Trick´s Aussie Experience

Archive for the 'Aussie Compendium' Category

Banana bender : a person from Queensland

Barbie : barbecue (noun)

Barrack : to cheer on (football team etc.)

Bastard : term of endearment

Beaut, beauty : great, fantastic

Billabong : an ox-bow river or watering hole

Bloke : man, guy

Bloody : very (bloody hard)

Bloody oath! : that’s certainly true

Bodgy : of inferior quality

Booze bus : police vehicle used for catching drunk drivers

Boozer : a pub

Bottle shop : liquor shop

Brekkie : breakfast

Brizzie : Brisbane, state capital of Queensland

Bush : the hinterland, the Outback, anywhere that isn’t in town

Bushie : someone who lives in the Bush

Amber fluid : beer

Ankle biter : small child

Apples, she’ll be : It’ll be alright

Arvo : afternoon

Aussie (pron. Ozzie) : Australian