17 December 2008

Aussie Slang – The A’s

Posted by Mick under: Slang .

While traveling across Australia (or any country), its always good to know a bit about the local lingo (local language, slang or idiom) because you can often get caught out during a conversation when you don’t understand what someone has just said to you.

I’ll start with the letter “A”

A

• Ace: excellent, fantastic, terrific
• Aggro: aggravated, angry or upset
• Alf: stupid person
• Amber fluid: beer, ale
• Ankle biter: young child (see kid)
• Ants pants: height of fashion, OR high opinion of themselves
• Anyhow mate!: a saying used to change the subject when talking (usually when bored with what is being said – made famous by cigarette company advertising “Anyhow, have a Winfield”)
• Apple-eater: someone who lives in the state of Tasmania (apple growing state)
• she’ll be Apples!: everything’ll be okay
• Apricots: a man’s testicles
• Arse over tit: to fall over
• this Arvo: this afternoon
• Aussie: someone from Australia, an Australian
• Av-a-go-yer-mug: someone is not trying hard enough playing their sport, and you want them to! (this is yelled out to encourage them a bit)
• Avos: avocados (a type of fruit)
• Awning over the toy shop: male beer belly
• Ay?: didn’t hear what was said, or “pardon me”

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