AUSSIE SLANG | 50 AUSTRALIAN WORDS and Phrases

[@hitthatrowdyy4077]

I have never heard anyone here say Hoover, way more likey to hear someone call a vacuum a Dyson

[@brettevill9055]

I've heard Poms call a vacuum cleaner a "hoover" while they were here. I've also heard Aussies say "hoovered it down" to mean "ate the whole thing very quickly", which suggests to me that people here used to use "hoover" to mean "vacuum cleaner".

[@shaungordon9737]

Yeah, Hoover is a British or old people thing. I just say vacuum, never 'vacuum cleaner'.

[@lunch2102]

Eg: she's got a mouth like a Hoover

[@FionaEm]

Hoover is a vacuum cleaner brand here, but we don't use it to name the actual object. The Brits use it as a verb, e.g. "I've got to hoover the floor because little Johnny spilled rice all over it."

[@lunch2102]

Fiona M, all vacuum cleaners to me are Hoover's, if that's the brand or not and vacuuming is not something that happens in my house, we call it hoovering and I'm as aussie as they come

[@bazilbrush8035]

Tinny is also a small aluminium boat

[@TristanKuhn]

Ahhh, didn’t know that

[@nicolel3041]

Yeah i have a tinny in my backyard mate. Any open aluminium boat under on average 13foot is called a tinny.. anything longer is a boat lol

[@bazilbrush8035]

@@TristanKuhn great videos by the way man, I really enjoy the way you present them , and what other cultures think about us Aussies, and for a Yank, you talk fast, just like a good Aussie ;>

[@arjovenzia]

'what ya get up to over the weekend?' 'took the tinny out n bagged some crabs' also, 'fair dinkum' can be used to call bullshit - 'I dont think your telling me the truth' 'Mate, I tell ya, it was *This Big*' 'fair dinkum?' 'well, nah, probably this big'

[@matt-tasticaus9565]

Most reliable boat ever 😁

[@djeity]

You got "taking the piss" the wrong way round. When you make fun of someone or something, you take the piss out of them. You are not "accepting" a ribbing, you are delivering it. Of course, then there's also "get on the piss" or "get pissed" (get drunk), "piss up" (booze party), "couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery" (can't do some super simple task), and so on.

[@RandomStuff-he7lu]

Ambo = Paramedic, ambulance officer, whatever you want to call them

[@TristanKuhn]

Good one!

[@sigmaoctantis1892]

@@TristanKuhn Don't overlook Firey - Fireman.

[@cuspsoftheoverworld]

Throw a ‘too easy’ in there too.

[@TristanKuhn]

Haha yeah, that’s said all the time

[@cuspsoftheoverworld]

Faqyur Ma'ama - those aren’t Australian slang though. They’re from UK/US.

[@shahancheong9792]

Others may correct me on this, but... Milkshake = milk, ingredients, fruit (whatever else you wanna toss in there), all blended in. Thickshake = same stuff as above + ice-cream tossed in for extra yumminess. The 'thick' in thickshake comes from the fact that the resultant drink is now much thicker because of the addition of ice-cream.

[@virginiawhitehouse531]

I agree that a milkshake is a thickshake without ice cream, but i reckon the ammount of fruit in it may turn it from a thickshake to a smoothie. Not sure I've ever had a milkshake with actual fruit, but as soon as it's fruit and ice cream, i would be calling it a smoothie I'm NSW though, so may be diff round other states

[@michaelfink64]

and ice cream

[@stuartames8285]

Thickshake is a just a milkshake with malt added to make it thicker.. milkshake is just milk and icecream blended with any form of flavouring

[@carmenhallows2310]

Fruit in milk woulld be a smoothie. Milk and flavoring is a milk shake and a thick shake u can usually hold up by the straw its got that much icecream in it

[@heatherrowles2580]

Milkshakes have only a small amount of ice cream in them.....no fruit, that is a smoothie. A thickshake is almost all ice cream with just a dash of milk to make it drinkable.......years of experience making them in a commercial setting.

[@shaungordon9737]

Some of these sound really weird with your American accent 😂

[@TristanKuhn]

Haha yeah some words just fit the Aussie accent

[@sigmaoctantis1892]

@@TristanKuhn In this video what stands out is your pure 'o' sound. All Australian vowels are dipthongs, the sound slides from one vowel towards another. The easiest one to hear is the 'a' in words like day. It kind of goes ay-ee. However, often Americans hear it as 'i' like 'eye'. A nurse friend told me she caused a patient great distress when she told her, "The doctor said you can go home today." (In case you don't hear the accent - go home to die!)

