| bandicoot (n) | a small marsupial about the size of a rabbit |
| barramundi, barra (n) | a tasty, brackish water fish from the northern coast of Australia, often served in restaurants or as fish and chips can be wild or raised in mariculture |
| bitzer (n) | mongrel dog, something pieced together from various parts bits of this and that |
| blowie (v) (n) | windy weather, a blowfly |
| blue tongue (n) | a bobtailed lizard, common in WA |
| bluey (n) | multiple meanings: a backpack, equipment, traffic ticket, a type of cattle dog, $10 bill, a jacket worn by miners, bluebottle jellyfish, a person with red hair |
| boomer (n) | large male kangaroo |
| brumby (n) | mustang, wild horse |
| budgie, budgerigar (n) | parakeet Aboriginal word |
| cane toad (n) (adj) | Amphibian originally imported to control beetles that has become an exotic pest. Also a nickname for a person from Queensland. |
| chook (n) | chicken |
| cockatoo (n) | type of Australian parrot |
| cockie (n) | a cockatoo, a farmer, a cockroach |
| cray (n) | lobster From crayfish |
| de-sexed (adv) | neutered or spayed (dogs and cats) |
| dingo (n) | indigenous, coyote-like wild dog introduced by Aboriginal migrants 10,000 years ago.; a small stand-up earth-moving tractor |
| euro (n) | a small type of kangaroo, wallaby |
| freshie (adj) | freshwater crocodile, fresh cow pile "Don't step in that freshie, mate." |
| galah (adj) | noisy idiot, also a pink-and-grey parrot named after the noisy parrot |
| goanna (n) | monitor lizard Early arrivals mistook them for iguanas, hence the name. |
| Joe Blake (n) | snake rhyming slang |
| joey (n) | baby kangaroo |
| jumbuck (n) | sheep |
| Kelpie (n) | a breed of Aussie sheepdog |
| moggie (n) | house cat of indeterminate breed |
| moke (adj) | bad horse originally meant donkey |
| muddy (n) | mud crab |
| quokka (n) | small marsupial the size of a soccer ball, indigenous to an island off Perth |
| roo (n) | kangaroo |
| saltie (n) | saltwater crocodile |
| slater (n) | sow bug, wood lice |
| twenty-eight bird (n) | Australian ringneck parrot Their cry sounds like, "Twenty-eight!" |
| wallaby (n) | small kangaroo-type marsupial |
| warrigal (n) | dingo (wild dog) |
| weiro (n) | cockatiel a small parrot |
| white ants (n) | termites |
| woof pigeon (adj) | kookaburra |
| witchetty grub (n) | a large insect larvae eaten as bush tucker; it's tasty (?) |
| wombat (n) | marsupial hedgehog-like animal about the size of a large dog |
| yabby (n) | freshwater crawdad |