AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN
ADJECTIVES
1823 ► AUSTRAL pert. to Australia
1827 ► MYALL retaining a traditional Aboriginal lifestyle; ignorant of the ways of White society → Aust., derogatory
1840 ► VANDEMONIAN belonging to or inhabiting Tasmania
1911 ► ABO pert. to Australian Aboriginals → Aust. sl.
1912 ► CREAMY quarter-caste Australian Aboriginal → Aust. sl.
1917 ► AUSSIE Australian → sl.
1918 ► OZZIE Australian → sl., orig. Aust.
1964 ► STRINE relating to Australia → colloq.
1971 ► OZ Australian → sl., orig. Aust.
1972 ► OCKER distinctively Australian → Aust. sl.
1981 ► AUSTRALIAN AS A MEAT PIE typically or authentically Australian → Aust. sl.
1999 ► ON THE WALLABY TRACK Aust. sl., obs – tramping in the outback (Bk.)
NOUNS
L18.. ► THE CAMP Sydney → Aust.
1827 ► LEGITIMACY the state of immigrating to Australia as a convict → Aust. sl. obs.
1833 ► NEVER NEVER the unpopulated northern part of Queensland; the desert country of the interior; remote Australia → Aust.
1849 ► WALER a horse imported from Australia, esp. from New South Wales → Anglo-Indian
M19. ► DEAD HOUSE a room in an outback public house set aside for those who are incapably drunk → Aust. sl.
M19. ► OCEAN HELL the penal establishment sited on Norfolk Island for particularly recalcitrant convicts → Aust. sl.
M19. ► THE CAMP Hobart → Aust.
M19. ► WALLABY TRACK the route followed by an itinerant moving from station to station in search of work → Aust. sl.
1851 ► SYSTEM the transportation of convicts from the United Kingdom to Australia → Aust. sl.
1856 ► SKED in remote country regions: a schedule for a radio call
1882 ► CABBAGE GARDEN Victoria, Australia → Aust. sl.
1882 ► CABBAGE-PATCH Victoria, Australia → Aust. sl.
1882 ► CABBAGE STATE Victoria, Australia → Aust. sl.
1885 ► MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE Melbourne, Australia’s second biggest city → Aust. sl.
1889 ► THE SHOP the University of Melbourne → Aust. sl.
1891 ► BLUEY a bushman’s bundle, the outside wrapper of which is generally a blue blanket → Aust. sl.
1892 ► BACK BLOCK the country outside the margin of the settled districts → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1896 ► ‘KANGAROOS West Australian mining shares; also, a dealer in these → Aust. Stock Exchange usage
1897 ► MULGA SCRUBBER a livestock animal that has run wild and deteriorated in condition → Aust. sl.
1898 ► BANANALAND Queensland → Aust. colloq.
L19.. ► ALLIGATORLAND Queensland → Aust. sl.
L19.. ► DOMAIN COCKTAIL a lethal concoction of petrol and pepper which reputedly once had a vogue amongst deadbeat drinkers in the Sydney Domain → Aust. sl.
L19.. ► KANAKALAND Queensland → Aust. sl.
L19.. ► MULGA an uninhabited, sparsely populated or inhospitable region → Aust.
L19.. ► MULGA WIRE a ‘bush telegraph’, the ‘grapevine’ → Aust.
L19.. ► SAND-GROPER LAND Western Australia → Aust. sl.
L19.. ► THE MA STATE New South Wales → Aust. colloq.
L19.. ► WESTRALIA Western Australia → Aust. sl.
20C.. ► BANGTAIL MUSTER a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted → Aust.
20C.. ► BRISSO Brisbane → Aust. sl., abbreviation
20C.. ► BRIZZIE Brisbane → Aust. sl.
20C.. ► CABBAGE GARDEN PATCH Victoria, Australia → Aust. sl.
20C.. ► DARLING IT HURTS Darlinghurst, a rough inner-city area of Sydney → Aust. sl.
20C.. ► GODZONE ‘God’s own’ country – Australia → Aust. sl.
20C.. ► KENSO Kensington racecourse, Sydney → Aust. sporting usage
20C.. ► RASPBERRY-LAND Tasmania → Aust. sl.
