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Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by Desire
(Post 8908611)
I wonder how many of the following English slang the Aussies would understand?
Plastered Rumpy Pumpy Parky Bobs your uncle cheesed off cods wallop Dogs bollocks Tickety boo Todger Bees knees hows your father? cakehole off your trolley for crying out loud! :) |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
There's loads of stuff I say and no one understands a word I am saying...
Radgie gadgie, What's the gen? and what you up to? Always seems to confuse them also Ya alright, Bonny, Canny, Wor, Gannin yehem, Ah divin naa, hoy. Basically most of what comes out of me mouth! :lol: |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by Desire
(Post 8908611)
I wonder how many of the following English slang the Aussies would understand?
Plastered - Very commonly used by Australians Rumpy Pumpy - not really used, although have heard it occasionally Parky - nope Bobs your uncle - incredibly common in Australia cheesed off - common also cods wallop - known of, not really used Dogs bollocks - nope Tickety boo - nope Todger - not really Bees knees - incredibly common in Victoria, have you not watched Kath & Kim? hows your father? - nope cakehole - a bit off your trolley - nope for crying out loud! - incredibly commone :) |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by kelli28
(Post 8908722)
There's loads of stuff I say and no one understands a word I am saying...
Radgie gadgie, What's the gen? and what you up to? Always seems to confuse them also Ya alright, Bonny, Canny, Wor, Gannin yehem, Ah divin naa, hoy. Basically most of what comes out of me mouth! :lol: |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by medwaymark
(Post 8908731)
Kelli......it's not only Aussies that don't understand you.....you lost me after ya alright lol
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Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by Officer Dibble
(Post 8908698)
'Gordon Bennett!' raises a few eyebrows and telling an Aussie youre 'shattered' when you mean tired does too.
She was expecting something similar back but my mum was in a funny mood and just answered 'I'm shattered'. Well of course nobody from here would recognise that word, she thought she was being told to 'shut it' and after looking round and checking the doors were indeed already shut never said a word for the next half hour! :lol: |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Having been in Aus for a while I find I forget whether words/phrases are used in the UK or not - and sometimes what they mean. For example, one of my mates (UK) keeps writing that she's 'going to get a beasting' on Facebook. Now she means that her personal trainer is going to give her a hard workout at the gym but to me that means something else entirely! Is 'beasting' meant in a 'bad' way only in Aus and in the UK means something else entirely? God, I can't remember anything - it took me ages to work out what a garbage truck is called in the UK......
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Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Describing something as Pants is obviously pretty meaningless here.
I said that something made me look like a spanner the other day and that drew a few blank stares. Apart from that most of the the Aussies I've met get the most of the lingo. I wouldn't be surprised if some didn't get more local things like Kecks for underpants as that would draw blank stares in a few parts of the UK. If your girlfriend is born and bread Aussie does that mean she's Mighty White? :unsure: :D |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by tking
(Post 8909564)
Having been in Aus for a while I find I forget whether words/phrases are used in the UK or not - and sometimes what they mean. For example, one of my mates (UK) keeps writing that she's 'going to get a beasting' on Facebook. Now she means that her personal trainer is going to give her a hard workout at the gym but to me that means something else entirely! Is 'beasting' meant in a 'bad' way only in Aus and in the UK means something else entirely? God, I can't remember anything - it took me ages to work out what a garbage truck is called in the UK......
Get my leg led for using LORRY.... |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by Desire
(Post 8908611)
I wonder how many of the following English slang the Aussies would understand?
Plastered Rumpy Pumpy Parky Bobs your uncle cheesed off cods wallop Dogs bollocks Tickety boo Todger Bees knees hows your father? cakehole off your trolley for crying out loud! :) |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by DeadVim
(Post 8908662)
"Where's the Ashes gone? (Where's the Ashes gone?),
Far, far away! (Far, far away!)" Understand that? ;) :D :D |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by Dorothy
(Post 8909684)
Not English or Australian but know all of them except Parky. They're common to a lot of countries.
Most of the aussies seem to understand us although i did get a few funny looks when i said that last winter it was brass monkeys, so i explaned the full saying ie cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey. apart from wetting them selves laughing at the image it conjured they cant believe it was a saying lol. However i keep hearing aussies saying gaming(gamon) not sure how they spell it meaning joking, has any one heard that before? Mandy |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by geordie mandy
(Post 8909820)
Parky means feeling a little cold, well it does from the NE of England.
Most of the aussies seem to understand us although i did get a few funny looks when i said that last winter it was brass monkeys, so i explaned the full saying ie cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey. apart from wetting them selves laughing at the image it conjured they cant believe it was a saying lol. However i keep hearing aussies saying gaming(gamon) not sure how they spell it meaning joking, has any one heard that before? Mandy The brass monkey thing is also used where I come from. As in "It's so cold it makes you glad you're not a brass monkey". |
Re: Living with an Aussie - language
I believe it's 'gammin' no idea where it comes from but my mate from Far North QLD uses it all the time.
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Re: Living with an Aussie - language
Originally Posted by Dorothy
(Post 8909836)
It must be a local thing. I've not heard the gaming (gamon) thing before.
The brass monkey thing is also used where I come from. As in "It's so cold it makes you glad you're not a brass monkey". I sometimes use 'parky', I must have picked it up 'up north'. As a kid, we said 'taters'. |
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