Gnarly – awesome – often used by surfersĤ9. Furphy – Rumours or stories that are improbable or absurdĤ7. Fresh horse – a horse that hasn’t been used for a while.Ĥ5. Flat out, Flat chat – Really busy – ‘Flat out like a lizard drinking’Ĥ3. Fella, Fellas – A guy, a group of peopleĤ1. Fair Dinkum – ‘Fair Dinkum?’ ‘Fair Dinkum!’ = Honestly? … Yeah honestly!Ĥ0. Esky – An insulated container that keeps things cold (usually beers)ģ9. Drover – An experienced stockman, who moves livestock, usually sheep, cattle, and horses on a horse over long distancesģ8. Can also refer to the sport of campdraftingģ6. Draft / Drafting – Usually refers to separating cattle into different catorgories for branding, trucking or treating. Donkey – Usually a drum of water with a fire underneath stoked up when hot water is needed for showersģ5. ‘It’s a bit dodgy’ – it might fall apartģ4. ‘Lets have a cuppa’ – to have a break for a cup of teaģ3. Cruisie – Taking it easy, ‘A cruisie job’ – an easy job or affirmative ‘Cruisie’- that will be fine, coolģ0. Crook – Being ill or angry ‘Don’t go crook on me for getting crook’Ģ9. Crack the shits – Getting angry at someone or somethingĢ8. Clean skin – An unbranded and unearmarked heifer, cow or bullĢ6. Chopper – Helicopter usually used for mustering cattleĢ4. Carrying on like a Pork Chop – Making a great fuss about something for little or no reasonĢ3. ![]() Bush – ‘Out in the bush’ – ‘he’s gone bush’ In the countryside away from civilisationĢ0. Budgie smugglers – men’s bathing shorts/costumeġ9. Bore Runner – A person who drives around the station usually 2 or 3 times a week checking the water for the cattle.ġ6. Bogan – A person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are considered unrefined or unsophisticated. Blocking cattle up – Generally refers to mustering on horseback when the cattle are first approached and held in one spot for a time until they have quietened down enough to move forward.ġ2. Bikkie – Biscuit (also ‘it cost big bikkies’ – it was expensive)ġ1. Billy – A tin used over a campfire to boil water for teaĩ. Arvo – Afternoon (S’Arvo – this afternoon!)Ĩ. G’day, mate! Get familiar with these Australian phrases and slang words and as a foreign city slicker you’ll feel right at home and easily join in on the yarn with some fellow ringers on your first day out bush!Ģ.
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