20C.. ► SADDLING PADDOCK the bar of the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, generally accepted as a place to pick up prostitutes
20C.. ► THE COATHANGER Sydney Harbour Bridge → Aust. sl.
20C.. ► THE FLY SPECK Tasmania → Aust.
1900 ► CHOWLAND Queensland → Aust. sl.
1900 ► KANGAROOLAND Australia → Aust. sl.
1901 ► ALICE Alice Springs; in early use, was preceded by ‘the’ → Aust. sl.
1902 ► AUSTRALIAN Australian English → Aust.
1902 ► VIC Victoria, Australia → Aust. sl.
1903 ► BUSH BROTHERHOOD a society of missionaries, clerical and lay, established to evangelize the inhabitants of the Australian bush
1905 ► MULGA MADNESS temporary eccentricity or insanity due to living alone in the outback → Aust. sl.
1905 ► STEAK AND KIDNEY Sydney → Aust. rhyming sl.
1906 ► BUSH CAPITAL Canberra, the capital city of Australia; so-called because it was a new city built in the ‘bush’ (countryside) halfway between the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne → Aust. sl.
1906 ► DEAD HEART the arid inland regions of Australia → Aust. sl.
1906 ► THE APPLE ISLAND Tasmania → Aust. colloq.
1906 ► THE APPLE ISLE Tasmania → Aust. colloq.
1908 ► OZ Australia → sl.
1915 ► AUSSIE Australia → Aust. sl.
1920 ► AUSSIELAND Australia → Aust.
1920 ► DARLO Darlinghurst, a rough inner-city area of Sydney → Aust. sl.
1920 ► THREE Bs Bum, Bash, and Bury, what should be done with rubbish that accumulates in the outback → Aust. sl.
1940 ► ABORTION EXPRESS a train that ran from Darwin to Birdum → Aust. sl.
1940 ► LEAPING LENA a train that ran from Darwin to Birdum → Aust. sl.
1940 ► PADDO Paddington, Sydney → Aust. sl.
1943 ► COATHANGER the Sydney Harbour Bridge → Aust. sl.
1945 ► AUSSIE Australian English → Aust. sl.
M20. ► THE GHAN a train that runs between Adelaide and Alice Springs → Aust. sl.
1950 ► A CUPPA TEA, A BEX, AND A GOOD LIE DOWN the Australian remedy for most problems → Aust.
1950 ► GALAH SESSION an interval set aside regularly on the Flying Doctor radio network for anyone who wishes to exchange news and gossip rather than make emergency calls → Aust. sl.
1954 ► DANDY in South Australia: a small container for ice cream → Aust. sl.
1964 ► AERIAL PING-PONG Australian National Football → Aust., often derisive usage
1964 ► LUCKY COUNTRY Australia → Aust., jocular usage
1964 ► STRINE Australian English → Aust. colloq.
1970 ► OCKERISM boorish behaviour, self-satisfaction → Aust. sl.
1973 ► BARCOO SALUTE a gesture with which one brushes flies from one’s face, considered to be typical of Australians → Aust. sl.
1974 ► OCKERDOM the society of boorish, uncouth, chauvinistic Australians → Aust. sl.
1979 ► OCKER Australian English → Aust. sl.
1980 ► G.A.B.A. the outback (Great Australian Bugger All) → Aust. sl.
1980 ► TINSEL TOWN Sydney → Aust. sl.
1980 ► VASELINE VALLEY a stretch of Oxford Street, Sydney, acknowledged as the city’s gay centre → Aust. sl.
1981 ► THE DANDIES the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne → Aust. sl.
1987 ► BIG A Australia → US sl.
1994 ► QUEENIE Queensland → Aust. sl.
1998 ► ACROSS THE DITCH Australia → NZ sl.