[@ActionJackson1982]

You’ve never mentioned it but one thing Aussies say a lot is “Ta” which is short/slang for thanks. For example if someone gives you something, you say Ta. Its mostly just pronounced with a emphasis on the a. Taa I say ta quite a bit

[@bodybalanceU2]

that came from cockney england - we use it alot in nz as well

[@simontanner88]

Maths is short for mathematics. You dont say mathematic without the s so we just remove the ematic part

[@TristanKuhn]

Guess that makes sense

[@bodybalanceU2]

i mean that is so obvious and funny you had to explain it

[@franzfleischer3476]

Tristan! Another great one! One of my favourite Aussie expressions ... you will have heard lots of Aussies say "no worries" (like "no drama"). Another version is to add a "fucken": "no fucken worries". BUT then you flip the first letters around: "no fucken worries" becomes "no wucken forries". It easy, offhand, fun. Other things ... - "Beater's tan" come from a blue singlet being called "a wife beater". - "Bog". No! Bog is not shit. It is a toilet. "I'm going to the bog." "Where's the bog?" wouldn'tyoumathematic?" You would put the ''s" on the end. So when we shorten it, we keep the 's': "maths". - "Reckon". Good pick-up! Yeah, we do say that a lot. I'd never thought about it. - "Cooee". One way you might use it in conversation is if you were describing a situation or place that is totally deserted. For example, at the moment in Melbourne with the 8pm curfew, you might say, "Oh, I snuck out after the curfew time, and there was no-one within cooee." - "Ratbag" isn't just used of children. You'll hear it used of fringe politicians who put out crazy ideas. "That bloke who reckons the virus isn't real - he's just a ratbag". Love your videos! Thanks!

[@TristanKuhn]

Thanks for all the extra tips! Love to hear and and love the minor corrections

[@mattc55]

@@TristanKuhn No Wuckers is commonly used. As above; derived from no wucken forries.

[@Fa_Ken_Oath]

Aussie's would say " Rippa" not "Ripper" we're to lazy to pronounce all these R sounds like you Americans do. We pretty much replace all er's at the end of words with a .

[@spitfactsnotjizz8349]

Fuckennnnn rippaaa

[@T.S.T2014]

Lift is a box set up. Escalators is a stairs type set up!

[@sophiemcfarlane906]

The way he said muesli is hilarious no Aussie pronounces it like that

[@williamm8240]

The thing I like about your videos is the energy that you put into it. You are very enthusiastic. Good job.

[@TristanKuhn]

Thank you!

[@alankohn6709]

love your videos and as an Aussie it's nice to get a different perspective. But some of your explanations missed some stuff or were not quite right now some of these maybe because a given word has the same meaning in the US so here we go 2. MINT - perfect or as new 'his car is mint' 3. TAKING THE PISS - (A) Saying something that is untrue or exaggerating 'A 20 foot snake, are you taking the piss' (B) you can take the piss out of someone by Saying something that is untrue or exaggerating to them. 5. FLOG - (A) can mean to sell something 'are you going to flog your car to trevor?' (B) to beat / spank / or beat up someone 'Trevor is going to flog Kevin when he see's him' (C) FLOGGED & FLOGGING - to loose badly 'his team got flogged' or 'his team took a flogging'. 10 LIFT - to give someone a ride 'can I get a lift'. 20 BOG - can also mean toilet 'where is the bog. 29 BUGGERED - in trouble 'you're buggered when your wife finds out.' *it also has a sexual meaning but that's a different list. 31 THICKSHAKE - is a milkshake with ice cream a MILKSHAKE is milk with a syrup for example 'chocolate' added to it. 34 TINNY - A small usually flat bottomed aluminum boat capable 2 or 3 adults most often powered by a outboard 'I'm going fishing in the tinny want to come?' 38. COOEE - This is often used when looking for someone. you would hold the call over several seconds 'cooooooooooeeee' this call carries well and is not easily mistaken for anything else. You can use it as a word / phrase meaning not near to someone / something / some place 'We're not within cooee of bill's place'. 42. RATBAG - can also mean someone is deceitful, dishonest not to be trusted 'that guy is a ratbag'

[@chazlique4837]

The mint you have described is a real definition - "mint condition", its in the dictionary :) In a previous video Tristan already explained the milkshake situation, he was pointing out that our thickshake is equivalent to their milkshake

[@alankohn6709]

@@chazlique4837 I completely agree but I added those 2 for completeness sake as some people may not know that definition and may not of seen any other videos

[@heatherrowles2580]

A milkshake is less dense or thick than a thickshake.....both contain ice cream, a thickshake is almost all ice cream with only a little milk added so that it will pass through a straw. This comes from years of experience making thickshakes and milkshakes in coffee shops etc. Its also why you buy a thickshake at McDonalds, not a milkshake.....because they use almost straight soft serve to make them.

