How to understand Australians | Slang Words & Expressions

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Hi dear Emma, saying hello from IRAN

What do you call someone from New Zealand? A Newzie?

Bloke
That bloke is friendly 😎

I dont know!

😅

You know I've done the same, how odd

Me too

@smokingreen. Fkin brilliant son.

@smokengreen She's easy on the eye eh?

😅😂😂🥲
Edit idea: young kid- little ripper

LMAO Absolutely you do!! I really miss my accumulated holders 😢

To right mate, total agree with ya. Me ole boy accumulates 100's of them anyway he can. Kinda obsessed poor dude 😕

but did you get ya mum a pack of winnie reds or what?

Nah mate kids are ‘tin lids’@@themtber9880

Because most Australian slang is copied from British

Lizzie Birdsworth and Alf Stewart are like walking dictionaries for teaching Australian slang 😊

Thanks for adding more words to learn.

Why do Aussies shorten everything? What do they do with the time they save?

Definitely a true Aussie

@@docbailey3265 We chill, or have another tinny.

Unknowingly i would say Sunnies,surprised to know it’s an Aussie slang.

Americans don't use dude that much. The country is not a California beach in the 80s.

@@jonathandevereaux298 I use dude all the time, it's pretty common to say where I live

Yeah this is over embellished

Closer to something between "dude" and "man".

@@jonathandevereaux298 Dude is still pretty common all over but most people who use it are currently in their 30s and 40s since it was a very common slang during their teenage years. Just my opinion anyway.

In Adelaide they even have bigger slang vocabulary the slangs are very much used and locals Aussie always encouraging me to use the “Aussie slangs “ which I try to avoid to not sound “try harder “ but if you may not notice cos that is all you know but record yourself I dare you’ll see how much slag you say without even notice

Speak for yourself mate

Stone the crows mate are you trine to be some kind of a Galah!

as if where im from slang makes up most of our volcabulary you are probably from the city.

Some mates of mine are walking memes lol

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Everything impounded by those pirates was called a "protectorate." It was them we needed protection against. How ironic.

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Hi kathy

And if the word ends with a letter R, that is either not pronounced (Here can be HEE), or it is replaced with YAH (here can be heyah).
Listen to the cricket commentators when they talk about the bowlah, or a 6 ball owvah. It may be a players first time HEE at this ground.
He may also be a good catchah to fieldah.
For people that speak proper English. Australian is horrible to listen to...but still not as bad as listening to a New Zealander!!

If the sylable ends in a "R" it gets turned into "Z" or "ZZA". E.g. Darren = Daz/Dazza.

@@davidedwards3361 The R is silent in all of the words you just listed. Unless you are American, or maybe Irish

@@ohasis8331
no.... you forgot DAZZA

@@ohasis8331
i know it doesn't end in O
that's the point
there are aussie words that don't
Like DAZZA, SHAZZA
then you have things like
NUGGET

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Hi martine

Some of these I never even considered Americans wouldn't understand 😂😂

No idea...

If you'd said "chock-full", you might've gotten somewhere.

The polite way of saying this is: "taking the Michael". I have no idea why. You could also say: "You're pulling me plonker".

@@ksmyth999 "Taking the Michael" comes from the rhyming slang version of "taking the piss", which was "taking the Mickey Bliss". I've no idea who Mr Bliss may have been.

Yes! 😍

Another version of “no worries” is “no wuckers”. Won’t go into the derivation and Emma is far too polite to mention.
I’m inclined to disagree on use of the word “dunny”. Maybe it’s just us older types, but i find “loo” very twee and really English. I prefer our own slang. And you left out the slang for a plumber due to this. A plumber is a “dunny diver”.
When I moved to coastal, regional Victoria, I noticed how, particularly girls, said “no worries” to everything, but then when I’d go back to Melbourne or Geelong, I’d hear it all the time, different ages, both genders.

@@mmmEnglish_Emma this is not a question about english but i'm so curious about ask you the next question.
¿Has australian people the same devotion and adoration to royal family specially to queen Elizabeth as british people do?

