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  2. Australian English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Numerous idiomatic phrases occur in Australian usage, some more historical than contemporary in usage. Send her down, Hughie is an example of surfie slang. Australian Football League spectators use the term "white maggot" (derived from their formerly white uniforms) towards umpires at games. [31]

  3. List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Category:Australian slang - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Australian English - Wikipedia

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    Australian English is relatively consistent across the continent, although it encompasses numerous regional and sociocultural varieties. "General Australian" describes the de facto standard dialect, which is perceived to be free of pronounced regional or sociocultural markers and is often used in the media.

  6. Diminutives in Australian English - Wikipedia

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    In Australian English, utility vehicles are almost always referred to in the diminutive as a ute. Flannelette shirts. 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.

  7. Digger (soldier) - Wikipedia

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    W. H. Downing, in Digger Dialects, a glossary of words and phrases used by Australian personnel during the war, says that digger was first used in 1916 to mean a New Zealand or Australian soldier. It appears to have become popular among New Zealand troops before being adopted by Australians, and was not in wide use amongst soldiers until 1917.

  8. Category:Australian Aboriginal words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    Note: As "Australian Aboriginal" is not a distinct language, but rather a collective term for a large group of languages, this category is useful as a holding place for all words with an origin in the different Aboriginal languages.

  9. Swagman - Wikipedia

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    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".