| bandicoot (n) | a small marsupial about the size of a rabbit |
| bindies (n) | little stickers that grow on grass |
| bities (n) | biting bugs "The bities are out tonight." |
| blue tongue (n) | a bobtailed lizard, common in WA |
| brumby (n) | mustang, wild horse |
| bush tellie (n) | campfire a tellie is a television. |
| bushfire | brushfire |
| cattle duffer (n) | rustler |
| Christmas tree (n) | Western Australian native tree (nuytsia floribunda) that blooms orange around Christmastime. A member of the mistletoe family, Aboriginal people peeled and ate the suckers, which are sweet and taste like candy. |
| cleanskin (n) | bottle of wine with no label; something that hasn't been used; an unbranded cow cleanskin wines can be bought cheap, or custom-relabelled |
| cockie gate (n) | a homemade farm gate |
| corroboree (n) | Aboriginal traditional celebration with song and dance "We danced and sang at the corroboree." |
| didgeridoo, didge (n) | Indigenous Australian wind instrument made from a tree branch hollowed by termites. Makes a droning sound; native name yirdaki. |
| dieback (n) | scientific name: phytophera cinnomomii, a disease that attacks the roots of some native trees. Imported in fruit trees, it's a fungus that spreads through wet soil. Predominantly in WA, it's killing off the native jarrah, banksia, and grass tree forests. Can be treated short-term with sprays or injections of weak solution of phosphorus acid. (Outlook: grim.) |
| dingo (n) | indigenous, coyote-like wild dog introduced by Aboriginal migrants 10,000 years ago.; a small stand-up earth-moving tractor |
| double G (n) | a very nasty type of thorn |
| dreamtime (n) | Aboriginal mythology |
| duffing (v) | cattle rustling |
| euro (n) | a small type of kangaroo, wallaby |
| grazier (n) | large scale sheep or cattle farmer |
| gum, gum tree (n) | eucalyptus tree |
| jackeroo (n) | cowboy |
| jarrah (n) | a type of eucalyptus tree found in SW Western Australia, it produces a very hard, heavy wood used in furniture Also known as Swan River Mahogany, it was heavily logged and exported. At one point, the streets of London were paved with it. |
| jillaroo (n) | cowgirl |
| Joe Blake (n) | snake rhyming slang |
| joey (n) | baby kangaroo |
| long paddock (n) | side of the road where livestock graze during droughts When the fields are bare, farmers let the cattle graze the grass alongside the road. |
| marri (n) | a type of eucalyptus tree in Western Australia (also known as red gum) |
| matilda (n) | mattress, sleeping roll Story goes, the lonely sheepmen danced with their mattresses, hence Waltzing Matilda. |
| mozzie (n) | mosquito |
| mulga (n) | a type of tree, also name for the bush (rough country) |
| outback (n) | distant Australian bushland |
| paddock (n) | fenced pasture |
| pastoralist (adj) | large scale cattle or sheep farmer |
| roo (n) | kangaroo |
| saltie (n) | saltwater crocodile |
| station (n) | large grazing property Bigger than a ranch; we're talking tens of thousands of acres. |
| stockman (adj) | station hand, cattle herder |
| swag (n) | traditional Aussie sleeping roll used in the bush; a Matilda, as in "Waltzing?" bedding and padding inside a heavy canvas sack |
| walkabout (n) | Aboriginal walk in the Outback, of indeterminate length, a rite of passage. Can refer to anybody who's left unexpectedly. "He's gone walkabout." |
| warrigal (n) | dingo (wild dog) |
| weir (n) | dam "The Mundaring Weir created the C.Y. O'Connor Reservoir." |
| whoop-whoop (n) | the boondocks, someplace far away, a small unimportant town "He lives way out whoop-whoop." |
| willy willy (n) | mini-tornado, dust devil |
| witchetty grub (n) | a large insect larvae eaten as bush tucker; it's tasty (?) |
| yabby (n) | freshwater crawdad |