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Juice. Not by a long chalk."
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The Great
Great Australian
Slanguage
AUSTRALIAN-
Stone the crows! The way some of you Pommy shollas have been swinging the cat a bloke would think you wore Waltzing Matilda to Woop Woop or the Never Never.
It's a flaming cow to be chucked out of your homos, but fair go! Wallabios aren't all dogs or Ings. The only jokers wo make it crook for are lares and jackeroos.
Cripes, if you go skiting or chiaking, blokoa and sheilas will chip`you. Too right! Australians get tuckor by hard yacker and don't go for skito. Of course spielers will try to sell you the Harbor and the pro-bloody-fanity might be crook at first but don't be a nark or a wowser about it, If things are too onkus chip some dinkum bloke or a John and he'll give the nark a stoushing.
People will sling off about you being a' pomomy, but play possum and don't let it got your goat. It isn't really dinkum.
Britons for Britain
Great Britain, threatened with invasion, now is
The
facing the possi Hongkong Telegraph.
bility that it may .soon fighting
on
be Saturday, August 3, 1940. Ger Wyndham St., Hongkong
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Telephone: 20015
mana home soil, and
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SEND THIS TO YOUR WIFE IN AUSTRALIA
-ENGLISH
EXPLAINING IT
There are several points in which Australian conversation is apt to starile the visitor.
Heavens! The way some of you English girls have been complaining anyone would think you were going to tramp to the centre of Australia, It is hard to be sent from your homes. But be fair! Australians are not all rough characters or convicts. The only people for whom we make for the words bloody, flaming
life difficult are conceited people...
Of course, if you start boasting or deriding men and women will answer you. Emphatically. Australians live by hard work and have no time for conceit.
Confidence men will try to sell you the Harbour at Sydney and the profanity might be alarming at first but don't take an over-pious or spoil-sport attitude to it. If it becomes too bad just speak to some decent person or a policeman about it and he will attend to the nuisance.
You will be teased because you are English but just let it pass without losing your "temper. It is an old Australian custom and means nothing.
AUSTRALIAN GLOSSARY
In
GOOD-OH: Expletive, Used as
ABO: Aboriginal rarely seen ex- sionally, to disappeur, fcept in distant rural areas. corps; ANZAC: A word to use carefully, term of approbation or agreement.
GIN: An aboriginal woman, are Outside the Commonwealth is used to denote any Australian.
GIBBER: A stone. ready for action Commonwealth means only men who lin ambulance took part at Gallipoli landing, does not include Australians who fought in work, in Air France or have joined up for this Raid Precaution war.
BLOODY: The Great Australian and [activities,
adjective, used freely by bishops and in the service bankers.
GO ON THE TRACK: To go to the country seeking work. See also Waltzing Mallida, Humping the Bluey,, etc.
GUTZER: A foli (That conceited fool will come a gutzer),
HUM THE BLUEY: Go on the track
the
Q. V. of canteens; the BITE: Used variously. (I'll dire—
HUMPY: A bark hut. HATTER: Men who live alone in that it must
food supplies of All right, tell me, He bit-tie accept-
back-blocks and fed a challenge. He bit me for 2,
are Bome prepare to engage them under the country are now organized He tried to borrow 2. He's a steady umes mentally affected by loneliness. The word is derived from Alice in similar conditions to those which so that each small district' will bite constant borrower.
BONZER, BOSKER: Fine, good, Wonderland (Mad as a latter). excellent. have existed in France. To say be a self-supporting unit,
HARD CASE; A rough diamond. BALL AND CHAIN: Wife.
JOKER: A man Used much as this we do not even suggest that
BY CRIPES The chief rural ex- bicke. (I met But it may well be that the
Joker down the invasion will succeed, or that it
pletive.
street). BRUMBY À wild Australian
JACKEROO: A young English- would not result in disaster to civilian population may best
horse.
man sent to an Australian sheep or the invaders, but Britons know show its discipline by forbear running wild.
cattle station to learn the business. Is largely used to-day to indicate conceit in young men,
JAKE: Much the same *B the Amerilan O.K. (Everything's Jake.)
JONICK: Right, genuinely (Fair Jonick-Honest).