[@alankohn6709]

@@heatherrowles2580 I based the description on the way that the owner of the local take away used to make shakes in one of those old style machines with the aluminium cup if you asked for a thick shake he'd add two real big scoops of ice cream and I can still remember the sound as he made them high pitched then deepening as the ice cream broke up then poured into a cup and the straw stuck in standing up in the middle I don't know why but I have never really had shakes as good maybe it is hazy memory. Small chips, banana fritter and chocolate thick shake that was summer holidays

[@melissa7375]

Hey I love your video! I’ve lived in Australia for a couple years when I was younger and this video reminds me of the good old time I spent there. Also you look like you’re smiling throughout the whole video and it gives me good vibes!!

[@notyourhotdog4378]

Laughed my ass off when you bought up Eshay, haven’t heard that since high school. Often times the “ehsay” kids are lads.

[@TristanKuhn]

Haha yeah usually young blokes

[@lunch2102]

Must be a QLD thing

[@GTFORDMAN]

yea the term "Lad" is more widely used

[@virginiawhitehouse531]

@@TristanKuhn "Lads" here doesn't mean a young bloke, but is a type of person. Use it like you would use bogan or eshay (or chav for brits). Wikipedia describes Lads as "an underclass criminal subculture"

[@sxdboy7598]

Eshay = LAD Eshays = Sweet, F*** yeah!

[@TheRealHoltzy]

"Maths" is short for "Mathematics", "Math" is the method of "Mathematics" used. E.g : Algebra is Math, multiple mathematic types is Maths.

[@shahancheong9792]

I knew a guy from Texas. I never noticed how much we used "reckon" until he pointed it out to me. The next thing he asked was "Are you sure you're not part Texan? We use that word a lot here too".

[@TristanKuhn]

yeah now that I've been here for a while I use reckon all the time. Like its pretty much replaced the word "think" in my vocabulary haha

[@DEEILLEST108]

Im surprised you haven’t added “shout” in there yet 😂 Shout = my treat

[@danafoley9207]

You’re one of my favorite KZbinrs please keep making Content I would love vlogs, it’s too bad that it would take probably almost 2 days for a whole complete vlog to load

[@coolcoconuts4453]

Never thought the best explanation of Aussie slang and the best examples used would come from an American

[@neilroberts2251]

Choice video mate! While I am stuck working from home, i am loving your videos. Can't wait for the rona (new slang) to finish so I can get back out and about. Cheers!

[@TristanKuhn]

“Rona” haha. And glad you’re liking my videos!

[@bodybalanceU2]

"slash" is actually an english slang term - alot of aussie slang originated from cockney england

[@joelmasamba6762]

Oh my gosh!!! Thanks a lot about your knock-out exemples my amazing teacher keep up the good work I'm an English teacher as well though I've been learning more from your lessons i do indeed like Aussie slangs even though i don't go over there yet

[@OmnivorousReader]

There are a few there I have never heard before. Just goes to show; the Aussie accents are definitely diverging. Don't forget that a rental car may just be a 'rental' in conversation.

[@vickispong1371]

A " tinny " is also a small metal boat.

[@ayusantoz6356]

Very imformative when you are new here in australia... cheers mate

[@remplante]

A bill is also a check in USA as in dining at a restaurant. I think it comes from the Italian word biglietti which means ticket, like a listing on your restaurant check.

[@zaniac100]

Yeah biglietto = note or ticket. In Italia what they bring out after a restaurant meal is "il conto".

[@stuartames8285]

Booze bus is also a bus that does a tour of the local pubs (bars) for an organised party or whatever.. ie a bus is hired to transport a group of people around all the different local pubs to drink at all of them

[@davidberriman5903]

Although Australia has a relatively small population we are spread out over a large area. This has an effect of creating a lot of regionisation in our slang words and phrases. #2 Mint condition for an object is like new. #3 You take the piss out of someone. The receiver is not taking the piss. #5 Having a flog is male masturbation. #10 Another use of the word lift is to give someone a lift in your car. #13 Is very regional. #15 Most of these are regional and certainly not in Newcastle. #26 Also called the gutter. In fact the whole concrete structure is "kerb and gutter". #31 A thick shake is a milk shake with soft serve ice cream added. #34 Tinny is also a small aluminium boat. #37 We use both. #39 Is not necessarily a derogatory term.