1999 ► ALBANY DOCTOR a refreshing cool breeze in southern Western Australia → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► BARCOO BUSTER a westerly wind in outback Queensland → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► BAZZALAND Australia → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► BLACK STUMP a non-existent place in the remote outback → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► BUNYIP ARISTOCRACY Australia’s ‘landed gentry’ → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► DONGA → DONGER the bush; the outback → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► FREMANTLE DOCTOR a refreshing sea breeze that blows into Fremantle and Perth after a hot spell → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► MULGA the outback → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► MULGA MADNESS temporary eccentricity or insanity due to living alone in the outback → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► NEVER NEVER remote Australia → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► STEAK AND KIDNEY Sydney → Aust. rhyming sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► WOOP-WOOP a fictitious remote area of Australia → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► TOP END the Northern Territory → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► YOWIE a mythical Australian monster → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1398 ► BLACK MAN a man of Australian Aboriginal origin or descent
1614 ► BLACK a person of Australian Aboriginal origin or descent
1775 ► DARKEE → DARKEY → DARKIE → DARKY an Australian Aboriginal; any person having very dark skin as a racial trait → sl., now derogatory or offensive
1790 ► GIN an Australian Aboriginal woman or wife → Aust., now considered offensive
19C.. ► ILLEGITIMATE a free (non-convict) Australian settler → Aust. sl.
1810 ► BLACKBOY an Australian Aboriginal man → offensive
1818 ► MYALL a stranger; a person who is ignorant of traditional Aboriginal culture → Aust. Aboriginal usage, derogatory
1826 ► DUNGAREE SETTLER a poor settler, or one of low social status → Aust. colloq.
1826 ► PURE MERINO a person who has chosen to settle in Australia, as opposed to a convict or ex-convict; hence, a member of a leading family in Australian society → Aust. & NZ colloq.
1827 ► BLACKFELLOW an Australian aboriginal → Aust. sl.
1827 ► CORNSTALK a native-born, non-aboriginal Australian; later, a person from New South Wales → Aust. sl.
1827 ► LEGITIMATE a settler who arrived in Australia as a transported convict → Aust. sl.
1830 ► MARY an Aboriginal woman or other non-white woman → Aust. sl.
1832 ► YELLOW GIRL a half-white, half-Aborigine woman → sl.
1834 ► YALLER GAL a half-white, half-Aborigine woman → Aust. & US sl.
1834 ► YELLOW FELLOW a half-white, half-Aborigine man → Aust. & US sl.
1836 ► STRINGY-BARK a person who lives in the Australian outback; an uncultured or unsophisticated person; a ne’er-do-well → Aust. sl., obs.
1837 ► MYALL an Australian Aboriginal person retaining a traditional lifestyle; a person who is ignorant of the ways of White society and often hostile to contact with White people → Aust., derogatory
1839 ► ADELAIDEAN a native or resident of Adelaide
1840 ► KANACKA → KANAKA → KANAKER a native of the Pacific Islands, esp. one employed in Queensland as a labourer on the sugar plantations
1843 ► BILLY BARLOW an inexperienced immigrant who meets with misadventures in the colony → Aust. sl.
1845 ► JACKAROO → JACKEROO an apprentice station hand working on, and learning how to manage, a cattle or sheep station → Aust. sl.
1845 ► JACKEY → JACKIE → JACKY → JACKY-JACKY an Australian Aboriginal → Aust. sl., derogatory & offensive
1846 ► OLD CHUM an experienced colonist; one who had spent some years in the colony, esp. in the outback → Aust. hist.
1847 ► BALANDER an Aboriginal name for a White man → Aust. sl.
M19. ► JACKAROO → JACKEROO a White man living beyond the bounds of ‘civilization’
1850 ► CABBAGITES a class of layabouts or roughs, typified by the wearing of a ‘cabbage-tree hat’ (a hat made from the dried leaves of the cabbage-palm; they were esteemed as a protection from the sun, and allowed free ventilation) → Aust. sl.
1852 ► CABBAGE TREE MOB an unruly set of young fellows, dressed in a suit of fustian or colonial tweed, and the emblem of their order, the low-crowned cabbage-palm hat; the main object of their enmity seems to be the ordinary black headpiece worn by respectable persons, which is ruthlessly knocked over the eyes of the wearer as he passes or enters the theatre → Aust. sl.
1852 ► VAN DIEMONIAN a native or resident of Tasmania
1855 ► GUM-SUCKER a native Australian, esp. a Victorian or Tasmanian → Aust.
1855 ► VANDEMONIAN an ex-convict from Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) → Aust. sl.
