Planning Permit Mundy Our Antipodes: The riding after cattle in the bush, for the purpose of driving them in or collecting them for muster, is very hard and sometimes dangerous work. Smart, stylish; excellent. Something that is largely illusory or exists in name only; a poor substitute or imitation. Furphy comes from the name of a firm, J. Furphy & Sons Pty. 1825 Howe's Weekly Commercial Express (Sydney) 23 May: There is at this moment many a poor settler up the country, buried in the bush .. eating salt pork and dampers with an occasional feast of kangaroo. The parliamentary sense may be a transfer from the 1960s British Railway slang (an extended use of the literal razor gang) ‘a team of investigators seeking ways of improving economy and productivity’. 1930 L.W. For a more detailed discussion of dinkum see the article 'The Story of Dinkum' on our blog. Michael Davie in 'Going from A to Z forever' (an article on the 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary), Age, Saturday Extra, 1 April 1989, writes of his visit to the dictionary section of Oxford University Press: Before I left, Weiner [one of the two editors of the OED] said he remembered how baffled he had been the first time he heard an Australian talk about the 'arvo'. Poultry mash and tinned cat food make more unusual berleying material, although this pales beside a Bulletin article in 1936 suggesting 'a kerosene-tinful of rabbit carcasses boiled to a pulp' as the best berley for Murray cod. 1945 J. Devanny Bird of Paradise: Nowadays they waltz Matilda on bikes. Another illness probably caused by poor diet was Barcoo sickness (also called Barcoo vomit, Barcoo spew, or just Barcoo), a condition characterised by vomiting. A verandah is an open-sided, solid roofed structure that is attached to a building. 2011 Hawkesbury Gazette (Windsor) 30 March: I was full as a goog after my main and would have exploded if I'd attempted a dessert. A small-scale farmer; (in later use often applied to) a substantial landowner or to the rural interest generally. 2011 L. Heidke Claudia's Big Break: 'Okay, we get the picture', said Sophie as she fossicked around in her enormous bag in search of boarding passes. This argument is supported by two of the earliest pieces of evidence for the term: 1918 Richmond Guardian (Melbourne): 'At Darwin the nigger crew is making merry with the Diridgery doo and the eternal ya-ya-ya ye-ye-ye cry'. 1991 Australian Financial Review (Sydney) 10 September: Santa training courses start in October—so pull out that red suit with the fur trimmings, and get accustomed to sticky fingers and wet patches on your knee. 1893 Western Champion (Barcaldine) 27 June: The men were amusing themselves on the ‘off-day’ by playing cards, &c., one group playing ‘two-up’. The convict public servant was assigned to public labour. Beat butter and sugar to cream, add eggs well beaten, lastly flour, rice flour baking powder, cinnamon and spice. When you call that autobiography This is My Life it is a further affirmation that what I am telling you is the dinkum oil. Jacky Howe is first recorded in 1900. 1990 R. Fitzgerald Busy in the Fog: Isn't our house grand? These senses of bush week go back to the early 20th century. 1905 Sydney Morning Herald 27 May: Many a swagman adds a dog to his outfit, and the animal ranks much higher in his affections than 'Matilda', which, it might be explained, is swagmanese for swag. 2015 Star Observer (Sydney) September: I didn’t verbalise it with my mother until she was dying… So I told her, just before she died, and she looked at me and said, ‘Michael, I didn’t come down in the last shower. An uncultured and unsophisticated person; a boorish and uncouth person. 1924 Sydney Morning Herald 30 July: Australia, said Mr Dunbabin, might be on the sheep's back to-day, but in its infancy it was for some time on the whale's back. (adj.) 1894 Oakleigh Leader (Melbourne) 29 December: He would avert direct taxation on wealth by retrenching all the low paid civil servants, while carefully protecting the tall poppies who have very little to do. Cask wine. I always had tickets on myself, I just didn't speak about it publicly’, she said. 2014 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 26 January: There is no trace of a fair go in a king hit or coward punch, as it should be known. Very early in Australian English the term boomerang was used in transferred and figurative senses, especially with reference to something which returns to or recoils upon its author. Ocker is usually applied to men but there is evidence for the feminine forms ockerette and ockerina from the 1970s. He would give him the 'King hit' - on the point - which would knock him out. English also borrowed the word war from the French in the twelfth century; it's the same word as modern French guerre. One book describes it thus: 'The spangled drongo catches insects in the air, chasing them in aerobatic flight'. Oil is often found in the terms dinkum oil and good oil, both also occurring in the context of the First World War. Boomerangs were not known throughout the entirety of Australia, being absent from the west of South Australia, the north Kimberley region of Western Australia, north-east Arnhem Land, and Tasmania. The shape and appearance of the pavlova may originally have been intended to suggest a ballerina’s tutu. