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Guy Courchesne
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| when people were doing each other down and dobbing each other |
Not sure I'd want to try using those expressions in front of my mother. |
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khmerhit
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DINKUM: True, Honest. Also FAIR DINKUM meaning one hundred percent correct. ---Hornadge, B. Australian Slanguage
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It is interesting to not that while many people railed against the development of 'Australian-English' and saw the widening gap between it and 'British-English' as a tragedy to be avoided, some authorities (a minority perhaps) took a contrary view. For instance, Sir Keith Hancock, Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, in 1973 deplored what he felt to be internationalisation of 'Australian-English' and a drying up of the old colonial inventiveness. He expressed his views as follows:
There was a time, not so long ago, when the English language was enriched by the steady inflow of words that bore the stamp of life in Dorset, Kerry, the mississippi Valley, the Riverina and many other distinctive regions. From pastoral Australia came words like buckjumper, billy, cooee, damper, dillybag, gullyrake, humpy, jackeroo, jumbuck, rouseabout, sliprail, sundowner. From the goldfields came words like digger, dolly, fossick, John Chinaman, nugget, pan out. From the weird mobs in Sydney and Melbourne came words like barrack, clobber, cobber, dinkum, larrikin, stonker, wowser. these springs of Austral-English are now drying up. 'OK' is ousting 'My Bloody Oath' and 'Too Right'. |
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lozwich
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Fair dinkum mate, you blokes all make me want to down a couple of coldies and wrap my laughing gear around a Chico roll!
Strike a light!
For the absolute authority on old Australian slang, look no further than Alf from Home and Away (for those North Americans here, read: shamefully bad Australian soap opera, highly unfortunately exported to Great Britain). |
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Chasgul
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| Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| In Brit 'run down' implies that it was intentional, otherwise you 'run over' |
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Aramas
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:19 am Post subject: |
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That would be 'slagging off'. Since a 'slag' is a female of dubious charms, one presumes that 'slagging' could be used to indicate keeping company with such. It's not used though.
Also, you can't 'dob' someone, you must dob on them or dob them in. Alternatively, you could grass them up or rat them out. You can also grass or rat on someone.
One's grass can also be cut, but that's another matter entirely, and I'm not referring to lawn maintainance. |
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Justin Trullinger
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| a 'slag' is a female of dubious charms |
But great willingness! I'd have said a female of dubious morality- Often used similarly to "*beep*."
Or historically, "slattern," which may be the common root of both.
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lozwich
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Now as for the word "root".....  |
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Ben Round de Bloc
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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| But great willingness! I'd have said a female of dubious morality- Often used similarly to "*beep*." |
Was perhaps slut the word you were looking for here? |
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Justin Trullinger
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Sorry, had no idea that *beep* would set of the autocensor.
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Sweetsee
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| How about "Dogging on" for that NA equivalant? |
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Boy Wonder
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'Dogging'...a very popular word and pastime in the UK right now...current enthusiasts and exponents are ex Footballer and sometime celebrity TV basher Mr Stan Collymore and sometime actor and 'hardman' Mr Steve McFaydden.
Haven't tried 'dogging' yet but who knows what the future will bring!!
Those windswept carparks and patches of wasteland are calling me now............  |
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Sweetsee
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| Used to be "busting on". |
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