@@valentinanderson535 HI Valentin, I think the answer is not really. There are some Australians who love the royal family, but not many. I think that the majority of Australians are respectful of the royal family and maybe interested to a degree in them, but see the royal family as disconnected from Australia. Australia is now a very diverse nation, with people from all over the world. However, I think the majority of people are very supportive of our democracy and would if needed still support the UK in times of trouble. I think this is because the UK and Australia are two of the best democracies in the world with very similar values and that both nations work hard to ensure equality and opportunity, with very good systems to support underprivileged people when compared with other nations. We would support other European nations similarly but not to the same extent because we don't have the same history with them and also because European nations have a history of conflict between each other.

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A Yank here. My two faves are "fair dinkum" and "ridgie didg"(sp?) - Reminding we are also affectionately called "Yanks" even though in the US a "yank" is only a north easterner. You'd get your a* kicked where I'm from in Texas calling me a Yank, haha 😂

Gorgeous in any language!

Oh my, "chuck a u-ie" I seen somewhere to "Park" Over here in the USA, that draws blanks stares every time.

In the days when we went to the sly grog shop to get booze after hours (6 o'clock closing in Victoria back then)

Waw....81 that so incredible

Would love to get know you...

bottlo no longer means the person who retrieves the bottles. that job seems to have gone

I remember that as well. The place to buy alcohol from is the grog shop

Cold ones = coldies. Why use two words when one will do..😅

@@ady38 Thanks for the tidbit. I didn't know of the expression "coldie", as I am American, and don't know everything there is to know about Aussie slang. I only remember one of the characters in "Crocodile Dundee II" saying "cold one", but it was probably written for Americans, as they wouldn't necessarily know what coldie means. It was the scene when Nugget offered a brew to one of the bad guys before Donk socked the villain in the mouth. Snags on the barbie on Saturday arvo? Sounds pretty cool to me. I'll bring a few coldies, and we'll have a ripper of a time. Now I got it. May I have that gold star now, please?

@david mullen. There is only one way to tell which sport is better. That is simply by the number of people prepared to go and watch it. Aussie rules is the fourth highest crowd drawing sport in the world, and NRL match of the day in Sydney draws 15 to 20,000 people, compared to Aussie rules pulling between 50,000 to 90,000 people. The Sydney Swans at the SCG always blitz rugby game crowds. So it is no contest, ours is the much more exciting game, and we call it footy.

@david mullen . So I am a Victorian, because the Sydney Swans used to be South Melbourne. I think “REAL FOOTBALL” would mean kicking it with your feet, which you guys hardly ever do, so don’t call it “football” for starters. Watch a video of the “AFL’s worst hits and bumps.” You think’ your guys are tough, but our guys are running faster and from all directions and so the speed of the hits that can come from any direction means that our players cop a lot more rough stuff than your guys.
Having said all that I do not watch it for the rough stuff. If I did I would go and watch wrestling or boxing. Our game is much more skilful such as bouncing the ball and marking it etc, plus is fast and high-scoring and highly entertaining. (Hence the reason it gets much bigger crowds.)
At the moment there are heaps of Americans, English and others who are making video reactions to our game. They are all totally blown away with AFL. A couple of them have said, “We thought it was rugby and we weren’t interested, but AFL is a more exciting game.” Plenty of our Sydney players have played rugby as juniors, but found Aussie rules more exciting.
Recently retired Kieran Jack is the son of one of your rugby heroes named Gary Jack. Kieran chose Aussie rules.
So you can hang onto your childish belief that ours is a girls game, when in fact it’s a lot tougher than yours.

@david mullen . All I said is we do kick the ball a lot where is you guys only kick it for a score. That means ours is more football than yours is. You glossed over where I talked about skill versus the rough stuff. I have no interest in your rough play, or your punch on‘s, or your all in brawls.
If it is a better game to watch, How come you can’t pull the big crowds like we do?

@david mullen . I lived in Sydney for awhile mate. I used to read the papers and see the NRL match of the day, 12,000, 15,000, and occasionally 20,000. Important AFL matches start around 50,000, and the likes of Anzac Day we can have 90,000.

@david mullen . The only time rugby pulls big crowds is the interstate State of Origin game. I’m talking about crowds for regular season games.

