Tuesday, May 02, 2006

S'More Straylian Slang,

Chook : a chicken
Chuck a sickie : take the day off sick from work when you're perfectly healthy
Chunder : vomit
Clucky : feeling broody or maternal
Cobber : friend
Come a gutser : make a bad mistake, have an accident
Crow eater : a person from South Australia
Cut snake, mad as a : very angry
Dag : a funny person, nerd, goof
Dead dingo's donger, as dry as a : dry
Dinkum, fair dinkum : true, real, genuine ("I'm a dinkum Aussie"; "is he fair dinkum?")
Dinky-di : the real thing, genuine
Dipstick : a loser, idiot
These are all taken from The Australian Slang Dictionary.

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