Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Swim briefs are also referred to as competition briefs, swimming trunks, bathers, togs, racer bathers, posing briefs, racing briefs, and colloquially in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom as budgie smugglers. [2] Like underwear briefs, swim briefs feature a triangular shaped front and a solid back providing form-fitting coverage ...
‡Budgie, a budgerigar, a parakeet. Male swimming briefs are called budgie smugglers. [18] Bundy, the city of Bundaberg, Queensland, or the Bundaberg Rum beverage; Bunners, the Bunnings chain of hardware stores, or the city of Bunbury, Western Australia; Bushie, a bushranger, one who is competent to live away from civilization (from bushman) [16]
Small bathing suits for men, commonly referred to as togs or "Speedos", are informally called "budgie smugglers" in Australia. The phrase is humorously based on the appearance of the tight-fitting cloth around the male's genitals looking like a small budgie. The phrase was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016. [52]
The OED has added hundreds of new words and sub-entries to its ever-growing online list — and there are some gloriously random ones in the mix.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
budgerigar or (colloquial) budgie a small Australian parrot (US: not distinguished from other parakeets) buggered (vulgar, literally a synonym for 'sodomised') worn out; broken; thwarted, undermined, in a predicament, e.g. "If we miss the last bus home, we're buggered" (US: screwed). Also used to indicated lack of motivation as in "I can't be ...
At the Delhi College of Linguistics in India, students of linguistics and aspiring migrants to Australia are taught about elements of Australian culture such as Australian lingo, rhyming slang, grub, local celebrities, how to 'chuck a sickie', and how to pass the citizenship test.
The Australian budgerigar, or shell parakeet, is a popular pet and the most common parakeet. Parakeets comprise about 115 species of birds that are seed-eating parrots of small size, slender build, and long, tapering tails.