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今天你学了吗?——澳洲俚语单词篇(4)

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S

Salute, Aussie : brushing flies away

Salvos, the : Salvation Army, bless them

Sandgroper : a person from Western Australia

Sanger : a sandwich

Sav : saveloy (see also "fair suck of the sav!")

Schooner : large beer glass in Queensland; small beer glass in South Australia

Scratchy : instant lottery ticket

Screamer : party lover; "two pot screamer" - somebody who gets drunk on very little alcohol

Seppo : an American

Servo : petrol station

Shark biscuit : somebody new to surfing

She'll be right : it'll turn out okay

Sheila : a woman

Shonky : dubious, underhanded. E.g. a shonky practice, shonky business etc.

Shoot through : to leave

Shout : turn to buy - a round of drinks usually ("it's your shout")

Show pony : someone who tries hard, by his dress or behaviour, to impress those around him.

Sickie : day off sick from work (chuck a sickie = take the day off sick from work when you're perfectly healthy!)

Skite : boast, brag

Slab : a carton of 24 bottles or cans of beer

Sleepout : house verandah converted to a bedroom

Smoko : smoke or coffee break

Snag : a sausage

Sook : person or animal who is soft, tame, inoffensive. Hence sooky (adj.)

Spag bol : spaghetti bolognese

Spewin' : very angry

Spiffy, pretty spiffy : great, excellent

Spit the dummy : get very upset at something

Spruiker : man who stands outside a nightclub or restaurant trying to persuade people to enter

Sprung : caught doing something wrong

Spunk : a good looking person (of either sex)

Squizz (noun) : look - "take a squizz at this"

Standover man : a large man, usually gang-related, who threatens people with physical violence in order to have his wishes carried out.

Station : a big farm/grazing property

Stickybeak : nosy person

Stoked : very pleased

Strewth : exclamation, mild oath ("Strewth, that Chris is a bonzer bloke")

Strides : trousers

Strine : Australian slang and pronunciation

Stubby : a 375ml. beer bottle

Stubby holder : polystyrene insulated holder for a stubby

Stuffed, I feel : I'm tired

Stuffed, I'll be : expression of surprise

Sunbake : sunbathe

Sunnies : sunglasses

Surfies : people who go surfing - usually more often than they go to work!

Swag : rolled up bedding etc. carried by a swagman

Swaggie : swagman

Swagman : tramp, hobo

 

T

Tall poppies : successful people

Tall poppy syndrome : the tendency to criticize successful people

Taswegian : a person from Tasmania

Technicolor yawn : vomit

Tee-up : to set up (an appointment)

Thingo : Wadjamacallit, thingummy, whatsit

Thongs : cheap rubber backless sandals

Tickets, to have on oneself : to have a high opinion of oneself

Tinny : can of beer

Tinny : lucky

Tinny : small aluminium boat

Togs : swim suit

Too right! : definitely!

Top End : far north of Australia

Trackie daks/dacks : tracksuit pants

Trackies : track suit

Troppo, gone : to have escaped to a state of tropical madness; to have lost the veneer of civilisation after spending too long in the tropics.

Trough lolly : the solid piece of perfumed disinfectant in a men's urinal

Truckie : truck driver

True blue : patriotic

Tucker : food

Tucker-bag : food bag

Turps : turpentine, alcoholic drink

Turps, hit the : go on a drinking binge

Two up : gambling game played by spinning two coins simultaneously

 

U

Uni : university

Unit : flat, apartment

Up oneself : have a high opinion of oneself - "he's really up himself"

Up somebody, get : to rebuke somebody - "the boss got up me for being late"

Useful as an ashtray on a motorbike / tits on a bull : unhelpful or incompetent person or thing - "he, she or it is about as useful as tits on a bull" etc. etc.

Ute : utility vehicle, pickup truck

 

V

Vedgies : vegetables

Vee dub : Volkswagen

Veg out : relax in front of the TV (like a vegetable)

Vejjo : vegetarian

 

W

Waggin' school : playing truant

Walkabout : a walk in the Outback by Aborigines that lasts for an indefinite amount of time

Walkabout, it's gone : it's lost, can't be found

Whinge : complain

White pointers : topless (female) sunbathers

Whiteant (verb) : to criticise something to deter somebody from buying it. A car dealer might whiteant another dealer's cars or a real estate salesman might whiteant another agent's property

Wobbly : excitable behaviour ("I complained about the food and the waiter threw a wobbly")

Wobbly boot on, he's got the : drunk

Wog : flu or trivial illness

Wog : person of Mediterranean origin. A milder insult than the same word in the UK and perhaps elsewhere.

Wombat : somebody who eats, roots and leaves (see also root)

Woop Woop : invented name for any small unimportant town - "he lives in Woop Woop"

Wowser : straight-laced person, prude, puritan, spoilsport

Wuss : coward; nervous person or animal

 

X

XXXX : pronounced Four X, brand of beer made in Queensland

 

Y

Yabber : talk (a lot)

Yakka : work (noun)

Yewy : u-turn in traffic ("chuck a yewy at the next traffic lights")

Yobbo : an uncouth person

Youse : you (plural)

 

Z

Zack : sixpence (5 cents) - "it isn't worth a zack", "he hasn't got a zack"

 

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