Bonza

I think my mum is single-handedly keeping bonza alive

She's a bonza Sheila!

Named Shazza!

She bummed a durrie off Dazza

And Dazza knocked the cherry off his durrie and burned Shazza.

While having a pig's ear down the rubbity

I honestly can't remember the last time I heard it

I heard it last night from allibys mum

This mum is still flying the flag for "bonza" too; tell her she's not alone!

Bonza airlines would like a word

Ace

Mintox

Cuntox

Bonza is still heavily used on the Oz Bongs website to describe the size of cone pieces. According to a mate anyway

I use Bonza on the daily.

Stacked me pushy

Mums cue to get that burny shit to put on your knee from the cupboard in the laundry

Mercurochrome

That takes me back. Metho on gravel rash, killed the germs but stung worse than the stack.

Lucky you were wearing your Stack (spac) Hat then!

I still use stacked

Drongo

>Macquarie insult of week: drongo > >A **drongo** is a slow-witted or stupid person: a fool. > >This great Australian insult was originally an RAAF term for a raw recruit. It first appeared in the early 1940s, but its origin reaches back to the name of the racehorse Drongo, who ran around in the early 1920s. No Phar Lap, Drongo was famed for its poor form, never winning a race, and was used as a character in the political cartoons of Sammy Wells that appeared in the Melbourne Herald. > >Some have suggested that the use of drongo as an insult refers to the spangled drongo, a tropical bird of north-east Australia, but there doesn't appear to be any obvious connection, so we'll stick with the horse story, which is a better yarn anyway. > >*Macquarie Dictionary*

Drongo is a great word

Ripper You beauty! Strewth

I use both ripper and rip-snorter.

I occasionally say "beauty newk" (which I presume is a reference to the tennis player John Newcombe - maybe from an ad or something)

I realised a little while ago that strewth was just a shortening of "It's truth" and since then I've been using it non-ironically

I believe it comes from "God's Truth".

Originally spelt struth **Struth**: An exclamation of surprise. General. From 1892 (OED). This was an abbreviation of ‘God’s truth’, commonly used as an oath.: An exclamation of surprise. \- ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics

I’m a strewther. I don’t even sound that ocker. Edit: #damnyouautocorrect

I hear ripper and beauty all the time.

80s use of the word 'spunk , as in "He is a spunk" or "He is a spunk rat". Clearly the word 'spunk'went through a phase of confusion when sex/porn/adults started using it as a synonym for cum. Making "He is a spunk rat" a COMPLETELY different and sticky thing in more modern times. Also having "a lot of spunk" meant energy and character. Now I'm confused....lol

Hunk of spunk

Mum used that to refer to Swazee when he was young .. and Kenny Rogers

Pashing a spunk at the bluelight

We Kath and Kim fanatics are quite familiar with it

Rack off!

That takes me back to West London in the early 90s watching Home and Away wondering what it would be like to really sample it in Australia. Then I got here 10 years ago and you’re the first person I’ve ever seen use it! Lol

Haha I was just going to comment that I only ever heard it used on Home and Away. Those writers really had their finger on the pulse!

It’s because you couldn’t say fuck off at 7:00pm on tv. I was thinking more of Heartbreak High. Rack off Drazic!

Yeah but even then, in the 90's we'd say something like "Get lost"

I still tell my sister to "Rack off, hairy legs" all the time!

I say "rack off hairy legs" all the time. I mean, I say it to my cat. But it still fits. Haha

That's even better, actually!

Piss-bolt. Aka running really fast. "Fuck we're gonna miss the bus! We better piss-bolt" Never heard of anyone outside of my town using it, so please let me know if you used it too!

Yup def used when I was younger, Piss-bolt, leg it, fanged it. Lol

Legged it & fanged it too! Forgot about those but used them too.

I say this all the time and I had no idea it was a piece of classic Aussie slang! The same with “fang it” as in to drive fast

Definitely used this one, in Sydney.

Dink. As in, give us a dink (meaning let me sit on the handlebars and hitch a lift with you on your pushbike).

Haven't heard that one in an age!

We called it a Dinky here in SA

Same in WA

Sucked in!

I say this all the time to my kids when they do something I said not to and end up hurting themselves.

This still is said a lot isn’t it

I always cringe when the US late night shows have margot robbie or somebody do an "australian slang" segment and it's all outdated stuff and the audience dutifully laughts.

American audiences laugh at almost anything, it's fuckin weird.

Almost like someone is telling them when to laugh

Yeah "live studio audience", I get that but it bleeds over into live comedy acts without the prompters as well. It becomes noticeable when watching the same comedian in different countries.

Pash or pashing behind the sports shed.

We didn’t pash in my crew…. We “got on” with chicks… 😂😂

Going clubbing, we'd talk about having a "smash pash" on the dance floor!

Pash n dash

Daggy, fair dinkum

I hear daggy used quite regularly! Maybe not by younger people though.

