December 2, 2008
Australian Neologisms [Dan Collins]

From my friend, Jonathan Wilton:

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 Kiwis amongst us:
Shornbag: a particularly attractive naked sheep.

13 Comments  :::   Post a comment »

  1. Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 12/2 @ 12:43 pm #

    Is “bludgie” a combo of “bloke” and “budgie”?

  2. Comment by DarthRove on 12/2 @ 1:24 pm #

    What about,

    Fosters: the shit we market to Yanks whilst keeping the VB for ourselfs

  3. Comment by Kevin B on 12/2 @ 1:56 pm #

    Bludgie is a combination of ‘bludger’ and budgie.

    A bludger is someone who sponges of the rest of us.

  4. Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 12/2 @ 2:11 pm #

    Oh.

    Wow. So many new words.

  5. Comment by BumperStickerist on 12/2 @ 2:18 pm #

    Bobsyerbicuriousuncle – 21st century Aussie toast

  6. Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 12/2 @ 3:27 pm #

    P. J. O’Rourke said that Australia had more synonyms for vomit than any other non-slavic language.

  7. Comment by Mikey NTH on 12/2 @ 5:01 pm #

    #6 That was a good story “At Sea With the America’s Cup”, wallowing off of Perth with Jimmy Buffet on the good ship Sea Chunder. And greater Perth-Fremantle as ‘Dayton, Ohio, with its hat brim turned up’.

  8. Comment by MarkD on 12/2 @ 5:39 pm #

    Fosters is made in Canada. VB is of, but Tooheys New is the good stuff you keep for yourselves.

  9. Comment by Daniel Dare on 12/2 @ 8:38 pm #

    JohnAnnArbor,
    Is “bludgie” a combo of “bloke” and “budgie”?

    I’d say it’s probably bludger and budgie.
    A bludger is a lazy bastard who won’t work.

  10. Comment by happyfeet on 12/2 @ 10:03 pm #

    What’s a drongo?

  11. Comment by happyfeet on 12/2 @ 10:04 pm #

    oh. It’s a bird.

    These are aggressive and fearless birds, given their small size, and drongos will attack much larger species if their nest or young are threatened.

  12. Comment by mojo on 12/3 @ 12:27 am #

    Trust me…

    http://pacoenterprises.blogspot.com/2008/12/detective-pacos-peruvian-adventure-part.html

  13. Comment by Daniel Dare on 12/3 @ 4:03 am #

    A bird? I didn’t know that. In Aussie slang, a drongo is another word for fool or idiot. Urban Dictionary is quite good on Australian slang.

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