i went to the servo and bottle over
salvo
on the way to a mate's barbie but i was
attacked by
mozzies as i was just wearing my bathers
it was so
chockers there cause one of the workers
had pulled a sickie
and decided to bug her off for the day
so i was like yeah
tar but no thanks i couldn't be stuffed
waiting around to get
served so i too decided to bugger off
what
what the g'day you mob what's going
on welcome to this episode of aussie
english today
is going to be a great episode where i
teach you 12
different aussie slang terms that are
used in everyday english
before we get started i'm going to
include a quiz in the description below
that you can do
after you finish this episode to test
your skills if you have learnt the
meaning of all these words okay so go
and do that
and let me know in a comment below how
you went did you get 12 out of 12.
and stay to the end of today's episode
because i'm going to teach you a nice
little australian slang
swear word that you definitely need to
know alright
so let's get into it
number one avo avo avo
means afternoon and we use this all the
time in australian english
you know will you be coming over in the
arvo oh pete's coming over to morrow
arvo
i'm going to the beach in the arvo and
there's a top tip you'll often hear
savo and it often is paired with the
word the
although actually this is a sort of
contraction of
this arvo so this arvo as in this
afternoon will get contracted to just
the salvo so it sounds like you're
saying
the savo for example you might say are
you coming around
this arvo and you'll contract that down
to
are you coming around the savo the savo
is pete coming around the salvo yeah
he's probably going to come around the
sabo
the savo so avo meaning afternoon is
so common you'll hear this everywhere in
australia
number two servo servo servo
is the equivalent of what americans
would call a gas station
we would call this a petrol station or a
service station right where you get
service i guess for your car
so anyway we've contracted this down to
just servo instead of
service stations so this is where you go
to get petrol to put it in your car to
fill your car up to go on a road trip
the servo so for example
people fill their cars up with petrol at
the servo they might also go inside the
servo after they filled up with fuel
to get some food and drink i'm going to
pop down to the servo the salvo
is that all good number three
bottle o bottle o i wonder if you've
heard this one before
bottle o is aussie slang for a bottle
shop a place that you can go to buy
alcoholic drinks
alcoholic beverages the local bottle-o
sells
great wine and whiskey my mate barry
works at the bottle-o
and he's gonna be down there the salvo
after he also finishes work at the servo
did you want to come with me to the
bottle over savo
number four mozzie mozzie i wonder if
you know what this
is a mozzie is a mosquito
a mosquito these are incredibly annoying
in australia they are usually
out and about in huge numbers during
summer especially after rain that's when
they breed up and they usually ruin
people's
barbecues right mozzies always ruin
summer parties
ugh i hate when i get bitten by a mozzie
there's a bunch of mozzies at the servo
number five and this is a two for one
i'm gonna give you two here because
both of these slang terms are used all
around australia but
people often just use one of them so you
may hear
either all bathers or togs
bathers or togs this is aussie slang for
a swimsuit or swim costume but to be
honest both of those words
are so weird you know no one would ever
say swimsuit
no one would ever say swimming costume
you would say bathers
or togs or maybe even cozy that's
another one for you
short for costume i got to the beach the
savo and i realized i'd forgotten my
bathers
or i can't believe he's still in his
togs it's like 12 a.m
some guy's wearing his bathers in the
bottle-o
number six chock-a-block or chockers
chock-a-block or chockers so this is
when somewhere or something is very
crowded there are a lot of people or
there are a lot of things it's really
full this was originally chock-a-block
usually
chock-a-block full of something maybe
your fridge is
chock-a-block full of tim tams you know
or the bottle-o is chock-a-block
full of guys in their bathers buying
beer
but we can contract this down to just
shockers
chockers so there's australians making a
slang term from a slang term
how good is that i went to the servo the
savo and there were loads of people
trying to get petrol it was just
chockers
it was chockers i went to my mate's
barbecue
and he chucked all the meat on the
barbecue at once
it was just chockers full of meat you're
probably wondering why i haven't
said the australian slang term for
barbecue that's because number seven
is barbie barbie this can be
the doll that small children often girls
play with a barbie doll
but more commonly at least for me i'm
going to use this word to refer to a
barbecue a barbecue let's put another
shrimp on the barbie this is either
the machine on which you are cooking
meat
device machine it's a barbecue right
there's coals or gas that you're using
to cook
food you usually do this outside where
you might get attacked by
mozzies in summer after you've gotten
home from the beach and you're in your
bathers
but a barbie can also be the event
of gathering together to cook food on a
barbecue right so people come over to
your barbie
to see you cook food on a barbie so that
they can eat it right it can be the
event and it can be the actual device
that you cook the food on for
example when i got to my mate's place he
was having a barbie
when my friends came over on the weekend
i was cooking
on the barbie oh no the barbie was great
but everyone ran out of beers
barbie number eight
esky esky if you go to a barbie you're
gonna
probably see an esky an esky
is a cooler an insulated food
and drink container often filled with
ice usually also filled with beers
maybe you know some soft drink you go to
a barbie and you see that your mate has
an esky you open it up it's full of
beers it's chock-a-block
full of beers my mate's esky is
full of drinks i might also go to the
footy and take my esky
to the footy with my food and drinks
inside the esky and i think
this is a contraction of the word eskimo
i don't know if this was a brand
of esky's i don't know how it it ended
