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[blanikdog]

The following are results from an OZ-words Competition where entrants were asked to take an Australian word, alter it by one letter only, and supply a witty definition.

Clearly, you need to be an Aussie to understand.

Billabonk:             to make passionate love beside a waterhole
Bludgie:                 a partner who doesn't work, but is kept as a pet
Dodgeridoo:      a fake indigenous artefact
Fair drinkum:     good-quality Aussie wine
Flatypus:                a cat that has been run over by a vehicle
Mateshit:                all your flat mate's belongings, lying strewn around the floor 
Shagman:             an unemployed male, roaming the Australian bush in search of sexual activity 
Yabble:                 the unintelligible language of Australian freshwater crustaceans 
Bushwanker:      a pretentious drongo, who reckons he's above average when it comes to handling himself in the scrub
Crackie-daks:    'hipster' tracksuit pants.  

And for the Kiwi's amongst us: 
Shornbag: a particularly attractive naked sheep. 


blanik

[Godstilla]

Shagman! lol

[punkin]

S'ripper BD, hope ya keep ya budgie smugglers on if i snaffle it for me very own.












MakesSenseTaMePunkin

[Mud]

I wish I spoke Australian. It looks like fun.

[blanikdog]

S'ripper BD, hope ya keep ya budgie smugglers on if i snaffle it for me very own.

sorl yores, punkin.

blanik

[punkin]

ta cobber, dun

[Dutchmancreek]

Roosters ass

[Mud]

I just watched Quigley Down Under, Crocodile Dundee 1 & 2 (God help me) and 5 episodes of the The Crocodile Hunter Diaries. Still don't know what you guys are talking about. Rosetta Stone thinks it's like English somehow, so they're no use. Had to resort to the internet...

http://www.aussieslang.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

[big worm]

shornbag......lmao

[tracker0945]

I just watched Quigley Down Under, Crocodile Dundee 1 & 2 (God help me) and 5 episodes of the The Crocodile Hunter Diaries. Still don't know what you guys are talking about. Rosetta Stone thinks it's like English somehow, so they're no use. Had to resort to the internet...

http://www.aussieslang.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Don't worry too much Mud.

It's more of an aquired skill.

Just imagine how much strife we have untangling the stuff Goose eye talks about.

Cheers.

[duds2u]

Don't worry too much Mud.

It's more of an aquired skill.

When you get out into the bush it gets even worse. It'a gift that comes naturally with an Aussie birth certificate.

[blanikdog]

I just watched Quigley Down Under, Crocodile Dundee 1 & 2 (God help me) and 5 episodes of the The Crocodile Hunter Diaries. Still don't know what you guys are talking about. Rosetta Stone thinks it's like English somehow, so they're no use. Had to resort to the internet...

http://www.aussieslang.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Having got the lingo under your belt mud, a cuppla bonza flicks are "Priscilla, Queen of the desert" and "Strange Bedfellows". Both are bloody hum dingers.

Check bastard and poofta out, and if an aussie calls you one, s/he could be your best mate depending on the context. Americans seem to chuck a wobbly about it.

'ooroo,

blanik

Edit: "Rabbit proof fence" is another bonza flick about how we treated/treat our indiginous people. I hope this doesn't come into the rascist category in the forum. It shouldn't as it's educational but ...

[glassman]

as aussi is my #1 place on earth to visit you guys should make a sticky for aussi language or slang or whatever it is your speaking. so when i go i'll know when im bein dissed or ? gman

i do know what a buggerer is though

[The Tippler]

I wish all you chaps would ler natter spee kinglish..........Tippler

[glassman]

i'd like to see goose converted into aussi gman

[blanikdog]

as aussi is my #1 place on earth to visit you guys should make a sticky for aussi language or slang or whatever it is your speaking. so when i go i'll know when im bein dissed or ? gman

i do know what a buggerer is though

An old bugger can be an elderly person who is also a mate. I'm an old bugger, and I also knock about in the bush allus watching out for Joe Blakes. I could have referred to Americans (above) as septics, but that would have caused a hell of a kafuffle and it would have have been a dead cert to have a mod chuck a spaz and accuse me of white anting a minority group. Fair dinkum.

blanik

[punkin]

A buggerrer ( bum rooter, shirt lifter, vegemite driller) is definately not the same as a bugger.

As in bugger of a problem (tough problem), old bugger (gnarly, disagreeable old man), bugger it (stuff it, fuck it, damage it), bugger off (run away, skip work or school, turn tail), buggerize around (dawdle, waste time), bugger me (expression of amazement, never an invitation in the circles i move in), bugger that (refusal to complete a task), little bugger (naughty child) ect ect...


All of these expressions (and more) can be heard anywhere from the house of parliment, to the local school, to the supermarket or the family dinner table. They are just that common.

[punkin]

i'd like to see goose converted into aussi gman

Pick a post and paste it here, we'll have a go.

[blanikdog]

Bugrit!!

[tracker0945]

A buggerrer ( bum rooter, shirt lifter, vegemite driller) is definately not the same as a bugger.

As in bugger of a problem (tough problem), old bugger (gnarly, disagreeable old man), bugger it (stuff it, fuck it, damage it), bugger off (run away, skip work or school, turn tail), buggerize around (dawdle, waste time), bugger me (expression of amazement, never an invitation in the circles i move in), bugger that (refusal to complete a task), little bugger (naughty child) ect ect...


All of these expressions (and more) can be heard anywhere from the house of parliment, to the local school, to the supermarket or the family dinner table. They are just that common.

and in some of them, bastard can be substituted for bugger without changing the meaning. i.e. old bastard, bastard of a problem and in the right circumstances can be a more an endearing compliment than a criticisim.