How to survive the Australian Slang - 10 ways

10 ways to survive the Australian Slang

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Just yourself

1. Arvo means Afternoon

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

3. 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

4. Divvy van is police vehicle transporting criminals - no personal experience

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

6. The Lucky Country is Australia, where else?

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

8. By the way Footy is Australian Rules

9. Spit the dummy is to get very upset at something

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

[MarijaB]

on 1/15/2009 You are kidding arent you, aussiechick?
barbie is used ALL the time here in Qld. Pull out the barbie, dust off the barbie. City folk maybe not so much (although I still hear alot of them say it)but rural folk...for sure :-)

[celticjames]

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

[pushkina]

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).

[aussiechick]

on 1/25/2008 no one uses the word barbie in place of barbeque