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And, over time, Aussie slang has become the subject of much entertainment online – with expressions often becoming TikTok trends ) or seeping into popular culture.
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 En
A billycan is an Australian term for a lightweight cooking pot in the form of a metal bucket [1] [2] [3] commonly used for boiling water, making tea/coffee or cooking over a campfire [4] or to carry water. [3] It is commonly known simply as a billy, or occasionally as a billy can (billy tin or billy pot in Canada).
Bloke as slang originated in early 19th-Century England, and means “fella.” “Telling porky pies” Another British expression, it means to lie about something.
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.
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.
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