[@MC-wd4oi]

Escalators are just called escalators, not lifts :)

Tinny can also be used for a metal dingy. Not sure if it's Australian colloquialism or not but tinny is also a term for lucky. Cooee is also a way of searching for someone who is lost. Or, was a way, once upon a time before modern technologies.

[@zaniac100]

Cool vid... 'Mint' is Geordie (UK) slang. 'Taking the piss' and 'slash' are certainly from the UK. I recall watching Ab Fab in the 1990s and when Pasty said she needed a slash I had never heard that word before (thought it was very funny). When I was at school in the 1980s, we'd use 'flog' to mean 'steal' ('Someone flogged my bike!'). To my parents, 'flog' meant someone selling something on the sly. ('There's a weird guy flogging off old speakers out of a van.') ZIP = Zone Improvement Plan. 'Lift' is only an elevator, never an escalator. 'Tinny' is more a small aluminium boat. Tinny = can is an older usage. What, Americans don't say 'off your rocker'. Kangaroo loose in the top paddock' = 'Sandwich short of a picnic' Yeah I don't know what 'eshay' is - I'm old. 'Stubbies' was also a brand of simple and pretty common mens short shorts. Worn by tradiies in the past. Didn't 'Thinkshake' come from McDonalds? Maybe Au kids today think a 'milkshake' which I always knew as sweetened flavoured milk with icecream in it, is a "Thinkshake" because of the McDonalds influence? I recall milk with just a flavour in it (Quik) and no icecream is called 'flavoured milk'.

[@LastoftheMofreakins]

As a southern man I understand and use most of these especially Reckon 😂😂

[@michaelfink64]

Nice one, Tristan. Here are a few more for you: "Dunny budgie" or "butcher's canary" = fly (especially blowfly - the big, slow, pesky ones). "Flat out like a lizard drinking" or "like a one armed paper hanger" = really busy. "Pissed" = drunk and "Pissed off" = annoyed (which an American would call pissed). "Bali belly" or "Delhi belly" = dysentery/gastro. "Ute" (short for utility) = pickup truck. "Tap" = faucet. "Capsicum" = pepper. "Crook" = sick. "Dodgy" = dishonest (person) or faulty (object). "Toolies" - Dodgy guys in their 20s or older who hang around hoping to pickup "schoolies" (who are around 18). "Back of Bourke" or "Past the black stump" or "Woop Woop"- way out/remote/outback. "Chunder" or "Driving the ceramic bus" or "Technicolour yawn" = vomit. " Chuck a sickie" = Taking a day off work, pretending to be sick. "Chuck a U-y" = making a U-turn. "Chuck a wobbly" = have a tantrum.

[@MrMuffinMan123]

Thankyou I think we all like our slang words to

[@garyrose9805]

There’s actually 2 Booze buses-1- booze bust: referring to a drink driving surprise inspection check point ( usually large in operation, containing multiple bays, dozens of cops and several booze buses ferrying people to the cop shop/watch house when they register a breath alcohol failing test). -2- booze bus : the van used to transport you to the cop shop/station to proving a second breath test / blood test / be processed ect.

[@ANTFarm-jv1iy]

Flog is also used as another way to say is a wank ‘have a flog’

[@patchedcarcass7867]

Tinny is also a small metal boat with an outboard motor

[@wayback479]

Hey Tristian , as an Aussie watching this I found you are pretty spot on , which is strange for a Seppo to actually get it Here's a couple I didn't see mentioned The tiles at the back of the bench we call a Splash-Back / You say Back-Splash Hooroo is seeya later or goodbye Hooroo

[@shoresaresandy]

Postie - postal worker Dishy- dishwasher Glassy - someone who collect glasses at the pub Checkout chick - cashier Milky- person who delivers milk Dunny diver - plumber

[@Jaslane73]

In central Queensland in a town called Yeppoon there is a suburb called cooee bay, they have a cooee competition once a year.

[@TristanKuhn]

hahaha that's awesome!

[@hptfalcon1683]

A cigarette is also know as a durry. And someone who smokes is called a (possibly my favourite word ever) durry muncher. Or to smoke a cigarette is to suck a durry.

[@dostap7748]

Also called a dart as well

[@AdamFitton]

"Early mark"... although its very common in NSW, most other states don't know it

[@meaganreilly5819]

Cooee is also used when measuring something to a close enough point. "The deck is 5 metres or within cooee"

[@018108D]

I've never heard of dart before, here in Qld we call them durries or ciggies. Also you'll hear middle of nowhere often just referred as the "woop woops". My personal favourite phrase that I use a lot is "having a yarn" or "a chin wag" which is just having a chat.

