed it to smitheroonies
Around like a risole later
Arp language - secret language used by schoolchildren in which normal
words are modified by adding into each syllable the sound arp; thus
hug becomes harpug; You are a pig becomes Yarpu arpar
arpa parpig (see: arpie-darpie etc.)
Arpie-darpie / Arpy-darpy - secret language used by schoolchildren in
which normal words are modified by adding into each syllable the sound
arp; thus hug becomes harpug; You are a pig becomes
Yarpu arpar arpa parpig (see: alibi, eggy-peggy, obo
language, arfie-darfie, arple-darple, arp language,
kerosene language)
Arple-darple - secret language used by schoolchildren in which normal
words are modified by adding into each syllable the syllable arple
(see: arfie-darfie etc.)
Arse 1. rump; bottom; buttocks; posterior; 2. despised person; 3.
impudence: What arse!; 4. person considered as a sex object: What
a nice bit of arse!; 5. good luck
Arse about 1. in reverse or illogical order: He did the exercise
completely arse about; 2. act like a fool; 3. waste time
Arse about face - something is back to front
Arse around 1. act like a fool; 2. waste time
Arse bandit - male homosexual
Arse end 1. tail end; 2. base; 3. worst part: This place is the
arse end of the world
Arse-licker 1. self-seeking flatterer; 2. fawning, servile parasite;
3. sycophant
Arse-licking 1. sycophantic; 2. extremely good: the most
arse-licking bass you'll ever hear
Arse over header - varsovienna, dance
Arse over tip - fall over
Arse over tit - upside down; fallen heavily and awkwardly usually in a
forward direction
Arse-sucker - sycophant; arse-licker
Arse up / Arse-up 1. spoil; 2. cause to fail; 3. wrong side up; 4.
topsy-turvy; 5. incorrect; 6. in a clumsy fashion
Arsehole 1. anus; 2. despised person, especially a male; person who
is selfish, rude, unkind, etc.; 3. remove a person from a place quickly
and without ceremony; throw someone out; 4. dismiss; sack
Arsehole about - fool around
Arsewipe - despicable person (from US slang asswipe - toilet paper)
Arsey / Arsie / Arsy - lucky
Artist 1. fanatical supporter (bullshit artist); 2. someone who
does (action) with a certain flair: dob artist, fart artist; 3.
person noted or notorious for a reprehensible aspect of their
behaviour: booze artist
Arvie / Arvo afternoon
As (conj.) used after an adjective to denote that what is being
described is a superb or extreme example of that thing: he was as
fickle as; this place is hot as; I'm tired as
As awkward as a bull in a china shop - extremely clumsy
As bald as a bandicoot - remarkably bald
As bent as a nine dollar note gay
As bright as a two-watt bulb - stupid
As buggerie / As buggery - intensifier: gentle as buggery; hot as
buggery
As busie as a blowie at a barbie / As busy as a blowy at a barby - very
busy or hyperactive
As busie as a cat burying shit / As busy as a cat burying shit busy
As busie as a one legged bloke in an arse kicking contest / As busy as
a one-legged bloke in an arse-kicking contest - do nothing
As busie as Bourke street in the rush hour / As busy as Bourke street
in the rush hour - very busy (Bourke St. is a main street in Melbourne)
As camp as a row - (of a male) homosexual
As camp as a row of (o) (pink) tents - (of a male) homosexual
As cheap as chips - extremely cheap
As cheap as dirt - extremely cheap
As clear as mud confusing
As cold as a witch's tit / As cold as a witches tit - extremely cold
As common as a cat in Springvale - rare (alluding to Vietnamese
eating cats)
As common as a dog in Springvale - rare (alluding to Vietnamese eating
dogs)
As common as dog (dogs, dogs) shit - very common
As compassionate as a starving shark - have no sympathy at all
As crissed as a picket - pissed as a cricket
As crook(ed) as a dog - feeling extremely unwell
As crook(ed) as a dog's hind leg / As crook(ed) as a dogs hind leg
1. feeling extremely unwell; 2. very crooked; not straight
As crook(ed) as a mangie dog / As crook(ed) as a mangy dog - feeling
extremely unwell
As crook(ed) as Rookwood (very) sick, unwell (from Rookwood -
Cemetery in Sydney)
As cross as a frog in a sock persons hard drive (sounding angry)
As cunning as a dunnie rat / As cunning as a dunny rat - very cunning
As
cunning as a shithouse rat - very cunning and underhanded
As cute as a button - extremely cute [originally an aphetic variant of
acute - shrewd, clever; there is quite a distinct semantic
difference between a cute puppy and a cute butt; the often
quoted true or dictionary definition of cute as ugly but
interesting does not exist in any actual dictionary and most probably
originally arose as a joke. (Macquarie Dictionary: Book of Slang. -
http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/p/dictionary/slang-a.html)]
As dark as three feet up a cow's arsehole / As dark as three feet up a
cows arsehole - extremely dark
As dead as mutton 1. undeniably dead; 2. dull; boring
As drunk as a fowl very drunk
As drunk as a lord very drunk
As drunk as an earl very drunk
As drunk as a piss ant / As drunk as a piss-ant / As drunk as a pissant
very drunk
As drunk as a prince very drunk
As drunk as a skunk very drunk
As drunk as a tick very drunk
As drunk as an earl very drunk
As drunk as Chloe - very drunk [clearly not derived from the famous
painting of Chloe in Young and Jackson's Hotel, Melbourne, as the
expression appeared many years before the painting was actually painted
Macquarie Dictionary: Book of Slang. -
http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/p/dictionary/slang-a.html)]
As drunk as Larrie Dooley / As drunk as Larry Dooley - very drunk
As dry as a bulls (bulls ) bum going up a hill backward 1. very
thirsty; 2. very dry
As dry as a dead dingo's donger / As dry as a dead dingos donger 1.
very thirsty; 2. very dry
As dry as a drover's dog / As dry as a drovers dog 1. very thirsty;
2. very dry
As dry as a fuck with no foreplay 1. very thirsty; 2. very dry
As dry as a nun's nastie / As dry as a nuns nasty / As dry as a nuns
nastie / As dry as a nuns nasty 1. needing a drink ; 2. very dry
As dry as a nun's tit / As dry as a nuns tit 1. needing a drink ; 2.
very dry
As dry as a Pomie's (Pomies) bath mat / As dry as a Pommy's bath mat /
As dry as a Pommie's (Pommies) bath mat / As dry as a Pomy's bath mat
1. needing a drink; 2. very dry (based on the canard that Poms bathe
about once a month)
As dry as a Pomie's (Pomies) towel / As dry as a Pommie's (Pommies)
towel / As dry as a Pommy's towel / As dry as a Pomy's towel 1.
needing a drink ; 2. very dry (based on the canard that Poms bathe
about once a month)
As dry as a witch's tit (in the desert) / As dry as a witches tit (in
the desert) 1. very thirsty; 2. very dry
As dry as an Arab's fart / As dry as an Arabs fart 1. very thirsty;
2. very dry
As dull as dishwater - very boring
As fine as a fairie's fart / As fine as a fairies fart / As fine as a
fairy's fart - very delicate
As fit as a buck rat - even fitter than a Mallee bull (meaning sexually
active)
As fit as a Mallee bull almost invincible; very fit and strong. (The
Mallee is very arid beef country in Victoria/South Australia.)
As flash as a rat with a gold tooth - (of a person) showy or
ostentatious; dressed and groomed nicely
As full as a boot 1. very drunk; 2. replete with food
As full as a Catholic school full up
As full as
a fairie's phone book / As full as a fairies phone book / As full as a
fairy's phone book - something that is not at all empty
As full as a familie po / As full as a family po 1. very drunk; 2.
replete with food; 3. extremely full
As full as a fat ladie's knickers / As full as a fat ladies knickers /
As full as a fat lady's knickers - couldn't have any more food/drink
As full as a fat ladie's socks / As full as a fat ladies socks / As
full as a fat lady's socks - couldn't have any more food/drink
As full as a fat man's undies / As full as a fat mans undies full up
As full as a goog - full;
drunk or eaten to the excess. ("Goog" is a variation of the northern
English slangword "goggie" meaning an egg.)
