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One example of that informality comes from the expression “cracking the sh*ts.” It sounds unpleasant, but it doesn’t mean what most might think. To crack the sh*ts is to get really mad at a ...
Tinned Dog was a slang term for canned meat in Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [1] The expression was mostly used in the Western Australian goldfields where prospectors and diggers could spend weeks in the outback and relied on tinned food, which was convenient and filling although monotonous.
Damper is a thick home-made bread traditionally prepared by early European settlers in Australia. [citation needed] It is a bread made from wheat-based dough.[citation needed] Flour, salt and water, [1] [2] with some butter if available, [citation needed] is kneaded and baked in the coals of a campfire, [2] either directly or within a camp oven.
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. [ non-primary source needed ] The first dictionary based on historical principles that covered Australian English was E. E. Morris 's Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
Bloke as slang originated in early 19th-Century England, and means “fella.” “Telling porky pies” Another British expression, it means to lie about something.
It is also sometimes referred to as damper, [2] although damper is more commonly used to describe the bread made by non-Indigenous people. With the arrival of Europeans and pre- milled white flour , this bread-making process has almost disappeared (although women were still recorded to be making seedcakes in Central Australia in the 1970s).
Down on His Luck, painted by Frederick McCubbin in 1889, depicts a melancholic swagman "on the Wallaby". Before motor transport became common, the Australian wool industry was heavily dependent on itinerant shearers who carried their swags from farm to farm (called properties or "stations" in Australia), but would not in general have taken kindly to being called "swagmen".
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