Strine and Australian Slang

Don’t get into a blue. Know a bit of Strine and you will be fine.

In a pub you could get asked to shout. Don’t holler your head off. You’re just being reminded it’s your turn to pay for the next round of drinks.

If you are visiting Australia and are non-Australian but you do speak English, you should have no real problem understanding the local lingo. (We try to make sure we use only words that we think are common to your kind and our kind of English.)

When there is tucker and grog

In a social setting, especially when there is tucker and grog, or just grog (or plonk), we do tend to slip into our dialect, which means: Hey, you are one of us, so none of this Queen’s English bizo.

So whether it’s this morning or this arvo, a few good words to know in the pub are middy and schooner, with a fair sprinkling of mate here and there. Don’t be a mug or a lair, befair and do your shout — reckon that is the go.

Listen to your mate’s corker of a story, and do not go crook if you cannot come up with yourown ripper yarn. And do not tell the bloke to rack off, sport, or you could get into a barney and in all sorts of strife.

Or you need to go to the loo

If you need to go to the rest room, comfort room, or whatever else you call that room (because you are pissed, or simply pissed off), that place is the loo, or call it toilet. A dunny is a different thing altogether.

Whatever you speak about, do not act the wowser as everyone tends to be given a fair go, fairdinkum, mate. And do not go acting the yobbo either.

Also, it doesn’t hurt to state ta or thanks for anything done for you; you will hear a lot of taing around, thanks is so much a part of the Aussie language.

And so, Half your luck, mate

(Go post it on the Board if someone throws a strange Aussie word at you, maybe we can find out what it means.)

Half your luck if you have gone this far.

And… ta.

Glossary

arvo. Afternoon.barney. Row, fight, argument.bizo. Business.bloke. Man.blue. row, fight.corker. Great.crook. Mad. Also sick.dunny. A more primitive type of toilet, usually locted outdoors.fair dinkum. Genuine, real, really.fair go. Fair chance.grog. Beer, liquor.half your luck. Congratulations.lair. One of brash or vulgar behavior, usually flashily dressed as well.loo. Toilet.mate. Friend, pal, colleague.middy. Middle-sized glass. A middy usually contains 285ml (of beer).mug. Someone taken advantage of.pissed. Drunk.pissed off. Angry, mad.plonk. Cheap liquor or wine.rack off. Scram, get lost.ripper. Great, something great.schooner. A bigger glass for beer, bigger than a middy.shout. pay for a round (of drinks).sport. Something like mate, but sometimes stated with some belligerence. Strine. Australian as she is spoke. ta. Thanks.tucker. Food.wowser. Prude, puritan.yobbo. Someone a bit uncouth.

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