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.
Is “bludgie” a combo of “bloke” and “budgie”?
What about,
Fosters: the shit we market to Yanks whilst keeping the VB for ourselfs
Bludgie is a combination of ‘bludger’ and budgie.
A bludger is someone who sponges of the rest of us.
Oh.
Wow. So many new words.
Bobsyerbicuriousuncle – 21st century Aussie toast
P. J. O’Rourke said that Australia had more synonyms for vomit than any other non-slavic language.
#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’.
Fosters is made in Canada. VB is of, but Tooheys New is the good stuff you keep for yourselves.
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.
What’s a drongo?
oh. It’s a bird.
Trust me…
http://pacoenterprises.blogspot.com/2008/12/detective-pacos-peruvian-adventure-part.html
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.