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Bottle-o: In Australia, you can only buy alcohol from licensed shops that specifically sell drinks. They’ve come to be known as bottle-o’s. They’ve come to be known as bottle-o’s.
Chook raffle is an Australian tradition of "raffling off", often in clubs or pubs, a "chook", which is an Australian slang term for a chicken. Most often the chicken is prepared by a butcher, but live chickens are sometimes raffled. [1]
2 Food. 3 See also. ... Chook is an Australian/New Zealand slang term for a chicken. Chook or chooks may also ... Charles "Chook" Fraser (1893–1981), Australian ...
Barbie, a barbecue, the cooking apparatus itself or the event of cooking food on a barbecue; Barnesy, Australian singer Jimmy Barnes; Barra, a barramundi, [16] or the Ford Barra engine built by Ford Australia ‡Beauty, beaut, or bewdy, beautiful. Used in a much wider sense than the beauty, e.g. fantastic or excellent. ‡Bickie, biccy or ...
1. Giggle water. Used to describe: Any alcoholic drink, liquor or sparkling wine In the roaring '20s (that's 1920s, kids!) during prohibition, giggle water was slang for any alcoholic beverage.
The vocabulary of Australia is drawn from many sources, including various dialects of British English as well as Gaelic languages, some Indigenous Australian languages, and Polynesian languages. [2] One of the first dictionaries of Australian slang was Karl Lentzner's Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia and of Some Mixed Languages in 1892.
Australian slang (52 P) T. ... (6 C, 1,456 P) Pages in category "Australian English" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total.
Chicken parmigiana with the addition of pineapple. A "Parma night" Parmigiana available weekly in pubs. [76] AB / halal snack pack: Common fast food; Chips (often seasoned with chicken salt), Doner or Gyros meat (chicken, lamb or both), and what is known as the "trinity" of sauces, garlic, bbq and chilli sauce.