As full as a secondary
school hat rack - very drunk
As full as a state school 1. very drunk; 2. replete with food
As funnie as a fart in a sleeping bag / As funny as a fart in a
sleeping bag not very funny
As funnie as a fart in a space suit / As funny as a fart in a space
suit not very funny
As funnie as a fart in an elevator / As funny as a
fart in an elevator not very funny
As funnie as a hatful of arseholes /
As funny as a hatful of arseholes - very funny (said sarcastically: not
funny at all)
As game as a piss ant / As game as a piss-ant / As game as a pissant -
very daring
As game as Ned Kellie / As game as Ned
Kelly 1. have a go; 2. very game; courageous; 3. with fighting
spirit; plucky; resolute [Edward Ned Kelly was a bushranger, or outlaw
who gained notoriety last century with his gang "The Kelly Gang". They
were responsible for many holdups of travellers. His "trademark" was
an iron helmet and breastplate which he fashioned from an old plough
late in his "career". He was finally captured in a bloody shootout at
a place called Glenrowan, where the gang was besieged by troopers. It
looks like the gang was all killed, except for Kelly who stood off the
troopers in his armour until his wounds overcame him. He was promptly
hung a short time later, in Melbourne Gaol in 1880; his last words
being "Such is life". He attained the fame in Australia that outlaws
in America similarly received. (Soc.culture.australian FAQ. P.III. -
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/australian-faq/part3/)]
As game as Phar Lap 1. have a go; 2. very game; courageous; 3. with
fighting spirit; plucky; resolute
As good as gold! / As good as gold - great
As good as two blondes put together - not very smart
As handie as mudflaps on a speedboat
/ As handy as mudflaps on a speedboat - not handy at all
As handie as pockets on a singlet / As handy as pockets on a singlet
useless
As handie as shit on a stick / As handy as shit on a stick - not
much help
As happie as a bastard on father's day / As happie as a bastard on
fathers day / As happy as a bastard on father's day / As happy as a
bastard on fathers day - unhappy, depressed
As happie as a boxing kangaroo in fog / As happy as a boxing kangaroo
in fog - miserable
As happie as a dog with two dicks / As happy as a dog with two dicks -
very happy
As happie as a Larrie / As happy as a Larry - very happy
As happie as a pig in
mud / As happy as a pig in mud - very happy
As happie as a pig in
shit / As happy as a pig in shit - very happy
As happie as Harrie / As happy as Harry extremely overjoyed
As high as a kite 1. under the influence of drugs or alcohol; 2. in
exuberant spirits
As honest as the day is long - very honest
As if - used to express complete disbelief or disagreement; in your
dreams: You're asking me on a date! With you? As if!
As Irish as Paddie's pigs / As Irish as Paddies pigs / As Irish as
Paddy's pigs - very Irish (familiar variant of Irish Padraig = Patrick)
As keen as mustard - enthusiastic about something
As livelie as a blowfly on a winter's day / As livelie as a blowfly on
a winters day / As lively as a blowfly on a winter's day / As lively as
a blowfly on a winters day lethargic
As lonelie as a countrie dunnie / As lonelie as a country dunny / As
lonely as a countrie dunnie / As lonely as a country dunny very
lonely
As long as a month of Sundays - very long time (28 - 31 weeks)
As long as a wet weekend - extremely long
As long as ones arse points to the ground - as long as smb. is up and
running things
As loose as a cock in a sock - very loose
As luckie as a bastard on father's day / As luckie as a bastard on
fathers day / As lucky as a bastard on father's day / As lucky as a
bastard on fathers day - unhappy, depressed
As mad as a baptist in a brothel - really angry
As mad as a cut
snake furious; very upset; crazy
As mad as a gumtree full of galahs - 1. quite stupid (from the name of
the pink and grey cockatoo, from the Aboriginal language Yuwaalaraay);
2. furious; very upset; crazy
As mad as a meat axe - extremely angry
As mad as a two-bob watch - stupid; idiotic; erratic
As mean as a mysogynist's dick / As mean as a mysogynists dick 1.
picky or particular; 2. not free with money
As mean as cat's piss / As mean as cats piss - mean, stingy,
uncharitable
As much chance as pushing shit uphill with a rubber fork - little or no
chance at
As needed as a back pocket in a t-shirt / As needed as a back pocket in
a tshirt - not useful
As noisie as a dunnie door in a storm / As noisy as a dunny door in a
storm being rather noisy for a long time
As nuttie as a fruitcake / As nutty as a fruitcake - foolish; very
eccentric; completely mad
As ol as the hills / As old as the hills - very old
As pissed as a bastard - extremely drunk
As pissed as a cunt - extremely drunk (Middle English cunte, counte, in
Old Norse kunta, Old Frisian kunte)
As pissed as a fart - too much drunk
As pissed as a newt drunk
As pissed as a parrot drunk
As pissed as fortie arseholes / As pissed as forty arseholes -
extremely drunk
As pleased as Punch - delighted; highly pleased
As popular as a mangie dog / As popular as a mangy dog - not popular
As proud as a rat with a gold tooth - very proud
As queer as a concrete parachute - poof or lesbian
As quick as a bumnut through an eggslice - quick
As quick as a door knob - very quick
As quick as a flash - very quick
As quick as a meat axe - very quick
As quick as a mutton chop - very quick
As quick as a rat up a rope - very quick
As quick as a wink - very quick
As quick as greased lightning - very quick
As quick as mercury - very quick
As rare as hen's teeth / As rare as hens teeth rare
As regular as Christmas - regularly
As reliable as a two-bob watch - watch costing only two bob would not
be very reliable
As rough as a pigs breakfast / As rough as a pigs breakfast
- very rough, crude
As rough as bags - (of a person) extremely rough in either manners or
looks
As rough as bags and twice as nasty / As rough as bag(s) n twice as
nasty - uncouth, rough
As rough as goats knees / As rough as goats knees / As rough as
goats' knees - very rough, crude
As rough as guts 1. very rough, crude; 2. extremely uncouth; 3. very
poor standard of workmanship
As rough as mullet - very rough, crude
As safe as houses - completely safe
As scarce as hen's teeth / As scarce as hens teeth / As scarce as
hens teeth rare
As scarce as rocking-horse (horses, horses) manure - rare
As scarce
as rocking horse (horses, horses) shit - very rare
As sharp as a beach-ball / As sharp as a beachball - not very bright
and quick
As sick as a dog - very sick
As sillie as a pork chop / As silly as a pork chop - very silly
As sillie as a two-bob watch / As silly as a two-bob watch - stupid;
idiotic; erratic
As slick as greased snake shit 1. smooth talker; 2. something
working better than expected
As slow as a wet week - very slow
As stiff as a Saturday night prick - sore from exertion / exercise
As stiff as a wedding night prick - sore from exertion /exercise
As stuffed as a whore on Father's Day / As stuffed as a whore on
Fathers Day - can't eat another thing
As sure as shit - absolutely sure; positive
As sure as there is cold shit in a dead cat / As sure as there's cold
shit in a dead cat - the certainty of the situation
As the actress said to the bishop - catchphrase used to make a sexual
innuendo out of an innocent statement
As the crow flies - in a straight line
As thick as a brickie's sandwich / As thick as a brickies sandwich / As
thick as a bricky's sandwich dopey
As thick as a lump of 4 X 2 / As thick as a lump of four by two - not
