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Australian Steven Bradbury waves to the crowd after winning gold in the men's 1,000-meter short-track speed skating finals at the 2002 Winter Olympics. - Tim de Waele/Getty Images
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").
This is a list of English words derived from Australian Aboriginal languages.Some are restricted to Australian English as a whole or to certain regions of the country. . Others, such as kangaroo and boomerang, have become widely used in other varieties of English, and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond En
Bloke as slang originated in early 19th-Century England, and means “fella.” “Telling porky pies” Another British expression, it means to lie about something.
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Bodgies were often depicted in Australian media and folk-lore as louts. On 1 February 1951, the Sydney Morning Herald wrote on its front page: [ 2 ] What with "bodgies" growing their hair long and getting around in satin shirts, and "wedgies" cutting their hair short and wearing jeans, confusion seems to be arising about the sex of some ...
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Michelle Arrow sees the ocker as a reactionary movement of men in the first half of the 1970s using parody to rebel against the women's liberation movement. [9] Many films made during the Australian film renaissance of the 1970s were marketed as "ocker comedies", representing a "masculine, populist, and cheerfully vulgar view of Australian society".