AUSTRALIAN SLANG

More Australian Slang

Gobsmacked. Now that's a fun slang word. In case you're wondering if people here actually use words like that, yes, fair dinkum. You'll also hear it used on the radio and on TV.

Where did that word come from? Well, a gob is slang for your mouth. If someone smacked (hit) you in the mouth, you'd probably be surprised. Yes, we're guessing here. Although we've never been hit in the mouth, we have been gobsmacked.

 

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– A to G –
Aggro	being aggravated, upset about something
Beat Up	an exaggeration, big talk about nothing
Bloody	very, used to emphasize a point (examples: bloody awful, bloody amazing, absa-bloody-lutely)
Blue	fight or mistake. Also a person with red hair
Bodgy	poor quality work or incorrectly done
Brown-Eye	to show ones bottom, mooning
Buckleys	no chance for it to happen
Bush Telegraph	word-of-mouth, gossip
Bush Telly	campfire or starlight (telly is short for television)
Cark	die
Chinwag	casual chat with someone
Crack Onto	romantically pursue someone
Crack a Fruity	go crazy, insane, weird
Crook	sick (feeling crook), bad (crook weather), difficult (crook job), also dishonest person
Dinkum	true, for real, honest, genuine
Dob In	inform on someone or suggest someone for a task
Flick	to get rid of someone or something
Glam	glamorous
Gob	mouth
Gobsmacked	amazed, surprised
Good Nick	good condition
Goss	gossip