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Date Posted: 10:03:18 05/04/11 Wed
Author: here's the "abc's" (bc)
Subject: need more info ?
In reply to: some Aussie match-making 's message, "questions ? ..." on 09:27:20 05/04/11 Wed

Ace! : Excellent! Very good!
Aerial pingpong : Australian Rules football
Ambo : ambulance, ambulance driver
Ankle biter : small child
Apples, she'll be : It'll be all right
Arvo : afternoon



Back of Bourke : a very long way away
Barbie : barbecue (noun)
Battler : someone working hard and only just making a living
Big-note oneself : brag, boast
Billabong : an oxbow lake cut off by a change in the watercourse. Billabongs are usually formed when the course of a creek or river changes, leaving the former branch with a dead end.
Billy : teapot. Container for boiling water.
Bingle : motor vehicle accident
Bities : biting insects
Bizzo : business ("mind your own bizzo")
Black Stump, beyond the : a long way away, the back of nowhere
Bloody oath! : that's certainly true
Bludger : lazy person, layabout, somebody who always relies on other people to do things or lend him things

Blue : fight ("he was having a blue with his wife")
Blue: make a : make a mistake

Bluey: which is an excellent working dog. Everyone's favourite all-Aussie dog ...
- or, ...
Bluey : heavy wool or felt jacket worn by mining and construction workers.


Bodgy : of inferior quality
Bog in : commence eating, to attack food with enthusiasm
Bogged : Stuck in mud, deep sand (a vehicle).
Boil-over : an unexpected (sporting) result
Bonzer : great
Boomer : a large male kangaroo
Bottler : something excellent
Bottling, his blood's worth : he's an excellent, helpful bloke.
Brekkie : breakfast
Brickie : bricklayer
Brumby : a wild horse
Bunyip : mythical outback creature
Bush : the hinterland, the Outback, anywhere that isn't in town
Bush bash : long competitive running or motorcar race through the bush
Bush telly : campfire



Cab Sav : Cabernet Sauvignon (a variety of wine grape)
Cactus : dead, not functioning ("this bloody washing machine is cactus")
Click : kilometre - "it's 10 clicks away"
Coathanger : Sydney Harbour bridge
Cobber : friend
Conch (adj. conchy) : a conscientious person. Somebody who would rather work or study than go out and enjoy him/herself.
Cooee, within : nearby - I was within cooee of landing a big fish when the line broke. He lives within cooee of Sydney.
Cook (noun) : One's wife
Corker : something excellent. A good stroke in cricket might be described as a 'corker of a shot'
Crook : sick, or badly made
Cut lunch : sandwiches

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