AUSSIE SLANG
Words and Phrases
T through Z
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Ta
Thanks, Goodbye
Take-away
Fast food
Talk the leg off an iron pot.
Gift of the gab, talk a great deal
Tea
Evening meal
Tee up
Make ready or arrange something
Thingo
Something you don't know the name of
Thongs
Flip-flops (considered an almost required form of casual footwear for Aussies during the hot summers)
Thunder box
Toilet
Tick, Hang on a
Wait a moment
Tickets on himself, He's got
Person who thinks they are the greatest
Tin lid
Child
Tinnie
Can of cold beer; aluminum boat;
Tinnie, Crack a
Open a can of cold beer
Tinnies short of a slab, A couple
Simple-minded of mentally-impaired person
Tip
Dump or landfill
Too right!
Absolutely right and correct
Top-ender
Someone who lives in the Northern Territory
Trannie
"Transistor" radio
Troppo
Madness from being in the Tropics too long
Tucker
Food
Tuckerbag
Bag for storing food in the bush
Tuckshop
Aussie school cafeteria or canteen
Turn it up
Stop what your saying/doing, it's not right
Turps, On the
Get drunk
Twenty to the dozen, Going
Moving/doing something very fast
Two-pot screamer
Someone who can't tolerate much alcohol
Two-up
Traditional Australian betting game using two coins
Uluru
Ayers Rock, a large formation in the Outback, which has religious meaning for the Aborigines
Underdaks
Underwear
Uni
University
Up the gumtree
Someone who has gotten themself in trouble
Up your nose, Someone got
Someonee really irritated and annoyed you
Up yourself
full of self-importance
Ute
Utility truck (has tray back instead of usual usual pick-up body)
Vegemite
An Aussie yeast spread that has the color and consistency of molasses
Veggies
Vegetables
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W-X-Y-Z
Waffle
Nonsense
Waffle on
Aimless ignorant chatter
Wag
Skip school, truant
Walkabout, Gone for a
Gone for a long walk; item has been stolen;
Walkover
Easy victory or achievement
Wally
Someone who keeps making mistakes
Wanker
Ignorant person who thinks he is the greatest
Waterhole, Go down the
Going to the pub (hotel)
Weatherboard
Wooden house
Wet, The
The rainy season in northern Australia
Wharfie
Dockworker
Whinge
Complain, whine, grumble
Whippersnipper
Grass trimmer (weed wacker)
Whip round
Informal collection of money by a group of people
Who-ha
A fuss about something
Willy
Man's penis
Windscreen
Windshield on a motor vehicle
Wind up ya!, Put the
Frighten or intimidate someone
Wobbly, Chuck a
Throw a tantrum
Wog, I got the
I have a cold/flu/virus
Wonky
Something is unwell, unsteady, unreliable
Woop woop
An imaginary town a very long way away in the bush
Wowser
Killjoy, prude
Wrong drummed
Given bad information
Yabbie
Freshwater Australian crayfish
Yakka, Hard
Strenuous labor, hard work
Yewse or Youse
All of you (Plural of you)
Yobbo
Hooligan with no values, looks like a slob
Zed
The letter "Z"
Zebra crossing
Striped paint lines forming pedestrian crossing on a roadway
Zed's (ZZZ's), Catch some
Sleep, take a nap
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Colorful Phrases

Scarce as rocking horse shit.
Very rare indeed.
Up at a sparrow's fart.
Up very early in the morning.
There are kangaroos loose in his top paddock.
He's crazy (he has a few screws loose).
You're the shit that hangs off the wool on the rear end of a sheep.
You're worthless.
May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down.
Put a curse on someone.
He's going to point Percy at the porcelain.
A man is going to urinate.
It's dry as a dead dingo's donger.
It's extremely dry.
He's/She's mad/silly as a gum tree full of galahs.
He's/She's crazy.
He/She got the rough end of the pineapple.
He/she got a raw deal.
She'll be right, mate.
Everything will be all right.
Awning over the toy shop
Beer belly on a man
Noisy as a dunny door in a storm
Very noisy (as when an outhouse door bangs constantly on a windy day)
Go bite your bum!
Be quiet!
Off like a bucket of prawns in the hot sun
To leave very quickly (as quickly as a pail of shrimp would spoil in the hot sun)

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Last Modified September 9, 2002