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years in New South Wales: In calling to each other at a distance, the natives make use of the word Coo-ee, as we do the word Hollo, prolonging the sound of the coo, and closing that of the ee with a shrill jerk. Bindi-eye is oftened shortened to bindi, and can be spelt in several ways including bindy-eye and bindii. Chook is the common term for the live bird, although chook raffles, held in Australian clubs and pubs, have ready-to-cook chooks as prizes. The most elaborate consists of alternate layers of meringue, marshmallow, whipped cream and fruit filling, piled high to make the most luxurious party dish. The word is derived from rhyming slang Noah's ark, but as is common with many rhyming slang terms the rhyming final element is often omitted. First recorded in the 1970s. 1984 W.W. Ammon et al. 2010 J. Elias Sin Bin: It wouldn't have been too hard to get the good oil from his New South Wales colleagues. The noun was also used adjectivally. It seems likely that he was named after the bird called the 'drongo'. 1985 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 5 July: Mr Keating had warned throughout the tax debate that there was no 'magic pudding' to provide tax cuts for all. The phrase originally implied the notion that people from the country are easily fooled by the more sophisticated city slickers. They were the privileged class of learner, who ate at the homestead with the manager, not with us ringers. 1968 V. Serventy Southern Walkabout: It is the famous quokka, one of the pademelon wallabies, which creates most interest. in our newsletter Ozwords. Australia; Australian. A flat-soled boot made from sheepskin with the wool on the inside. Sango appeared as a term for sandwich in the 1940s, but by the 1960s, sanger took over to describe this staple of Australian cuisine. 2001 T. Winton Dirt Music: They have a folding table and esky out here on the sand beside the fire. Berley is ground-bait scattered by an angler in the water to attract fish to a line or lure. It was whale oil, whale bone, sealskins, and seal oil that provided the first important export staples of Australia. 'I've got a heap riding on the head and you put the mozz on me'. without consultation with colleagues. A sixpence. ‘To get a wigwam for a goose's bridle’, yelled Smiley insolently, recalling one of the sayings of Granny McKinley, the oldest inhabitant. In Australia in 1981 razor gang became the popular term to refer to the Committee for Review of Commonwealth Functions, chaired by Treasurer Phillip Lynch, which was charged with cutting government spending. Ned Kelly and Australian English' in our newsletter Ozwords. I went to the war when I was 15'. 1832 Colonial Times (Hobart) 25 April: Mr Henry Melville certainly cannot boast of being in receipt of a handsome salary, as a public servant. My pride has been a bit dented. A fight or skirmish; a collision. The word is a specific use of convict 'a condemned criminal serving a sentence of penal servitude' (OED). Extremely happy. Captain's pick is derived from sporting contexts in which a team captain has the discretion to choose members of the team. Indeed the Australian rort is sometimes spelled wrought in early evidence (see the 1938 example below). Bodgies and widgies had their heyday as a youth subculture in 1950s Australia, and widgies, like bodgies, were readily identified by their style of clothing. The ‘sterling’ British-born immigrants used the word currency to belittle the native-born Australians, but the Australians soon used it of themselves with pride. The equivalent American saying is ‘to get the fuzzy end of the lollypop’. and Jingles. Today a woman is likely to take offence if you call her a tart, since the two current meanings for a female tart are both derogatory: 1. a promiscuous woman or prostitute, and 2. an offensive slang term for a girl or woman. It may possibly be from an Aboriginal language, or it may be an Aboriginal alteration of an English phrase such as jump up. A shag is a name for any of several species of Australian cormorant, commonly found in coastal and inland waters, where they are often seen perched alone on a rock—the behaviour that gave rise to the expression. Hurry up, get a move on. It can refer to a close friend or acquaintance, but can also be used ironically. went to ensure that the provost on duty was a full bottle on the art of saluting full generals. In early use, the collection of possessions and daily necessaries carried by a person travelling, usually on foot, in the bush; especially the blanket-wrapped roll carried on the back or across the shoulders by an itinerant worker. This type of assault often takes the form of a single unprovoked and unexpected hit to the victim's head, sometimes resulting in serious head injuries or death. 