1859 ► MONGOLIAN a Chinese immigrant to Australia → derogatory, Aust. sl.
1862 ► BLACK TRACKER an Australian Aboriginal employed by police to track down fugitives or persons lost in the bush → Aust.
1863 ► BLACK AUSTRALIAN an Australian Aboriginal
1864 ► GEEBUNG an unsophisticated, uncultured, philistine native-born Australian, who values material gain above everything else → Aust. sl.
1865 ► BLACKBIRD an Aborigine → Aust. sl.
1865 ► BOUNDARY-RIDER a person who rides around the fences of a station, and repairs them when broken → Aust.
1865 ► SYDNEY-SIDER a resident or native of Sydney → Aust. sl.
1868 ► BANANA MAN a native or resident of Queensland → Aust. sl.
1870 ► AB an Australian Aboriginal → Aust.
1870 ► BACK BLOCKER an inhabitant of regions remote from settled areas → Aust. sl.
1872 ► TOTHERSIDER a person from the eastern states of Australia → Aust. sl.
1874 ► GEEBUNG an old settler in New South Wales → Aust.
1875 ► SUNDOWNER a tramp who makes a practice of arriving at a station about sundown under the pretense of seeking work, so as to obtain food and a night’s lodging → Aust. colloq.
1876 ► FORTY a fraudulent gambler; orig. applied to the members of a Sydney gang → Aust. sl.
1880 ► GIN any woman or wife; also, an old woman → Aust.
1880 ► JACKAROO → JACKEROO a man newly arrived from England to gain experience in the bush; an inexperienced young colonist → Aust. colloq.
1880 ► MOUNTAIN DEVIL a native or resident of Tasmania → Aust. colloq.
1882 ► CABBAGE GARDENER a native or resident of Victoria → Aust. sl.
1882 ► CABBAGE PATCHER a native or resident of Victoria → Aust. sl.
1882 ► CABBAGE STATER a native or resident of Victoria → Aust. sl.
1884 ► MURRI an Australian Aboriginal person → Aust. sl.
1885 ► WALER a native or resident of New South Wales → Aust. sl.
1885 ► YARRA BENDER an idler or loafer found on the banks of Melbourne’s Yarra River → Aust. sl.
1885 ► YELLOW AND BLACK an Australian Aboriginal → Aust. sl.
1886 ► AUSSIE BATTLER the ordinary Australian trying to make ends meet → Aust. sl.
1887 ► BANANALANDER a native or resident of Queensland → Aust. jocular usage
1887 ► BLACK HAT a newly-arrived immigrant → Aust. sl.
1888 ► KANGAROO a native of Australia → humorous usage
1890 ► BANANA BOY a native or resident of Queensland → Aust. sl.
1890 ► JACKERY a popular or favoured station-hand; usually in plural → Aust. sl.
1892 ► BLACKBOYS aboriginal servants in Australia → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1892 ► COVE a master or overseer of an Australian station → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1892 ► CURRENCY persons born in Australia → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1892 ► GIN-BOY a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → Aust. sl.
1892 ► MUTTON BIRD a native or resident of Tasmania; esp. a non-Aboriginal inhabitant of northern Tasmania → Aust. sl., humorous or derogatory
1892 ► STERLING a colonist born in England; natives of England → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1893 ► BINGHI a White term for an Aboriginal → Aust. sl., derogatory
1893 ► BLACKBOY an Aboriginal guide accompanying explorers → offensive
1894 ► TARPOT an Australian Aboriginal → Aust. sl., derogatory
1895 ► AUSTRALIENNE a non-Aboriginal Australian woman → Aust.
1895 ► YARRA BANKER an idler; a loafer found on the banks of Melbourne’s Yarra River → Aust. sl.
1896 ► BILL AND JIM typical outback Australians in the 1890s → Aust. sl. obs.
1896 ► COMBO a White man who lives with an Aboriginal woman → Aust. sl.
1896 ► COMBOMAN a White man who lives with an Aboriginal woman → Aust. sl.
1896 ► KANGAROO a dealer in West Australian mining shares → Aust. Stock Exchange usage
1896 ► SAND-GROPER a non-Aboriginal person, native to or resident in Western Australia → Aust. sl.
