Having read the LP Australia guide, and laughed myself
silly over such sayings as: "chuck a U-ey", "from arsehole
to breakfast", "ridgy-didge", "two pot screamer", and my
alltime favorite "don't come the raw prawn with me".
Does anyone use these expressions? Having spent a year
travelling around Australia, I've never had the pleasure of
hearing anyone using these terms. Are they only used in
the "back of bourke"? Or was the writer of the slang terms
on some serious drugs when he wrote the section!
(I am not "knocking" these terms, I think they are great -
but who the heck uses them)
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most aussies, never use this type of language
Most popular sayings are response to How you Going? reply
is 'Good You!'
There are lots of individual sayings, no one realises' that
they are saying them because they come automatic..
Anyone else come across these different sayings...
is used a lot when you tell someone to make a u-turn.
Chuck a U-ey is also used in NZ
I tend to like to hang a u-ey rather than chuck a u-ey!
Another good one, is to 'laugh at the lawn' for when you
have a chuck!
Are youse mugs 'aving a go or wot? I dunno 'bout youse but
I thought hangin' a U-ey was illegal in most parts. I used
ta live in Queensland and they all talk like that up there,
hey? And they also say hey? after every sentence. But when
ya wanna agree to somethink summone's said ya say 'Bewdy
Nuke' and that don't mean nuffin 'bout nuclear weapons.
Nuke is John Newcombe, a famous Aussie tennis player who
made that saying famous. Ave a go ya mug is often used at
the footy - the real footy - AFL like, ya know? My dad used
ta call my brother and I the 'billy lids' (kids) and we
often had dogs eye with dead horse (meat pie and tomato
sauce).
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A bit of Cockney Rhyming there I think - must hark back to
the convict days. I think the above 'Aussieisms' are more
pub talk/casual 'mate' talk/male-bonding talk and so on.
But if you search far and wide you may very well find
people who talk like that.
Yeh,we all know you guys know how to make a ewe-turn
. . . is another saying that I use along with all the ones
mentioned in the original post. They are usually used very
much tongue in cheek. . . . . oh, and I don't say 'hey' at
the end of my sentences!
We say "aye" after every sentence. Well not really but a lot. How you doing mate? It's only slang if you don't live there.
My 2year old gets his food from "arsehole to breakfast"
every time he eats. Come to think of it he gets dirt from
"a to b" when he plays outside also. He also does lots of
u-eys on his trike, and his mother is a two pot screamer!
Yes, we do use these sayings!
In Albany, West Australia - you can Chuck a Yorkie - which
is drive up and down the main street....
But my favourite - and used daily - is rattle your dags and
bump your gums.
In Albany, West Australia - you can Chuck a Yorkie - which
is drive up and down the main street....
But my favourite - and used daily - is rattle your dags and
bump your gums.
ridgey-didge gets used a bit, though generally by the older
generation...
a personal fave of mine is "penie prince of rumpy pumpy"
or maybe I've just listened to DAAS too often.
i come here a few years ago from europe and me mate next
door used to teach me all this slangs i used to laugh at
those words until i got to know what they realy means like
howu going mate? up the shit creek in a barbed wire canue or
get stuffed with the rough end of a pinnaple [ still
learning and love it]
...are you blokes fair dinkum?
Having read the slang section of the LP myself, to check out
what I am meant to be saying, I found it pretty acurate of
what I have heard, and was disapointed that some of my favs
were missing.
Yes we do use it. But not all the sayings everywhere.
There are local variations and preferences.
Ones used alot in my family are..
u-ey, r-ry (RSL club), bowlo (bowling club), dogs eye (meat
pie), snags or sossers(sausages), bucketing ( leaving, as in
off - like a bucket of prawns in the sun), buckleys ( no
chance), going off ( having a good time), pissed as,
dinki-di ( fair dinkum, for real), un-desa's ( undesirable
personalities), nigel ( no friends), and my personal fave..
chooks ( as in chicken).
in the Rissole - RSL. And I like a bit of chook too.
Sick mate!
There is a web site totally devoted to Aussie Slang
members.tripod.com/~thisthat/slang.html
It's unreal banana peel!
Missing the lingo now I'm living in the UK.