Used to denote any youngster BLUEY: Any man with red hair.
men, Snowey for fair men. Also see swagman, walizing matilda etc.
it would be folly not to antici- ance-by forbearing from crowd-similarly, Nugget is used for da:lt pate that Germany intends to ing highways which may be make the attempt, that it will needed for troop movements, by
BLUE DUCK: Dismal failure. employ every ruse by sea and air refraining from adding to the Generally when a girl falls to keep
an appointment with a man). to break down Britain's island confusion when a battle is in
BLACK AND TAN: Beer and All know that this is stout. immunity, and that its efforts progress.
BURL: Attempt (I'll have a burt may achieve some measure of total war-that there is no place at it).
BINT: Girl (Egyptian word temporary-success.
safer than another, no privilege
brought back in last war, mostly used Correspondence and dispatches for high rank, no special refuge by post-war generation).
for the helpless.
from Home show that the British are facing up to the It is in the light of this know. possibility, and that the civilian edge that the civilian population population, including the women of Britain is disciplining itself are realistically considering for whatever may come, even to what their role may be in a the point of asking, as one young struggle our their own soil, woman is reported to have asked Britain, warned, is strenuously before the fall of Britain's ally: organizing itself in every town "Why should we want to be
our friends and village. Civilians of all safer than
enrolling in local France?"
ages
are
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NEO-WOTSIS ART SCHOOL
feature lower priced merchandise in our bargain-basement,
BLOKE: The usual Australian term for a man. (I met a bloke, a decent sort of bloke).
BILLY: The tin can used to ball Australian tes in the bush.
BUSH: Any rural area. (Where's Jack-Out bush).
BACK O' BOURKE: The ultimate bush. Bourke is. the last large town on the edge of the Australian hinter- land.
to
BOT: To cadge (A bot: a cadger). BILLABONG: Lagoon. BIBLE-BANGER: Parson. (Bible- banking-menly-mouthed).
Small marsupial. BANDICOOT: Often used
depute craziness. (Silly as a bandicoot).
COCKEYE-BOB: Istori OK
Throw, leave. (I'ne chucked my job). CHOKEY: Grol. ..COBBER: Mate. This word which
Hurricane
ог
in widely used has subtle variations in meaning and is better not used.
CHIAK: Aboriginal word meaning to poke fun.
CHIP: To address anyone.
(IS
he says that again I'll chip him about
·!).
COW: Any dimcult situation. (This weather is a felr cow),
CROOK: Bad, 1, (I feel crook
crook luck).
COOT: Man used as a diminutive (Silly little coct).
DAG: A humorously tough char- acter.
means
DIGGER, DIG: Common form of address between men. Also Australians who fought in last war.
DEENER: Shilling.
DONAII: A girl. (She'r danch-sweetheart). An old word now going out of tise.
An Australlan wild dog. DINGO: Also used to indicate cowardles. (He's a bidy dingo). Don't use it until you are sure of it.
DINGBATS: Mad, daft, crazy, DINKUM: True, honest, genuino (He's a dinkum bloke a real man), Dinkl-dl is a diminutive of this word.
A detective: DEVIL-DODGER:
.D:
Parson, DAMPER: Heavy bread baked In the out-back,
DOUGH:
Shares
Money.. FLAMING: An emphatic. the honour of being Australia's most used word with fair and bloody. (This weather is a flaming cow).
FAIR: See flating. (A fair cow.) FAIL GO: a square deal. GET YOUR GOAT: Lose your temper.
GO BUSH: To go Inland. Ocea
OR
►
The first is the profanity. Clergymen,
poels, and wharf taborers aliko display a fondness
and fair. They are prefixed to almost every noun.
Words denoting illegitimacy, which normally are an insult, are in free currency in Australia and have no offensive meaning in ordinary Australian usage.
Another Australian habli is the interpolation of bloody be- tween the paris of a word. The cinatio example ist. Going tó Tumba-bloody-rumbs to shoot kanra-bloody-roos.
The rhyming slang which is a feature of Australla ia colourful and rioli. Elephant's trunk, for Instance, rhymes with drunk; bulcher's hook rhymes with crook, Hence the phrase: "So
butchers," elephanta he was
80 drunk ho was nick. This inirlenie slang which Australfans understand is too dificult for the average visitor and has been avoided in this glossary. The only example is the classio Tiffer.
NICK: Form. (I'm in great nick
for the football season).
副练。
NEVER-NEVER: Central Austro-
OUTBACK: The bush q.v.
