Ace! : Excellent!
我已开始以为是骂人的,,,后来才发现搞错了,是称赞你的意思
Amber
fluid : beer
Ambo
: ambulance(标在车上的,要仔细看)
Ankle biter : small child
Apples, she’ll be : It’ll be all
right ---不常用~~书上看来的
Aussie
(pron. Ozzie)
: Australian 这个是我最常用的--Yvonne教的
Aussie salute : brushing away
flies with the hand
Avos
: avocados 这个卖寿司很有用~~!
B
B & S : Bachelors’ and
Spinsters’ Ball – a very enjoyable party usually held in rural
areas ----这个是字典里查出来的
Back of Bourke : a very long way
away
Bail (somebody) up : to corner
somebody physically
Bail out : depart, usually
angrily
Banana bender : a person from
Queensland ---昆士兰州的注意了哦~~~
Barbie : barbecue (noun)
Barrack : to cheer on (football
team etc.)
Bastard : term of
endearment -----切忌~~不要随便用
Bathers : swimming
costume
Beaut, beauty
: great,
fantastic --演drama是经常要用
Big Smoke : a big city,
especially Sydney or Melbourne
Big-note oneself : brag,
boast
Bikkie : biscuit
饼干~~这个超级常用
Billabong : an ox-bow river or
watering hole
Billy : teapot. Container for
boiling water.
Bities
: biting
insects --苍蝇不叮人,,但也被叫成这个,,有些莫名
Bitzer : mongrel dog (bits of
this and bits of that)
Bizzo : business (“mind your own
bizzo”)
Black Stump, beyond the : a long
way away, the back of nowhere
Bloke : man, guy
Bloody : very (bloody hard
yakka) ----Aussie超喜欢用!!!
Bloody oath! : that’s certainly
true
Blow in the bag : have a
breathalyser test
Blowie : blow fly
Bludger : lazy person, layabout,
somebody who always relies on other people to do things or lend him
things----在澳洲当地学校读书的人注意了!!!这个一定要知道
Blue : fight (“he was having a
blue with his
wife”)
Bluey
: pack, equipment, traffic ticket,
redhead
Bluey : blue cattle dog (named
after its subtle markings) which is an excellent working dog.
Everyone’s favourite all-Aussie dog.
Bluey : heavy wool or felt jacket
worn by mining and construction workers.
Bluey : bluebottle
jellyfish
Bodgy : of inferior
quality
Bogan
: person who takes little pride in his
appearance, spends his days slacking and drinking beer
Bogged : Stuck in mud, deep sand
(a vehicle). 报纸上经常会出现
Bondi cigar : see “brown-eyed
mullet”
Bonzer : great, ripper
Boogie board : a hybrid,
half-sized surf board
Boomer : a large male
kangaroo
Booze bus : police vehicle used
for catching drunk drivers
Boozer : a
pub ---很有用的词汇!!
Bored shitless : very bored
Bottle shop : liquor shop
Bottle-o : liquor shop
(originally a man with hessian bags going around picking up beer
bottles in the 50′s and 60′s)
Bottler : something
excellent
Bottling, his blood’s worth
: he’s an excellent, helpful bloke.
Bounce : a bully
Bourke Street, he doesn’t know Christmas from
: he’s a bit slow in the head. (Bourke
Street is a brightly lit Melbourne street)
Bowl of rice, not my : not my cup
of tea; I don’t like it
Brass razoo, he hasn’t got a
: he’s very poor
Brekkie : breakfast
Brick shit house, built like a
: big strong bloke
Brickie : bricklayer
Brisvegas : Brisbane, state
capital of Queensland
Brizzie : Brisbane, state capital
of Queensland
Brown-eyed mullet : a turd in the
sea (where you’re swimming!)
Brumby : a wild horse
Buck’s night : stag party, male
gathering the night before the wedding
Buckley’s, Buckley’s chance : no
chance (“New Zealand stands Buckley’s of beating Australia at
football”)
Budgie smugglers : men’s bathing
costume 是指长的
Bull bar : stout bar fixed to the
front of a vehicle to protect it against hitting kangaroos (also
roo bar)
Bundy : short for Bundaberg,
Queensland, and the brand of rum that’s made there
Bunyip : mythical outback
creature
Bush : the hinterland, the
Outback, anywhere that isn’t in
town 记得以前MRS。GREY说她刚来时为这个confused过,,以为就是小灌木丛,,其实他可以只一片森林,澳洲bush fire,就是大规模的树林大火
Bush bash : long competitive
running or motorcar race through the bush
Bush oyster : nasal mucus
Bush telly : campfire
Bushie : someone who lives in the
Bush
Bushman’s hanky : Emitting nasal
mucus by placing one index finger on the outside of the nose (thus
blocking one nostril) and blowing.
