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What I Know So Far..

Names:

Bloke – Male
Boong – Racist for Aboriginal person
Dag – Someone lacking social graces (Daggy is the adjectival form)
Mum – Mom
Wanker – Poseur
Amari – Grandfather
Countryman – Aboriginal person
Crook – Bad or dodgy
Dodgy – Sketchy
Drongo – Stupid
Munanga – A white person

Food:

Bickie – Short for biscuit
Biscuit – Cookie
Chips – French fries, but better
Iced VoVos – Sweet bickie
Lolly – Candy
Sambo – Sandwhich
Sossi – Sausage
Tim Tam – Chocolate bickie
Violet Crumble – Honeycomb covered in chocolate
Witchetty Grubs – Grubs
Spag bol – Spaghetti Bolognese
Tucker - food

Plants:

Bottlebrush – Tree or shrub with spikes of bright flowers
Watarah – Shrub or small tree with red flowers
Wattle – Large shrub or tree with white or yellow flowers
Spinifex – Spiky grass found in the desert

Misc:

Ambo – A paramedic
Arse – a**
Bronze Medallion – Lifesaving certificates for people who get in trouble in the water
Bugger – Damn
Bunyip – Haunts swamps and billabongs
Cardie – Cardigan
Chop, not much – Not very good
Chunder – Vomit
Croc – Crocodile
Dob in or dob on – To tell on
Dodgy – Sketchy
Doona – Comforter
Dunny – Toilet
Echidna – Spiny anteater
Emoh Ruo – Our Home spelled backwards
Esky – Cooler
Flat out like a lizard drinking – Busy
Footie – Rugby
Get on – Be friendly with
Gregory’s – Brand of street directory
Grouse – Excellent, but also a verb a meaning to complain
Gyspy cab - Unlicensed cab
Hessian – Burlap
H.S.C – High School Certificate
Jumper – Sweater
‘Ken hell – Annoyance
Knackered – Very tired
Lend, having a – Mocking
Lift – Elevator
Loo – Toilet
Losing your lolly – Loosing your temper
Mad – Crazy
Poxy – Unpleasant or Crappy or Annoying
Pram – Stroller
Recce – To look around thoroughly
Ropeable – Angry
Rubber – Eraser
Skink – Lizard
Sloppy joe – Sweater
Sticky beak – Nosy person
Stinger – Poisonous jellyfish
Stoush – Fight
Ta – Thank you
Uluru – Huge rock
Washer – Washcloth
Willi-willi – Dust devil
Bitumen – Paved road
Demountable – School building that can be removed and moved
Dog’s breakfast – A mess
Jack of – To be sick of something
Li-lo – Blowup mattress
Porkies – Lies
Skerrick – Small amount
Thongs – Flip-flops
Tracky-dacks – Track pants
Unco – Uncoordinated
Winnies – Winfields, a brand of cigarette
White man place – city
Widdershins – counterclockwise
A bit thing – particular
Blue heeler – Australian cattle dog
Four-wheel drive – SUV
Libs – Liberty Party of Australia
Slab – Case of 2-dozen cans or bottles of beer