1898 ► BARRACOOTA a native or resident of Hobart, Tasmania → Aust. sl.
1898 ► BILJIM → BILLJIM the typical Australian male; an Australian soldier → Aust. sl.
1899 ► BLACK VELVET an Aboriginal woman, esp. as the focus of a White man’s sexual interest → Aust. & NZ sl., offensive
1899 ► GROPER a native or resident of Western Australia, esp. a (descendant of an) early settler → Aust. sl.
1899 ► MONKEY-DODGER a sheep-station hand → Aust. sl.
1899 ► TASSEY → TASSIE → TASSY a native or resident of Tasmania → Aust. sl.
L19.. ► ARCHIE → ARCHY a young station-hand, probably a well-connected young man out from the UK → Aust. sl.
L19.. ► CABBAGE a native or resident of Victoria → Aust. sl.
L19.. ► GUTTA-PERCHA a native or resident of Victoria → Aust. sl.
L19.. ► KANAKALANDER a native or resident of Queensland → Aust. sl.
L19.. ► RANGER a bushranger → Aust. sl.
L19.. ► UNBLEACHED AUSTRALIAN a Native Australian; an Aboriginal → sl.
L19.. ► WESTRALIAN a native or resident of Western Australia → Aust. sl.
L19.. ► MULGA BILL a bushman → Aust.
20C.. ► BRISSO a native or resident of Brisbane → Aust. sl.
20C.. ► CANE TOAD a person from Queensland → Aust. sl.
20C.. ► DOMAIN DOSSER a loafer or down-and-out who frequents the Sydney Domain → Aust. sl.
20C.. ► JEW CHUM ‘new chum’; a newcomer to Australia; a Jewish newcomer → Aust. rhyming sl.
20C.. ► MUTTON-EATER a native or resident of northern Tasmania → Aust. sl.
20C.. ► RASPBERRY-LANDERS natives or residents of Tasmania → Aust. sl.
1900 ► BATTLER a swagman → Aust.
1900 ► BILL a generic term for an Australian soldier → Aust. sl.
1900 ► SPLAW a person who lives or works in the bush → Aust. sl.
1901 ► GINNY an Australian Aboriginal woman or wife → Aust., now considered offensive
1902 ► CROW-EATER a native or resident of South Australia → Aust. colloq.
1902 ► GIN MASHER a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → Aust. sl.
1904 ► ABOLIAR an expert on Aborigine bush customs and folktales → Aust. sl.
1905 ► BILLY any Aboriginal singled out from the rest → Aust. sl.
1906 ► BIDGEE WHALER an itinerant tramp whose ‘beat’ focuses on the rivers of New South Wales → Amer. dial.
1906 ► DARLING WHALER an itinerant tramp whose ‘beat’ focuses on the rivers of New South Wales → Amer. dial.
1906 ► MURRAY WHALER an itinerant tramp whose ‘beat’ focuses on the rivers of New South Wales → Amer. dial.
1906 ► MURRUMBIDGEE WHALER an itinerant tramp whose ‘beat’ focuses on the rivers of New South Wales → Amer. dial.
1906 ► WHALER an itinerant tramp whose ‘beat’ focuses on the rivers of New South Wales → Amer. dial.
1907 ► GHAN an Afghan or Muslim immigrant to Australia, esp. one who drives or breeds camels → Aust. sl.
1907 ► RABBIT a native-born Australian → Aust. sl.
1908 ► ABO an Australian Aboriginal → Aust. sl., now mainly derogatory
1910 ► ABO an expert on Aborigine and bush customs and folktales → Aust. sl.
1910 ► BAD NIGGER an Aborigine who refuses to cooperate with the authorities → Aust. sl.
1910 ► BARCOO BILL a bushman →Aust. sl.
1910 ► BLACKBUTT a native Australian → Aust. sl.
1910 ► CARPET BUSHMAN a businessman who owns land in the outback but rarely visits → Aust. sl.
1910 ► MAGPIE a native or resident of South Australia → Aust. sl.
1911 ► INLANDER an inhabitant of the sparsely settled interior of Australia → Aust. sl.