Bushranger : highwayman,
outlaw
Butcher : small glass of beer in
South Australia – From the theory that a butcher could take a quick
break from his job, have a drink and be back at work
BYO : unlicensed
restaurant where you have
to Bring Your Own
grog, also similar party or barbecue
C
Cab Sav : Cabernet Sauvignon (a
variety of wine grape)
Cactus : dead, not functioning
(“this bloody washing machine is cactus”)
Cane toad : a person from
Queensland
Cark it
: to die, cease functioning
Cat burying shit, as busy as a
: busy
Cat’s piss, as mean as : mean,
stingy, uncharitable
Chewie : chewing gum
Chokkie
: chocolate --澳洲人把很多东西都加昵称,,有时真的很无语。。。
Chook : a
chicken --有用极了!!
Chrissie : Christmas
Christmas
: see Bourke
Street
Chuck a sickie : take the day off
sick from work when you’re perfectly healthy
Chunder
: vomit 对校医很有用哦~~
Clacker : anus (from
Latin cloaca =
sewer). Also the single orifice of monotremes (platypus and
echidna) used both for reproduction and for the elimination of body
wastes.
Clayton’s : fake,
substitute ---这个要了解~~~
Cleanskin : Bottle of wine
without a label. Usually bought in bulk by companies who then add
their own personalised label and use the wine as e.g. gifts to
clients
Cleanskin : cattle that have not
been branded, earmarked or castrated.
Click : kilometre – “it’s 10
clicks away” 好想学驾车时要用
Clucky : feeling broody or
maternal
Coathanger : Sydney Harbour
bridge
Cobber
: friend ---如果你把一个Aussie当朋友,,,一定要叫他cobber~~
Cockie : farmer (Farmers were
called cockies in the early days of European settlement because,
like the birds of the same name, they made their homes on the edges
of permanent waterholes)
Cockie : cockatoo
Cockie : cockroach
Cockroach : a person from New
South Wales
Coldie : a beer
Come a gutser : make a bad
mistake, have an accident
Compo : Workers’ Compensation
pay
Conch (adj. conchy) : a
conscientious person. Somebody who would rather work or study than
go out and enjoy him/herself.
Cooee, not within : figuratively
a long way away, far off – England weren’t within cooee of beating
Australia at cricket
Cooee, within : nearby – I was
within cooee of landing a big fish when the line broke. He lives
within cooee of Sydney.
Cook (noun) : One’s
wife 这个挺嘲的,娶个老婆来是当厨师的嘛?就像中国人喜欢叫老婆家主婆一样~~
Corker : something excellent. A
good stroke in cricket might be described as a ‘corker of a
shot’
Counter lunch/Countery
: pub lunch
Cozzie : swimming costume
Crack a fat : get an
erection
Crack onto (someone) : to hit on
someone, pursue someone romantically
Cranky : in a bad mood,
angry
Cream (verb) : defeat by a large
margin
Crook : sick, or badly made
Crow eater : a person from South
Australia
Cubby house : Small, usually
timber, house in the garden used as a children’s plaything.
Cut lunch
: sandwiches
Cut snake, mad as a
: very angry 很常用
D
Dag : a funny person, nerd,
goof 这个一定要注意~这里的funny不做搞笑的意思,而是滑稽,有点笨蛋的意思~~~~nerd是书虫的意思
Daks : trousers
Damper : bread made from flour
and water
Date : arse[hole] (“get off your
fat date”)
Dead dingo’s donger, as dry as a
: dry
Dead horse : Tomato
sauce--这个我有尝试去问为什么。。。但貌似没人知道,可惜啊~~确实很常用
Deadset : true, the truth
Dero : tramp, hobo, homeless
person (from “derelict”)
Dickhead : see “whacker”
Digger : a
soldier 有段时间中国人被叫做digger~
Dill : an idiot
Dingo’s breakfast : a yawn, a
leak and a good look round (i.e. no breakfast)
Dinkum, fair dinkum : true, real,
genuine (“I’m a dinkum Aussie”; “is he fair dinkum?”)
Dinky-di : the real thing,
genuine
Dipstick : a loser, idiot
Divvy van : Police vehicle used
for transporting criminals. Named after the protective ‘division’
between the driver and the villains.
