Pam,Mag I have been a shearers cook;)The air was as blue as this smilie some days:wah:
I have also been in the sheds for over 30 years ,but like you say I don't think I need put some of that lingo in this thread.Straight up banned I would imagine:-6
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Quid, make a : earn a living - "are you making a quid?"
Quid, not the full : of low IQ. [Historical note: 'quid' is slang for a pound. £1 became $2 when Australia converted to decimal currency]
R
Rack off : push off! get lost! get out of here! also "rack off hairy legs!".
Rage : party
Rage on : to continue partying - "we raged on until 3am"
Rapt : pleased, delighted
Ratbag : mild insult
Raw prawn, to come the : to bullshit, to be generally disagreeable
Reckon! : you bet! Absolutely!
Reffo : refugee
Rego : vehicle registration
Rellie or relo : family relative
Ridgy-didge : original, genuine
Right, she : it'll be all right
Right, that'd be : Accepting bad news as inevitable. ("I went fishing but caught nothing." "Yeah, that'd be right.")
Rip snorter : great, fantastic - "it was a rip snorter of a party"
Ripper : great, fantastic - "it was a ripper party"
Ripper, you little! : Exclamation of delight or as a reaction to good news
Road train : big truck with many trailers
Rock up : to turn up, to arrive - "we rocked up at their house at 8pm"
Rollie : a cigarette that you roll yourself
Roo : kangaroo
Roo bar : stout bar fixed to the front of a vehicle to protect it against hitting kangaroos (also bull bar)
Root (verb and noun) : synonym for ***** in nearly all its senses: "I feel rooted"; "this washing machine is rooted"; "(s)he's a good root". A very useful word in fairly polite company.
Root rat : somebody who is constantly looking for sex.
Ropeable : very angry
Rort (verb or noun) : Cheating, fiddling, defrauding (expenses, the system etc.). Usually used of politicians
Rotten : drunk - "I went out last night and got rotten"
Rubbish (verb) : to criticize
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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
Vinnie's : St. Vincent De Paul's (charity thrift stores and hostels)
W
WACA (pron. whacker) : Western Australian Cricket Association and the Perth cricket ground
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
Weekend warrior : army reservist
Whacker, whacka : Idiot; somebody who talks drivel; somebody with whom you have little patience; a ********
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"
Australia's land mass is approximately 7,692,030 km², 32 times larger than the United Kingdom. The most easterly point in Australia is Cape Byron, New South Wales at 153° 39´ east; the most southerly point is South East Cape in Tasmania at 43° 39´ south; the most westerly point is Steep Point in Western Australia at 113° 09´ east; and the most northerly point is Cape York in Queensland at 10° 41´ south.
Due to the large area and the latitudinal range from north to south of the Australian island continent, the climate varies enormously. The seasonal temperature fluctuations can also be considerable. Average annual air temperatures range from 28´C along the Kimberley coast in Western Australia to 4´C in the alpine areas of south eastern Australia. Winter temperatures are at their lowest in July across the country and the warmest month is January or February in the south and December in the north except in the extreme north and north-west where it is warmest in November.
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as a cockney myself i am chuffed to see my ancestors may have influenced the ausiey language in someway lol.i recall as a kid in londons east end the governments gave us the oppertunity to emigrate to oz .all we needed was ten quid for the 6 weeks boat trip and a clean police record ..the tenner was a doddle but the rest was a non starter,i was gutted i desperatly hated east london with its bombed out buildings and rat infested streets.mind you i wouldnt have had much of a change ,just speaking rhymin slang still but in the sun!!!lol
hoxtonchris;755941 wrote: as a cockney myself i am chuffed to see my ancestors may have influenced the ausiey language in someway lol.i recall as a kid in londons east end the governments gave us the oppertunity to emigrate to oz .all we needed was ten quid for the 6 weeks boat trip and a clean police record ..the tenner was a doddle but the rest was a non starter,i was gutted i desperatly hated east london with its bombed out buildings and rat infested streets.mind you i wouldnt have had much of a change ,just speaking rhymin slang still but in the sun!!!lol
Very good I like it.
There is plenty of bloody sun here atm too :-6
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fuzzy butt;755967 wrote: OOhhh we had a black pink belly in the dogs shed the other day my pup was standing there barking at it while it was cornered . NOT good. I think its living under the water tank so we're going to have to be careful. shotty at the ready lol
yes you're right HOX there are many .............when I was in london I found out where the term "clink" came from. Mrs K you'll find this amusing . there's a little street just near the bridge on the Thames. Clink street or place or something . There used to be a jail there.
I'm sure most of you have heard the term " he's in the clink" lol Meaning he's in Jail.
