Randy's Aussie Language Dictionary

Welcome to Randy's Aussie Language Dictionary! This page contains American translations of the most popular Aussie slang. Note that most multi-syllable words can be translated to Aussie by saying the first syllable and tacking an "ie" to the end. Cheers mate!

Aussie American translation
arvo afternoon
Back O' Bourke out in the boonies
Banana Bender person from Queensland
barrack to cheer for (use this instead of root)
bench table-top
bingle traffic accident
bikey motorcyclist
biscuit cookie
Bloke male person
bludge to do nothing
bludger person on the dole (see below)
bush in the country, away from the city
bushranger outlaw
BYO restaurant where you bring your own alchohol
chock-a-block full, "the hotel is chock-a-block"
chook chicken
dag, daggie nerd, nerdy
dink (to dink) to carry as a passenger
dole unemployment program
dunny toilet
fanny crude term for female genitalia, lets just say don't use this one, or fanny-pack!!
fair dinkum used to emphasize truthfullness (its true)
fair go give us a chance
good on ya well done
hoon unruly and troublesome person
how ya going? how are you doing?
keen very intersted
Kiwi person from New Zealand
midi glass of beer (Western Australia only)
mull marijuana
mobile phone cell phone
mozzies mosquitos
panel beater auto body repairman
perve to gaze lustfully
piss beer
pissed drunk
piss in your pocket to brown-nose
pinch steal
pokies poker machines
Pommie person from England
postie mailman
pot glass of beer (Victoria, Queensland)
push-bike bicycle
randy horny, sexually excited
rapt expression of happiness (I'm rapt!!)
root to have sex (be careful with this one!) see barrack
salvo member of The Salvation Army
session lengthy period of heavy drinking
Sheila female (somewhat derogatory)
She'll be right mate everything will be fine
stir to tease or joke with a person, "Lets stir him up"
Sand Groper person from Western Australia
shout to buy a person a drink ("I'll shout the next round, mate!")
smoko coffee, cigarrette break
sickie day off work
slab case of beer (24 cans)
smash repairs auto-body shop
spit the dummy to throw a tantrum (see chuck a wobbly)
station farm
stubby bottle of beer
sunbake sunbathe
take-away food to-go food
tea evening meal, dinner
tinny can of beer
truckie truck driver
tucker food
two-pot screamer person with low tolerance for alchohol
uni university
ute pickup truck
wag to skip work or school
walkabout lengthy period of travelling
whinge to complain
wobblie, to chuck a wobblie to throw a temper-tantrum
Wog person from Greece
Yank person from the United States of America
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