50+ Australian Slang Words You Need To Learn

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FREE eBooks/Audiobooks ⬇ Ultimate Guide to Learning Australian English https://aussie-english.ck.page/ultimateaeguide ⬇ How To Speak Australian https://aussie-english.ck.page/freeguide ⬇ 80+ Contractions for Daily Conversations in English https://aussie-english.ck.page/80contractionslesson 👉 Join my 5-Day FREE English Course: https://www.aussieenglish.com.au/free-course/ 👉 Join the Premium Podcast here & access 1000+ episodes: https://www.aussieenglish.com.au === My name's Pete and I'm the host of the Aussie English Podcast, a podcast dedicated to teaching people Australian English, which often includes Australian slang too! Many of my students, listeners, and viewers, arrive in Australia, Down Under, and quickly come into contact with strange words that they've never heard before. When they ask me about them, they're almost always Australian slang terms that they've heard in real English conversations with native speakers. Today, this video aims to teach you 50+ Australian slang terms that you need to learn if you want to survive in Australia and sound much more like a native English speaker as well as understand the Aussie locals when they use such slang words. Today's Aussie slang terms: 0:00 Introduction 0:18 Arvo - Afternoon 0:34 The Aussie Salute - when you wave your hand to scare away flies 0:47 Bail - To leave; to cancel plans 1:02 A barbie - a barbecue 1:16 Bathers - a swimsuit 1:28 A beauty - a good thing 1:44 A billabong - a pond in a dry riverbed 2:00 A billy - a teapot made from a tin used on a comp fire 2:12 A bludger - a lazy person who doesn’t work hard. Often used in ‘dole bludger’ 2:35 A bogan - an uncouth, unsophisticated, uneducated person; Australian ‘redneck’ 3:08 A booze bus - a police vehide used to breath test drivers 3:30 A bottle-o - a bottleshop, somewhere you can buy alcohol 3:48 Brekky - breakfast 4:01 A brolly - an umbrella 4:16 A buck - a dollar, $1 4:33 Budgie smugglers - Speedos 5:07 The bush - the Outback, the countryside far from civilisation 5:24 A cab sav - a cabernet sauvignon (type of red wine) 5:42 Cactus - broken, dead; tired, exhausted 5:56 Choc-a-bloc - completely full 6:22 A choccy biccy - a chocolate biscuit 6:43 A chook - a female chicken 6:59 Chrissie - Christmas 7:12 A ciggy - a cigarette 7:23 (Get) clucky - feel maternal, like you want to have children 7:50 Cobber - a very good friend, also "old cobber" 8:06 A coldie - a cold beverage, usually a beer 8:18 A cold one - a cold beverage, usually a beer 8:31 A cop/copper - a policeman, the police 8:49 Crikey! - an expression of surprise or being impressed 9:06 A croc - a crocodile 9:19 To be crook - to be sick or unwell 9:32 A dag - a silly person, a nerd or geek 10:06 Daks - trousers, pants, underwear 10:26 Deadset - are you serious?; true, authentic 10:47 Devo - devastated 10:59 A drongo - a fool or stupid person 11:18 A dunny - a toilet, often used in 'drop dunny' 11:37 An esky - a cooler, a container for keeping drinks cold 11:55 Fair dinkum - "are you serious?", true, authentic 12:28 A flanno/flannie - a flannelette shirt 12:44 A frothy - a beer 13:02 G'day - hello, hey, hi, (from "Good day") 13:23 A galah - a stupid person; Lit. An Australian parrot that isn't very smart 13:48 Get stuffed! - "screw you!" 14:13 Can't be stuffed - can't be bothered 14:27 Go off - (for a party/social event) to be in full swing, lively, very busy 14:51 Good on yal - well done; good job 15:13 Goon - cheap wine sold in plastic bags in cardboard boxes 15:44 Hard yakka - hard work 15:59 Heaps - a lot; much; many Is there anything you want to ask me? Drop in your questions here: https://aussieenglish.com.au/askpete === #australianaccent #aussieenglish #learnenglishwithpete #australianenglish #learnenglishonline #aprenderinglêsonline #learnenglish #aussieenglishacademy #australianpodcast #languagepodcast | SUBSCRIBE TO AE | https://bit.ly/2QFDRIu | AE ACADEMY | - Join here - https://aussieenglish.com.au/academy/ | ENGLISH COURSES | - Australian English Pronunciation - https://aussieenglish.com.au/australian-pronunciation-course/ - Phrasal Verbs - https://aussieenglish.com.au/effortless-phrasal-verb-course/ - Spoken English - https://aussieenglish.com.au/spoken-english-course/ | FOLLOW AE | - Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theaussieenglishpodcast/ - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/australia_english/ - Website - https://www.aussieenglish.com.au - Twitter - https://twitter.com/Aussie_English | AE PODCAST | - Free Podcast - https://aussieenglish.com.au/podcast-episodes/ - Premium Podcast - https://aussieenglish.com.au/the-premium-podcast/ *** Music from Artlist - License Number 524222 ***