Yes!! you should definitely come to Australia it is Amazing 🤩 the animals here are also spectacular! You won’t ever find animals like ours in any other country.😃

Yeah I’m from America too and I think the Australian accent is awesome! I’d love to visit one day

Hey....

@@aamirrazak3467 hey

That's the purpose of most of the diminutives (shortened words) in Australian English: to make the language more informal and friendly.

even Coles? O_O

I'm not sure that would be the norm in Australia. I think you would be getting weird looks in most places in Australia referring to every bloody shop as woolies 🤣

@@asjeot only grocery stores

@@Gesteppie that’s what you get when you burn down Woolies

@@devonlord99 Oh, you mean an IGA? 😉

She sounds like she’s from Adelaide. Could be wrong but there were a few words where it almost sounded british...that’s always a dead giveaway of an Adelaide accent.

She said she’s from Melbourne in another video~

Aussie posh?

@@michaelburke5907 I was just going to ask that. She’s seems posh

@@michaelburke5907 hard to tell. A lot of Melbournians just sound like that. You probably need to live there to tell the difference

What are you traveling for, mate?

@@darshanmukadam Worl-and-travel ^^.

How did the trip go

good on you, man ! hope u do well and succeed in your whereabout.

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Rack off!!

everyone knows what you mean if you talk about a dunny or outhouse, but no one ever uses it. We also don't really have outhouses anymore.

@@AnimalLover-yy1ml What? I use Dunny and Brasco all the time.

@@82ritz really? I guess it just depends what age you are and where u live

The current "young slang" is so different to when I grew up. Some of it is still around but my kids have their own language that I pretty much have down pat. I still like to confuse my kids with olden day speech as they call it haha

Me and my dad use it and we’re in Melbourne

I’m from Melbourne and I still hear the Dunny word used s as ll the time .

Loo has become the "polite" slang for Dunny, also I noticed that Dunny is more often used for outdoor toilets and Loo for indoor but not exclusively (Iv'e live about 1/2 my life in each Sydney and Brisbane)

Yes , very true the Loo indeed it is but I thought Loo is more pommy . Then again I hear the term Thunderbox quite often but i think that’s more American . Nope just plain old The Dunny will have to do for me .

I just use the word shitter.

we hardly say ‘straya’ anymore, at least in melbourne

@@fleafly5383 I can confirm too

@@fleafly5383 well, Aussies told me they call it that way in colloquial speech, so apparently there are still some Aussies using it in Australia, beyond Melbourne 😁😋

@@fleafly5383 yeah it’s a little cringey now that I think of it

Phuck me dead, you better check dem migration laws before planning your one way trip to "straya".

This comes from British understatement which Americans simply don't get. "Not too bad" can be a lot stronger as in: "how was the food?" answer: "not bad at all" which usually means it was excellent.

it's funny we always say how we're not.

just for the record, all americans are not so dull-witted and do understand subtly of language. i would know exactly what you meant. :)

@@off-the-cuffworldadventure3483 actually most of my workmates who had trouble with these were from South Asia. I think it's more people who learn english as a second language who have trouble with these ones

@@DissonusWren i think i was actually replying to kevin smyth's comment about americans not understanding british understatement. sorry for the confusion!

Umm, Malaysian English ? You will definitely need to get the pronunciation correct before you start using Aussie Slang !

You went to school in Australia and were probably taught Australian English. So obviously you’d prefer it to British English

Her accent is ridiculous.

I MAKE shortened words cause im too lazy to say the whole thing, but everyone else around me understands what im saying cause its so normal to do that here

@@AnimalLover-yy1ml yeah I get that, Im from Aus as well. Im saying that she speaks so formally and pronounces everything properly which isn’t very common in Australia.

Actually she speaks the way many Australians speak - most of us do not use ‘strine.

@@johnjones6601 In what way is her accent ridiculous? Just because she does not conform to the Australian stereotype.

Australian is a very hard accent to learn as it is a very lazy language. You will need to forget a lot of how you pronounce letters and sounds.

@@mattmcguire1577 that's a good way of looking at it,😃

@@matthewcullen1298 There is a documentary called "the sounds of oz"or aus on the history and features of our accent. The actress Rachel Griffiths (?) is the one who says it is easier for Australians to learn an accent as they have learn a something. It is harder to learn Australian as you have to forget everything. She says imagine your tongue just flopped over an exercise ball.