[@TreasureHuntingNana]

Tristan you need to come to Perth.. Rockingham way, and see what different words you hear. Some of the sayings you have mentioned , I have never heard.. it's got to be an Eastern States thing LOL

[@TristanKuhn]

I'm trying to work my way over there. I really want to see it!

[@K4M1K423]

Definitely. WA is way different to the eastern states.

[@heatherrowles2580]

@@TristanKuhn I will second that invitation to come and see the biggest part of Australia.......and Rockingham where we have some of the best beaches and some super friendly dolphins.

[@Birdy_81]

another way of saying someone isn't quite right in the head/ not smart is "NOT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED " and another meaning for a flog here in Australia is have a wank ( jerk off ) or another way of saying it is JERKIN THE GERKIN. mashed potato and sausages we call BANGERS AND MASH. Here are a few more nicknames Barra ------ Barramundi Flatty ----- Flathead Croc ------ Crocodile Salty ----- Saltwater Crocodile Cobber ---- Good Friend / Mate Druggo ---- Illegal Drug User Commy --- Commodore ( holden car ) Hippy Bus ----- VW Kombie Shagon Wagon ----- HQ panel Van ( or any type of wagon vehicle ) Torrie ---- Torana ( holden car ) Banana Bender ---- Someone from Queensland ( mainly used by other states ) Cark it----- to die ( Joe Blow carked it on Satdie from suckin' down some piss )..... there a good old aussie slang sentence Woop Woop ----- small unimportant town . He lives in woop woop when you go back to the States everyone you know is gonna be WHAT THE FUCK YOU GOING ON ABOUT

[@dragons_like_potatoes]

We also say snagger (snag-ah) for sausage. And muesli's generally pronounced mews-lee.

[@mattjones7507]

Eshay is used in Prison. It just means yes. It's saying the last part of the word first then the first last. Eetsw-sweet, apcay-cap, otshay-shot etc. I've heard it in older American movies when someone tells kids to amscray-scram

[@denverjaysnow1653]

Hay, Tristán! You’re the embodiment of mint, mate!

[@TristanKuhn]

Haha thank you!

[@k.whiking4372]

Yeah he's got them down pretty pat.

[@snaek29]

Mates Rates.... When you are not really close friends as such, but you like a person due to their attitude or personality and you give them a good deal or sell something at a discounted price (renting an apartment to them or something, or selling an item etc). "I'll give you mates rates". Note - This is sometimes not used genuinely but as kind of a sales tactic as well at times.... to make you feel that you are getting a "special deal" when it's just the normal price or discount anyone and everyone would get anyway... although the former is the more common among non-professional salespeople (when it's a genuine discount or special rate for someone because you think they seem cool despite not knowing them particularly well). Within cooee.... If something is within cooee, then it is not far away, close to where we are OR not much time until we get there by car or whatever (loosely, but not necessarily literally within "shouting distance"). If something is NOT within cooee, then it is far away and not remotely close to where we currently are (usually too far away or would take far too long to get there to bother travelling to that place at all).

[@FionaEm]

Fair dinkum can be said as a statement or a question, e.g. "He's a fair dinkum bloke" (a good person) or "Fair dinkum??" (when someone says something you don't quite believe and you're asking if they're serious.

[@TristanKuhn]

Ooooo, good point. You're right

[@feliciab2]

1:30 I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that ZIP (As in zip code) is an anagram, but please don’t ask me for what

[@mitchells2244]

Eshayz! Although the people who are considered Eshays are grubs, we used the word sarcastically to say like "Awesome, Fantastic"

[@brettstephens1219]

You need to add the saying “ knee high to a grass hopper”, describing a small child

[@NovaxLova]

Fair Dinkum can also be used as a question in conversation if someone says something unbelievable, like: “Fair dinkum?!” i.e.: “Are you for real??”

[@paulkostiak8367]

The ZIP in Zip Code stands for Zone Improvement Plan. When the Post Office came up with it, it divided the country into zones, intending to speed up mail delivery - ZIP!! If you notice they start with a 0 on the east coast and the numbers go up as you go west.

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

Yeah too dumb. Postcode makes sense

[@veritasliberabitvos454]

Okay some more for you: Lobster - $20 Note Pineapple - $50 Note Doggie Bag - Takeaway when too much food to finish (So you can have a digs breakfast the next morning). A couple of Bricks short of a load / A sandwich short of a picnic / The light is on but no-one is home / Stubbie short of a six-pack Got to syphon the python - take a piss Donation for the nation (Comes from a story about and idea that gets summed up as that which promotes growth) - Take a shit

[@marmarana]

Very helpful👌

[@usufuf1872]

If you go to cairns you should consider going to chillagoe, went there a couple months ago and it has the coolest limestone caves ive ever seen

[@TristanKuhn]

I was just there for 3 months but never saw that. Sounds like I missed out. Good excuse to go back!