well endowed with grey matter
As thick as a wharfie's sandwich / As thick as a wharfies sandwich / As
thick as a wharfy's sandwich dopey
As tight as a bull's arse in fly-time / As tight as a bulls arse in
fly-time - extremely mean with money; tight-arsed
As tight as a drum - (of the stomach) completely full of food
As tight as a duck's arse / As tight as a ducks arse - extremely mean
with money; tight-arsed
As tight as a fish's arse / As tight as a fishes arse - extremely mean
with money; tight-arsed
As tight as a mouse's ear / As tight as a mouses ear - extremely mean
with money; tight-arsed
As tight as a newt - extremely drunk
As toey as a Roman sandal 1. extremely anxious; 2. being in need of
a bit of sex As
tough as a Mallee bull almost invincible
As uglie as a bag of (o) spanners / As ugly as a bag of (o)
spanners very ugly
As uglie as a bagful of (o) arseholes / As ugly as a bagful of (o)
arseholes - unattractive; very ugly, especially of a person
As uglie as a box of (o) blowflies / As ugly as a box of (o)
blowflies - really ugly As uglie as a hatful of (o)
arseholes / As ugly as a hatful of (o) arseholes - very ugly
As useful as a bucket under a bull absolutely useless
As useful as a cunt full of cold water - not very usefull
As useful as a dead dingo's donger / As useful as a dead dingos donger
- completely useless
As useful as a drover's pup / As useful as a drovers pup - not useful
at all
As useful as a dry thunderstorm absolutely useless
As useful as a fart in a collander - useless (collander is a kitchen
strainer)
As useful as a G rated pron flick useless
As useful as a glass door on a dunnie / As useful as a glass door on a
dunny - useless
As useful as a handbrake on a Holden useless
As useful as a nun's cunt / As useful as a nuns cunt - not useful at
all
As useful as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking contest useless
As useful as a piss in a shower absolutely useless
As useful as a pocket on a singlet absolutely useless
As useful as a roo-bar on a skateboard absolutely useless
As useful as a sore arse to a boundarie rider / As useful as a sore
arse to a boundary rider absolutely useless
As useful as a spare dick at a wedding absolutely useless
As useful as a submarine with screen doors absolutely useless
As useful as a third armpit absolutely useless
As useful as a wart on the hip absolutely useless
As useful as a wether at a ram sale absolutely useless
As useful as a witch's tit / As useful as a witches tit absolutely
useless
As useful as an arsehole on a broom absolutely useless
As useful as an ashtray on a motorbike useless
As useful as an ashtray on a pushbike absolutely useless
As useful as an ashtray on a surf-board - useless
As useful as an ashtray on a water-ski useless
As useful as lips on a chicken - not worth a damned
As useful as mudflaps on a speedboat - not useful at all
As useful as pockets on a singlet useless
As useful as shit on a stick - not much help
As useful as the bottom half of a mermaid absolutely useless
As useful as tits on a bull useless; unhelpful or incompetent person
or thing: "He, she or it is about as useful as tits on a bull" etc.
As useful as two knobs of billie-goat poop / As useful as two knobs of
billy-goat poop - (ironic) completely useless
As useless as a chocolate fireguard useless
As useless as a glass door on a dunnie / As useless as a glass door on
a dunny useless
As useless as a soft cock in a nurses dorm / As useless as a soft
cock in a nurses dorm useless
As useless as an arse pocket in a singlet absolutely useless
As useless as an ashtray on a motorbike - absolutely useless
As useless as the bottom half of (o) a mermaid - absolutely useless
As useless as tits on a tomcat - absolutely no use at all
As weak as piss -
extremely weak (often refers to character or physical strength)
As welcome as a fart in a phone box - get out of here
As welcome as a pork chop in a synagogue - not popular
As welcome as a pork chop in Jerusalem - not popular
As welcome as a turd in a swimming pool unpopular
As wet as a soup sandwich horny
As you do - conversational aside following a reported action, often
used ironically when commenting on some unusual behaviour: I was
standing on the balcony in my underwear - as you do - when my neighbour
walked by
Ashes, the - prize gained in an international series of cricket with
England
Ashfelt - asphalt
Aspro - Associate Professor
Ass 1. stupid person (from ass donkey); 2. (rare in
Australia, often in the USA) arse (originally a British dialect
variant. In the US arse is often used as a euphemism)
Assprad - excessively preoccupied with domestic order and cleanliness
(feminine adjective only): She's very assprad - she keeps Rome
looking lovely
At a loose end - unoccupied; with nothing to do: She asked him to
dinner because he seemed to be at a loose end
At loose ends - unoccupied; with nothing to do: She asked him to dinner
because he seemed to be at a loose end
At sparrow fart / At sparrows fart / At sparrows fart - at dawn
At the drop of a hat immediately; at any excuse
Attaboy! - exclamation of approval,
urging, encouragement or exhortation addressed to a boy or man
Attagirl! - exclamation of approbation or exhortation addressed to a
girl or woman
Attitude - excessively aggressive and dominating behaviour: a band
with attitude, They have heaps of attitude, no attitude, just
heaps of fun, hardcore attitude
Auntie / Aunty 1. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC (Channel
2); 2. effeminate or homosexual older male
Auntie Meg / Aunty Meg - keg (of beer)
Aussie / Aussy [pron. Ozzie] 1. (n., adj.) Australian; 2. Australia;
3. (stock market): Australian dollar
Aussie battler / Aussy battler - typical member of the working class in
Australia
Aussie rules / Aussy rules - Australian football
Aussie salute /
Aussy salute - brushing away flies with the hand
Australasia Oz +N(ew) Z(ealand)
Australian adjective - bloody
Australian flag - part of a shirt, which has come untucked and hangs
out over the trousers
AV Jennings marriage ones first marriage (AV Jennings is a builder
in Australia specializing in building houses for young married)
Av-a-go-yer-mug / Avagoyermug 1. someone is not trying hard enough
in his sport, and you want him to (this is yelled to give him a bit of
a push a long); 2. traditional rallying call, often heard at cricket
matches (contraction of "Have a go, you mug!")
Avagoodweegend - have a good weekend
'Ave have
'Ave a go ya mug! - directed at a
slow batsman in cricket
Avoid list - putative list of people one wishes not to socialise with;
a list of geeks
Avos - avocados
Awake up not deluded, alert
Awake (up) to - fully aware: He's awake up to what's going on;
they're awake to our plan
Away with the fairies 1. daydreaming; 2. mentally unsound or
eccentric; 3. not in touch with reality; 4. incapacitated by alcohol
Away with the pixies - 1. daydreaming; 2. mentally unsound or
eccentric; 3. not in touch with reality; 4. incapacitated by alcohol
Awesome - extremely impressive; of high quality; totally excellent:
You missed an awesome gig last night
Awkward as a bull in a china shop - extremely clumsy
Awning over the toy shop - male beer belly
Axe 1. a) electric guitar; b) (jocular) acoustic guitar; c) (jazz)
any instrument for playing jazz; 2. cut out; abolish (a project, etc.);
3. reduce (expenditure, prices, etc.) sharply; 4. dismiss from a
position; 5. the axe: a) dismissal from a job, position, etc.; sack; b)
sudden and definite halt brought to some project, venture, etc.