Dob (somebody) in : inform on
somebody. Hence dobber, a tell-tale
Docket : a bill, receipt
Doco : documentary
Dog : unattractive woman
Dog’s balls, stands out like
: obvious
Dog’s eye : meat pie
Dole bludger : somebody on social
assistance when unjustified
Donger : penis
Doodle : penis
Doovalacky : used whenever you
can’t remember what something is called. Thingummyjig,
whatsit.
Down Under : Australia and New
Zealand
Drink with the flies : to drink
alone
Drongo : a dope, stupid
person
Dropkick : see ‘dipstick’
Drum : information, tip-off
(“I’ll give you the drum”)
Duchess : sideboard
Duffer, cattle : rustler
Dummy, spit the : get very upset
at something
Dunny : outside lavatory
Dunny budgie : blowfly
Dunny rat, cunning as a : very
cunning
Durry : tobacco,
cigarette --我们校长Simon曾经提过,,当时我完全不知这是什么东东
Dux : top of the class (n.); to
be top of the class (v.) – “She duxed four of her
subjects”.----我们上一届的dux是中国人,,哈哈哈~~~~!---在澳洲读高中一定要知道!!
E
Earbashing : nagging, non-stop
chatter
Ekka : the Brisbane Exhibition,
an annual show
Esky : large insulated food/drink
container for picnics, barbecues etc.
Exy : expensive
F
Face, off one’s : drunk (“He was
off his face by
9pm”) --很常用~~通常和pink elephant放在一块用的
Fair dinkum : true, genuine
Fair go : a chance (“give a bloke
a fair go”)
Fair suck of the sav!
: exclamation of wonder, awe, disbelief
(see also “sav”)
Fairy floss : candy floss, cotton
candy
Feral : V8 ute (q.v.) sporting
large heavy bullbar, numerous aerials, large truck mudflaps and
stickers almost all over the rear window and tailgate. Sometimes
seen with a Mack emblem on the bonnet and always with large
(multiple) driving lights
Feral (n.) : a hippie
Figjam
: ”F*ck I‘m good; just ask me”.
Nickname for people who have a high opinion of
themselves.--Facebook上面经常出现
Fisho : fishmonger
Flake : shark’s flesh (sold in
fish & chips shops)
Flat out like a lizard drinking
: flat out, busy
Flick : to give something or
somebody the flick is to get rid of it or him/her
Flick it on : to sell something,
usually for a quick profit, soon after buying it.
Fly wire : gauze flyscreen
covering a window or doorway.
Footy : Australian Rules
football ---不知道footy的人=没在澳洲生存过~~
Fossick : search, rummage
(“fossicking through the kitchen drawers”)
Fossick : to prospect, e.g. for
gold
Fossicker : prospector, e.g. for
gold
Franger : condom
Freckle : anus
Fremantle Doctor : the cooling
afternoon breeze that arrives in Perth from the direction of
Freeo
Freo : Fremantle in Western
Australia
Frog in a sock, as cross as a
: sounding angry – a person or your hard
drive!
Fruit loop : fool
Full : drunk
Furphy : false or unreliable
rumour
G
G’Day
: hello! 报纸上经常有,,还有D'Day
Gabba : Wooloongabba – the
Brisbane cricket ground
GAFA (pron. gaffa) : the big
nothingness of the Australian Outback. Great Australian F**k
All.
Galah : fool, silly person. Named
after the bird of the same name because of its antics and the noise
it makes.
Garbo, garbologist : municipal
garbage collector
Give it a burl : try it, have a
go --Conrad当时这么说了句,我没反应过来,,对不起!!
Gobful, give a : to abuse,
usually justifiably (“The neighbours were having a noisy party so I
went and gave them a gobful”)
Gobsmacked : surprised,
astounded
Going off : used of a night spot
or party that is a lot of fun – “the place was really going
off”
Good oil : useful information, a
good idea, the truth
Good onya : good for you, well
done --其实onya就是on you
Goog, as full as a : drunk.
“Goog” is a variation of the northern English slangword “goggie”
meaning an egg.
Greenie : environmentalist
Grinning like a shot fox : very
happy, smugly satisfied
Grog : liquor, beer (“bring your
own grog, you bludger”)
Grouse (adj.) : great, terrific,
very good
Grundies : undies, underwear
(from Reg Grundy, a television person)
Gutful of piss : drunk, “he’s got
a gutful of piss”
Gyno : gynaecologist