@@mattmcguire1577 Australian language doesn't exist, it's called English fool, we don't speak Australian we speak English in Australia.

Thats unlucky

That's a very new word in Australia.

"Schnitty" sounds so funny to me😂😂 I would associate Milchschnitte with it-

@@kVkV-sw5se no it’s not lol

@@kVkV-sw5se it's an old word

we don't usually have a plain schnitzel. Cover it with cheese and tomato sauce ( at a minimum ) and it is known as "Chicken parmigiana", - of course shortened to just a "Parma". A common pub special ( at least in Victoria ) is a Parma and a Pot. A pot is a 285mL glass of beer.

We speak English mate😂

i'm spending 7 mins at 2x watching a vid on my own language.

Why Thank You. We Do Also Speak English

We speak English man😂😂😂

we speak Australia 🤣

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Streuth cobber, thats a fair slap of the old sauce bottle.

Boofhead! My dad used this a lot

@david mullen ummm, what? I’m just saying my dad used the word boofhead. No insult intended.

@david mullen shake and slap... thats whole.other argurment

Don't forget Bozo. Lol I use drongo I'm in my 30s

Very much agree. I live in the bush and we use heaps of those words she said "we don't say anymore". We still use them.

Hint of a non Australia accent. Healthy lashing of White Privilege too.

Yeah it still is used in the cities.

@@MC_Mookie Who are you talking about?

@@MC_Mookie That "non-australian" accent is just indicative that she's from a major city, probably Melbourne. There's three-or-so distinctive "aussie" accents, with Ocre being the one seen commonly in films.

R U OK ?

We also lengthen words…..lol
Yes - nah yeah
No - Yeah Nah

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Amen 🙏🏻

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When a cop pulled me over and asked for my licence, I said OK Mate. His reply "I'm not your fu**ing mate !!"

My Dad was an old school cop and I can assure you if you called him mate you would have regretted it...his entire attitude and superior "above the law" outlook is why I'm not a fan of the police force..haven't had a good experience with one yet and I've been around them most of my life.

@@taryncostello4836 some Sergeants and Inspectors don't like being called mate from their subordinates while on shift but outside of work it shouldn't matter. If they have an issue with being called mate by family I dare say that have a lot bigger personality issues going on.

@@DMan-it5tq Mate, you don't know the half of it 😉... probably why I haven't spoken to him in a decade lol...his favourite saying was, "this is not a democracy it's a dictatorship and you'll do as you're fucking told"...yeah nahhh toxic is an understatement. Often happens when a narcissist joins the force.

cop shop = police station

Terra nullius

@@maddyg3208 sadly TERRA NULLIAS is a word we Aussies shouldn't be familiar with but are.

Yes I know LOL having driven across it many times!

@@jadecawdellsmith4009 There's nothing wrong with Terra Nullius.

@@nono7105 it was not applied correctly when capt Cook set foot & declared the land uninhabited. Tell the indigenous people there's 'nothing wrong with it' Their land was stolen. There really is no argument.

And don't wear socks with ya thongs unless your a pom then we can tell who ya are 🙄🙄🙄💯🇦🇺

They were called thongs when I was a kid in America, but the term got replaced by flip-flops, no doubt due to the increased popularity of the underwear, sometimes referred to as "butt floss".

Some people here in the US still say thongs

Fanny pack is totally different than what is meant in the UK.

I remember when I was a kid they were called Thongs, and 20 years ago in Hawaii they were called slippers.

May I remind you that Slang isn’t entirely a requirement. I have British blood in me and you’ll never find me swearing on the frequent.
I watched this because up until now, I didn’t really have a clear idea on what slang was.
So, in short, I do a lot of talking without shortening anything I say. (Like this comment for example)

@@digitaldesre Unless you were raised here ya blood don't matter, it's something developed through growing up in the society, not blood in ya veins lol

@@McNab1986 well I grow up here alright. But you won’t find me using slang. And before you ask, no, I don’t need to prove anything to you.

