G'day, guys!
How's it going?
Pete here, the host of The Aussie English Podcast, and today, I am going to teach you
six English slang terms that you will hear in Episode 414 Have - Egg On Your Face.
So, make sure that you check that out.
Listen out for these expressions and these terms and test your listening comprehension.
Alright!
So, number one: a hoon.
Say it with me: a hoon.
A hoon.
A hoon is a lout or a hooligan, typically someone, usually men, who drive around recklessly.
So, they might get in their car, they might do some douighies, and doughy means a burn
out, where you're doing... you're going around and around and around.
Smoke's coming out.
So, "a hoon" is someone who drives recklessly.
If you heard the screech of tires outside your house late at night, it's probably a
hoon driving recklessly.
So, that is "a hoon".
Alright.
Number two: a polly.
A polly.
A polly is a poli-tician.
Politician, we would say, a politician, but the slang term that we use in Australia is
"a polly".
"A polly".
A lot of people don't trust pollies.
I saw a polly on TV today.
This polly's bringing in some pretty good law reforms.
A polly.
Number three, guys.
Number three.
And I used to have these as pets when I was a kid.
A yabby.
"A yabby" or "yabbies" if it's plural.
"A yabby" is a freshwater crayfish.
These guys tend to be brown, maybe blue in colour, and they have pincers like this, but
we call them "yabbies" in Australia, "a yabby".
I used to go to my grandparents farm and we would have traps that we would put in the
dams, and try to catch yabbies, and then we would eat them.
Yabbies.
Alright, number four, guys, number four: to bail.
To bail.
"To bail" means to leave, ok?
To go.
This is a slang term that's common in Australia, but it might be used everywhere in the world
that speaks English.
If you bail on someone or you bail on something, it means that you leave.
So, for instance, if I had a party here and I wanted to leave, it was time for me to go
home, it was getting late, I could say "Sorry, guys, I'm gonna bail, I'm going to leave,
but I'll see you guys soon!
I'm going to bail.
I'm gonna bail."
But we can also use "to bail" to mean give up on something, "to bail on something".
So, maybe I am trying to fix a light in the house, but it's proving to be incredibly difficult.
I might bail on trying to fix that light in the roof and just call up a sparky, and "a
sparky" is an electrician, and get the sparky to come and fix this light.
I've tried to fix it.
It's not working.
I'm gonna bail on that and I'll call up a sparky to help me out.
Alright.
Number five, guys.
Number five.
And this is a classic Australian slang term: to bugger something up.
"To bugger something up".
So, this is a phrasal verb, guys, "to bugger up", and we're using "up" to mean to completion.
So, to completely bugger something, to bugger something up, ok?
And you'll see this in phrasal verbs like to clean up, to tidy up, to finish up.
It means to completion.
So, if we bugger something up, it means that we completely ruin that thing, ok?
So, if I ruin this video, if I destroyed this video, I could say, "I did such a bad job,
I ruined it, I buggered it up.
I buggered it up!".
Maybe I'm in an exam and I'm trying to answer a question, and only after I finish the exam
I come out and I realise, I got it wrong.
I buggered it up.
I buggered the exam up.
I buggered that question up.
I buggered it up, I completely ruined it.
Remember: to completion.
To bugger something up.
Alright, and the last one, guys!
Number six.
The very last one: to smash someone.
"To smash someone at something", "to smash someone in something".
This is a slang term, again, used all over the place, not just Australia.
That tends to mean to destroy someone, to beat someone, usually, in a game or a competition.
"Yeah!
I smashed them!".
So, maybe your footy team is playing this weekend and, remember, "footy" means football
in Australia.
Your footy team's playing and they absolutely destroy the opposing team.
They beat that team by a lot of points.
You could say, they've smash them.
They've smashed them in that game.
They've smashed them at that sport.
They have destroyed them, they have beaten them, they've smashed them.
So, I hope you enjoy this episode, guys!
Remember, all of these terms, these six slang terms used in Australian English, some of
which are also used in other dialects of English as well, are all in Episode 414 - Have Egg
On Your Face of the Aussie English Podcast.
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Peace out.