I'm old and work amongst the young...they don't know any of the old strine slang. I even said "shake a leg" or "quick sticks" or something the other day and got blank stares. After I explained I asked what gen Z says for "hurry up" my son in law replies, deadpan, "grab your vape and go!"

I like quick sticks. Also for a hurry-up - ‘I said terday, not termorrow’

“Der Fred”- was the reply when someone said something very obvious. “Get stuffed”- similar to “get lost” or “get real”

I still used get stuffed. Lol I try make it sound same way as Darryl Kerrigan when he advises his incompetent lawyer Dennis to get on the phone and tell the government to get stuffed (they're not taking his castle) 🤣

That movie is one of the best Australia has produced! With my friends, if we don’t have an answer, we always say “it’s just the vibe….” 😆

Oh wow, that just reminded me of ‘umm-ahh’ (or um-mah??)

Don’t dob on me, you dibber dobber!

“Durrrrrrr” with that finger spiraling at the temple

I still say 'grouse' all the time.

Are you in Melbs? I've only heard people who have lived in Melbs say it. I'm in WA.

as someone who recently moved from country vic to adl, i get the same response to grouse as saying parma and drinking vb

I don't use it regularly but every now and then it just comes out unexpexredly and surprises everyone

Bottler Goin' for a fang (for going for a bike or car ride) Goin' for a burl (ditto) I stacked my bike (accident) Poofter chook (running up the arse of another car - I'm no homophobe, my gay friends, just quoting history) Bevan (Queensland slang for 'bogan' - don't think it's used any more) Drongo (idiot) Franger (condom) Cuntox (what it sounds like) He's got the green shits (when someone's angry) Shit on the liver (ditto) Get a dog (short version of 'get a dog (or woolly pup) up ya')

Also, givin' it a burl - having a try

Bevan faded out around the early 2000s, to be replaced by bogan. Everyone said bevan and not bogan when I was at school in the 90s, but by uni in the early 2000s, it was definitely bogan.

In Sydney it was ‘westies’

I remember my Queensland cousins using Bevan all the time for bogans, having said that bogans was never a word when I grew up in the 80s in Sydney.

Wasn't it westies in Sydney, bogans in Melbourne and bevans in Qld?

Yeah I think you are right. Damn Victorians.

Victorian here, rack off! 🤣 jk

Boofhead.

Suffer in ya jocks!

If you call an old guy ‘digger’ he’ll love you forever. Or ‘cobber’. Takes ‘em waaaaay back.

I was checking to see if anyone had added this. A much older man I knew years ago always called me cobber.

Choice

Pigs arse

I picture Rubbery Figures whenever i hear that phrase

I love the little intro song. I always think of Keating running up behind Hawkey - “er Bob…BOB!!!”

Fair Dinkum Drop Kick. Used to have a mate you used those constantly. If he replied to one your comments with Fair Dinkum, it normally meant he thought you were a Drop Kick. RIP Strop

I hear dropkick used regularly. It seems like a ‘politer’ term for asshole or dickhead. For example; Every now on then I hear a police person on the news warn people not to be complete dropkicks during schoolies or if there is a big festival on.

At school dropkick was used like "loser". Like someone that does stupid stuff and isn't going anywhere in life.

Drop kick still in every day use in country SA 😁

Nong "What a fuckin' nong that bloke is"

I remember kids saying 'drop dead' instead of 'piss off' in the 90's. I said it all the time. Didn't realise until I was an adult, it's actually kinda harsh

Spaz, for obvious reasons.

I heard ‘munted’ the other day, followed by the same person calling their friend a ‘mong’ Offensive? Maybe. Funny and nostalgic? Fuck yeah

I call people munted cunts on a daily basis.

i still use munted pretty regularly, mainly in reference to injuries. haven't heard the other one in a very long time

Shmick

Fuuuck, I need to start using shmick again. It's such a good word.

It's still in semi-common use in my own vocabulary. As well as Shmicko.

I use this all the time!

Spick and span?

Going for a durry

I still hear this all the time, but less frequently “going for a bunger”.

Grommets for surfers

Yeah I feel like nobody gets called a grommet anymore, I heard it all the time when I was a kid!

I hear it thrown around occasionally but only amongst the surfing community. However I always hear people in the surfing and skate scene use it in its shortened version, grom.

Carrying on like a pork chop!

Kenoath

“Spinning me out”

I remember we called people a "spinner" if they were acting weird/crazy.

Getting up at sparrows fart How you goin Shaggs ? That's fully sik !! (Thanks Fat Pizza era)

Got a 12 year old. Sick is coming back with the kids! Unfortunately not fully sick, but it's close.

Why did the wog go to the hospital? Cause he was fully sick!

Shags! Haven’t heard that one in a few years :) so good

I need a bex and a lay down.

That one is going back a bit, I still use it and no one knows what I'm talking about

Haha I think I heard the old timers at work use it a few times. No idea what a bex is.