Axe-handle - rough unit of measurement: about six axe-handles wide
Axe man - man who plays guitar
Axe mark - (offensive and crass) vagina
Axe woman - woman who plays guitar
Axe wound (offensive and crass) vagina
Ay - (interjection) 1. exclamation of surprise; Hey!; 2. tag used
at the end of a statement in order to assure that the listener is in
agreement, not necessarily requiring a reply or answer, but offering
the option of agreeing or disagreeing: Wasn't it lucky, ay?;
Great fun, ay?; Blessing in disguise, ay? (The usage in def. 2
is very common, and dates back to Colonial times. It is neither
restricted, nor excessively more common, to New Zealand, Queensland, or
any other particular region, as often claimed)
Ay? smb. didn't catch what someone has said; Pardon me
Ay fender paw stiffleh noss yetting - I find her positively nauseating
Aygo-paygo - secret language used by schoolchildren in which normal
words are modified by adding into each syllable the sound ug; thus
hug becomes hu-gug; You are a pig becomes Yu-goo ugar uga
pugig (See alibi, arp language, obo language,
eggy-peggy)
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A bad lot - bad, reprehensible, or evil person
A Bex, a cuppa and a (good) lie down - stock formula used to describe a
once popular method of relaxation (from Bex, a brand of pain
killer)
A big deal - important event; serious matter
A bit - modest sum of money: Reg had a bit on the winner of the last
race; Ann was left a bit when her grandmother died
A bit gone - mad; silly; insane
A bit more choke and (n) smb. would have started - statement to
somebody who has just farted loudly in public
A bit much - excessive or rude behavior
A bit of (o) a brothel - mess
A bit of (o) a picnic for a while (for the team) (sport)
unpleasant experience, troublesome accident, bad trot
A bit of (o) all right - something or someone that is more than all
right: lovely, eliciting admiration, beautiful even
A bit of (o) currie / A bit of (o) curry - hard time
A bit of (o) fluff - (demeaning term for) woman, especially one who
is superficially attractive
A bit of (o) how's your father - sexual intercourse
A bit of (o) skirt - (offensive) woman who a male is only interested
in for sexual purposes
A bit of (o) smooey / A bit of (o) smooy - sexual intercourse with
a woman
A bit of (o) understatement here - something or someone that is more
than all right: lovely, eliciting admiration, beautiful even
A bit on the nose smelly
A bit on the side - sexual relations outside of a marriage or
monogamous relationship
A bit rough - unfair or unjust
A bite short of (o) a bickie (bicky) / A bite short of (o) a bikkie
(bikky) - not very intelligent
A certain odd the field - call used by bookmakers in order to drum up
business, meaning that the favourite is offered at the odds called out
and all other horses are at better odds: Six to four the field!
A cup of (o) tea, a Bex, and a good lie down - stock formula used to
describe a once popular method of relaxation
A fair cop 1. just sentence; 2. discovery of a wrongdoer in the act
or with their guilt apparent
A feed, a frostie and (n) a feature / A feed, a frosty and (n)
a feature - food, beer and sex
A few alps short of (o) a range - stock phrases used to describe a
stupid person
A few bangers short of (o) a barbie / A few bangers short of (o) a
barby - stock phrases used to describe a stupid person
A few bites short of (o) a bickie (bicky) / A few bites short of
(o) a bikkie (bikky) - not very intelligent
A few bites short of (o) a biscuit - stock phrases used to describe a
stupid person
A few bricks short of (o) a load - stock phrases used to describe a
stupid person
A few cents short of (o) a dollar - not everything is in order (with
smb.s intellect)
A few chops short of (o) a barbie / A few chops short of (o) a
barby - not everything is in order (with smb.s intellect)
A few crumbs short of (o) a biscuit - neuron impaired
A few dice short of (o) Yahtzee - not very intelligent or mentally
incapable
A few French fries short of (o) a happy meal - not too bright
A few Holdens short of (o) a carpark stupid
A few sandwiches short of (o) a picnic - stock phrases used to
describe a stupid person
A few snags short of (o) a barbie / A few snags short of (o) a
barby - stock phrases used to describe a stupid person
A few snags short of (o) the barbie / A few snags short of (o) the
barby idiot
A few stubbies short of (o) a six-pack - stupid
A few tiles short of (o) a roof slow, not very quick
A few tinnies short of (o) a slab - slow in thinking
A.I.F. - deaf
A lot on the plate - a lot to do
A-OK - very good; functioning correctly
A-okay - very good; functioning correctly
A over T - fall heavily
A pox on (smb. or smth.)! - expression of annoyance directed towards
someone or something: A pox on panty-hose!; A pox on the
Council!
-a-rama (suffix) a) surrounded by or inundated by a specified thing:
tack-a-rama (something incredibly tacky); b) denoting a superb or
extreme example of a specified thing: spunk-a-rama (incredible
spunk)
A rooster one day and a feather duster the next - expression describing
the uncertainty of continued popularity or success
A Tim Tam short of a packet - not having full intelligence; stupid;
moronic (from the propriety name of popular brand of chocolate
biscuits)
A.V.Jennings marriage / A.V.Jennings marriage / A.V.Jenningss
marriage ones first marriage (A.V.Jennings is a builder in
Australia specializing in building houses for young married)
A.W.L. - absent without leave
A wake-up (to ) (n.) 1. fully aware of what is going on; 2. alert;
3. aware of someone's ruse, deceitfulness, hidden agenda, etc.
Abbo / Abo - abbreviation for aborigine (no longer a politically
correct term)
ABC - Chinese person born and raised in Australia (standing for
Australian-Born Chinese; in the US it is similarly used to stand for an
American-Born Chinese)
Abdul (WWI Military, obsolete) Turkish soldier
Abo - Aborigine; Aboriginal
Abs (weights) abdominal muscles
Abso-bloodie-lutely / Abso-bloody-lutely - positively; yes
AC/DC - attracted to both males and females as sexual partners;
bisexual
Ac-dc - bisexual
Acca - academic (university-type)
Accident - person born from an unplanned pregnancy: I was definitely
an accident
Ace 1. Excellent! Very good! 2. excellent; first in quality;
outstanding: The kids think he's ace; 3. successfully achieve,
complete, etc.: You aced that exam
Acid LSD
Acid head - one who takes LSD
Acid house - type of dance music
Acidic - having an acid house influence (of dance music)
Acker (n.) academic; pimple (abbreviated from acne)
Acre(s) - male testicle(s)
Act - pretending to be something you're not
Action - potentially sexually available people: checking out the
action
Add fuel to the fire - make a bad situation worse
Add insult to injurie / Add insult to injury - compound a grievance
already committed against someone
Add (smth.) to one's belt - acquire a favourable point
Adios goodbye
ADO -
accumulated day off
Adrian Quist pissed (rhyming slang), drunk
Adrian's / Adrians - rhyming slang for drunk. From tennis player's
name Adrian Quist. Quist rhymes with pissed, hence drunk.
Aerial (surfing, skating, etc.) controlled manoeurvre in which the
rider and board become airborne
Aerial ping pong / Aerial ping-pong / Aerial pingpong - Australian
Rules football
Aeroplane - airplane
Aesthetically challenged ugly
Afferbeck lauder (Strine) alphabetical order
Afghani dark - type of marijuana
After dark - shark
Afternoon delight - sexual intercourse in the afternoon
Aftie - afternoon
Aggers (adj.) aggressive: aggers to the max
Aggro / Agro 1. aggressive; dominating; 2. aggression; violence; 3.
aggravation; 4. well known puppet
Agot(s) testicle(s)
Agricultural shot (cricket) wild slog of the ball, usually over
square leg or mid wicket (so called as it is the sort of shot a farmer
might make)
Ai caramba - exclamation of dismay (Spanish; 19th C. slang, recently
re-popularised by the television show The Simpsons)
Ai chihuahua - exclamation of surprise
AIF - 1st or 2nd Australian Imperial Forces
Aint it the truth / Aint it the truth - expression of sympathy and
agreement
Air (sport) 1. amount of height gained when getting airborne:
Great air!; 2. (surfing, skating, etc.) controlled manoeuvre in
which the rider and board become airborne; aerial
Air fridge - 1. mean sum, quantity; 2. ordinary, not extreme: air
fridge person; air fridge man in the street; 3. average
Air guitar - pretence of playing an imaginary guitar: alone in his
room playing air guitar
Air hostess - flight attendant, aerial waitress and lifejacket
demonstrator
Air kiss - formalised kiss in which the cheeks sometimes touch but
never the lips
Air quotes - twitching of the upheld pointer and index fingers of both
hands to mark out a spoken word as a quotation or otherwise distance
oneself from the word
Airhead - empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous person
Airp's trek / Airps trek - mon painting, furniture, architecture, etc.
