Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) Brisbane, the capital of Queensland; also attrib.

1914		Truth (Melbourne) 31 Jan. 6/1: You couldn’t see the blooming horizon for kleiners mince-pieing the mob from Bris.
1945		C. Mann River 117: Up in Bris he gets himself shaved at the Barber’s down the lower end of Queen Street.
1950		Courier Mail (Brisbane) 17 Apr. 2/3: Do you and your cobbers in old Brizzy sling words like that about when you are poking borak at each other.
1955		N. Pulliam I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 231/1: Brissie – Brisbane.
1960		J.E. Macdonnell Don’t Gimme the Ships 75: Did I ever tell yer [...] about that night in Brissy when me an’ the Baron crashed the wardroom party...?
1962		P. White Season at Sarsaparilla in Four Plays (1965) 149: Reckon I’ll catch the evenin’ train to Brizzy.
1972		G.W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Aus. and N.Z. 100: Brizzy Brisbane.
1972		J. O’Grady It’s Your Shout, Mate! 69: Was you in Brizzo when that Melbourne mob took it over? [...] 74: As in Brizzy?
1974		T. Astley A Kindness Cup 78: She’s made me a grand-dad three times over. In Brissy now, happily married and all.
1981		Sun. Mail (Brisbane) 9 Aug. 2: We think that Tony Murphy, the top cop at Cairns, is coming back to Brissie as an assistant commissioner [GAW4].
1984		S. Jobson Blokes 66: G’day there, Briso Wankas!
1985		Tracks (Aus.) Oct. 5: Firstly, to mother fucker fraud fighter from Brisso (what a dump).
1996		Slam Apr. 26: Of course, Brissy’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
1996		Underground Surf Aut. 20/3: Call your macho festival ‘Brissos suck more piss than Bondi backpackers’ and get XXXX to sponsor the whole bash.
1996		(con. 1964-65) B. Thorpe Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 92: ‘Always loved the Brissy sheilas’.
2009		P. Temple Truth 77: A bloke in Brissie [...] they flog him with barbwire and then they put him on a massive gas barbie.
2012		Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 20 May 🌐 Little parcels of yum. Brissie’s Best Dumplings.