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This phrase comes from a classic Australian film, “The Castle,” where the main character, Daryl Kerrigan, fights for his home as the bank tries to buy it to build a new airport expansion.
The vocabulary of Australia is drawn from many sources, including various dialects of British English as well as Gaelic languages, some Indigenous Australian languages, and Polynesian languages. [2] One of the first dictionaries of Australian slang was Karl Lentzner's Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia and of Some Mixed Languages in 1892.
This is a list of English words derived from Australian Aboriginal languages. Some are restricted to Australian English as a whole or to certain regions of the country. Others, such as kangaroo and boomerang, have become widely used in other varieties of English, and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond English.
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While many dialects of English make use of diminutives and hypocorisms, Australian English uses them more extensively than any other. [1] [2] Diminutives may be seen as slang, but many are used widely across the whole of society. [1] Some forms have also spread outside Australia to other English-speaking countries. [3]
Bloke as slang originated in early 19th-Century England, and means “fella.” “Telling porky pies” Another British expression, it means to lie about something.
Used to describe: Water. Back in the 1930s, ordering a dog soup would get you a tall glass of good ol' water. Considering that the slang originated during the Great Depression, it makes perfect sense.
In Australian English, a billabong (/ ˈ b ɪ l ə b ɒ ŋ / BIL-ə-bong) is a small body of water, usually permanent. It is usually an oxbow lake caused by a change in course of a river or creek, but other types of small lakes, ponds or waterholes are also called billabongs.