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Words
Things:
- arvo — afternoon
- barbie — barbeque
- docket — bill/receipt
- esky — cooler (for drinks and such)
- holiday — vacation
- mozzie — mosquito
- nappy — diaper
- queue — line
- roo — kangaroo
- baby roo — joey
- sook — to sulk
- snatch-and-grab — take-out food
- ta — thank you
- ute — utility vehicle, pickup truck
Clothing:
- togs/bathers — swimsuit
- sunnies — sunglasses
Places:
- boozer — a pub
- bottle-O — bottle shop, liquor store
- chemist shop — drug store/pharmacy
- CBD — downtown
- loo — bathroom
- milk bar — convenience store
- servo — gas station (or you can say petrol station)
- traino — train station
Food and dining:
- biscuits — cookies
- brekky — breakfast
- chewie — chewing gum
- chips — french fries
- chook — chicken
- crisps — potato chips
- cut lunch — sandwich
- entree — appetizer
- grog — alcoholic drink
- main — entree
- mince — ground meat
- slab — 24-pack of beer
- tucker — food
- tucker box — refrigerator
People:
- bloke — man
- yank — American
- brogan— redneck
- grommet — young surfer
- sheila — woman
- tradie — a tradesman
- brickie — bricklayer
- truckie — truck driver
- sparky — electrician
- garbo — garbage collector
- chippie — carpenter
Random words:
- chockers — very full
- ripper — really great
- root — sex (if you want to say root, like to cheer for a team, use the word “barrack” instead
- pas — a long passionate kiss
- sickie — sick day (if someone takes a sick day from work, it’s “chucking a sickie”)
- whinge — whine
Phrases:
- she’ll be right — everything will be all right
- I’ll fix you up — I’ll pay you back
- my shout — this round of drinks is on me
- fair dinkum — true, real, genuine
- sweet as — sweet, awesome
- (Aussies will often put ‘as’ at the end of adjectives to give emphasis; i.e. lazy as, lovely as, fast as, common as, etc.