Airpsly fair billis - quite pleasant; mildly enjoyable
Airie-fairie / Airy-fairy 1. insubstantial, hare-brained, nothing
much, in one's dreams; 2. fancy; 3. vague
Aka - native companion
Akubra -
famed Australian-made felt hat, an essential part of country attire
Al Capone - rhyming slang for telephone
Alco - alcoholic
Alec - simple minded person, dupe
Alf - stupid person
Alibi - secret language used by schoolchildren in which normal words
are modified by adding into each syllable the sounds ullab; thus
hug becomes hullabug, You are a pig becomes Yullaboo
ullabar ullaba pillabig
Alice, the Alice Springs, Central Australia
Alkie / Alko / Alky alcoholic
All alone like a countrie dunnie / All alone like a country dunny -
without company; alone
All dolled up - dressed in one's best clothes
All ears
- listening attentively
All froth and no beer / All froth n no beer - full of himself
All Greek - (of someone's speech) unintelligible
All over - with great affection towards; excessively attentive to:
She was all over him as soon as he entered the room
All over (smb.) like a rash 1. excessively and sycophantically
attentive to (someone); 2. smother (someone) in kisses and cuddles; 3.
feel or fondle (someone)
All over the place like a mad woman's (womans) breakfast - be in
complete confusion and disarray
All over the place like a mad woman's (womans) custard - out of control
All over the place like a mad woman's (womans) knitting - out of
control
All over the place like a mad woman's (womans) lunch box - out of
control
All over the place like a mad woman's (womans) piss - out of control
All over the place like a mad woman's (womans) washing - out of control
All piss and wind / All piss 'n' wind - loquacious, but insincere
loquacious, but insincere
All ponced up - dressed up smartly; spruced up
All pooned up - all dressed up to go out; togged out in one's finest
(clipped form of poonce)
All prick and ribs like a drovers dog / All prick and ribs, like a
drovers dog / All prick n ribs like a drovers dog / All prick
n ribs, like a drovers dog thin
All shine, no shoes - fake, fraud
All smiles - very happy
All stations - Alsatian (dog)
All the go - something is right with it, popular
Alley 1. (n.) forte: It's right up my alley; 2. two-up school,
run on organised lines and under strict control; 3. (horseracing)
position at the barrier, drawn by a horse for a race: He went to the
front from a wide alley; 4) large playing marble
Alley oop / Alleyoop - exclamation of encouragement, exhortation, etc.,
some vigorous action or forceful effort
Alley up - pay up (a debt, etc.)
Alma grey - (obsolete) trey, threepence
Almond rocks - pair of socks (rhyming slang)
Alot - (common spelling error, but also used deliberately as a cool
spelling) 1. great deal: The traffic has eased up and we're cruising
alot faster now; 2. many; a great number or amount of: It was alot
of fun
Alrighty - yes; okay
Also-ran 1. (horseracing) unplaced horse in a race; 2. nonentity
Alterna (pref.) alternative; unconventional; not an ordinary or
run-of-the-mill example of: alternababe, alternateens,
alternadom, alternarock
Alternative 1. (of music) different to any of the mainstream genres,
such as that available on indie labels; 2. (of any aspect of popular
culture) not having a mainstream following
Aluminium - useful metal
Always in the shit - always in trouble
Amber - beer
Amber fluid beer
Amber liquid beer
Amber nectar
beer
Ambience - type of electronic dance music
Ambient - of or pertaining to a genre of music designed to induce a
calm mood in the listener; type of electronic dance music
Ambo - ambulance; ambulance officer
Amigo - friend
Ammo - ammunition
Amos and Andie / Amos and Andy / Amos n Andie / Amos n Andy
brandy
Amp - get excited; become thrilled: keep amping; totally amped
Amyl - chemical amyl nitrite, used as a sexual stimulant
Anaesthetist anesthesiologist
Anal 1. obsessive; 2. finicky; 3. fussy; 4. having to have
everything in strict order, set up perfectly neatly, etc.: Don't be
so anal (from psychoanalytical terminology, relating to an anal
character or the anal stage)
Anal floss - G-strings or other items of skimpy underwear that rides up
the anal cleft
Anal retent - excessively anal person
Anally retentive - excessively meticulous and rigid about minor things
Anchor(s) brake(s)
Ancient history - information or events of the recent past which are
common knowledge or are no longer relevant: As far as I'm concerned,
he's ancient history; finished or gone irrevocably
Andie Capp / Andy Capp - crap; defecate
Andie Maguire / Andy Maguire - fire
Angel gear (motoring) neutral gear, especially when used to coast
downhill to save fuel
Angel's kiss / angels kiss - piss
Angle of the dangle - pertaining to an erection of the penis
Anglo - (often derogatory) Australian of Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Celtic
descent
Animal 1. disgusting person; 2. highly-sexed person; 3. (car sales)
very dirty car
Ankle - despicable person (so-called because "an ankle is three feet
lower than a cunt")
Ankle biter / Ankle-biter / Anklebiter - child, infant
Ankles (insultingly) three feet lower than a cunt, or the only thing
seen out of the boss's arse; suckup
Annie Louise / Anny Louise - cheese
Another
nail in the coffin smb. is smoking another cigarette
Ant's pants / Ants pants 1. height of fashion;
2. high opinion of themselves
Anthem - song or piece of music seen indicative of, or encapsulating
the feelings and ideas of, a particular subculture
Anthemic - (of music) regarded as an anthem
Any old Joe blow - anyone you don't even know, someone you do not know
the name of
Any tic of the clock - very soon
Anyhow mate! - saying used to
change the subject when talking (usually when they bored with what you
are saying)
ANZAC - Australian & New Zealand Army Corps
Anzac - member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (see
digger)
Aorta - composite but non-existant Authority which is held responsible
for practically
everything unpleasant in the Strine way of life; personification of the
benevolently paternal welfare State to which all Strines - being
fiercly independant and
individualistic - appeal for help and comfort in moments of frustration
and anguish: Aorta build another arber bridge; An aorta stop half
of these cars
from cummer ninner the city - so a feller can get twirkon time.
APC - quick wash (initialism from the phrase Arm Pits and Crotch,
punning on the brand name of a former headache powder)
Ape - large, uncouth, boorish man
Ape hangers (pl. n.) motorcycle or bicycle handlebars so curved that
the handles are above the level of the rider's shoulders
App - application
Apple eater - someone who lives in the state of Tasmania (apple growing
state) Apple Islander someone from Tasmania
Apple Isle - Tasmania
Apple sauce - horse
Apple tart (n., v.) fart: He apple tarted
Apples 1. okay, alright; 2. stairs (from rhyming slang apples and
pears)
Apples and pears stairs (rhyming slang)
Apricot(s) testicle(s) (reproductive glands)
Aras 1. bottle; 2. arse
Are you right? - typical shop assistant's greeting meaning "Can I help
you?"
Arfie-darfie / Arfy-darfy - secret language used by schoolchildren
Argie bargie / Argie-bargie / Argy bargy / Argy-bargy - tedious;
argumentative
Argue the toss 1. dispute a decision or command; 2. go on arguing
after a dispute has been settled
Aris 1. bottle; 2. arse
Aristotle 1. bottle; 2. arse (1: straight rhyming slang; 2:
secondary rhyming slang, bottle and glass = arse)
Ark Ellerie / Ark Ellery - mon painting, furniture, architecture, etc.
Arkahn's top / Arkahn's top (Strine) I can't stop
Arm Arm / Arm-arm childs appeal to his mother for help: Arm arm,
makim stop
Arm pit smth./smb. stinking; terrible
-aroonie (suffix) used to make colloquial or slang forms of nouns
and adjectives: It was a buzzaroonie; complete stifferoonie;
Muzzaroonie (Murry); smashed it to smitheroonies
Around like a risole later
Arp language - secret language used by schoolchildren in which normal
words are modified by adding into each syllable the sound arp; thus
hug becomes harpug; You are a pig becomes Yarpu arpar
arpa parpig (see: arpie-darpie etc.)
