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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 English.
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A suburban electric train Spragger (SAR) Employee who applies brakes on rolling stock in yard work [2] Staff System of safe-working used on single track to allow the movement of trains; in its simplest form each block section had a small bar or staff which must be carried by any train moving over the section.
A young girl in Sydney, Australia, came very close to getting hit by a train. She was playing with a hoola-hoop on the platform when it rolled onto the tracks. Then, the girl ran after it and ...
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By extension, a farmer, e.g. "cow cockie" for dairy farmer. Also slang for cockroach; Coldie, a cold can or stubby of beer, as in "crack a coldie" [16] Connie, a bus or train conductor, [17] a condom; Coota, Cootamundra, also barracouta [16] ‡Compo, compensation for being injured at work. Generally not used for other forms of compensation.
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)