Have you picked up any Aussie/Kiwi lingo

Coileach dearg

Does anybody find themselves using the local slang in conversations. For me I dread the day I will start using "mate" and "too easy" and lose my culchie accent.

I've been in Sydney now 2 and a half years and live with my Aussie GF and am most of the time surrounded by Aussies, so it's only a matter of time I suppose.

I was speakin to another Irish fella the other day and he kept saying mate this and mate that. Do people realise when they do this at all at all I wonder.

Xavi6

I refuse to conform. In fact, the more I'm here, the thicker I put on my Dublin accent so as not to lose it.

My gf on the other hand is really becoming one of 'them'. Using phrases like "Stacked it" (to fall over) on a regular basis. I've actually had to ask her on several occassions what a sentence means.

One Cold Hand

It's funny listening to Jim Stynes talking in his mixed up Irish Aussie accent! Sounds all wrong!

Things I've heard (but refuse to start using):
Seedy - means hungover
Easy as - this obviously means easy as something really easy, but no one ever specifies what!
Roadie - a beer that you take with you when walking from A to B.
Flattie - a flat mate.
Duna -not sure how this is spelt, mean Duvet.
Capsicum - this is a pepper. No idea where this word came from!

Also the whole Pot, Schooner, Stubbie lingo. Think I have the hang of that now!

Crumble Froo

haha, i refuse to lose my accent (though i've never quite had a fixed accent in the first place, very easily influenced by who i talk to, and doenst help spending a substantial amount of childhood between both dublin accents, kildare, donegal and english accents), but some phrases just dont sound right in an irish accent. adding 'bro' to the end of sentences is soooo common here, i do have to make a concentrated effort against saying it, just doesnt sound right.

im only here (nz) for 7 months now, and some phrases, i have to admit, i love.
munted (drunk/shitfaced/plastered), is awesome.
no worries. soooooo much better than my former 'no probs'. sorta picked up 'no worries mate' (said in real slowed down, stoner voice), and have had to change 'mate' to my more usual 'man'.

hmm, i know there's tonnes more...

'bucks' instead of 'dollars' (though i do still say 'quid' quite a lot).
loser cruiser for the bus...

i refuse to call crisps 'chips'. though i do have to refer to them as 'chippies' in work.
i deliberately pretend to be confused when chips are mentioned, even when i know damned well which ones he means.

BraziliaNZ

that NZ bro thing gets a bit old, I'm in aussie now but live with kiwis and I wish they'd bloody stop calling me and everyone bro constantly. Apparently it used to be just a maori thing and then the whites started at it. Now the maoris say "cuz" too but the whites are starting to say that too. Sigh.

Crumble Froo

they're not whites... they're pakehas.

also kai. better word than food. and puku. better word than belly.

BraziliaNZ

they look pretty white to me

hussey

I say no worries all the time.
I am starting to get a twang (according to my family)

Other words I have started to say
Pay out - slag someone off
How you going - Howya
Thongs - meaning flip flops
Arvo - afternoon

Crumble Froo

ah. thongs. i love that one. not a kiwi thing though. i still say flipflops. refuse to say the kiwi version of 'jandals'. arvo, i use in text, cos it's quicker, but just doesnt sound right in my accent, i dont think.

ifumust82

Ah yes the slang over here is pretty good,for example:

Crash hot - "I'm not feeling too crash hot today"..??? it makes no sense!

Heaps - this is used everywhere,- "oh that movie was heaps good"

Rocked up - "So I rocked up to work to find that I wasn't rostered on"

Stack hat - a bicycle helmet

A music video is a "video clip"

These are just observations and are not used by me at all!!

Oh and hello new forum!

watna

I say awesome a lot more than I used to. Apart from that I consciously don't say kiwi things. I refuse to call crisps chips or flip flops jandals. I also refuse to call the off licence the liquor store, it will always be the offie.

Sometimes at work I have to explain some of the phrases I use. There's some things you say that you'd ever realise are Irish! Like "giving out" i.e. he was bold so I gave out to him. They haven't heard of that here it's telling off or nothing!