05
PUT IN THE BOOT: Roughly means the same the English phrase "Hit a man when he's down." POSSUM: Usual form for the opossum or small marsupial animal of Australlo.
PLAYING POSSUM: Hiding or remaining discreetly quiet,
POKE BORAK: To deride or make fan.
POMMY: The usual term for an Englishman. Can be used either offensively or simply. Is a word to watch."
TILE: Fortune (I've made my pile),
RIGHT-O: Like Good-oh á sign of agreement.
BATTLER: Goods train. (Jump the rattler, to steal a ride),
SIVAG: The bundle which itiner
ant Australian workers carry with them. Also called a bluey or matilda from which Hump the Bluey and. Waltz Mattida are derived.
SKITE Boast.
SUNDOWNER, SWAGGIE, SWAG- MAN: Man who is carrying the swag.
SHIELA: A girl. Has no offen- A policeman.
Five meaning and is in wide cur- KICKER: Pocket: rency. (I've
SLIKKER: pot a quid in my kick).
Drink. (Shikkered- LAG: Convict,
drunk). This word is widely used, LURK: Racket, dodge (I'm on a its origin is not known. good lurk).
SWING THE CAT: Complain.
LAREA conceited, or over-well-800NER-A--coward (It-Is-do-----
dressed
man.
LUBRA: Native woman. LARRIKIN: Hoodlum.
rived from the phrase Sooner run a mile chart fight.)
800L: Incite (Sool on a dog). STING off: Deride, STATION:
MY OATH: The conventional ex- pletive of agreement or emphasis,
MOKE: Horse. MISSUS: Wife, or woman of the ranch,
Roughly equivalent to the local "Missin." Is always profixed
house.
A
sheep or cattle
STINKAHOO: Drunk. SCHOONER, SNIFFER, SNORTER:- Various measures of liquid refresh- MONTE DE PIETE; The most ment. celebrated pawnbrokers of Australia, STIFF: Unfortunate, hard (Stift
(I'll have to get the money from luck). Montie).
by the
NARK: A nuisance or spoil sport. NEWCHUMI: A newly-arrived Englishman.
THE B -Y STOCKMAN
This celebrated poem ex- plains some of the vagaries of the Australian language: The sunburnt by stockman
stood
In a dismal b—y mood He apostrophised his b-y
cuddy
"This by moke's no "b-jj.
good
"He doesn't carn his b-4
food
"B~j! B~!! B--y!"
He leapt upon his b―y horse And galloped off the b--}{
course
The road was wet and
muddy
It led him to the by creek The by horse was b-
wcak
B-y! By! B-y!
Ho said: "This b- stoed
doesn't swim,
"The same for me as b-
him."
The creek was deep and b-
floody
So ere they reached the b-y
bank
The by sleed beneath hini.
sank
The stockman, face, a by
study Ejacu-b-y-lated
"By! Byt· B—y!"
STICKEYBEAN: Noseyparker. SCROUNGER: Cadger.
S.P.: Starting-price bookmaker who does a roaring illegal trade
throughout the Commonwealth.
BCREW: Wages, salary, STONE THE CROWS: expletive.
SILINER: Black
STINGY: Mcon.
eye.
STINKER: The same,
Commen
TOO RIGHT; A common expletive and sign of
emphasis,
TUCKER: Food.
very widely used.
This word is.
THE CUP: The Melbourne Cup, Australia's great horse race. It is run on the first Tuesday of November each year.
TITTER:
Hat. Rhyming slung derived from Tit-for-tat.
TART:
meaning.
Ciri. Has no offensive
TRAY: 3d. coin.
WITACKO"Whoopee"-a yelp of.
joy.
WOWSER: Spoilsport, too-plous. WILLY-WILLY: Hurricane. WINGE, WHINE: Complain. WALTZING MATILDA:
Carry-
ing the swsg_Q.V.
WOOP WOOP: A mythical coun- try town in which all tóll stories are set.
YACKER: Work (Hard vacker, ¡heavy manual labour).
ZAC: Sixpence.
Building Minesweepers
At the request of the Admiralty, Australia is building trier-type minesweepers sultabio for use in Briush waters.
This was announced by Mr, R. G. Menzies, Australlon, Prémier, who said that Australla was building onti-submarine } ́ vessels to tho maximum of her shipyard capacity.