Arpie-darpie / Arpy-darpy - secret language used by schoolchildren in
which normal words are modified by adding into each syllable the sound
arp; thus hug becomes harpug; You are a pig becomes
Yarpu arpar arpa parpig (see: alibi, eggy-peggy, obo
language, arfie-darfie, arple-darple, arp language,
kerosene language)
Arple-darple - secret language used by schoolchildren in which normal
words are modified by adding into each syllable the syllable arple
(see: arfie-darfie etc.)
Arse 1. rump; bottom; buttocks; posterior; 2. despised person; 3.
impudence: What arse!; 4. person considered as a sex object: What
a nice bit of arse!; 5. good luck
Arse about 1. in reverse or illogical order: He did the exercise
completely arse about; 2. act like a fool; 3. waste time
Arse about face - something is back to front
Arse around 1. act like a fool; 2. waste time
Arse bandit - male homosexual
Arse end 1. tail end; 2. base; 3. worst part: This place is the
arse end of the world
Arse-licker 1. self-seeking flatterer; 2. fawning, servile parasite;
3. sycophant
Arse-licking 1. sycophantic; 2. extremely good: the most
arse-licking bass you'll ever hear
Arse over header - varsovienna, dance
Arse over tip - fall over
Arse over tit - upside down; fallen heavily and awkwardly usually in a
forward direction
Arse-sucker - sycophant; arse-licker
Arse up / Arse-up 1. spoil; 2. cause to fail; 3. wrong side up; 4.
topsy-turvy; 5. incorrect; 6. in a clumsy fashion
Arsehole 1. anus; 2. despised person, especially a male; person who
is selfish, rude, unkind, etc.; 3. remove a person from a place quickly
and without ceremony; throw someone out; 4. dismiss; sack
Arsehole about - fool around
Arsewipe - despicable person (from US slang asswipe - toilet paper)
Arsey / Arsie / Arsy - lucky
Artist 1. fanatical supporter (bullshit artist); 2. someone who
does (action) with a certain flair: dob artist, fart artist; 3.
person noted or notorious for a reprehensible aspect of their
behaviour: booze artist
Arvie / Arvo afternoon
As (conj.) used after an adjective to denote that what is being
described is a superb or extreme example of that thing: he was as
fickle as; this place is hot as; I'm tired as
As awkward as a bull in a china shop - extremely clumsy
As bald as a bandicoot - remarkably bald
As bent as a nine dollar note gay
As bright as a two-watt bulb - stupid
As buggerie / As buggery - intensifier: gentle as buggery; hot as
buggery
As busie as a blowie at a barbie / As busy as a blowy at a barby - very
busy or hyperactive
As busie as a cat burying shit / As busy as a cat burying shit busy
As busie as a one legged bloke in an arse kicking contest / As busy as
a one-legged bloke in an arse-kicking contest - do nothing
As busie as Bourke street in the rush hour / As busy as Bourke street
in the rush hour - very busy (Bourke St. is a main street in Melbourne)
As camp as a row - (of a male) homosexual
As camp as a row of (o) (pink) tents - (of a male) homosexual
As cheap as chips - extremely cheap
As cheap as dirt - extremely cheap
As clear as mud confusing
As cold as a witch's tit / As cold as a witches tit - extremely cold
As common as a cat in Springvale - rare (alluding to Vietnamese
eating cats)
As common as a dog in Springvale - rare (alluding to Vietnamese eating
dogs)
As common as dog (dogs, dogs) shit - very common
As compassionate as a starving shark - have no sympathy at all
As crissed as a picket - pissed as a cricket
As crook(ed) as a dog - feeling extremely unwell
As crook(ed) as a dog's hind leg / As crook(ed) as a dogs hind leg
1. feeling extremely unwell; 2. very crooked; not straight
As crook(ed) as a mangie dog / As crook(ed) as a mangy dog - feeling
extremely unwell
As crook(ed) as Rookwood (very) sick, unwell (from Rookwood -
Cemetery in Sydney)
As cross as a frog in a sock persons hard drive (sounding angry)
As cunning as a dunnie rat / As cunning as a dunny rat - very cunning
As
cunning as a shithouse rat - very cunning and underhanded
As cute as a button - extremely cute [originally an aphetic variant of
acute - shrewd, clever; there is quite a distinct semantic
difference between a cute puppy and a cute butt; the often
quoted true or dictionary definition of cute as ugly but
interesting does not exist in any actual dictionary and most probably
originally arose as a joke. (Macquarie Dictionary: Book of Slang. -
http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/p/dictionary/slang-a.html)]
As dark as three feet up a cow's arsehole / As dark as three feet up a
cows arsehole - extremely dark
As dead as mutton 1. undeniably dead; 2. dull; boring
As drunk as a fowl very drunk
As drunk as a lord very drunk
As drunk as an earl very drunk
As drunk as a piss ant / As drunk as a piss-ant / As drunk as a pissant
very drunk
As drunk as a prince very drunk
As drunk as a skunk very drunk
As drunk as a tick very drunk
As drunk as an earl very drunk
As drunk as Chloe - very drunk [clearly not derived from the famous
painting of Chloe in Young and Jackson's Hotel, Melbourne, as the
expression appeared many years before the painting was actually painted
Macquarie Dictionary: Book of Slang. -
http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/p/dictionary/slang-a.html)]
As drunk as Larrie Dooley / As drunk as Larry Dooley - very drunk
As dry as a bulls (bulls ) bum going up a hill backward 1. very
thirsty; 2. very dry
As dry as a dead dingo's donger / As dry as a dead dingos donger 1.
very thirsty; 2. very dry
As dry as a drover's dog / As dry as a drovers dog 1. very thirsty;
2. very dry
As dry as a fuck with no foreplay 1. very thirsty; 2. very dry
As dry as a nun's nastie / As dry as a nuns nasty / As dry as a nuns
nastie / As dry as a nuns nasty 1. needing a drink ; 2. very dry
As dry as a nun's tit / As dry as a nuns tit 1. needing a drink ; 2.
very dry
As dry as a Pomie's (Pomies) bath mat / As dry as a Pommy's bath mat /
As dry as a Pommie's (Pommies) bath mat / As dry as a Pomy's bath mat
1. needing a drink; 2. very dry (based on the canard that Poms bathe
about once a month)
As dry as a Pomie's (Pomies) towel / As dry as a Pommie's (Pommies)
towel / As dry as a Pommy's towel / As dry as a Pomy's towel 1.
needing a drink ; 2. very dry (based on the canard that Poms bathe
about once a month)
As dry as a witch's tit (in the desert) / As dry as a witches tit (in
the desert) 1. very thirsty; 2. very dry
As dry as an Arab's fart / As dry as an Arabs fart 1. very thirsty;
2. very dry
As dull as dishwater - very boring
As fine as a fairie's fart / As fine as a fairies fart / As fine as a
fairy's fart - very delicate
As fit as a buck rat - even fitter than a Mallee bull (meaning sexually
active)
As fit as a Mallee bull almost invincible; very fit and strong. (The
Mallee is very arid beef country in Victoria/South Australia.)
As flash as a rat with a gold tooth - (of a person) showy or
ostentatious; dressed and groomed nicely
As full as a boot 1. very drunk; 2. replete with food
As full as a Catholic school full up
As full as
a fairie's phone book / As full as a fairies phone book / As full as a
fairy's phone book - something that is not at all empty
As full as a familie po / As full as a family po 1. very drunk; 2.
replete with food; 3. extremely full
As full as a fat ladie's knickers / As full as a fat ladies knickers /
As full as a fat lady's knickers - couldn't have any more food/drink
As full as a fat ladie's socks / As full as a fat ladies socks / As
full as a fat lady's socks - couldn't have any more food/drink
As full as a fat man's undies / As full as a fat mans undies full up
As full as a goog - full;
drunk or eaten to the excess. ("Goog" is a variation of the northern
English slangword "goggie" meaning an egg.)
