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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 Replies to “Australian Neologisms [Dan Collins]”

  1. JohnAnnArbor says:

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

  2. DarthRove says:

    What about,

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

  3. Kevin B says:

    Bludgie is a combination of ‘bludger’ and budgie.

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

  4. JohnAnnArbor says:

    Oh.

    Wow. So many new words.

  5. BumperStickerist says:

    Bobsyerbicuriousuncle – 21st century Aussie toast

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

  7. Mikey NTH says:

    #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. MarkD says:

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

  9. Daniel Dare says:

    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. happyfeet says:

    What’s a drongo?

  11. happyfeet says:

    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. Daniel Dare says:

    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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