1912 ► CREAMY a person of mixed European and Australian Aboriginal heritage → Aust. sl.
1912 ► GEORGE STREET BACKBLOCKER a businessman who owns land in the outback but rarely if ever visits → Aust. sl.
1912 ► GIN-BANGER a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → Aust. sl.
1912 ► MURLONGA a White man who sexually exploits Aboriginal women → Aust. Aboriginal usage
1912 ► POMEGRANATE an immigrant to Australia from Britain; a ‘Pom’ → Aust. sl.
1912 ► PUMMY GRANT an immigrant to Australia from Britain; a ‘Pom’ → Aust. sl.
1913 ► POMMIE → POMMY an immigrant to Australia or New Zealand from Britain → Aust. & NZ colloq, usually derogatory
1913 ► YELLER FELLER → YELLOW FELLER a person of mixed Aboriginal and White parentage → Aust. sl.
1915 ► AUSSIE a native or resident of Australia; originally, an Australian soldier in World War I
1915 ► EGGS-A-COOK Australian soldiers → Aust. military sl.
1915 ► HELL TERRORS Australians; so called by the Germans → World War I Amer. sl.
1915 ► WALTZING MATILDA an Australian soldier → World War I Amer. sl.
1916 ► DIG a digger → Aust. & NZ sl.
1916 ► DIGGER an Australian; an Australian or NZ soldier in World Wars I and II, esp. a private → sl.
1916 ► DINKUM an Australian or New Zealand soldier in the First World War; an Anzac; generally, an Australian or New Zealander
1916 ► OCKER an Australian man; a boorish, loutish, unsophisticated, ultra-nationalistic Australian → Aust. sl.
1918 ► OZZIE an Australian → sl.
1919 ► BILL AND JIM typical Australian soldiers in World War I → Aust. sl. obs.
1919 ► MERRY ANZACS casual Australians → Aust. services’ sl. (Bk.)
1920 ► DINKUM AUSSIE a person who embodies all those things seen as characteristically Australian → Aust. sl.
1920 ► EMU-BOBBER a man employed to pick up the remnants after clearing or burning off in the bush → Aust. sl.
1924 ► BOANG → BOONG → BUNG an Australian Aboriginal → Aust. sl., derogatory
1925 ► GIN STEALER a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → Aust. sl.
1925 ► YAMIDGEE → YAMMAGI → YAMMIDGEE an Aboriginal, esp. an Aboriginal male → Aust. sl.
1926 ► GIN SHEPHERDER a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → Aust. sl.
1927 ► WADGELLA a White man → Aust. pidgin version of ‘whitefellow’
1928 ► APPLE ISLANDER a native or resident of Tasmania → Aust. colloq.
1930 ► PARCEL POST used in the Northern Territory to describe a person who is newly arrived and thus inexperienced → Aust. sl.
1930 ► THE DARLINGS the prostitutes of Darlinghurst and King’s Cross, Sydney → Aust. sl.
1933 ► BINGY an Australian Aboriginal → Aust. sl.
1934 ► MERINO a person who has chosen to settle in Australia, as opposed to a convict or ex-convict; hence, a member of a leading family in Australian society; a person of fine breeding or good character → Aust. & NZ colloq.
1937 ► YELLER FELLA a male half-caste → Aust. sl.
1938 ► WONK a non-Aboriginal Australian; used contemptuously or dismissively → Aust. sl.
1940 ► KANGO an Australian → sl.
1940 ► MAINLANDER a person who lives on the mainland of Australia, rather then Tasmania → Aust. sl.
1940 ► POON a simple or foolish person; a person who lives alone in the outback → sl., chiefly Aust., derogatory
1941 ► AUSSIELANDER an Australian → Aust.
1941 ► MOLESKIN SQUATTER a working man who has scraped up enough cash to buy a small sheep run → Aust. & NZ sl.
1941 ► MUTTON-BIRD EATER a native or resident of Tasmania; esp. a non-Aboriginal inhabitant of northern Tasmania → Aust. sl., humorous or derogatory
1941 ► POON a lonely, crazy inhabitant of the outback → Aust. sl.
1941 ► TOP ENDER a person from the Top End, the northern parts of the Northern Territory → Aust. sl.
