| Ozzie and kiwi lingo | ||||||||
| I'm hungry = I could eat the horse and chase the jockey I'm thirsty = I'm dry as a dead dingo's donger, I'm drier than a nun's nasty Ozzie burger = burger with bacon, ham, fried eggs, and beetroot (yak) Barbie = barbeque Heaps = loads Roo = kangaroo Freshie = fresh water crocodile Salty = salt water crocodile Stubby = bottle of beer Sheila = a woman Bloke = a man Garbo = garbage man VB= Victoria Bitter (a beer) Esky = koelbox Swag = sort of sleeping bag with built in matrass Chocker = chock a block = very full POM = English person (prisoner of the motherland, another explanation is that it's an abbreviation of pomegranate) |
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