[@montecarlo1651]

A lot of these terms can be divided up by State, by rural vs urban and by generations and possibly also education. Certainly interesting to see what you have beene exposed to! Some older terms still in use and quite colourful are: ropeable (rope-able), meaning angry. Birko (to go birko) is of the same genre and so is 'mad as a meat axe'. Most older slang terms are of British origin (such as fair dinkum), though now seen as quintessentially Australian (a bit like Fall being very American but originally a British usage). Slang and figures of speech (which Australians use more often than they realise), often have their origin in our colonial past and the early activities of our economy such as mining, farming and sea faring. Some terms have been lost with changes such as the move do dollars and cents; deener, being an example, and who says mad as a two bob watch anymore? Some, like lag, have origins in the convict era. Your understanding of the terms you listed was pretty impressive actually.

[@Jimmeh_B]

Flog and variations of is a pretty versatile word also. I'm flogged - I'm buggered/worn out They got flogged - they lost the race/game Kevo Copped a floggin' - Some one kicked the shit out of Kevin I'm off for a flog - off to feed the chickens Flogbag - wanker/full of shit Flogged out - That truck's flogged out worse than me x. Loose in the front, tends to wander.

[@denisesavage2382]

Hoover - nah, that's a brand of vacuum cleaner. Hoover is what people overseas call it. Cooee - we also use in talking about there being nothing within cooee of a person/place. . . .You can also add grease monkey to the tradie list - that's a mechanic.

[@leglessinoz]

If something is "within cooee", it means it's nearby. A "cooee" sound carries quite a distance so it's used to help people locate you.

[@phoarey]

In 49 years of surfing I've only heard 'grommet' used by Gold Coasters.

[@hideyagi1019]

Thanks Tris!!! really miss Aussie guys.....the kangas and koalas too!!! keep making videos like this.

[@TristanKuhn]

Thanks! Will do

[@polljones8921]

I've lived in Australia all my life and traveled to every corner of it, plus I'm a journalist's researcher. I have never encountered the word eshay in my life or ever heard it used anywhere in any part of Australia. Not sure where it comes from, but it doesn't sound like general Aussie slang. It sounds like a very specific inner Sydney type of word from a specific era. Love your vids, but just be careful you're not accepting and representing something as part of the Aussie dialect that's really only used in a 4 square kilometre range of that neighbourhood. (ps - thanks for the vids)

[@polljones8921]

pps - I've never heard any Aussie refer to a vacuum as "the Hoover" either. You must have been hanging around with some Brits.

[@heatherrowles2580]

@@polljones8921 hoover is most definitely used in Australia by Australians of the older generations........Im with you on the eshay bit though....and I have a 23 year old daughter, if it were common usage for younger people, Id have heard it.

[@jem7178]

@@polljones8921 Vacuums used to always be called hoovers or vacuums. Hoover was the first vacuum company to produce a vacuum here and the only one for a long while in the 50's. I do think it might be a British thing but my mother's era used it a lot.

[@micah4120]

‘taking the mickey’ is another way and the same as saying ‘taking the piss’

[@TristanKuhn]

Really? I haven’t heard that yet. Thanks!

[@FionaEm]

@@TristanKuhn Yeah, it's a more polite version and/or said more by older ppl.

[@FionaEm]

@Faqyur Ma'ama We both use it to some extent.

[@miniveedub]

Faqyur Ma'ama it’s also Australian, particularly among older Aussies.

[@natv1987]

@@TristanKuhn I think you explained it as the person being made fun of is taking the piss, but it's the other way around. The person making fun is taking the piss.

[@philipparish2990]

Stubbies are only certain types of bottled beer, we also have long necks

[@jimmybeam2367]

Darwin stubbies too

[@isom323]

I’m a country kid and correct me if I’m wrong.. but the bush isn’t in the middle of nowhere, it’s kinda what you would call a forest But we also have state forests and national parks just to confuse you

[@pilot1721]

They aren't confusing at all. State forests allow a certain amount of commercial activity to occur where as a national park is generally no commercial activity (by commercial activity I mean logging and stuff)

[@ANTFarm-jv1iy]

Kerb is also a gutter! And there’s ‘Your gutter trash’

[@TristanKuhn]

Interesting. Gutter is different in the states. It's the hole that all the water on the roads flows into

[@virginiawhitehouse531]

@@TristanKuhn i call the hole the drain. Gutter, to me is the bottom 90 degree corner touching the road (no level change to get to the gutter from the road) But the kerb is the 90 degree corner touching the foot path (no level change from foot path to the kerb. You can mount the kerb with your car (implying going off the road) but you scrape your wheels on the gutter (but still on the road i guess)

[@brettevill9055]

There is kerb and gutter. The gutter is the channel that water runs in to the stormwater drains. The kerb is the bit that limits wheels etc. from going onto the footpath. That is, a thing falls off the kerb into the gutter.

