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Here are some of the new words I have picked up over here which I think deserve to be shared and perhaps used to make good old Queen's English an even richer language:
Sliders - you might think it has to do with surfing or at least skateboarding. In fact it means potato wedges;
Stubbies - bottles of beer;
Nutting [something] out - thinking about it, finding a solution (using your nut);
Norks - rather rude (!). Equivalent in UK might be 'jugs'
Sanger - means a sandwich;
Budgie smugglers = speedos
Pokies - fruit machines (for gambling)
And to end on my favourite: BOGAN. A word which shocks anyone over 45, but is used by teenagers & upward all the time. It describes a person who (in UK TV terms) lives a "Wayne & Waynetta" lifestyle. So you don't want your neighbours to be, or behave like, bogans. Sydney Uni helpfully adds that it describes "someone who is not `with it' in terms of behaviour and appearance, someone who is 'not us'; hence, someone horrible, contemptible".
Of course, originally we Brits used to send our home-grown bogans on ships to Botany Bay....could there be a connection???
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