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And, over time, Aussie slang has become the subject of much entertainment online – with expressions often becoming TikTok trends or seeping into popular culture. Amanda Laugesen, chief editor of ...
Sheila – slang for "woman", derived from the feminine Irish given name Síle (pronounced [ˈʃiːlʲə]), commonly anglicised Sheila). Yobbo – an Australian variation on the UK slang yob, meaning someone who is loud, rude and obnoxious, behaves badly, anti-social, and frequently drunk (and prefixed by "drunken").
Diminutive forms of words are commonly used in everyday Australian English. While many dialects of English make use of diminutives and hypocorisms, Australian English uses them more extensively than any other. [1] [2] Diminutives may be seen as slang, but many are used widely across the whole of society. [1]
Puberty Blues was a 1981 movie based on the autobiographical novel by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey about their experiences of being 13-year-old girls on Sydney's southern beaches. In the novel, movie and television series, girls were referred to as molls, bush pigs, top chicks, glam mags, sceggs , or grommets . [ 3 ]
Eshay (/ ˈ ɛ ʃ eɪ /) is a slang expression associated with an Australian urban youth subculture that originated from Western Sydney in the late 1980s, but has brought into the mainstream since the late 2010s and the 2020s, [1] [2] In New Zealand, "hoodrats" are a similar subculture. [3]
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Pages in category "Australian slang" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
From the Macquarie (Australian) dictionary: mole //noun Colloquial moll (def. 2). From the Australian Oxford dictionary: Mole n. colloq. derog. girl or woman. (probably a variant of moll girl or woman.) So in both dictionaries it says that the Aussie slang term is spelt mole not moll. --Silversmith Hewwo 04:23, 29 August 2009 (UTC)