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G’DAY! Teach Yourself Australian choose

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[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 98: If you suspect their grip on reality is tenuous, they’re not the full quid, they’re a shingle short, or they’ve got kangaroos in their top paddock.
at shingle short, a, adj.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 98: A bloke who doesn’t know what he’s about doesn’t know if he’s Arthur or Martha. Everything he does is all over the place like a mad woman’s custard.
at all over the place like a mad woman’s shit, phr.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 27: LES: Woss er problem? Got a face like a wet week.
at like a wet week under like a..., phr.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 58: Check it out — coulden organise a piss-up in a brewery. Ace it up son — yer burnin the snags!
at ace it up (v.) under ace, v.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 106: Suppose we get this, tart to one side [and] see if we can buy er off? [...] Really put the acid on -see if she bites.
at put the acid on (v.) under acid, n.2
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 14: SHANE: Just some blonde tart I conned up at Selina's. Top sort. GAZZA: Shit eh? SHANE: Yeah, all over me like a rash, she was.
at all over, adj.2
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 7: MACKA: She’s with some turkey. SHANE: The smooth bastard with the mo? MACKA: Whinecha go over an see if ya can white ant im?
at white-ant, v.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 9: They hop in Macka's car but they're not even out of the car park when it dies in the arse.
at die in the arse under arse, n.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 58: Mr Foster reckons he'd rather spend the weekends at home than tear-arsing around the countryside.
at tear arse, v.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 98: A bloke who doesn’t know what he’s about doesn’t know if he’s Arthur or Martha. [...] Such people often get things arse about face and anything they’re involved in is very muddled and runs on Rafferty’s Rules.
at arse about face under arse, n.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 63: When a player makes a good play it’s a ball-tearer, unless he’s one of the opposition, in which case it’s pure arse.
at arse, n.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 70: LES. Where ja get that? [i.e.a car] Wodid that set ya back? SHANE. We’re not all on the bones of our arse.
at on the bones of one’s arse under arse, n.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 76: You arsey bastard. Yer gunna be quids in.
at arsey, adj.1
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 44: DAVO: Ow’s Shane? Eary landed onnis feet with this new job. LES: In with some arty farty advertisin mob.
at arty-farty, adj.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 75: A lot of these places are B.Y.O. so you Bring Your Own grog, often in your own Esky.
at b.y.o., phr.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 25: A crim gives backhanders to the pollies (politicians) and knocks blokes off.
at back-hander, n.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 81: The Outback is somewhere out the back of Bourke, Woop Woop and Bullamakanka, the other side of the rabbit-proof fence.
at back of Bourke under back, adv.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 88: SHANE. I musta knocked back a few. AARON. Ya were paraletic.
at knock back, v.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 70: E’s flogged it. Sticks out like dog's balls.
at dog’s ballocks, n.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 63: When a player makes a good play it’s a ball-tearer, unless he’s one of the opposition, in which case it’s pure arse.
at ball-tearer (n.) under balls, n.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 42: The Australian populace is divided into four distinct groupings: eastern states, [...] banana benders (Queenslanders), crow eaters (South Australians) and gropers or sandgropers (Western Ausgrtalians).
at banana bender (n.) under banana, n.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 87: If the tart shows a certain enthusiasm for sexual activity, she’s said to bang like the dunny door in a gale.
at bang like a shithouse door (in a gale) (v.) under bang, v.1
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 63: Players frequently go the bash, and so sometimes one of them ends up a cot case.
at go the bash (v.) under bash, n.1
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 58: Doan go crook at mel You cook the bastards! [i.e. sausages].
at bastard, n.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 1: Meet the Foster family. Mr Foster is a battler. His name is Les. He lives in Darlo. He works as a garbo. He wants to win the Lotto.
at battler (n.) under battle, v.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 5: An Australian [...] may be lucky enough to get a good root but he never spears the bearded clam or threads the eye of the golden doughnut.
at spear the bearded clam (v.) under bearded clam, n.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 58: Mrs Foster and Shirl sit down and start flapping their gums, and Jason .is left in charge of cooking the snaggers.
at beat one’s gums, v.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 78: Oh you little bewdy.
at beauty, n.1
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 81: Before long someone else will stick their bib in, and [...] some bloke decides to go the knuckle and gets done over.
at stick one’s bib (in) (v.) under bib, n.
[Aus] C. Bowles G’DAY 7: Shane and his friend Macka are going to the disco. [...] Shane is Stone Motherless but has put the bite on his old man for ten bucks.
at put the bite on (v.) under bite, n.1
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