Right next to Southwark Cathedral and between Southwark Bridge and London Bridge.
fuzzy butt there are loads of "orogins "similar to the clink example.for instance if something has failed we call it "gone west"this is from when a prisoner in the court at the old bailey was sentenced to death he went to the prison that was to the west of the old bailey.anyway sorry to hijack this thread about os,ive put my own one about london back on.
hoxtonchris;755987 wrote: fuzzy butt there are loads of "orogins "similar to the clink example.for instance if something has failed we call it "gone west"this is from when a prisoner in the court at the old bailey was sentenced to death he went to the prison that was to the west of the old bailey.anyway sorry to hijack this thread about os,ive put my own one about london back on.
Please keep adding more to this thread Chris.
I find it interesting.:-6
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thanks mrsk for tho ok to post london slang and orogins on your thread.most folk are probably aware that cockney and probably all "slang was meant to be a secret language(in fact the word slang is actualy short for secret language=s,lang}i recall some years ago i was promoted from union representive to foreman,but my true loyalties were still with the shop floor.one guy was being asked by management to accept a new deal which i new was a fiddle.he looked at me for some sort of advice,it would have been career restrictive to warn him off,but i remembered this guy was old school cockney,during conversation i "mistakingly called the boss "nobby"this guy sussed it ,i was calling him nobby clark ,rhyming slang for shark!the guy winked discretly and turned the offer down!!
i dont know if its exlusive to london but we call a prison warden a screw,i always supposed it was to do with the turning of the key but no!years ago in jail a prisoner given hard labour was given a crank box ,it was a box with a handle that he had to turn 10000 times a day,as time went by it became easier to turn so a warden would come along and turn a screw that made it harder to turn the handle ,hence screw!incedently there was no purpose to the box at all other than to keep the prisoner occupied,plus he would have to wear a leather flap over his face so as he had no identity(food for thought?)
hoxtonchris;757275 wrote: i dont know if its exlusive to london but we call a prison warden a screw,i always supposed it was to do with the turning of the key but no!years ago in jail a prisoner given hard labour was given a crank box ,it was a box with a handle that he had to turn 10000 times a day,as time went by it became easier to turn so a warden would come along and turn a screw that made it harder to turn the handle ,hence screw!incedently there was no purpose to the box at all other than to keep the prisoner occupied,plus he would have to wear a leather flap over his face so as he had no identity(food for thought?)
They are called screws here as well.
So the warden got to play games as well.I guess he got some kind of entertainment out of that.
Thanks Chris it is very interesting.
I am learning something new.
That has to be good:-6
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hi fuzzt butt,i call the police many things ,also son,my son is in the metropolitan police so i have to be carefull what i say lol.getting back to "orogins"i suppose the main one that may be of interest especialy to english and australians would be the orogin of how cockneys became known as such.in the days of dickens,east end londoners(within the sound of bow bells)went hop picking in surry for the summer to earn a crust,the locals noticed that due to malnutrician the kids had "cocker knees"(later known as rickets)hence cockneys.as already mentioned by a previous poster the rhming slang was to prevent the "peelers"(sir robert peels first police men)from knowing what they were saying.but also the irish would evesdrop in pubs and grass them up for money.
one more b4 i go out.anyone ever wondered where the expression "rip off"comes from?when a dealer was arranging a sale of cannabis he would often steam the block of resin till it increased in weight by drawing in moisture,they would then "rip off"the extra weight by cutting some resin off till the weight was as it should be,when the buyer got it home and realised how wet it was he knew he had been "ripped off"
thank you mrsk,i enjoy the cockney topics ive beeen talkin of such for many years,most old rhyming slang is quite well known now,but occasionaly one turns up from the long distant past,recently on telly the comedy starring david jason as dell boy showed him needing a new "kettle"non of us had a clue what it meant,so using my cockney knowledge i tried to break it down untill it came out as a,,,watch!how does kettle morph into watch???simple=kettle and hob=fob,as we all know fob is the first part of fobwatch,,ok
He is very pearly isn't he?:-6
Hi darlin.Just to let you know that Chris has gone down with a heavy cold so please dont think his ignoring you ok.He enjoys your thread by the way alot;):)
Women are bitchy and predictable ...men are not and that's the key to knowing the truth.
Carolly;758670 wrote: Hi darlin.Just to let you know that Chris has gone down with a heavy cold so please dont think his ignoring you ok.He enjoys your thread by the way alot;):)
Hope he gets well soon:-4:-6
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much better now thanks mrsk,but still a bit iffy.earlier on this thread i mentioned a day at the tower of london(the bit about the gun salute for the queen mum)well there were some os visitors too,the beefeater was telling us that the last prisoners to be held in the tower were in fact the Kray twins,an os accent said"WHO?"I proceeeded to try to explain that they were later day robin hoods(seen as suctch anyway)but still no recognotion as suggested he thinks NED KELLEY TIMES 2."ohhh right "he said,any way for those of you who dont know threm ill try to put a pic here.
