I have lived in Australia most of my life and understand all of them. Many are used by Aussies too or at least many of the Aussies I know.

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!

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Kelli......it's not only Aussies that don't understand you.....you lost me after ya alright lol

I do quite well until I've had a drink then it's all downhill from there!

Reminds me of several years back when I introduced the missus to my mother for the first time, it was in a Manor House hotel in the Lakes. She was predictably nervous and could only just manage a handshake and 'How do you do?' in her best engrish.

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!

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......

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?

Yeah, me too.....like sometimes I know there are two words....a pom word & an aussie word & I have to stop and think which one to use & still get it wrong sometimes lol......

Get my leg led for using LORRY....

Not English or Australian but know all of them except Parky. They're common to a lot of countries.

"Coming home, coming home, I'm coming hooooooooooome! (Home again!)"

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

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 believe it's 'gammin' no idea where it comes from but my mate from Far North QLD uses it all the time.

The brass monkey was a thing used to hold balls on old sailing ships. Not sure why

I sometimes use 'parky', I must have picked it up 'up north'. As a kid, we said 'taters'.