How to survive the Australian Slang - 10 ways

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10 ways to survive the Australian Slang

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Just yourself

Step1

Arvo means Afternoon

Step2

A Barbie is not an unnatural looking baby doll it is a barbeque

Step3

To Chuck a Sickie is not to throw a sick person of board - but to have the day off sick even though you are perfectly healty

Step4

Divvy van is police vehicle transporting criminals - no personal experience

Step5

Grog - liquor, beer - now a lot of personal experience with this one

Step6

The Lucky Country is Australia, where else?

Step7

Mongrel is a despicable person - usually used for the Footy umpires

Step8

By the way Footy is Australian Rules

Step9

Spit the dummy is to get very upset at something

Step10

Bring a plate means bring your own food to a barbie (see point 2). It does not mean they are short on crockery

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celticjames said

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on 6/16/2008 errr I think you will find that many people do still use the term barbie.

on 5/17/2008 aussiechick, where do you live? Here in the part of Sydney, The Big Smoke, where I have landed, 'barbie' is a noun referred to the instrument upon which meat is grilled, as well as the festive time, either afternoon or evening, when men grill meat and imbibe grog and their borderline to bad behavior is tolerated.

To my knowledge, "footy" refers to all codes of of football: AFL (Aussie Rules), soccer and 'gridiron'(US football).