3. In the war newspaper Ack Ack News in 1942 we find: 'Who said our sappers are bludgers?' It was a means of identification. The word galah comes from Yuwaalaraay and related Aboriginal languages of northern New South Wales. 1987 D. Williamson Emerald City: I'm going to keep charting their perturbations .. those Chardonnay socialists of Melbourne aren't going to stop me. It may have its origin in an obsolete 17th-century sense of the word poppy, meaning ‘a conspicuous or prominent person or thing, frequently with implication of likely humiliation’. As a symbol, the hills hoist has both positive and negative connotations in Australian culture. 1984 B. Dixon Searching for Aboriginal Languages: The weatherbeaten, red faces of the cattlemen sitting on stools around the bar all slowly swivelled and surveyed me. First sign of a better offer and they are off like a bride's nightie. when a sheila hove in sight but that was more to warn a man to watch his tongue. 1965 R.H. Conquest Horses in Kitchen: My main worry was that when I did leave hospital… I wouldn’t have a razoo to my name. Uey is formed by abbreviating U-turn and adding –y on the end, a common Australian way of altering words. 2006 Australian (Sydney) 27 April: Sydney boy Scott Reed was the name on every recruiter's list, but he has been taken to hospital with a bung ankle. 1940 Rip (Port Phillip) 29 October: If I go to the dance on Thursday, I’ll have to walk from Woop-Woop. The cake is popularly associated with the name of Charles Wallace Baillie, Baron Lamington (1860-1940), Governor of Queensland (1895-1901), and although the dates of the earliest recipes line up with the governership, the attribution does not appear until the 1970s. 'I think he must be a bit of everything. It was this wallaby, mistaken by Dutch visitor Vlaming for a large rodent, which led to the island’s name, Rottnest or ‘Rat’s Nest’. It was then used to refer to a person engaged in non-manual labour - a white-collar worker. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip:  I'm on the wallaby, looking for shearing, and, worse luck, haven't got no gold. The act or process of criticising the Australian Government and its bureaucracy. You will have a heart attack.’. Frank Hardy in Tales of Billy Yorker (1965) writes: 'Any Footscray battler could get a few quid off Murphy, just for the asking'. This suburb is named after a local landowner, Mr EE Ashby, who owned land in the area in 1913. 2013 S. Bisley Stillways: He used to sell single cigarettes to kids, and although it was common knowledge, he had never been busted and no one ever dobbed on him. A lout or an exhibitionist, especially a young male who drives dangerously or at reckless speed. 2003 Daily Telegraph (Sydney) 1 December: Sea change investors cause prices to triple. Why Did She Waltz? In Tasmania, a bluey or Tasmanian bluey is: a rough overcoat of blue-grey woollen, to be worn by those doing outdoor work during inclement weather. Burl is from the English dialect (especially Scottish and northern English) verb birl ‘spin’ or ‘whirl’ and the corresponding noun 'a rapid twist or turn'. A pack of galahs is a group of contemptibly idiotic people. The word is probably a figurative use of an earlier Australian sense of cark meaning 'the caw of a crow', which is imitative. The earliest non-Australasian evidence is Irish. In the 21st century the term has been used in various political contests as this quotation in the Australian from 1 July 2006 demonstrates: 'The Prime Minister, who has built his success on an appeal to Australia's battlers, is about to meet thousands more of them in his northern Sydney seat of Bennelong'. Australian lexicographer Sidney Baker wrote in 1966 that 'Legend has it that there was a blind hawker in Sydney in the 1920s, named Freddy, whose blindness did not prevent his moving freely about the central city area'. It means 'to remove potatoes from the ground, leaving the tops undisturbed'. said the proprietor as she glared at them all. The galah, which usually appears in a large flock, has a raucous call, and