Xavi6

Oh I just remembered the one that really shits me - "Sic". Arrggghhh it's an awful word! :mad:

hussey

ifumust82 wrote: »

Rocked up - "So I rocked up to work to find that I wasn't rostered on"

I've started to use this too

Crumble Froo

watna wrote: »

I say awesome a lot more than I used to. Apart from that I consciously don't say kiwi things. I refuse to call crisps chips or flip flops jandals. I also refuse to call the off licence the liquor store, it will always be the offie.

Sometimes at work I have to explain some of the phrases I use. There's some things you say that you'd ever realise are Irish! Like "giving out" i.e. he was bold so I gave out to him. They haven't heard of that here it's telling off or nothing!

grrr!
liquor store! bottle shop! crap! it's the offo, full stop.

i said awesome a lot before i came over here anyway.
giving out is one ive obviously come across a lot with my work, so id forgotten that one at this stage.

Rabies

Bro
Sweet as

Sweet as bro.

Thongs

eh bro

and prob loads more

Crumble Froo

thongs in nz?!

and yeah, id forgotten sweet as. ive been using that since before i moved over here (2years of talking to a kiwi every day will do that to ya :P ).

i think 'hows it goin?' as a greeting is quite common here that ive picked up a bit.

BraziliaNZ

but we say how's it going in ireland anyway?!! I can't say the "as" thing and take myself seriously. I really don't think you pick up accents/sayings unless you want to.

watna

Crumble Froo wrote: »

thongs in nz?!

and yeah, id forgotten sweet as. ive been using that since before i moved over here (2years of talking to a kiwi every day will do that to ya :P ).

i think 'hows it goin?' as a greeting is quite common here that ive picked up a bit.

the most annoying greeting I keep hearing is g'day, g'day. It seems you have to say it twice or you're just not cool!

Rabies

yup...... jandals/thongs.
more jandals, but still get the thongs

Crumble Froo

never heard g'day twice, or thongs in nz... maybe its a north island thing

heard some terms for weed ive never come across before, quite an awkward few moments there :P

*Kol*

I find myself using the phrase "what's the go" when talking to Aussies!

Mahatma coat

Well I drive a Ute

*Kol*

Mahatma coat wrote: »

Well I drive a Ute

Do you wear those gay austalian rule football tshirts too???;):D

The Sweeper

Me? Change the things I say? Never.

Sure, I'd crack the shits if some bogan fresh out of the back of a divvy van decided to put shit on me over the way I speak. Fair dinkum, I'd probably go him. Immediately after that I imagine I'll be on the way to shoppo for 25 Winnie Blues, a bottle of piss and a new pair of moccos.

robinph

^ Huh?!?

Spud83

*Kol* wrote: »

Do you wear those gay austalian rule football tshirts too???;):D

Hey I wear one of them in Ireland.:mad:

*Kol*

alanmurphy83 wrote: »

Hey I wear one of them in Ireland.:mad:

oops!! lol

BarryCreed

I suppose some people tend to pick up accents more than others. e.g. Ronnie Whelan, but Niall Quinn still has more or less his full Irish accent.
After living in Italy for 2 years, I noticed myself picking up a different way of saying things, a different rhythym, tone of voice. But that's well gone now I'm back in paddyland. What I would do is use local slang if it made it easier to be understood. e.g instead of saying "pass me that yolk there...", I'd say something else.
Can't imagine myself saying "servo" "shoppo" if I was living in Oz though..that;s too much of a variation. "sunnies" is a good one, I would use, tis handy one..
I bet most of you in Oz have taken on the e.g. "How good is that?" "How hot is it today?" instead of saying "it's hot"...

BraziliaNZ

i like the name liqour store

Jumpy

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

i like the name liqour store

Its the Bottlo. Not the offie (irish), not the liquor store (american).

