Hi there.
I'm Anthony and I'm Bron and we're here in Canberra
today and we're going to talk today about common or
strange words you might hear Australian patients say. Otherwise known as
"slang". So let's get right into it.
What's the first way we've got to hear Bron.
First word is crook.
Crook.
Now thats's got two meanings, hasn't it?
Yeah.
So it can mean somewhat just not feeling very well.
Yeah.
Or someone who's done a bad thing like a criminal.
So it's not uncommon in Australia.
Here are word that has a couple of meetings and
you've got to understand the context.
I would say normally if you're in a hospital and
someone uses the word crook, they probably mean that they're
feeling sick though.
Not that they're facing up to a crime, but there's
lots of other words for seek out there.
What sort of other words have we got There's cactus.
It's kind of like a plant, but not really.
So I like, I'm feeling a bit cactus almost approaching
death sometimes that can mean Ghana.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know why though.
Sometimes when people have a hangover, they're feeling cactus too.
So if they've had too much alcohol that can be
buggered.
that can be a little bit of a rude word.
But yeah, often with older patients I'm feeling a bit
buggered.
It's kind of a, you don't hear it as much
from younger people, but yeah, some of these words you'll
hear from different age groups.
Okay.
Me as well.
And you'll notice that there's a lot of accent around.
Some of these words are like or crook.
So do you want to talk to, talk us through
is sort of how you can understand.
So what we're going to do is if you have
a look on the screen, you'll see the vowel sounds
in the phonetic symbols and what that does, it just
helps you to know which vow sound to use when
you're pronouncing that word.
So there is another video that we can link to.
Yeah,
Ron's got some really super helpful videos that explain some
of the, how you break down some of the vowels
and I think continents as well.
And cause one of the things I think doctors coming
from another country, even if like English as your first
language, you notice quite a distinct accent in Australia, don't
you And we put a lot of emphasis on the
vowels sometimes.
Yeah.
We have a bigger range of hours in Australian English
than a lot of other languages.
So we have about 20 bowels.
So, some people that are coming from a language that
has five.
So there's quite a few more that we throw at
you.
We love vowels, we love doing lots of things that
we love.
Sticking them at the end of words is knackered.
Yeah.
There's got, that's got some pretty hard Val sounds in
ag.
Yeah.
so often the consonants almost disappear a little bit, don't
they Sometimes.
Yeah.
So nackered.
I guess that comes from, you know, what they do
with animals and inaccurate.
Yeah.
A bit knackered.
Again, a bit tired or maybe exhausted.
Yeah.
So like, feel a bit poorly I think is another
way of putting that.
Yeah.
Not, not your, not your absolute tip top self, I
think.
Yeah.
So imagine a bad weather day, not a nice weather
day.
So you're not, you know, if it's hot outside, they're
not, they're not actually excited about how they're feeling.
Yeah.
This one, I love this, this explains the sticking vowels
on the end of words as well.
Sickie yeah.
Yeah.
So if someone says they're having a sicky, they're actually
not normally sick.
Are they big weekends Yeah.
Yeah.
But just not feeling up to where usually on a
Monday.
Yeah.
So sometimes they are sick and they're having a sick
day of work, but often they might be just having
a day off and claiming it as a sickie.
So yeah, often occurs on a Monday and a Friday.
Well, maybe a Tuesday after a Monday.
Public holiday.
Yeah.
So moving on, just sort of feeling psychologically unwell, I'm
feeling a bit mental.
Yeah.
So some of these are a little bit, yeah.
Yes.
Some of these can border on being a bit disrespectful
at times.
but you know, you may hear people say a feeling
a bit mental or that that person over there is
a bit mental.
That means that the, they feel like the, there's something
not right with them psychologically or the other person.
So like a mental health problem.
But you have to be, I think with some of
these words you have to be careful about using them
yourself because some of them are particularly respectful to patients
at times, including this one.
Skip.
Yeah.
So schizophrenia probably derives from schizophrenia, but you'll hear it
used a lot just for any weird or or bad
behavior or, yeah.
So skipping out, doing something weird, strange.
It's often with the patients not describing his symptoms of
psychosis, by the way.
It's just something unusual, abnormal or often it's a family
member describing what's happening in their loved one, and I
think it's important not to label that behavior with the
actual condition itself, which is quite serious.
