Post your favourite bit of local slang here

[PixelHerder]

LOL - Bashful and I could swap shite for hours and nobody but a Scot or an Ulsterman would have a feckin' clue what we were on about

A few more I thought of...

Gumption - common sense. "That boy's got no gumption!"

Sprauchle - (sprockle) cracking word to describe an awkward physical situation... " He got his arm caught up in the safety belt and got into an awful sprauchle getting out the car."

Gurry-wurry - what a dog does when it's trying to shake a stuffed toy to death, or wrestle a toy away from you by violently shaking it (or wrastling it) away from you. Usually accompanied by a low prolonged growl.

Glaekit - (glaykit) thick as shit... "Look at that glaekit bastard."

Dog's Egg - Dog turd.

Shoogle - shake. (There's a footbridge in Scotland known as the 'Shooglie Bridge' 'cos it sways so much as you cross it.

Bletherin' skite - gossip or someone who's talking rubbish. "Away you go, ya bletherin' skite"

Dreich - (dreec) - grey or gloomy. "It's gie dreich." - It's kinda overcast, threatening to 'pish down'.

Wabbit - knackered, tired out. "I'm fair wabbit" - "I'm rather tired".

Sleekit - sneaky, cunning or sly ("Wee sleekit tim'rous beastie" - Robert Burns description of a little, cunning, frightened mouse.

Tattyboggler - a scarecrow

Tatty-Howker - person gathering potatoes - throwing (howking) the potatoes into a bag.

Shitehawk - Glasgow word for a large seagull, and very apt it is too!

Your Arse is Oot The Windae - Your backside is out the window - you've no chance!

Aye, an then yer arse fell aff - Right, and then your arse fell off - used when someone is bullshitting.

Choob - (tube) useless person

Beelin - angry, literally boiling mad

Face like a melted welly - ugly person (welly is wellington boot, or galoshes)

Face like a bag of spanners - see above

Face like a bulldog chewin' a wasp - see above

Dobber - idiot, a choob. Alternately it refers to a drawing of a penis and testicles including the helmet and piss slit drawn on school exercise books by your so-called mates in an attempt to get you into trouble. "Shit, who'se been drawing dobbers all over my English book?!" The artistic friend would add hair to the bollocks and often several cum spurts. Which was nice.

Gobble - blow job. "Gonnae geis a gobble?" "Any chance of a blowjob?"

Howfin - stinking, foul. Alternately to be sick - "He was howfin' his guts all night."

Nookie badge - a love bite

Shreddies - underwear. So called due to the dilapidated condition of many a (straight older) man's underwear resembles something that's been through a shredder. Also called undercrackers, knacks, skivvies, scants...

Plamph - (plamf) One who takes part in the, odd, practice of wearing someone elses undergarments ,on their head, and giving the gusset a damn good sniff.

Skiddle - spill liquid or make a mess with liquid... "I overfilled my coffe cup and skiddled coffee all over the place".

Skitters - diarrhea. "I'll not be in today - I've a bad case of the skitters".

Snotters - nasal phlegm. If someone has a bad cold, they might say "I had a terrible dose of snotters."

Stramash - a scuffle, an altercation.

Tumshie - turnip or at a pinch a swede, but the turnip is different. Swede is kind of an English vegetable. Turnips are more robust and a different flavour. A teacher we had refered to us as her 'tumshies', meaning we weren't the most intelligent lot. In her opinion. Old cow.

Skelped - smacked. Someone with a red face is described as having "a face like a well skelped arse".

As you can tell, I LOVE the Scots language and all it's slang. The Irish are just as bad. My Gran was Irish and had some fabulous expressions including "You can't put a shine on shite" and "Shite flies high when you hit it with a stick". No - I don't really know what the second one means either

I just love words and how they sound. I wish you could hear some of these wonderful words being spoken by a Scot or an Irishman. And never underestimate the inventiveness of a Glaswegian when it comes to thinking up new and more disgusting ways to put his friends and enemies down verbally, lol

Australians have some of the best and funniest slang too!!

 

[_AJ_]

'gooddaymateowyagoin'

good mate ya gona watch the footy on the teley today

 

[ahotjock71]

Touchdown Auburn!

 

[_AJ_]

yeah mate, sort of watching it in between the jub posts.

ps. the Swans just won.

no they dident but was a ripper

 

[justsimon]

Shed Boy: Usually a man, between the ages of 25 and 50, who lives on the property of whichever middle-aged woman thinks they're cute, in a shed, bus or room. They move around a lot and drink just as much. This is a huge simplification. There's an entire culture built around this. It's quite annoying.

SNAG: Sensitive New Age Guy

Trustafarian: Hippie kids living off of trust funds or their parents, while pretending to be of limited means.

Beer Punk: Gen-Xers who drink a lot of Oly and/or Pabst Blue Ribbon. Usually dirty and on a skateboard. Most have grown a bit and showered and can be seen cooking in a local cafe.

Oly: Olympia Beer... tastes like dirty water. Similar to Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Tasty Tasty: Irritating term for pot.

Parking Nazis: Elderly, volunteer parking enforcers. They have nothing else to do so they're vigilant in their ticketing.

There are more, but some are so place specific that you could probably pinpoint my address with Google.

 

[jonty55]

Hey Brisyboy

Go the Broncos!!!

 

[Bashful]

Back to the subject and *bump*

 

[chrisglass]

Pixel, remember the difference between 'shit' and 'shite'!

Shit (rhymes with 'hit') is an exclamation, as in "Oh shit!"

Shite (rhymes with 'white') is a considered opinion, as in, "That wis shite!"