1943 ► BITUMEN BLONDE an Aboriginal girl or woman → Aust. sl., derogatory
1943 ► CHOCOLATE SOLDIER a member of an Australian militia during World War II who did not serve in a theatre of war → Aust. sl., derogatory
1945 ► DARK CLOUD an Australian Aboriginal → Aust. sl.
1945 ► HALF-ABO a person having one Australian Aboriginal parent → Aust., offensive
1945 ► MUNJON an Australian Aboriginal person who has little experience of White society and its customs → Aust. sl., often derogatory
1947 ► BALT an immigrant to Australia from the Baltic countries, and Poland and Holland, after World War II → Aust. sl., derogatory
1947 ► GIN BURGLAR a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → Aust.
1947 ► GIN SHEPHERD a person who seeks to protect Aboriginal women from White men → Aust. sl., derogatory
1949 ► YARRASIDER a native or resident of Victoria → Aust. sl.
1950 ► NEWSTRALIAN a New Australian, i.e. any immigrant, usually from continental Europe, whose first language is not English → Aust. sl.
1950 ► PARRA a native or resident of the western suburbs of Sydney → Aust. sl.
1950 ► SCRUB-TURKEY an itinerant who moves around the Australian bush; his long absence from urban life may have rendered him slightly eccentric → Aust. sl.
1950 ► UPTOPPER a native or resident of northern Australia → Aust. sl.
1950 ► WONGI a native or resident of the Kalgoorlie region → Aust. sl.
1952 ► BANANA BENDER a native or resident of Queensland → Aust. sl.
1952 ► BODGIE a member of a male subculture of the 1950s, similar to Britain’s teddy-boys, identifiable by a flashy style of dress → Aust. sl.
1953 ► BALTIE an immigrant to Australia from the Baltic countries, and Poland and Holland, after World War II → Aust. sl., derogatory
1954 ► GIN CUDDLER a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → Aust. sl.
1954 ► NOGGY an Asian immigrant to Australia → Aust. sl., derogatory or offensive
1955 ► BANANA-EATER a native or resident of Queensland → Aust. sl.
1955 ► GIN JOCKEY a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → Aust. sl.
1955 ► PLAIN TURKEY a swagman who haunts the Australian plains → Aust. sl.
1955 ► SCRUB TURKEY a swagman who haunts the Australian bush → Aust. sl.
1958 ► GIN SHEPHERD a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → Aust. sl.
1959 ► NAUSIE → NAUSSIE a New Australian, esp. a recent migrant from Europe → Aust. sl.
1960 ► ALF an ordinary, uneducated, unsophisticated Australian male → Aust. sl., derogatory
1960 ► COLLINS STREET SQUATTER a man, usually a youth, who frequents bars, cafes, etc. for no other reason that meeting his friends, gossiping and wasting time → Aust. sl., Melbourne usage
1963 ► BIG MAN a powerfully built Australian Rules footballer, often playing in a special position, e.g. ruckman; any Australian Rules player → Aust. sl.
1963 ► GIN MAN a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → Aust. sl.
1964 ► STRINE an Australian → colloq.
1966 ► RUGGER BUGGER a macho footballer → Aust. sl.
1970 ► BUNJI a White man, often old, and impoverished, who pursues Aboriginal women for sex → Aust. sl.
1970 ► DARKMAN an Aborigine → Aust. sl.. derogatory
1970 ► NEVERSWEAT a council worker → Aust. sl.
1970 ► OCK a boorish, loutish, unsophisticated, ultra-nationalistic Australian → Aust. sl.
1970 ► OCKERINA a female Australian who is boorish, loutish, unsophisticated → Aust. sl.
1971 ► OZ an Australian → sl., orig. Aust.
1974 ► UGLY AUSTRALIAN a rough, loutish Australian; an Australian yobbo → Aust. sl.
1977 ► GIN DOZZLER a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → Aust. sl.
1978 ► YELLOW TAIL a native or resident of New South Wales → Aust. sl.
1980 ► MAGPIE a half-caste → Aust. sl.
1980 ► PIE-EATER a native or resident of South Australia → Aust. sl., derogatory
1980 ► WESTIE a person who lives in the western suburbs of Sydney Aust. sl.