Obviously this happens a lot in doctors in Australia.
I'm exhausted again, but more psychologically exhausted.
I mean it's, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's why you go on, that's why you switched to
becoming a YouTuber and then you burn out from that
frazzled.
Just so many things going on.
Yeah.
Overwhelmed.
Yeah.
Use it to describe going sick and stressed out.
Stressed out.
Yeah.
Not, not physically sick.
Again, just kind of feeling the pressure of everything.
Yeah.
Mentally.
Which would be, yeah.
Similar to this one.
Worry ward.
Now this is probably one you will only hear more
from older people again.
Like, Oh, he's a worry wart.
Usually, you know, grandma might say that their son's a
bit of a worry ward, you know, fussing them too
much and wanting to stick them in a nursing home
because they can't look after themselves.
That sort of thing.
It's on, I'm on the men.
Yeah.
So this is kind of a positive thing.
I'm the feeling better.
Well, not, not completely better though.
Getting there on the way.
Yeah.
Mending, getting better.
Yeah.
Well she's fit as a fiddle.
Yeah.
Gain.
I think that's probably one from the older generations.
Yeah.
But yeah, my mom was talking about, yeah.
Yeah.
And sometimes they might not exactly be fit in your
opinion.
So this is kind of leave me alone, doctor.
I'm fit as a fiddle.
Yes.
It's a lay opinion rather than a yes.
So this might be an excuse to push brush you
off a little bit.
You know, I don't need those tests.
Speaking of heavy involved more of a me or a
vomit.
Yeah.
A ball.
All the younger generation.
Yeah.
This is definitely a gen Y and a later term.
But you know, so again, it's meaning to be sick
but often associated with excess alcohol the day before.
90% of the time.
Yeah.
So great example of us Australian shortening words for efficacy
and making it harder for everyone else to understand basically.
So we go vom and then balmy just to confuse
you again cause we will shorten it and then stick
a con veil on in.
Yeah.
Cause we love EAs.
Yawn.
Yeah.
Probably from the baby boomer generation.
This one, although you are here and sometimes a bit
from young people still, so yeah.
Instead of doesn't make like, it doesn't mean you're wanting,
cause you're tired, but usually it doesn't mean that it
means you want it in open your mouth and having
experienced view.
Yeah.
Basically these are all words that basically mean the same
thing.
You're sick and you're, I'm chucking up or agenda, but
that's a, that's a, I think that's a grouse Ozzy
word though.
Shonda sounds good.
Yeah.
You just, you kind of drop the hour at the end
and emphasize the app has another glamorous way, probably more
feminine way of putting it up.
Thank God.
But I think men's IP agreement means H Shonda women's
IPA grab it.
Yeah.
More delicate and less lover.
Then at the other end, the Australians are very fascinated
by their bodily fluids, and they have various terms for
it.
So past water means to have, to urinate basically.
I either pass some water.
No, no.
Again, I think it's probably an older generation one.
Yeah.
sometimes it's a polite way of asking people though, rather
than some of the other words for urination so that
you as a doctor might ask the patient, have you
passed water this morning You know Yeah, yeah.
Or just had a pee.
That's probably the most common.
Yeah.
Could we go have a pee Yeah.
So it doesn't mean I'm going to eat a bean
or something or that means I'm going to go to
the toilet and yeah.
Do a numb a whiz.
Yeah.
It's like, Oh, I'm off to have a wheeze.
Something.
You might be behind a trail.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Like at a festival or a concert was on their
land or pedal it.
Yeah.
I think you might hear a little kid use this
term, I need to have a pedal.
Usually adults don't say they're going to have a pedal.
No, no, no.
This is my Firebird.
Brian records the guy here very much.
But what are the horses So yeah, it's like, yeah.
You know, it's kind of a, an analogy.
You know, you're going to give water to the horses.
You're basically going to, but your imposs again, so probably
from the older generation.
Yeah.
Slash exact opposite.
That's like a quick way, isn't it Take a slash
slash usually do it outside.
Yeah.
Sometimes not.
Yeah.
So they kind of, you know, maybe moving the urine
around a bit as well.
Slashing movement.
Yeah.
Get it out quickly.
Like a sword.
And so this is all about number ones.
Of course, there's number twos as well.
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