[Healeys] Late or Early Friday Funny - OZ WORDS

Quinn, Patrick Patrick.Quinn at det.nsw.edu.au
Sun Mar 9 22:12:01 MST 2008


Okay then I'll educate youse lot!

Billabonk: to make passionate love beside a waterhole.

(Billabong - an oxbow lake or inland waterhole that comes from a change
in the course of a river. Bonk - sexual intercourse)

Bludgie: a partner who doesn't work, but is kept as a pet.

(Bludger - one who shirks work. Budgie - budgeriegar)

Dodgeridoo: a fake indigenous artefact.

(Dodgy - something that has very dubious origins or has a bad
reputation. A didgeridoo - Australian aboriginal musical wind
instrument)

Fair drinkum: good-quality Aussie wine.

(Fair Dinkum - something or one that is straight and true. A good
bloke.)

Flatypus: a cat that has been run over by a vehicle.

(Platypus - An Australian monotreme - egg laying mammal)

Mateshit: all your flat mate's belongings, lying strewn
around the floor.

(Mate - a friend. Shit - well! In this course it means rubbish)

Shagman: an unemployed male, roaming the Australian bush
in search of sexual activity.

(Shag - sexual intercourse. Swagman - An unemployed male of the
Depression era with no fixed abode)

Yabble: the unintelligible language of Australian freshwater
crustaceans.

(Yabby - Australian freshwater crayfish. Gabble - Unintelligent talk -
usually by young people but sometimes by apparently grown up females.)

Bushwanker: a pretentious drongo, who reckons he's above average when it
comes to handling himself in the scrub.

(Wanker - Someone who has tickets on themselves. Someone who self
praises. Bush - anywhere away from population.)

Crackie-daks: 'hipster' tracksuit pants.

(Tracksuit trousers that hang low so you can see the top of someone's
bum. Generally overweight tradespeople who undertake work about the
home.)

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

This should be left to the New Zealanders.

Hoo Roo

Patrick Quinn
Sydney, Australia
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