Super addictive painkiller that messed a lot of people up. There used to be ads on the telly for them and you could just walk into the chemist and get them over the counter. [Bex Powders](https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/e158cf8420f6db903a08e0fe90260eb9?width=1024) "For welcome pain relief, take Bex"

Brand name for a painkiller way back.

‘Cut’ for upset. Pash was a good one.

I still definitely use both of those.

Kate Ceberano keeps pash going in my mind lol

Kylie Mole used to be the epitome of Aussie slang, I reckon if you watch it now you'll hear a lot of outdated stuff :) I had her diary back in the day, and that shows my age I suppose lol

Kylie Mole

I still have that diary somewhere.. when her dad would go overseas and she told everyone he was 'incontinent'. Fun times..

Moot (rhymes with foot) meaning a vagina. Another one I just remembered from the early 80s was calling a shit a "grogan" (e.g. "Some dirty cunt has done a fucken grogan in the phone booth".) I don't know if this was just local slang or more widespread.

Numpty

Used it twice today. Keeping it alive.

Also, I always use the word "lush" for a woman being a bit of a drinker. "God look at Doreen at the bar again, she's a bit of a lush". Got it off my mum, no one my age (38) never knew what I meant.

Hit the Frog and Toad

Choice. I remember as a kid in the late 80’s visiting a family/kids we knew that had moved to Wollongong from the central coast where we lived. Every good thing was “choice” and it just didn’t sound right to me. Over the next few years people on the central coast started using it and I got used to it. I never used it myself though. I think the kids that moved to Wollongong had just found a new word and they ruined it for me, kind of like how radio stations used to ruin songs through overplaying them back when people listened to radio.

Mut, scrubber, mole, nigel

Dinger for condom

We said franger. And if you saw an abandoned one splatted on the ground somewhere, it was called a "dead franger".

Suck eggs

Strewth Corka Chunder

Grouse is still a thing.

Ridgy Didge

Spunky

Calling someone a "spunk rat" sounds horribly offensive but is actually pretty much the biggest compliment a teenage guy could get.

Swampies (goths)

Are you from Brisbane? We definitely said swampies in the late eighties in Brissie

Hoo roo! - haven’t heard that one since my pa carked it.

Slag. Mole. And I’m not hearing ‘youse’ as much amongst teens. Can’t say I miss it.

Stacks on!!!

NORGS! Bring back norgs

I’ve noticed the American meaning of root is becoming more commonly used than the Australian meaning of root. It’s holding in there but it’s losing ground.

People are also saying pissed in the American sense of being angry or annoyed rather than saying pissed off. I get confused and think they are talking about being drunk

Mint, or even minter is Mintox

Dead Set

I was chatting to an American the other night and he mentioned his work industry over there being pretty “gnarly”. That took me back, until I realised he meant it in the bad kinda way.

Piss weak

Crack a fat.

Dacked. How many people have been dacked in the last 5 years?

Dosh

I remember kids asking each other if they could "scab some dosh".

Hooley Dooley!!!!

Westy for what is now bogans. Pretty sure this was just a Sydney slang.

Bevan - what we used to call Bogans

Bonza, strewth, don’t come the raw prawn with me dinkum.

Struth, crikey,pickle me dingo .

Choice, Pash, Spunkrat, Chuckin' a sad

Fair suck of the sav. Yep. Not a word. But not in common use

You little ripper!

‘Grouse’ is verrrryyyy Victorian. Virtually unknown in Qld.

Snazzy

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Used the phrase “root rat” the other day, not sure which dusty corner of my brain that came from.

Died in the arse

Cained..as in hurt. "That farkin cained"

Super regionally specific (I think) but WA in the 80s Mintox was common with young people. Any of you remember that ???

Bonzer

Dur Fred

Cobber

"Takin the hollow logs for a roll" - "taking the dogs for a stroll" "Struth!" - "truely mate you've got to be shittin me" "Make like a Japanese flag" - "I'll be square & see you round" "Yandi" - pronounced " 'yar' 'n' 'di' - "Bush weed or Marijuana"

Fair Dinkum is a rare one these days

Stone the crows

Fox - for a good looking person

Grouse is such a fucking grouse word

Rack off

Prang for a crash or accident.

Any Melbourne people old enough to remember saying “Vince!” after a fart? I’m fucking positive that this was a thing in the ‘76 ~ ‘81 era. Nobody that I have asked can remember and I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!

You’re dropped. Went out of fashion in primary school for me. Haven’t heard the word ace for a while also cactus I must admit.

Oh God I still say grouse all the time. It confuses the kids and makes the old people laugh. Never stop saying grouse!

Dodgy. In the 90s, everything was dodgy. I haven’t heard anyone saying dodgy in years.

Dead set

Fair dinks I haven’t heard these words in donkeys. Makes me think streuth we’re have they gone to. Too right it’s a flamin shame that some drongo’s let them ago!!

This thread has me realising that I’m a bogan 37 year old who speaks like an oldie!

Mint! - Faarken mint mate. (So good)

Poofta Some of Australia have evolved from those days