As full as a secondary
school hat rack - very drunk
As full as a state school 1. very drunk; 2. replete with food
As funnie as a fart in a sleeping bag / As funny as a fart in a
sleeping bag not very funny
As funnie as a fart in a space suit / As funny as a fart in a space
suit not very funny
As funnie as a fart in an elevator / As funny as a
fart in an elevator not very funny
As funnie as a hatful of arseholes /
As funny as a hatful of arseholes - very funny (said sarcastically: not
funny at all)
As game as a piss ant / As game as a piss-ant / As game as a pissant -
very daring
As game as Ned Kellie / As game as Ned
Kelly 1. have a go; 2. very game; courageous; 3. with fighting
spirit; plucky; resolute [Edward Ned Kelly was a bushranger, or outlaw
who gained notoriety last century with his gang "The Kelly Gang". They
were responsible for many holdups of travellers. His "trademark" was
an iron helmet and breastplate which he fashioned from an old plough
late in his "career". He was finally captured in a bloody shootout at
a place called Glenrowan, where the gang was besieged by troopers. It
looks like the gang was all killed, except for Kelly who stood off the
troopers in his armour until his wounds overcame him. He was promptly
hung a short time later, in Melbourne Gaol in 1880; his last words
being "Such is life". He attained the fame in Australia that outlaws
in America similarly received. (Soc.culture.australian FAQ. P.III. -
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/australian-faq/part3/)]
As game as Phar Lap 1. have a go; 2. very game; courageous; 3. with
fighting spirit; plucky; resolute
As good as gold! / As good as gold - great
As good as two blondes put together - not very smart
As handie as mudflaps on a speedboat
/ As handy as mudflaps on a speedboat - not handy at all
As handie as pockets on a singlet / As handy as pockets on a singlet
useless
As handie as shit on a stick / As handy as shit on a stick - not
much help
As happie as a bastard on father's day / As happie as a bastard on
fathers day / As happy as a bastard on father's day / As happy as a
bastard on fathers day - unhappy, depressed
As happie as a boxing kangaroo in fog / As happy as a boxing kangaroo
in fog - miserable
As happie as a dog with two dicks / As happy as a dog with two dicks -
very happy
As happie as a Larrie / As happy as a Larry - very happy
As happie as a pig in
mud / As happy as a pig in mud - very happy
As happie as a pig in
shit / As happy as a pig in shit - very happy
As happie as Harrie / As happy as Harry extremely overjoyed
As high as a kite 1. under the influence of drugs or alcohol; 2. in
exuberant spirits
As honest as the day is long - very honest
As if - used to express complete disbelief or disagreement; in your
dreams: You're asking me on a date! With you? As if!
As Irish as Paddie's pigs / As Irish as Paddies pigs / As Irish as
Paddy's pigs - very Irish (familiar variant of Irish Padraig = Patrick)
As keen as mustard - enthusiastic about something
As livelie as a blowfly on a winter's day / As livelie as a blowfly on
a winters day / As lively as a blowfly on a winter's day / As lively as
a blowfly on a winters day lethargic
As lonelie as a countrie dunnie / As lonelie as a country dunny / As
lonely as a countrie dunnie / As lonely as a country dunny very
lonely
As long as a month of Sundays - very long time (28 - 31 weeks)
As long as a wet weekend - extremely long
As long as ones arse points to the ground - as long as smb. is up and
running things
As loose as a cock in a sock - very loose
As luckie as a bastard on father's day / As luckie as a bastard on
fathers day / As lucky as a bastard on father's day / As lucky as a
bastard on fathers day - unhappy, depressed
As mad as a baptist in a brothel - really angry
As mad as a cut
snake furious; very upset; crazy
As mad as a gumtree full of galahs - 1. quite stupid (from the name of
the pink and grey cockatoo, from the Aboriginal language Yuwaalaraay);
2. furious; very upset; crazy
As mad as a meat axe - extremely angry
As mad as a two-bob watch - stupid; idiotic; erratic
As mean as a mysogynist's dick / As mean as a mysogynists dick 1.
picky or particular; 2. not free with money
As mean as cat's piss / As mean as cats piss - mean, stingy,
uncharitable
As much chance as pushing shit uphill with a rubber fork - little or no
chance at
As needed as a back pocket in a t-shirt / As needed as a back pocket in
a tshirt - not useful
As noisie as a dunnie door in a storm / As noisy as a dunny door in a
storm being rather noisy for a long time
As nuttie as a fruitcake / As nutty as a fruitcake - foolish; very
eccentric; completely mad
As ol as the hills / As old as the hills - very old
As pissed as a bastard - extremely drunk
As pissed as a cunt - extremely drunk (Middle English cunte, counte, in
Old Norse kunta, Old Frisian kunte)
As pissed as a fart - too much drunk
As pissed as a newt drunk
As pissed as a parrot drunk
As pissed as fortie arseholes / As pissed as forty arseholes -
extremely drunk
As pleased as Punch - delighted; highly pleased
As popular as a mangie dog / As popular as a mangy dog - not popular
As proud as a rat with a gold tooth - very proud
As queer as a concrete parachute - poof or lesbian
As quick as a bumnut through an eggslice - quick
As quick as a door knob - very quick
As quick as a flash - very quick
As quick as a meat axe - very quick
As quick as a mutton chop - very quick
As quick as a rat up a rope - very quick
As quick as a wink - very quick
As quick as greased lightning - very quick
As quick as mercury - very quick
As rare as hen's teeth / As rare as hens teeth rare
As regular as Christmas - regularly
As reliable as a two-bob watch - watch costing only two bob would not
be very reliable
As rough as a pigs breakfast / As rough as a pigs breakfast
- very rough, crude
As rough as bags - (of a person) extremely rough in either manners or
looks
As rough as bags and twice as nasty / As rough as bag(s) n twice as
nasty - uncouth, rough
As rough as goats knees / As rough as goats knees / As rough as
goats' knees - very rough, crude
As rough as guts 1. very rough, crude; 2. extremely uncouth; 3. very
poor standard of workmanship
As rough as mullet - very rough, crude
As safe as houses - completely safe
As scarce as hen's teeth / As scarce as hens teeth / As scarce as
hens teeth rare
As scarce as rocking-horse (horses, horses) manure - rare
As scarce
as rocking horse (horses, horses) shit - very rare
As sharp as a beach-ball / As sharp as a beachball - not very bright
and quick
As sick as a dog - very sick
As sillie as a pork chop / As silly as a pork chop - very silly
As sillie as a two-bob watch / As silly as a two-bob watch - stupid;
idiotic; erratic
As slick as greased snake shit 1. smooth talker; 2. something
working better than expected
As slow as a wet week - very slow
As stiff as a Saturday night prick - sore from exertion / exercise
As stiff as a wedding night prick - sore from exertion /exercise
As stuffed as a whore on Father's Day / As stuffed as a whore on
Fathers Day - can't eat another thing
As sure as shit - absolutely sure; positive
As sure as there is cold shit in a dead cat / As sure as there's cold
shit in a dead cat - the certainty of the situation
As the actress said to the bishop - catchphrase used to make a sexual
innuendo out of an innocent statement
As the crow flies - in a straight line
As thick as a brickie's sandwich / As thick as a brickies sandwich / As
thick as a bricky's sandwich dopey
As thick as a lump of 4 X 2 / As thick as a lump of four by two - not
well endowed with grey matter
As thick as a wharfie's sandwich / As thick as a wharfies sandwich / As
thick as a wharfy's sandwich dopey
As tight as a bull's arse in fly-time / As tight as a bulls arse in
fly-time - extremely mean with money; tight-arsed
As tight as a drum - (of the stomach) completely full of food
As tight as a duck's arse / As tight as a ducks arse - extremely mean
with money; tight-arsed
As tight as a fish's arse / As tight as a fishes arse - extremely mean
with money; tight-arsed
As tight as a mouse's ear / As tight as a mouses ear - extremely mean
