What do Australians call underpants?
The word 'pants' in Australia refers almost exclusively to trousers, while Australians will usually call underwear 'a pair of undies' or just 'undies', which is a plural form indicating that it is short for 'underpants'.
Underclothes, underclothing and underwear are formal terms, while undergarments may be more casually called, in Australia, Reg Grundys (rhyming slang for undies) and Reginalds, and, in the United Kingdom, smalls (from the earlier smallclothes) and (historically) unmentionables.
Daks: Australians call their trousers 'daks'. If someone mentions 'tracky daks', they're talking about sweatpants.
Knickers, meaning underpants, is primarily a British term, although Americans will usually know what you mean if you use it.
In North America, Australia and South Africa pants is the general category term, whereas trousers (sometimes slacks in Australia and North America) often refers more specifically to tailored garments with a waistband, belt-loops, and a fly-front.
Loo or dunny - Thesea are slang term for toilet. If you are a guest in someone's house for the first time, it is usually polite to ask permission to use his or her toilet. 'May I use your toilet please?' Some people ask, 'Where's the loo?'
Bum Nuts Australia - Bum Nut - an old Aussie slang word for an egg.
Sheila. Though it is not as common as it once was, “sheila” is the Australian slang for girl or woman. It originally came from the Irish name Síle, which was exclusively used with women.
Durry = Cigarette
Durry is the common Australian term for a cigarette. Among the younger generation, it is often called “ciggies” or “darts”.
Panties (AmE) or knickers (BrE) are a form of underwear worn by women. Panties can be form-fitting or loose.
What do Canadians call underpants?
Sticking with Canadian slang words for clothing, the slang words gotch, gotchies, ginch, gonch, ginches, gitch, gitchies, gaunch, and possibly many other similar terms are used to refer to underpants.
Knickers. Knickers is actually a standard word for underwear, mainly in Britain, but we include it here because of its surprising connection to professional basketball.
The word 'pants' in Australia refers almost exclusively to trousers, while Australians will usually call underwear 'a pair of undies' or just 'undies', which is a plural form indicating that it is short for 'underpants'.
Contributor's comments: The meaning of Bubs I grew up with is a baby, or quite often the youngest member of the family is called "bubs" from an older sibling.
However, in Australian, Canadian, and Scottish English, running shoes and runners are synonymous terms used to refer to sneakers, with the latter term also used in Hiberno-English. Tennis shoes and kicks are other terms used in Australian and North American English.
And of course lavatory paper, loo paper and dunny paper. As an aside, dunny has been immortalised in a number of slang phrases. To be all alone like a country dunny is to be completely alone or isolated.
chook. A domestic fowl; a chicken. Chook comes from British dialect chuck(y) 'a chicken; a fowl' which is a variant of chick. Chook is the common term for the live bird, although chook raffles, held in Australian clubs and pubs, have ready-to-cook chooks as prizes.
| Phrase/term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Spud | a potato |
| Spunk | a good looking person of either sex |
| Sucked in | to be conned or tricked into something |
| Sunnies | sunglasses |
Australian slang insults
Bogan: is a commonly used word meaning unsophisticated, dumb. Bugger off/me: this one can be used in an affectionate or insulting manner. For example, you tell the person 'to go to hell'. Or exclaiming, “I'd be damned!”
The “missus” is one term used by many Australian males for their wives (married or de facto).
What do Australians call beautiful?
'Bewdy' is the slack Aussie way of saying beauty, as in “You little bewdy!”. 'Bottler' is also straightforward.
1. Possum is a term of endearment, not just a nighttime rodent. Sure, the standard “darling” and “babe” still apply, but there seems to be a slight misunderstanding when it comes to what non-Australian women want to hear when kissed good night. Did you just call me possum?
In Australia, we usually refer to a drunk person as being “pissed”. This term may have come about due to the need to frequently urinate when drinking heavily.
While some Australian speakers would pronounce “no” as a diphthong, starting on “oh” as in dog and ending on “oo” as in put, others begin with an unstressed “a” (the sound at the end of the word “sofa”), then move to the “oh” and then “oo”.
In Australian slang, the word "cool" can be expressed as "chilled", "good on ya", or "fair dinkum". You say, “Bonza, knackers, that's a fair crack of a co*ckatoo's clacker!”
