Posts Tagged ‘oz speak’

Each weekend I’m going to offer a few of our slang words and terms to help you speak ‘Orstralian in no time. I hope you have fun with these.

• Avo or avos – Avocado/s
• Bikkie – a biscuit or cookie
• Chewie – chewing gum
• Chokkie – chocolate
• Fairy floss – cotton candy or candy floss
• Flake – shark meat usually bought at a fish and chip shop
• Icy pole, ice block – Popsicle or lollypop
• Mystery bag – often refers to a sausage
• Sanger – a sandwich
• Tucker – food!
• Vedgies – vegetables

So, let’s try and put that lot into a few words….

I was starving so I spat my chewie out and had a bikkie but I was still hungry. I had some left over chokkie so wolfed that down followed by some fairy floss I got at the local show on the weekend. I didn’t want to have a sanger as I’d had one at lunch! Still hungry after that, so I got a piece of flake from the fish and chip shop, cooked up a mystery bag and some vedgies and threw some avo on top. Talk about great tucker! Then to finish off, I had an icy pole.

haha I tried! It’s not easy “trying” to speak the lingo even as a native without totally confusing you with other words I could throw in.

Feel free to leave a comment to show off your new lingo.