オーストラリアではオーストラリア英語というイギリス英語とアメリカ英語の間をとったような英語が話されています。
まずはこの動画を見てください。ヒーローインタビューで The オーストラリア英語で話されています。
この男性はとても強いアクセントで話していますが、みなさんが都心部で出会うような人たちはもっと弱いアクセントで話します。
オーストラリアではオージースラング(ネイティブが使うような言い回し)が日常の中でたくさん出てきます。
この動画ではオーストラリア人にオーストラリアのスラングをどれだけ知ってるかテストしてみました。字幕つきでご覧ください。
オーストラリア に来る前はぜひこの動画をみて勉強してくださいね笑
100 Australian Slang
- A Cold One – Beer
- Accadacca – How Aussies refer to Australian band ACDC
- Arvo – Afternoon (S’Arvo – this afternoon!)
- Avo – Avocado
- Barbie – Barbecue
- Bathers – Swimsuit
- Beauty! – Great! Most often exclaimed as “You Beauty”
- Billabong – A pond in a dry riverbed
- Billy – Teapot (In the Outback on the fire)
- Bloody – Very. Used to extenuate a point
- Bloody oath – yes or its true. “You right mate?”… “Bloody Oath”
- Bludger – Someone who’s lazy, generally also who relies on others (when it’s someone who relies on the state they’re often called a ‘dole bludger’)
- Bogan – This word is used for people who are, well let’s say, rednecks. Or, if you like, just call your friends a bogan when they are acting weird.
- Booze Bus – Police vehicle used to catch drunk drivers
- Bottle-O – Bottle Shop, basically a place to buy alcohol
- Brekky – Breakfast
- Brolly – Umbrella
- Cab Sav – Cabernet Sauvignon
- Choc A Bloc – Full
- Choccy Biccy – Chocolate Biscuit
- Chook – Chicken
- Chrissie – Christmas
- Ciggy – a Cigarette
- Clucky – feeling maternal
- Cobber – Very good friend. ‘Alright me ‘ol cobber’.
- Coldie – Beer. ‘Come over for a few coldie’s mate.’
- Coppers – Policemen
- Crikey – an expression of surprise
- C*nt, the “C” word – Used when exchanging pleasantries between close friends or family member. If someone calls you the “C” word in Australia (and you haven’t done anything to make them angry), then breathe a sigh of relief… it means you have entered the mate zone.
- Dag – Someone who’s a bit of a nerd or geek.
- Deadset – True
- Defo – Definitely
- Devo – Devastated
- Drongo – a Fool, ‘Don’t be a drongo mate’
- Dunny – Toilet
- Durry – Cigarette
- Esky – An insulated container that keeps things cold (usually beers)
- Facey – Facebook
- Fair Dinkum – ‘Fair Dinkum?’ … ‘Fair Dinkum!’ = Honestly? … Yeah honestly!
- Flannie / Flanno – flannelette shirt
- Footy – Football (AFL)
- Frothy – Beer
- F*ck Me Dead – that’s unfortunate, that surprises me
- G’day – Hello
- Galah – an Australian cockatoo with a reputation for not being bright, hence a galah is also a stupid person.
- Going off – busy, lots of people / angry person “he’s going off”
- Good On Ya – Good work
- Goon – the best invention ever produced by mankind. Goon is a cheap, boxed wine that will inevitably become an integral part of your Australian backpacking experience.
- Hard yakka – Hard work
- Heaps – loads, lots, many
- Hoon – Hooligan (normally driving badly!)
- Iffy – bit risky or unreasonable
- Knickers – female underwear
- Lappy – Laptop
- Larrikin – Someone who’s always up for a laugh, bit of a harmless prankster
- Legless – Someone who is really drunk
- Lollies – Sweets
- Maccas – McDonalds
- Manchester – Sheets / Linen etc. As someone who’s from England, finding a department within a shop called Manchester seriously confused me at first.
- Mongrel – Someone who’s a bit of a dick
- Mozzie – Mosquito
- No Drama – No problem / it’s ok
- No Worries -No problem / it’s ok
- Nuddy – Naked
- Outback – The interior of Australia, “The Outback” is more remote than those areas named “the bush”
- Pash – to kiss
- Piece of Piss – easy
- Piss Off – go away, get lost
- Piss Up – a party, a get together and in Australia – most social occasions
- Piss – (To Piss) to urinate
- Pissed – Intoxicated, Drunk
- Pissed Off – Annoyed
- Rack Off – The less offensive way to tell someone to ‘F Off’!
- Reckon – for sure. ‘You Reckon?’… ‘I reckon!’
- Rellie / Rello – Relatives
- Ripper – ‘You little ripper’ = That’s fantastic mate!
- Rooted – Tired
- Servo – Service Station / Garage
- Sheila – A woman
- Sickie – a sick day off work, or ‘to pull a sickie’ would be to take a day off when you aren’t actually sick
- Skull – To down a beer
- Slab – A carton of beers
- Snag – Sausage
- Stiffy – Erection
- Stoked – Happy, Pleased
- Straya – Australia
- Strewth – An exclamation of surprise
- Stubby – a bottle of beer
- Stubby Holder – Used so your hands don’t get cold when holding your beer, or to keep your beer warm!
- Stuffed – Tired
- Sunnies – Sunglasses
- Swag – Single bed you can roll up, a bit like a sleeping bag.
- Tea – Dinner
- Tinny – Can of beer or small boat
- Thongs – Flip Flops. Do not be alarmed if your new found Australian friend asks you to wear thongs to the beach. They are most likely expressing their concern of the hot sand on your delicate feet.
- Tucker – Food. ‘Bush Tucker’ tends to be food found in the Outback such as witchety grubs.
- Two Up – A gambling game played on Anzac day.
- U-IE – to take a U-Turn when driving
- Woop Woop – middle of nowhere “he lives out woop woop”
- Ya – You
読んでいただきありがとうございました。