[@miniveedub]

A kerb is the raised bit at the edge of the road but curb is to restrain or keep in check. A curb is also a kind of bit for horses.

[@drewprice4882]

Yep, that's pretty spot on. Good work....except you missied, "Ta"

[@susanab7]

I've never ever heard of 'eshay'! Different states have different words for the same thing though, try asking around what people call a potato scallop! 😆

[@TristanKuhn]

Will do haha

[@Ranganation]

Eshay is an Aussie wide word 😂 Pretty much the same meaning as Lad.

[@michelepm3791]

@@TristanKuhn there are State differences.. A swimming costume is either , swimmers, cossie (costume) or bathers. A suitcase is also a port in NSW . Victoria a scallop is a shell fish and we eat potato cakes (potato scallops or just scallops in NSW ) Not sure about QLd. And ask older people about a "Hamburger with the Lot" It's not just the beetroot!!!

[@natv1987]

@MusicManMaurice the term "lad" to describe these 'young thugs' isn't synonymous with the traditional meaning of lad. It's a shitty subculture, I'm assuming started in Sydney's western suburbs, and I hope that type never make it to WA.

[@hollydr1969]

I haven’t heard the word eshay since I was a teenager. It’s actually a word used to refer to a certain cohort of wog/middle eastern kids/dudes (btw: wog is not automatically a slur in AUS, depends how you use it). Think of it as Mexicans saying “esse” - in fact think it’s where it came from. I’d be be careful throwing that one around too loosely and attached with certain stereotypes... might get some eshays on your back 😆

[@adriang6259]

Funny about speedos, I thought they're an Aussie brand? Good job, mate. Great video, nailed em.

[@TristanKuhn]

Thank you

[@krylda]

You have to start the next video in Australian style "How ya goin'... it's Tristan here from 'Strailya!" :) And remember to finish sentences with "aye..." or "but..."

[@Mistuppy]

A "tinny" is also a small aluminium boat, with or without an outboard motor.

[@nickoleary638]

speedo is an brand of swimwear, which originates from australia which the USA had adopted from australia

[@nickoleary638]

its like the usa calls a tissue a kleenex, once again kleenex is the brand name

[@glenmcinnes4824]

Booze Bus has two meanings, one is a large RBT (Random Breath Test) setup, it can also be the Courtesy Bus offered by some Clubs.

[@TristanKuhn]

Didn't know about the second but it makes sense

[@glenmcinnes4824]

@@TristanKuhn not used that much these days, used to be used more often in the 90's.

[@ActionJackson1982]

Speaking of taking the piss/making fun of someone is also referred to 'paying out' so if your laughing and making fun of someone, you're paying them out

[@ActionJackson1982]

MusicManMaurice are you Australian? If you were you would know it is!

[@ActionJackson1982]

MusicManMaurice it is too, haven’t you ever heard of that. I saw an interview with 2 actors, one was an aussie actress and one american. The american actor said something about the aussie actress and she said to the interviewer “he keeps paying me out” and then went oops and covered her mouth thinking oh he doesn’t know what Im talking about and he said “oh is that like taking the piss?” And so what if my Chuck Norris profile pic (not thumbnail) has a weapon?! Whats that got to do with anything, should I just have a Aussie pic then?

[@ActionJackson1982]

MusicManMaurice at least I have a picture, all you have is M

[@ActionJackson1982]

MusicManMaurice 🙄

[@edvoon]

"The Salvos" are the Salvation Army. A salvo is a volley of gunfire. Teppanyaki is a Japanese word, and not really unique to Australia or considered to be slang. Hoover is used by the UK, but not really in Australia. Budgie Smugglers are also often referred to as "Speedos" Milkshake is milk whipped up in a blender so that it's frothy.

[@biggin9077]

Tristan, this is a must watch for you:How to Talk Australians kzbin.info/www/bejne/enm0g42OgpJnrqs Watch the whole series as it's way too funny.

[@happycamper897]

I am on the wrong side of age 50 and never in Australia have I ever heard anyone call an elevator a lift, but that is what I heard them called when I lived in the US. On a couple occassions in USA I had asked directions to the elevator, only to have the individual not know what I meant.

[@01nig57]

Interesting - either or is used in Qld, it's not unusual for me to hear that expression. Little differences in areas perhaps.