it was perhaps this trait which produced the term galah session for a period allocated for private conversation, especially between women on isolated stations, over an outback radio network. For a discussion of these and other terms for Australian freshwater crayfish, see our blog ‘The problem with yabbies’ from February 2013. Oz is also used as an adjective, meaning ‘Australian’, and this is recorded from the early 1970s. The Australian usage is recorded from the early 20th century. This sense of bodgie seems to be an abbreviation of the word bodger with the addition of the -ie (-y) suffix. Since the 1950s surfers have also implored the god's name in a request for good waves. In Australia daks became used as a generic term for trousers from the 1960s. In a further specialisation in Australian English, the term guernsey has been used since the 1860s to refer to a football jumper, especially as worn by a player of Australian Rules football: 1868 Geelong Advertiser 21 September: Ample evidence of a desperate struggle was afforded by the style in which they limped off the ground, some covered with nothing in the shape of a guernsey but rags, and some wanting even these. The Yolgnu word for the instrument has become widely known in recent decades, and was popularised by the music group Yothu Yindi, formed in 1986, whose members were Yolgnu speakers. 1981 Bulletin (Sydney) 14 April: Expatriate Australians living in Italy have to pay dearly to be 'happy little Vegemites'. In 1925 A. Wright in The Boy from Bullarah notes: 'He betook himself with his few remaining shillings to the home of the battler - Randwick [a racecourse in Sydney]'. 2001 Outback August: We both hope to return to Oz shortly. The early evidence for the term, from the late 1960s, suggests they first became popular with surfers. The personal name Jack is often used in contexts of manual work (e.g. 2013 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 18 December: Just as well we Queenslanders are a non-parochial lot, always considerate of the feelings of southerners. A bludgeoner (not surprisingly) was a person who carried a bludgeon 'a short stout stick or club'. 1959 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 5 July: The hip-pocket nerve is the most sensitive nerve in the body; and, maybe, when industry feels financial loss over an ailment, there'll be some high-powered research into its causation. 1972 D. Sheahan Songs From The Canefields: If you fell in love and got on with a tart—’Twas happy she’d be to go out in a cart—And after the wedding she’d chatter for hours Of sight and scenes that she saw at the Towers. 1971 B. Humphries Bazza Pulls It Off: If they guess I’m from Oz the shit will really hit the fan! This word first appeared in Australian English in 1832 with the spelling shelah. 2014 Herald Sun (Melbourne) 10 July: Someone would one day do a 'Bradbury' and finish third or fourth in the Brownlow Medal yet be crowned the winner. Originally a call used by an Aboriginal person to communicate (with someone) at a distance; later adopted by settlers and now widely used as a signal, especially in the bush; a name given to the call. That bluey is later transferred to luggage in general, is perhaps not surprising in an urban society which romanticises its 'bush' tradition: Where's yer bluey? As with other rhyming slang terms the rhyming element is often omitted, hence we sometimes see the forms to do a Harold and to do a Harry. In Western Australia, however, it is a term for what is known elsewhere as a 'boomerang'. A square of sponge cake coated in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut. The poem contrasted her experience of the green, orderly English countryside with the extremes of Australian geography and climate. 2012 Sydney Morning Herald 10 March (News Review Section): I can't find one person who expects to get a parental leave scheme that provides full pay. Some claim that Kelly’s last words were in fact ‘Ah well, I suppose it has come to this’— not quite as memorable. In pre-decimal currency days the larger the denomination, the bigger the banknote. 1896 Bulletin 12 December: I must 'bandicoot' spuds from the cockies - Or go on the track! It implies that everything will come right, or be taken care of, and that we should all be relaxed —‘Will you help me do my homework, Dad? 1989 Sun (Melbourne) 14 March: And there are plenty of wowsers who believe Dr Ruth should be censored and any talk of sex confined strictly to the bedroom. Quoll for native cat, for example. `I can get it back home at Woollies for that price.'. 