Crumble Froo

ive yet to hear anyone put an 'o' at the end of it though.

other great words/phrases...

primo! - excellent, great, awesome, stylish
no drama - same as no worries
over that - sick of that.

i was a bit confused when a mate was telling me he was so over paying his mortgage... i hadnt copped initally that he was still paying it...

BraziliaNZ

Jumpy wrote: »

Its the Bottlo. Not the offie (irish), not the liquor store (american).

They say liqour store in Aussie too. Plus Off Licence would be a British not Irish thing, we just copied them.

hussey

Root FTW!

Jumpy

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

They say liqour store in Aussie too. Plus Off Licence would be a British not Irish thing, we just copied them.

I have only ever said "Bottle shop" or "Bottle-o". Never heard anyone ever say liquor store in Sydney.

As a side note, I have never in my life said G'day in normal conversation.
However I have been known to say "Aw yeah?" and "No worries" a lot.

Jumpy

hussey wrote: »

Root FTW!

Nothin like a good root eh?

b3t4

I've adapted the words I use alright just so I'm understood a bit better. I still use 'ye', 'grand' and likes though :-)

I've used:
sweet as (I refuse to say sweet as bro )
bottle shop/bottle-o
awesome (I hated this word when I got over here first)
eh at the end of sentences (tricky one to get the nack off)
jandals
gmboots
Anyone know the word they use for tank tops? Used to have to use that in summer last year.
Bubbles for sparkling wine.

When I first came over I felt like I was having to translate our hiberno-english to kiwi-english

A.

Larianne

how ya goin'?

...and 'no worries' seems to have creeped into my vocabulary.

Coileach dearg

b3t4 wrote: »

Anyone know the word they use for tank tops? Used to have to use that in summer last year.

Wife-beaters?

BraziliaNZ

singlets?

watna

b3t4 wrote: »

eh at the end of sentences (tricky one to get the nack off)

I did this the other day and my bf ripped the piss out of me. He said I was turning kiwi!

BraziliaNZ

seems from reading this board that hoardes of irish girls have been dragged down under by antipodean blokes. How come a kiwi or aussie girl never took me down here, I had to make my own way

b3t4

singlets, that's it BraziliaNZ!! I couldn't for the life of me think of it.

BrasiliaNZ, I made my own way down here too but I've an English fella dragging me back to Europe. I like to do things a little differently.

Yup, I hear ya on the use of eh. The OH uses it a lot.

A.

Crumble Froo

eh drives me nuts. bear in mind i wrok with kids, and they tend to state things constantly, and put the 'eh' at the end of it.

hadnt realised singlet counted for tanktops too. that's what they call vests here. and yeah, gumboots are wellys.

BraziliaNZ

I don't know what a tanktop is but they call vests singlets yeah, jasus only knows what a tanktop is called

WindSock

My favourite one of all time-''Git Facked'' :pac:

BarryCreed

One word I hate(d) in Oz was the "w_ _" word they use for Italians. I was so tempted to punch some of them when I heard it, and it seems totally acceptable to use it as well...

Crumble Froo

i have heard more dodgy names for different nationalities since i moved here... :eek:

basically all the popular comedies here are built on being deliberately un-PC... The Librarians, Kath and Kim, Bro'town, anything involving Dai Henwood... you gotta wonder how much of it is supposed to be laughing at their blunders, and how much you're supposed to be laughing at the person they're offending...

Coileach dearg

Last night herself was telling me a story how one of her fiends was "getting her pash on" with some fella. Apparently it means to kiss.

More observations this week:
sucked in = to get ones commupence
Far out = Wow
Bogan = red neck
arse over t*ts = upside down
the r-ee = RSL (cheap beer)
Fcuk me dead = Fcuk me pink

More later on these interesting creaturs..

hussey

Pash Rash ftw

Xavi6

I find myself saying the C U Next Tuesday word a hell of a lot more often over here. It seems to be a quite socially acceptable phrase. I love it!

watna

Coileach dearg wrote: »

Far out = Wow

My OH says this about 10 times a day. If anyone of you hear ( or see) me say it shoot me, seriously!