1982 ► ANGLO an Anglo-Australian; used by people from a Mediterranean or Middle Eastern background, opposing the term ‘wog’ → Aust. sl., derogatory
1985 ► HANDBAG a male not taking a proper manly role, esp. an Australian Rules player → Aust. sl.
1985 ► PARRA in Sydney region: a visiting non-resident of a beachside area → Aust. sl., derogatory
1986 ► BASKETWEAVER FROM BALMAIN a trendy, basically middle-class, upwardly mobile, socially conscious, left-wing member of the Australian Labour Party, and one who has no intention of manning the barricades for any cause whatsoever → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1986 ► BAZZ → BAZZA an average, knockabout, sub-literate Australian male → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1987 ► SKIP an Anglo-Australian → Aust.
1988 ► BLACKFELLA → BLACKFELLER an Aborigine; a dark-skinned person → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1988 ► WHITE LEGHORN in Australian Rules football: an umpire → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1990 ► ABC an Australian-born Chinese → Aust. sl.
1991 ► MEXICAN in eastern Australia, a person from a state south of one’s own; in Queensland it refers to either New South Wales inhabitants or Victorians; in New South Wales it refers to Victorians → Aust. sl.
1999 ► BINE an English immigrant → Aust. sl.
1999 ► BUSHIE an uncomplicated person from the bush → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► BUSHWHACKER an uncomplicated person from the bush → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► CRUMB-GATHERER in Australian Rules football: a footballer who is good at getting the loose ball → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► GEEBUNG an uncultivated, native-born Australian, living in a remote area → Aust. sl. obs. (Bk.)
1999 ► JARRAH-JERKER a Western Australian timber worker → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► MOLESKIN SQUATTER a working man who has scraped up enough cash to buy a small sheep run → Aust. sl. obs.(Bk.)
1999 ► MUTTON BIRD a Tasmanian → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► PIE-EATER a resident of South Australia → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► RUGGER BUGGER a macho footballer → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► SKIPPY a term for an English-, Irish-, or Scottish-descent Australian → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► TASSIE TIGER a native or resident of Tasmania → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► TOP-ENDER a person from the Northern Territory → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► WHINGEING POM a dissatisfied English migrant → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► WIDGIE a female ‘bodgie’ → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► WOOLLOOMOOLOO YANK a World War II term for a local youth affecting American airs or assuming an American accent → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
2002 ► DINGO an Australian → NZ sl.
2003 ► QUEEN STREET BUSHIE in Queensland: a city person with pretensions to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD → Aust. sl.
2003 ► QUEEN STREET COWBOY in Queensland: a city person with pretensions to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD → Aust. sl.
2003 ► QUEEN STREET RINGER in Queensland: a city person with pretensions to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD → Aust. sl.
2003 ► SHEEP-SHAGGER an Australian or New Zealander (depends on what nationality the speaker is) → Aust. & NZ sl.
PHRASES
20C.. ► ON THE BOIL in football: running at full speed → Aust. sl.
1950 ► CHEWY ON YOUR BOOT! directed at an opponent player about to shoot at goal (chewy = chewing-gum) → Aust. football usage
1999 ► HE COULDN’T GET A KICK IN A STAMPEDE said of a poorly performing football player → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► IF IT MOVES SHOOT IT, IF IT DOESN’T CHOP IT DOWN said to be Australia’s national creed → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► SHE’LL BE APPLES used to typify the easygoing Australian attitude, particularly in the 60s & 70s → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► SHE’LL BE RIGHT used to typify the easygoing Australian attitude, particularly in the 60s & 70s → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
1892 ► GO ON THE WALLABY TRACK to go on foot, up-country, in search of work → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
20C.. ► BUSH BASH to drive across country where there are no roads → Aust. sl.
20C.. ► RABBIT in Australian football: ‘to collar a player by the ankles when his running with the ball’ → Aust. sporting usage
1927 ► GO WALKABOUT of an Aboriginal: to go on a walkabout → Aust.
1999 ► GO MULGA to take to the bush → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► HUMP A BLUEY to carry a swag; to be a swagman → Aust. sl. (Bk.)