Ronnie and Reggie Kray were the head of the underworld in the 1960s,they came from where carolly and i lived .in fact as the east ends first ladey mini cab driver she has driven a few "faces" around in her time. the twins were often acredited with keeping dodgey tearaways away from good london folk and "policing "the east end to keep "nonces"away nonces are called such becouse they get up to "nonsence with kids.in the twins day they kept well away from their "manor"manor is simpley the word given to anyones area.they were eventualy locked up for murder,but as surving members of their gang will testify they only done violence to their own kind.such was the fear the krays installed,that 2 years ago their grave was "interfeared with,the guilty partys its rumered spent a few days tidey the grave up and some of the neighbouring ones!
hoxtonchris;759757 wrote: Ronnie and Reggie Kray were the head of the underworld in the 1960s,they came from where carolly and i lived .in fact as the east ends first ladey mini cab driver she has driven a few "faces" around in her time. the twins were often acredited with keeping dodgey tearaways away from good london folk and "policing "the east end to keep "nonces"away nonces are called such becouse they get up to "nonsence with kids.in the twins day they kept well away from their "manor"manor is simpley the word given to anyones area.they were eventualy locked up for murder,but as surving members of their gang will testify they only done violence to their own kind.such was the fear the krays installed,that 2 years ago their grave was "interfeared with,the guilty partys its rumered spent a few days tidey the grave up and some of the neighbouring ones!
So they still have power from the grave.
Did they used to help out their own kind if they were down on their luck?
I will google them & have a read.Once again interesting reading Chris.
I have heard the word "nonce" before & now I know what it means.
Pleased you are feeling a bit better.:-6:-6
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hi mrsk,yes they would help folk out who were down on their luck,wifes whos husbands were in nick and any "decent"old lags who could no longer "work"but then again east enders(and probably others elsewhetre)in those days would do the same for their neighbours unlike today when "look after number one seems to be the order of the day.i say folk in the east end in particular lived by those codes becouse i feel its true.example,when i moved from east london to essex i got in with the local crowd,after a few weeks one of the crowd didnt show,when i asked where he was the others said he was short of cash,i said "shall we go round to him now?"why?they replied,to have a wip round for him till hes on his feet.(this is what we would have done in london)they said "sod off let him sort himself out"needless to say i went back to my london mates where i knew i had real friends.
thanks mrsk,ime always interested in all things to do with londons east end,but not all the gangsters were heroes,in keeping with another thread about orogins of sayings ill add one here.you probably havnt heard of this oldie"if you cant fight wear a big hat"it comes from an old east end villain called spinksie,he werent much of a pugalist himself so he took to wearing a camel overcoat and huge homberg as did al capone,of course he felt the garb gave him the same charisma as capone hence the saying. another was called "flat iron"this came from when he came home drunk again one night and beat his wife up again ,he then fell asleep,she waited for this moment and smashed him in the face with her flat iron!and shed been using it!and it left a loverly iron shaped scar for all to see!
as promised a little memory of times gone by in east london.first a short preamble,up to the early 70s ,a certain amount of "codes"and customs were in force in those parts,as well as good manners and loving thy neighbour was the dress code!a bloke HAD to go out just so,a wistle(wistle and flute=suit)black shoes,white shirt(NEVER COLOURED!)and cufflinks,and trimmings.ok.its early 1966,the Kray twins firm are meeting in my local pub to discuss the way forward since the twins were arrested earlier .when the "firm"met in a pub all other costomers had to leave,i was there to look after my grandad who had only one leg.i went for a "jimmy"(jimmy ridddle=piddle)when i returned the henchmen were on the door barring the entrance.i was a precosious young teen so had no trouble asking if i could go in and get my grandad.i had the dress code ,wine red 3 ply tonic mohair suit,white shirt,gold links etc i looked the dogs danglers!as i walked in i saw all the known "faces(soory got to keep em nameless)one in particular looked me up and down and winked!oh gawd not another iron(iron hoof =poof)never understood that bit of rhyming slang!anyway behind him was a mirror,i looked at myself then at him ,the likeness (save for the age difference was astonishing)then i realised,he was winking at himself as he was many years before.hes dead now but turned to christianity after his release from prison.not hard for even a "bent"cockney
Were these men OK with your grandad,did they treat him OK ?
Sometimes you find the "meanest" people are often the kindest to people who have a disability.
Did your grandad know who they were & was he scared to be left in there with them?
Were you scared asking them if you could get back in there to get him,I think I would have been or like you said maybe because you were young you didn't really scare that much?
Interesting story ,keep them coming.
Sorry for not replying sooner,I was told by the "head honcho" I needed to reply:wah:
I was getting there to do it,I promise.:-6
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