with money; tight-arsed
As tight as a newt - extremely drunk
As toey as a Roman sandal 1. extremely anxious; 2. being in need of
a bit of sex As
tough as a Mallee bull almost invincible
As uglie as a bag of (o) spanners / As ugly as a bag of (o)
spanners very ugly
As uglie as a bagful of (o) arseholes / As ugly as a bagful of (o)
arseholes - unattractive; very ugly, especially of a person
As uglie as a box of (o) blowflies / As ugly as a box of (o)
blowflies - really ugly As uglie as a hatful of (o)
arseholes / As ugly as a hatful of (o) arseholes - very ugly
As useful as a bucket under a bull absolutely useless
As useful as a cunt full of cold water - not very usefull
As useful as a dead dingo's donger / As useful as a dead dingos donger
- completely useless
As useful as a drover's pup / As useful as a drovers pup - not useful
at all
As useful as a dry thunderstorm absolutely useless
As useful as a fart in a collander - useless (collander is a kitchen
strainer)
As useful as a G rated pron flick useless
As useful as a glass door on a dunnie / As useful as a glass door on a
dunny - useless
As useful as a handbrake on a Holden useless
As useful as a nun's cunt / As useful as a nuns cunt - not useful at
all
As useful as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking contest useless
As useful as a piss in a shower absolutely useless
As useful as a pocket on a singlet absolutely useless
As useful as a roo-bar on a skateboard absolutely useless
As useful as a sore arse to a boundarie rider / As useful as a sore
arse to a boundary rider absolutely useless
As useful as a spare dick at a wedding absolutely useless
As useful as a submarine with screen doors absolutely useless
As useful as a third armpit absolutely useless
As useful as a wart on the hip absolutely useless
As useful as a wether at a ram sale absolutely useless
As useful as a witch's tit / As useful as a witches tit absolutely
useless
As useful as an arsehole on a broom absolutely useless
As useful as an ashtray on a motorbike useless
As useful as an ashtray on a pushbike absolutely useless
As useful as an ashtray on a surf-board - useless
As useful as an ashtray on a water-ski useless
As useful as lips on a chicken - not worth a damned
As useful as mudflaps on a speedboat - not useful at all
As useful as pockets on a singlet useless
As useful as shit on a stick - not much help
As useful as the bottom half of a mermaid absolutely useless
As useful as tits on a bull useless; unhelpful or incompetent person
or thing: "He, she or it is about as useful as tits on a bull" etc.
As useful as two knobs of billie-goat poop / As useful as two knobs of
billy-goat poop - (ironic) completely useless
As useless as a chocolate fireguard useless
As useless as a glass door on a dunnie / As useless as a glass door on
a dunny useless
As useless as a soft cock in a nurses dorm / As useless as a soft
cock in a nurses dorm useless
As useless as an arse pocket in a singlet absolutely useless
As useless as an ashtray on a motorbike - absolutely useless
As useless as the bottom half of (o) a mermaid - absolutely useless
As useless as tits on a tomcat - absolutely no use at all
As weak as piss -
extremely weak (often refers to character or physical strength)
As welcome as a fart in a phone box - get out of here
As welcome as a pork chop in a synagogue - not popular
As welcome as a pork chop in Jerusalem - not popular
As welcome as a turd in a swimming pool unpopular
As wet as a soup sandwich horny
As you do - conversational aside following a reported action, often
used ironically when commenting on some unusual behaviour: I was
standing on the balcony in my underwear - as you do - when my neighbour
walked by
Ashes, the - prize gained in an international series of cricket with
England
Ashfelt - asphalt
Aspro - Associate Professor
Ass 1. stupid person (from ass donkey); 2. (rare in
Australia, often in the USA) arse (originally a British dialect
variant. In the US arse is often used as a euphemism)
Assprad - excessively preoccupied with domestic order and cleanliness
(feminine adjective only): She's very assprad - she keeps Rome
looking lovely
At a loose end - unoccupied; with nothing to do: She asked him to
dinner because he seemed to be at a loose end
At loose ends - unoccupied; with nothing to do: She asked him to dinner
because he seemed to be at a loose end
At sparrow fart / At sparrows fart / At sparrows fart - at dawn
At the drop of a hat immediately; at any excuse
Attaboy! - exclamation of approval,
urging, encouragement or exhortation addressed to a boy or man
Attagirl! - exclamation of approbation or exhortation addressed to a
girl or woman
Attitude - excessively aggressive and dominating behaviour: a band
with attitude, They have heaps of attitude, no attitude, just
heaps of fun, hardcore attitude
Auntie / Aunty 1. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC (Channel
2); 2. effeminate or homosexual older male
Auntie Meg / Aunty Meg - keg (of beer)
Aussie / Aussy [pron. Ozzie] 1. (n., adj.) Australian; 2. Australia;
3. (stock market): Australian dollar
Aussie battler / Aussy battler - typical member of the working class in
Australia
Aussie rules / Aussy rules - Australian football
Aussie salute /
Aussy salute - brushing away flies with the hand
Australasia Oz +N(ew) Z(ealand)
Australian adjective - bloody
Australian flag - part of a shirt, which has come untucked and hangs
out over the trousers
AV Jennings marriage ones first marriage (AV Jennings is a builder
in Australia specializing in building houses for young married)
Av-a-go-yer-mug / Avagoyermug 1. someone is not trying hard enough
in his sport, and you want him to (this is yelled to give him a bit of
a push a long); 2. traditional rallying call, often heard at cricket
matches (contraction of "Have a go, you mug!")
Avagoodweegend - have a good weekend
'Ave have
'Ave a go ya mug! - directed at a
slow batsman in cricket
Avoid list - putative list of people one wishes not to socialise with;
a list of geeks
Avos - avocados
Awake up not deluded, alert
Awake (up) to - fully aware: He's awake up to what's going on;
they're awake to our plan
Away with the fairies 1. daydreaming; 2. mentally unsound or
eccentric; 3. not in touch with reality; 4. incapacitated by alcohol
Away with the pixies - 1. daydreaming; 2. mentally unsound or
eccentric; 3. not in touch with reality; 4. incapacitated by alcohol
Awesome - extremely impressive; of high quality; totally excellent:
You missed an awesome gig last night
Awkward as a bull in a china shop - extremely clumsy
Awning over the toy shop - male beer belly
Axe 1. a) electric guitar; b) (jocular) acoustic guitar; c) (jazz)
any instrument for playing jazz; 2. cut out; abolish (a project, etc.);
3. reduce (expenditure, prices, etc.) sharply; 4. dismiss from a
position; 5. the axe: a) dismissal from a job, position, etc.; sack; b)
sudden and definite halt brought to some project, venture, etc.
Axe-handle - rough unit of measurement: about six axe-handles wide
Axe man - man who plays guitar
Axe mark - (offensive and crass) vagina
Axe woman - woman who plays guitar
Axe wound (offensive and crass) vagina
Ay - (interjection) 1. exclamation of surprise; Hey!; 2. tag used
at the end of a statement in order to assure that the listener is in
agreement, not necessarily requiring a reply or answer, but offering
the option of agreeing or disagreeing: Wasn't it lucky, ay?;
Great fun, ay?; Blessing in disguise, ay? (The usage in def. 2
is very common, and dates back to Colonial times. It is neither
restricted, nor excessively more common, to New Zealand, Queensland, or
any other particular region, as often claimed)
Ay? smb. didn't catch what someone has said; Pardon me
Ay fender paw stiffleh noss yetting - I find her positively nauseating
Aygo-paygo - secret language used by schoolchildren in which normal
words are modified by adding into each syllable the sound ug; thus
hug becomes hu-gug; You are a pig becomes Yu-goo ugar uga
pugig (See alibi, arp language, obo language,
eggy-peggy)
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