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Exploring Aus. Eng. 7: In 1942, when there was an influx of American servicemen into Australia, the US War and Navy Departments issued a Pocket Guide to Australia which listed common expressions which might be encountered. The Guide explained that [...] to smooge was ‘to pitch woo’, a sheila was ‘a babe’, the Pommies were ‘the British’, shikkered meant ‘drunk’ and jackaroo was ‘a tenderfoot on a sheep ranch’. Exploring Aus. Eng. 15: Other Australianisms derived from English dialect include [...] barney (for an argument). Exploring Aus. Eng. 7: Blue also has a number of meanings in Australia which no other users of English would understand. We may make a blue (a blunder, a mistake), we may pick a blue or stack on a blue (a quarrel, a row), and if we cop a blue, it is probably the result of a traffic offence. Exploring Aus. Eng. 7: A bluey was for Henry Lawson a blanket, and also the swag rolled in it, so that to hump your bluey was to follow the life of a swagman. A bluey might also be a cattle dog, while a Tasmanian bluey is a hard-wearing jacket for outdoor work. Exploring Aus. Eng. 7: A bluey was for Henry Lawson a blanket, also the swag rolled in it, so that to hump your bluey was to follow the life of a swagman. Exploring Aus. Eng. 13: One enterprising convict, James Hardy Vaux, put together a vocabulary of the criminal slang of the colony – the ‘flash’ language – in 1812. His list includes [...] castor for hat, and awake with the explanation that ‘to be awake to any scheme, deception, or design, means, to see through or comprehend it’. As we would now say, ‘I am a wake-up to that’. Exploring Aus. Eng. 13: In convict parlance [...] a new chum was a new arrival in an English gaol or hulk. Exploring Aus. Eng. 13: We [...] describe an inexperienced person as a new chum. Exploring Aus. Eng. 14: Cobber probably comes from the Suffolk expression to cob, ‘to take a liking to anyone’ – to ‘cobber up with someone’, as we sometimes say. Exploring Aus. Eng. 14: James Hardy Vaux included ding in his vocabulary of the ‘flash’ language as meaning ‘throw, or throw away’. Exploring Aus. Eng. 14: Miners in Derbyshire, for example, used dinkum to mean ‘work’, especially hard work [...] From meaning ‘strenuous effort’, dinkum came to mean ‘genuine’ or ‘authentic’, and gained a much wider currency in Australia than it had in the English county from which it came. Exploring Aus. Eng. 13: One enterprising convict, James Hardy Vaux, put together a vocabulary of the criminal slang of the colony – the ‘flash’ language – in 1812. Exploring Aus. Eng. 7: In 1942, when there was an influx of American servicemen into Australia, the US War and Navy Departments issued a Pocket Guide to Australia which listed common expressions which might be encountered. The Guide explained that [...] to smooge was ‘to pitch woo’, a sheila was ‘a babe’, the Pommies were ‘the British,’ shikkered meant ‘drunk’ and jackaroo was ‘a tenderfoot on a sheep ranch’. Exploring Aus. Eng. 13: One enterprising convict, James Hardy Vaux, put together a vocabulary of the criminal slang of the colony – the ‘flash’ language – in 1812. His list includes [...] shake in the sense of ‘steal’, lag for a convict and trap for policeman. Exploring Aus. Eng. 13: We speak of planting Christmas presents where the children cannot find them. Exploring Aus. Eng. 15: Other Australianisms derived from English dialect include damper [...] ringer (for someone who excels). Exploring Aus. Eng. 7: In 1942, when there was an influx of American servicemen into Australia, the US War and Navy Departments issued a Pocket Guide to Australia which listed common expressions which might be encountered. The Guide explained that sarvo meant ‘this afternoon’, that woop-woop was ‘the sticks’, a wowser was ‘a sourpuss’. Exploring Aus. Eng. 13: One enterprising convict, James Hardy Vaux, put together a vocabulary of the criminal slang of the colony – the ‘flash’ language – in 1812. His list includes plant, new chum and school. Exploring Aus. Eng. 13: One enterprising convict, James Hardy Vaux, put together a vocabulary of the criminal slang of the colony – the ‘flash’ language – in 1812. His list includes [...] shake in the sense of ‘steal’. (ref. to 1942) Exploring Aus. Eng. 7: In 1942, when there was an influx of American servicemen into Australia, the US War and Navy Departments issued a Pocket Guide to Australia which listed common expressions which might be encountered. The Guide explained that [...] shikkered meant ‘drunk’. Exploring Aus. Eng. 7: An Australian in England, concluding a conversation with ‘It’s after 5.30. I’ll have to shoot through,’ found the other party bemused, puzzled at the reference to firearms. Exploring Aus. Eng. 15: Other Australianisms derived from English dialect include damper [...] skerrick, wowser and stoush. Exploring Aus. Eng. 15: Other Australianisms derived from English dialect include damper, [...] skite, skerrick, wowser and stoush. Exploring Aus. Eng. 7: In 1942, when there was an influx of American servicemen into Australia, the US War and Navy Departments issued a Pocket Guide to Australia which listed common expressions which might be encountered. The Guide explained that [...] to smooge was to pitch woo. Exploring Aus. Eng. 13: One enterprising convict, James Hardy Vaux, put together a vocabulary of the criminal slang of the colony – the ‘flash’ language – in 1812. His list includes [...] shake in the sense of ‘steal’, lag for a convict and trap for policeman. Exploring Aus. Eng. 13: One enterprising convict, James Hardy Vaux, put together a vocabulary of the criminal slang of the colony – the ‘flash’ language – in 1812. His list includes [...] awake with the explanation that ‘to be awake to any scheme, deception, or design, means, to see through or comprehend it.’ As we would now say, ‘I am a wake-up to that.’. Exploring Aus. Eng. 10: Some Aboriginal words have been so absorbed into Australian English [...] yakker for hard work, gibber for a stone, or waddy for a stuck.