Let’s just have a bunch of different slang today to mix it up in this Learn the Lingo post.
- Amber fluid – beer
- Big-note oneself – boast or brag
- Clayton’s – fake or substitute
- Deadset – true, the truth
- Earbashing – nagging, non-stop chatter
- Hooroo – goodbye
- Lob, lob in – drop in to see someone (“the rellies (family) have lobbed”)
- Mickey Mouse – excellent, very good
- Never Never – the Outback, centre of Australia
- Ocker – an unsophisticated person
- Piker – Someone who leaves parties early or doesn’t want to socialise
- Ridgy-didge – original, genuine
- Shoot through – to leave
- Tee-up – to set up an appointment
- Whinge – complain
- Click – kilometre
- Compo – Workers Compensation Insurance
- Knocker – somebody who criticises
- Oz – Australia!
- Quack, or off to the quack – the doctor, or off to the doctor
- Scratchy – instant lottery ticket
- Strides – trousers
- Thingo – Wadjamacallit, thingummy, whatsit
- Togs – swim suit
- Wobbly – excitable behaviour (“I complained about the food and the waiter threw a wobbly”)