@@digitaldesre Who said anything about proving anything, must be exhausting entering conversations with an automatic defensive attitude.
Between mentioning blood and not knowing slang, tis easy enough to confuse ya for a yank

@@McNab1986 Well I’m proud of my English bloodline. Haven’t you figured that out yet? And you get used to writing like this. Why?

Very nice video which kept me mesmerized not only from subject matter but her perfect teeth!

Hey Kirk

Come on down, there’s plenty of room for everyone mate, and no guns. 👍👍👍

@@scroungasworkshop4663 and an extremely authoritative government that oversteps every boundary it has...

Only 15 hours or so from LA!

Please be warned we do NOT speak like this 10 minutes of the plane and you won't hear any of these so called Aussie slang words.

You will love it, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Are a good start. Hope one day you get the chance. Stay Safe.

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@@fjb4932 lol. I had to comment just on ur username. Love it

Sounds like you got some Aussie influence in there since dunny is not british. It was coined in Australia

I'm an Aussie in his 60s and definitely still call a toilet a dunny. Strictly speaking it is an outside toilet when old houses had a separate little shed out the back with the toilet in it (because before plumbing, men would come and empty the can each week and leave an empty one under the toilet seat) but the term can be used for any toilet.

Dunny is short for dungeon. It could easily have come from Ireland, Scotland or old England to the new worlds. 😀

Marc, depends upon the context of the conversation. I'm obviously not referring to a can of beer if I say to a mate "hey, let's grab the tinnie and go out fishing on the harbour mate' am I?

Who calls a can of beer a tinny its just called a beer you might say stubby that refers to all beers in fridge can or not

@@daviddou1408 yeah but it's too hard, when you're drunk, to say "hey mate, grab me another aluminiumy, will ya?" 😅

Idk about that.. I’m Mexican and we make up new words all the time for things 🤣😅

Hola wea?

I'm from India too

@@ramkkmusiclover7971 I'm here too

I don't like india because im from Pakistan but i live in Italy

You Fool I am From India and Don't say anything About my country!!!!!

@@mehvishrizwan5345 You,you don't even love your own country. Why are you in Italy in the first place?

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I'm from Adelaide, and distinctly we have a mild Cockney accent? Also we say darnce and plarnts

As an Australian, I’m always ticked pink to hear people from other countries using our unique words with beautiful precision! ALWAYS makes my day!

I hope we can open our borders soon, Karla! Would love for you to come visit this gorgeous country! 💙

@Rob Lloyd. Umm. Plenty of people say 'guys'. Fellas is such a bogan term

Don't go to NZ if you go to Australia,as we don't want the Indian varient,or anything else.

Read "In a sunburned country" by Bill Bryson while you wait.

We welcome so much people here in Australia and would love for you to visit us 😁

Personally I will not visit Australia

Me too...my big dream

Me too

dont

@@zorlack7446 good choice

Just came here to say that!! She reminds me of Bindy.

Yes, it's quite noticeable.

I am genuinely curious about this. I could be mistaken, but it sounds like you are saying that Americans are rhotic while Australians are non-rhotic. I certainly can't speak for Australia, but the US has hundreds of dialects pretty evenly divided between rhotic and non-rhotic. Bostonites do not pronounce the r sound, South England does not pronounce the r sound, US midwestern and southern tidewater do pronounce the r sound.

@@GlenBradley I'm no phonetics expert... & I admit I've not spoken with someone from every part of the world... but to Aussie ears, the 'twang' of most USA-educated folks is one of their identifying characteristics; like 'oo' sounds- for example, 'door' will sound 'daw', 'dawrr', 'doo-Ah', 'dahh', etc... The point is that with the rest of her sounds, her 'r' sounds are often atypical to 'the' Aussie sound (whatever THAT is)...

She probably watches a lot of American media.

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more like Kiwi slang

She'll be apple

@@mehdiakbari4814 😂😂

@@stevenxia2944 well we are very similar 🥰

Says nobody ever these days.
All good, good times

I appreciate your comment, Pia! And grateful I can teach you here 🙂

Exactly Emma, we will be ever thankful to you!

@@mmmEnglish_Emma thanks for your comment mam, it's really means a lot.