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New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral and Tasman Seas to the east.
The 1902 poem "City of Dreadful Thirst" by Australian poet Banjo Paterson makes reference to a "Bogan shower" as a term meaning "three raindrops and some dust", although this is likely a reference to the dry area around the Bogan River. Makeshift gates in a rural fence in northwest NSW were known as bogan gates at least as early as the 1960s.
The term used to be an insult, but has recently become more widely used in contexts that “are neither derogatory or negative,” according to the Australian National Dictionary. The origins of ...
The Evening News (Sydney, NSW) 23 August 1879 has one of the earliest references to fair dinkum. [12] It originated with a now-extinct dialect word from the East Midlands in England, where dinkum (or dincum) meant "hard work" or "fair work", which was also the original meaning in Australian English. [13]
Colloquial term for train staff or token Petrol electric rail motor (PERM) (Vic) A railmotor operated by the Victorian Railways; later called the Diesel Electric Rail Motor [citation needed] P.I.C. (SAR) Porter in charge (person in charge of a station that does not justify a stationmaster) [2] Pig (NSW) NSW C36 class locomotive Plastic ...
NSW is a short form name for New South Wales, an Australian state. NSW may also refer to: King of Egypt; National Herbarium of New South Wales, by Index Herbariorum code; Naval Strike Wing of the UK's Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm; Navut language of Vanuatu; Newman–Shanks–Williams prime, a class of number in mathematics
Westie, or Westy, is slang in Australian and New Zealand English for residents of the Greater Western Sydney, the western suburbs of Melbourne, or the western suburbs of Auckland. The term originated, and is most often used, in relation to residents of the numerous western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, and of Auckland, New Zealand.
Gorilla: A colloquial term for one thousand dollars. [7] Got at: A horse is said to have been got at when it was by any means been put in such a condition that it cannot win. Got the blows: Drifted in the betting. Gr.: An abbreviation for a grey horse, as it appears in race books, pedigrees and stud books. Greet the judge: To win a race.