 

[PixelHerder]

Pixel, remember the difference between 'shit' and 'shite'!

Shit (rhymes with 'hit') is an exclamation, as in "Oh shit!"

Shite (rhymes with 'white') is a considered opinion, as in, "That wis shite!"

LOL! Hey stranger How've you been?!

That reminds me of a story a mate who's in the police told me about a seminar he went to once with a coleague who's name was Smythe. The officer in charge of the seminar had a clipboard and read out a roll-call before he began, but when it hame to 'S' he read out the name as Smith. He didn't get a reply to that, but when the session was finished, a rather stuffy 'Smith' went up to the guy and dryly pointed out that his name was in fact pronounced 'Smythe'.

"Shit or shite, Smith or Smythe, it's all the same to me." came the reply...

 

[Bashful]

 

[TriBi]

Aussie English (sometimes known as "Strine")

Lots of good words/phrases in use all the time...mind you, a lot shared with other places too - let's face it, slang is pretty international these days).

One or two favourites that I think are genuinely Aussie:

- Beer o'clock
- Crook as Rookwood
- a Kangaroo loose in the top paddock
- Map of Tassie

For translation (and a LOT of other examples) go here:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~enigman/australia/slang.html

Or just Google "Strine" and see what you come up with.

 

[blackbeltninja]

Howzit guys

Thanks for the replies - thought this was going to be dead in the water with only 1 reply after a couple hours.


Back to topic...
Lekker (pronounced like lacquer) - regional .za term meaning good or nice as in "it's a lekker day so let's head out to the beach."

...and a specailhowzit back to wit_afrika two days later.

-d-

 

[_AJ_]

names for people from other countries

american - yank(short for yankee also sometimes seppo short for septic tank rhyming slang for yank)
UK- pom
new zealand- sheep shagger
maybe more cant remember now

one of my fav is
noah = great white shark (Noahs ark sounnds like GWS)

toilet =dunny, shitter, thunderbox, loo, smallest room in the house, little boys room

alcohol= grog

 

[PixelHerder]

Any Aussies care to explain the origins of the expression you guys have - "Buckley's chance", meaning little or no chance?

I've always liked that, but don't know the origins

 

[ozguy]

Any Aussies care to explain the origins of the expression you guys have - "Buckley's chance", meaning little or no chance?

From Word Detective ......

"The Oxford English Dictionary defines "Buckley's chance" as an Australian and New Zealand phrase meaning "a forlorn hope, no chance at all," and compounds the air of gloom by announcing that the phrase is "of uncertain origin." But we shan't let the timid mice at the OED discourage us. The truth is out there in the Outback.

It all began in the early 19th century. William Buckley (1780-1856) had been convicted of a minor crime in England and transported to the then-new penal colony in Australia, but Buckley and two other convicts celebrated Christmas 1803 by escaping and fleeing into the wilderness. Faced with a lack of food and shelter, his comrades quickly changed their minds and turned themselves in, but against all odds Buckley managed to survive in the wild, living off the land and making friends with the local Aborigines. Incredibly, Buckley lived with the Aborigines for 32 years, and by the time he surrendered to a survey party in 1835, he had forgotten how to speak English.

Buckley was pardoned and went on to work as an interpreter and guide, and when he published an account of his ordeal in 1852, his story became a national sensation. Given the amazing luck Buckley's saga of survival entailed, it wasn't surprising that by 1898 "Buckley's chance" had become a popular figure of speech meaning "very slim chance" or "no chance at all."

A curious coincidence, however, may have boosted the popularity of "Buckley's chance" still further. The Melbourne department store of Buckley & Nunn (no relation to William Buckley) opened in 1851, and within a few years its goods were well-known as the epitome of fashion. The popularity of Buckley & Nunn lent the phrase "You've got Buckley's chance" the additional punning sense of "You've got a slim (Buckley's) chance or none (Nunn) at all."

 

[PeterPeterPeter]

It isn't local here but in the UK they sometimes say "Bob's your uncle" which sort of means "there you go."

How to make a cheese sandwich: Get 2 slices of bread and put some cheese between the bread slices and Bob's your uncle.

I think 'Bob's your uncle' is used when something happens very quickly.
eg:- Got on the Eurostar & Bob's your uncle, I was in Paris!

 

[blackbeltninja]

Another local term...

Kak (pronounced with the ak sounding like uck in "luck") - it means shit in Afrikaans, in either the literal or figurative way.
In fugurative terms:
"You talk kak" is calling bullshit on someone.
"It tastes kak" means it does't taste very nice, and so on.

Further, the word can be used to emphasise something, replacing the term very or extremely. Thus:
"That movie was kak funny" would describe Jackass the Movie.
"That movie was kak stupid" would define a Mary-Kate and Ashley movie.


I hope you're all brushing up here - there will be an exam on this at the end of the semester.

-d-

 

[PixelHerder]

Thanks ozguy I've always wondered what you Australians knew about that expression. I heard it used so often on Prisoner: Cell Block 'H' ( ) that I frequently use it myself, but didn't know the origins when I'm invaraibly asked to explain it

For a minute there I thought you were going to mention Alexander Pearce of Sarah Island, Tasmania. Another convict escapee that fled to the wilderness, but survived by killing and eating at least five of his fellow escapees.

I find these tales fascinating reading. They make the film 'Papillon' look like a holiday video

Thanks again!

 

[jjc_7]

I can't think of too many right now, but in Canada we call a case of 24 beers a 'two-four.'

Oh and toque, I think in the US they call them toboggans?

 

[Bashful]

^ I always thought a Togue was a knitted cap?