up becoming that that's my assumption
esky esky
number nine number nine is the phrase
can't be stuffed can't be stuffed
if you can't be stuffed doing something
it's that you can't be bothered doing
something it's almost like you're too
lazy you're too tired
ugh can't be bothered doing it can't be
stuffed i just can't be stuffed mate
he couldn't be stuffed going out this
weekend to his mates
barbie my car has no petrol in it but i
can't be stuffed going to the servo
i love to buy a few beers but i can't be
stuffed going to the bottle oh
can't be stuffed this is a very common
and great aussie
expression that you should definitely
learn and use
number 10 to pull a sickie to pull a
sickie a sickie here is a sick day
off work so when you're sick and you
don't go to work you're having a sick
day
but usually when we say to pull a sicky
this is an expression that suggests the
person is pretending to be sick
in order to avoid going to work they're
pulling
a sickie and you may also hear this when
people are referring to wagging school
right they don't their students don't
want to go to school so they pretend to
be sick and they pull
a sickie pete didn't come into work
today he pulled a sickie he was
pretending to be sick
the kid didn't go to school because he
pulled a sickie because he wanted to go
to
the bottle-o and harass someone older to
buy him beer
right to pull a sickie to pull the
sickie
number 11 and the last one before we get
into the interesting australian
swear slash slang word okay number 11
is tar tar tar is just short
for thanks don't ask me where it comes
from but you will hear this
all the time in australia tar imagine
that you go to the shops
and you've just bought some bathers or
maybe you've bought some food to chuck
on your barbie
and the person behind the till the
register with the money in it
gives you your change you might just say
our tar
right thanks if i go to the shops and
someone opens a door for me and then i
get to walk through
i might say to them ah tar thanks mate
tar
and lastly if you know i forgot
something at my dad's house
you know maybe it's an esky i left the
esky at my dad's house when he was
having a barbie
he decides to drive over to my house and
drop the esky over
i might see him and say oh tar dad
thanks
so this is a nice little informal way of
saying thank you tar
all right so as i promised number 12
is a an awesome very common australian
swear slang word bugger
bugger bugger is a rude slang term in
australia and it has
very many different uses okay it's often
used as a polite version of the
f word the average australian probably
wouldn't even consider bugger to be rude
to be honest
aussies make sure that you comment below
and let me know is bugger rude what do
you reckon
what's your two cents let me know do you
use the word buggy yourself and do you
consider bugger to be rude
so just like the f-bomb right f-u-c-k
the word bugger is incredibly versatile
in its usage in australian english
and it can be used as either a noun a
verb or an
exclamation we'll go through each of
these but just to give you a bit of
context
originally the word bugger referred as a
noun
to a man who penetrates the anus
of another person during sex or as
a verb the act of doing that so for
example
the bugger buggered someone however
australians would never use bugger to
mean this
and i would expect that most australians
probably don't even know that's where
the word originally comes from so
there's a bit of interesting history for
you and again aussies let me know in the
comments
if i got that wrong did you know that's
what it meant so let's go through first
how
bugger is used as a noun in informal
australian english every day so it can
be used as a term of
abuse usually for men you know who's
that stupid bugger
what's that bugger doing what's that
stupid bugger doing it can also
ironically be used as a term of
affection right when you're being really
friendly with someone
so if my son was playing outside and he
suddenly fell over
i might say uh what did you do you silly
bugger you know you poor bugger
the poor bugger hurt himself the poor
little bugger
and then lastly it can be an annoyingly
awkward
thing man this packet of cigarettes is a
real bugger to open
i can't open the door it's being such a
bugger now let's go through how the word
bugger can be used as a verb
so we can say to bugger meaning to cause
harm or damage to something if i
fall over whilst i'm running i might
injure my leg i've
buggered my leg oh man i can't come to
work i'm going to pull a sickie
because i buggered my leg i've buggered
my leg we can also use this as a phrasal
verb to bugger something
up right to completely ruin something i
buggered up my leg whilst i was running
i was writing an essay
for school but i buggered it up i
completely ruined it i stuffed it up i
screwed it up i buggered it up
we can also use bugger in a phrasal verb
bugger
off which means go away so if someone
comes and annoys you whilst you're doing
something
you might say oh bugger off you know go
away get out of here
if someone's making fun of you you might
just say to them ah bugger off mate
you may even use this to mean that you
are leaving somewhere
oh it's seven o'clock mate the barbie's
been great but i've got a bugger off
i've got to leave i've got a runoff i've
got a head off i've got a bugger off
lastly bugger can be used as an
exclamation
in pretty much the same way the f word
the f-bomb can be used however as i
mentioned
earlier saying bugger out loud is
usually the politer
less rude version imagine that you have
stubbed your toe against a table
you can use bugger to express anger or
annoyance so i hit my toe
and i might say oh bugger bugger owl you
know instead of using the f-bomb
secondly you can use it for shock and
surprise and you may have seen this in
that famous new zealander
ad for hilux where they pretty much use
this word all the time
to show shock and surprise
me
oh bugger bugger me bugger me so if you
won the lotto you know imagine that you
just won a thousand dollars
using a scratchy or at the races when
gambling
you might be like oh bugger i just want
a thousand dollars
and you can even use this as a verb
bugger me i just want a thousand dollars
so there you go guys that is it for
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