![]() ![]() This might seem to be self-explanatory, as most people can decipher ‘beauty’ as a compliment in almost all cases. *That Australian law has proven to be false. that a 10-minute smoko must be accompanied by a minimum of two smokers per five square metres.Smoko is used as a general term to describe a quick break, usually in construction, for tradies and the like to down a quick iced coffee, pound a quick energy drink or inhale a quick Four’n’Twenty. ‘Duz’ by itself makes very little sense to those who aren’t well-acquainted with our renowned ability to abbreviate abbreviations, so don’t be too hard on yourself if you’ve said yes to someone’s offer of a duz, only to be handed what is very clearly a cigarette. Duzĭuz refers to a durry, or ciggie, or cigarette if you wanna be all la di da about it. So, if your mate who borrowed your rice cooker tells you that it ‘carked it’ on its own, you best believe they tried to brew some weird goon punch concoction in it and blew it to smithereens. In layman’s terms, it means that something, or someone, has died – but not at the fault of someone else (even though it most likely is the fault of someone else). You’ve undoubtedly stumbled across a downtrodden driver on the side of the road, looking at their feet sheepishly, mentioning that their car ‘carked it’ but not mentioning that their car ‘carked it’ because they accidentally ran it up a pole. “Darno, he defo pulled a Bradbury with that one, ey?”Īgain, this doesn’t make a whole world of sense unless you’ve heard it in context. “How did that guy eat 30 sausage rolls from the servo without having a heart attack?” So, by ‘doing a Bradbury’, you’re essentially beating the odds. Yes, we tried to make ‘spenno’ – a butchered version of ‘expensive’ – a thing, and it just didn’t quite land.ĭrag us through the mud, chase us down with pitchforks, pee in our shampoo.Īlright, truth be told, I had no bloody clue what this was at first glance, so I’ve chucked it towards the end out of fairness for the process.Īfter a bit of research, it appears Bradbury is referring to Steven Bradbury, the Aussie Olympian who skated his way to glory after almost every single one of his competitors ate shit, tripped over each other and left the finish line to Bradbury. So, from making the least sense to pretty self-explanatory, here is my official ranking of Aussie slang. No, no, scratch that again – Assistant to the Aussie slang translator. Given my accreditations, I’m appointing myself as the designated Aussie slang translator. I bet half of you haven’t even heard of Dingley, while the other half only know it as that Melbourne suburb that’s surrounded by garbage tips.Īnd while the garbage tip rumour that I just helped spread may, in fact, be true, it was also a wholesome little suburb that still had a Tuckerbag supermarket until I was in primary school. Scratch that – I reckon it gives me the ultimate authority. As a born and raised Dingley boy, I like to think my upbringing gives me at least some authority when translating Aussie slang.
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