2006 A. Hyland Diamond Dove 205 He did a casual u-ie in the driveway and headed south. In the wider Australian community sorry is found in the annual Sorry Day, first held on 26 May 1998, a public expression of regret for the treatment of the stolen generations, those Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed from their parents by white authorities. The term wallaby track is first used to describe the path worn by a wallaby: 1846 J.L. 2006 Mercury (Hobart) 13 January: I've never been on a boat cruise. 1932 Western Mail (Perth) 25 August: I was on board the troopship Nestor when that steamer went over to the big stoush in 1915. 2009 J. Castrission Crossing the Ditch: He was looking slimmer and fitter than ever before. While the practice described by branch stacking has been around for a very long time, the word itself is first recorded in the 1960s. D. Niland writes in The Shiralee (1955): 'Put the nips into me for tea and sugar and tobacco in his usual style. The term stubby holder appears a few years later, to describe a casing made of an insulating material, in which a stubby is held (and kept cold) while the contents are being drunk. Howell, Diggings and Bush: Florence was much amused the other evening by her enquiring if she (Flory) was going down to the water to have a 'bogey'. In addition, she usually has a form-fitting skirt, which is very tight, especially around the knees. The word bodger was altered to bodgie, and this is now the standard form: 1975 Latch & Hitchings, Mr X: To avoid any suspicions in case they were picked up by the Transport Regulation Board, it was decided.. to take a 'bodgy' receipt for the tyres with them. 1981 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 May: Canberra reports said that Sir Phillip Lynch’s ‘Razor Gang’ had recommended an overall staff cut in the Federal public service of 2 percent. From the football meaning there arose in the early 20th century the phrase to get a guernsey or be given a guernsey, meaning to win selection for a sporting team. It is often found in the phrase within cooee meaning 'within earshot; within reach, near'. In the 1960s they were replaced by new subcultures such as the sharpies, rockers, mods, and surfies. Canberra Times (19 Nov. 1982). 1932 J. Truran Green Mallee:  South Australia was still a long way off; too far for sore feet that were not used to the wallaby-track. 2011 Shepparton News 27 June: The talented Norman-trained trotter Tsonga, also driven by Jack, speared across the face of the field at barrier rise from outside the front row in the mobile - and from then was never headed. ‘Pommy!’ ejaculated one of them. I looked like a living, breathing Neenish Tart. Flower in slouched hat, well over eyes. The shark sense is first recorded from the 1930s. The biscuits are also known simply as Anzacs. Judge Curlewis said the detective's description of a widgie was the best he had heard in a Court. Gilgai is a word which describes a terrain of low relief on a plain of heavy clay soil, characterised by the presence of hollows, rims, and mounds, as formed by alternating periods of expansion during wet weather and contraction (with deep cracking) during hot, dry weather. Yakka found its way into nineteenth-century Australian pidgin, and then passed into Australian English. Ocker is also used as an adjective meaning characteristically Australian; uncouth, uncultured, or aggressively boorish in a stereotypically Australian manner. Mix to stiff paste, roll and cut into biscuits. The phrase derives from an advertising campaign in the same year that included the jingle: ‘We're happy little Vegemites As bright as bright can be. The term razor gang derives from the name of a violent street gang in Sydney in 1927 who were armed with razors. 1952 Sydney Morning Herald 2 December: Take your 'refrigerator' to the picnic or tour. Household linen, and the department of a shop where such goods are sold. He often came very close to winning major races, but in 37 starts he never won a race. A parliamentary question asked of a Minister by a member of the party in government to give the Minister the opportunity to deliver a prepared reply. Snag has generated another, rhyming slang, term for the humble sausage: the aptly named mystery bag. Sometimes it expresses disbelief: fair go—the tooth fairy? This term developed out of an earlier verbal form (recorded in the 1920s), emu-bob, meaning 'to pick up pieces of timber, roots, etc., after clearing or burning'. Anzac was formed from the initial letters of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. 2014 Outback June: And so, on behalf of south-west Queensland, Hughie, please send her down. To chuck a wobbly is a variant of the Standard English idiom to throw a wobbly, where wobbly means ‘a fit of temper or panic’. The word can also be used as a polite way of saying bullshit.
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