HOME THE BOOK AUSTRALIAN SLANG DICTIONARY THE AUTHOR
Americans' Survival Guides to
photo

Dictionary: Personal

awning over the toy shop (adj) a man's beer belly
 
bangle (n) bracelet
 
bloodnut (adj)(n) person with red hair
 
boofy (adj) fluffy, usually referring to hair
 
bub (n) baby
 
bum (n) butt, ass, derri?re
 
cake hole (n) mouth
 
call Ralph (v) to vomit
 
clacker (n) anus
From "cloaca;", platypus or bird anal pore.
crook (adj) sick or ill, can also mean "thief"
"I feel crook. I think I'll take a sickie."
curly (adj) nickname for a bald man
 
dreaded lurgy (n) infectious cold or flu
 
duff, up the (adj) pregnant
 
dummy (n) baby pacifier
 
face fungus (n) a beard
 
franger (n) condom
 
fringe (n) bangs (hair)
"She trimmed her fringe."
Ginger (n) nickname for a person with red hair
 
hair lackies (n) elastic hair bands
 
hottie (n) hot water bottle
"On cold nights, I sleep with a hottie."
lackies (n) rubber bands
From "elastic bands".
lippy (n) lipstick
 
loo (n) toilet
 
loo tickets (n) toilet paper
 
mo (n) moustache
 
mullet (n) haircut favored by bogans: short on the top and the sides, long in the back
 
nappies (n) diapers
 
partner (n) spouse, married or not, of either sex
 
preggers (adj) pregnant
 
ranga (n) (adj) red-haired person (derogatory)
From "orangutan" (an ape with reddish hair).
slip, slap, slop slip on a shirt, slap on some sunscreen, slop on a hat.
Slogan from advertising campaign to counter the intense effects of the Southern Hemisphere sun. Australia is the skin cancer capital of the world.
Back to top