[@shaungordon9737]

I've never heard anything except lift and I've lived in all the eastern states

[@miniveedub]

I’ve called it a lift all my life and I’ve lived on both sides of the country during the last 70 years.

[@FionaEm]

I've lived in Qld, ACT and Vic, and never heard it called anything other than a lift.

[@zaniac100]

I'm 50+ it has always been 'lift' here in Melbourne but these days I sometimes get confused and do say 'elevator' at times but only because I got if off American movies.

[@isom323]

Another one like kangaroos loose in the top paddock is 1 stubby short of the 6pack

[@TristanKuhn]

Haven't heard of that one. What does that mean? Like you're almost there?

[@miniveedub]

Tristan Kuhn it means someone who is not quite as bright as they should be...or is just a touch crazy. There are lots of variations: a sandwich short of a picnic, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the toolbox, a couple of eggs short of a dozen...and lots more!

[@cindymaree9752]

Finally an accurate Aussie slang video 🤣😂

[@TumBear]

Bloody oath, it’s funny as fuck hearing you say some of those things with an American accent... 😂😂🤣😂... keep the vids coming mate. 🤙

[@MC-wd4oi]

I thought it was the UK who calls them hoovers, not us, well at least I say vacuum

[@alliebenson4653]

Yeah the UK says hoover, I always heard vacuum in Australia

[@TristanKuhn]

You know what, I might be wrong on that one and you are correct. Now that I think about it the place I learned the term "hoover" was my job back in Melbourne. Now that I think back on it about half of the staff there were people from the UK originally so they might have just brought it over and then we all started saying that at work

[@heatherrowles2580]

@@TristanKuhn nah youre actually kind of right......hoover was common here in Australia back when I was a kid.....so 70's and earlier (yeah, Im old).......you wont really hear anyone under the age of 70 use it these days unless theyre from England where it is still common, I know I used to give mum a hard time for calling the vacuum a hoover.......

[@leskeall1466]

Cooee can be used in general conversation. Ie; No ones within cooee. Meaning no ones around. Some of the terms you mention are either not used or are being used in the wrong context

[@andrewcollier7761]

Mate don’t forget the word (bonza ) It just means really good. Like in context someone would do something and sat what ya think his mate look and say that’s bonza

[@MsMeljw]

No worries is actually an Aussie term that we have been saying for years! We have noticed that Amercans have seemed to adopt it, which is fine. But it is an Aussie term! No dramas is not as old as no worries.

[@mcmoose64]

Maths , Is a contraction of mathematics ( note the S on the end of the original word).

[@brettevill9055]

Yeah, but no-one construes it as plural any more. You never hear anyone say "mathematics are really hard!"

[@TristanKuhn]

Makes sense

[@mcmoose64]

@@brettevill9055 correct , in Australia (and England) we would say "maths is really hard".

[@natv1987]

@@mcmoose64 yeah nah, maths is easy.

[@brettevill9055]

@MusicManMaurice Right, but since it is construed as a singular there's really no need for it to end with an "s".

[@pimgeon_]

The Bush means the forest. Woop Woop is the middle of nowhere.

[@SiilanPies]

Not necessarily. I have family out in South West Queensland, and when we visit them we usually say we're going out bush.

[@Mistuppy]

Kangaroo loose in the top paddock - also "a sandwich short of a picnic"

[@adriennehunt1799]

Reason Aussies shorten words and barely open their mouths is to keep the myriad flies out! At least in the outback.😁🐨

[@TristanKuhn]

hahaha the flies here do suck

[@MyNipplesArePointy]

Nah the real reason Aussies shorten everything is so that even if they add "fucken" between every word there's still the same amount of syllables

[@mathewkelly9968]

I support Tristan becoming an Australian citizen

[@TristanKuhn]

Haha that would be cool

[@Ash.Crow.Goddess]

I thought a booze bus was going to be something we call the drunk bus in AL. I live in a college town, and what the drunk bus is, is a bus that some local bars have running, after hours to drive the drunk people home.

[@carmenhallows2310]

Pretty good.. it sound funny when u put it all together though.. I was born here so I'm used to the slang but i can see how it wouldn't make much sense so ppl visiting ga

[@ryanclark9618]

three more for you "munted" means vomit "doing a Harold Holt" means to go for a swim and not come back. For more information look up Harold Holt. "whoop whoop" means somewhere far away also a tinny is a metal boat

[@hailskatean]

doin a harold holt just means to not return.. you don't actually have to go for a swim like ol harold hahah

[@catiewade3142]

hearing him pronounce the aussie words with his accent was hilarious lmao and half of his definitions were wrong so it made funnier