Fa
- face like a …
- an ugly face …
- Someone is said to have:
A face like a smashed crab.
or even:
A face like a half-eaten pastie. bogan slang
- fair cop
- 1 just punishment or outcome
- 2 to be caught red-handed
- fair cow
- something distinctly unpleasant
since the 1900s
- fair enough
- a laconic summation of a situation
- Fair enough darl, we'll go to the shops before the pub.
since the 1940s
- fair go
- Australia often sees itself as an egalitarian society, the land of the fair go, where all citizens have a right to fair treatment.
The term is often used as an exclamation. - 1 a reasonable chance
- Fair go Kev, give the kids a turn!
Fair go darl, we've been to the shops, what about the pub? Variants:
Fair crack of the whip
Fair suck of the sav.
2 a call prior to the coins being tossed - In the game of two-up.
since the colonial days
- fair dinkum
- 1 genuine, true
- Showing typical Australian honesty, guts, directness and the like.
They were all fair dinkum blokes and sheilas.
I'm fair dinkum, bloody oath I am!
2 fair and equitable - It was the only fair dinkum raffle run in the pub's history.
3 in earnest - As in Are you fair dinkum? meaning Are you serious?.
4 well and truly - He was fair dinkum pissing himself laughing.
5 really, honestly - As in, It's true, mate, fair dinkum. Appeared first in the phrase fair dinkum from Derbyshire and Lincolnshire dialects, meaning work or due share of work, and as a separate word dinkum, from 1905. Altered variously to fair dink, fair dinks, dink, true-dinks, and dinky-di.
since 1890
- fairy bread
- slices of buttered white bread
- Cut into triangles and sprinkled with tiny coloured sugar balls called hundreds & thousands.
Frequently served at children's parties in Australia. originating in holland
- fairy floss
- pink spun sugar
- Sold at fêtes and the like.
What the Poms call candy floss, and the Yanks call cotton candy. invented by a dentist in nashville tn in 1897
- fanannywhacking
- illegally moving your hand over the line when shooting in a game of marbles
- Someone who commits this crime is known by the opprobrious title:
Fanannywhacker
Aussie schoolkids have been quite inventive when it comes to this crime, which is known around the country as cribs, cribbing, duckshoving, fnudging (or phernudging), fudging, and lagging - falcon
- being hit in the face by the ball or an accidental headbutt
- So called in honour of a famous incident involving the face of Rugby League player Mario Fenech, nicknamed the Maltese Falcon, or simply the Falcon, because of his Maltese background.
footy slang
- fang
- 1 drive fast, accelerate, hoon
- In honour of Juan Fangio.
I'm going for a fang around the block.
2 a tooth, a bite - A hearty eater is said to be:
Good on the fang
3 to crave food - I'm fanging for a steak.
4 to borrow money - I fanged him for a couple of bucks.
- Farmer Giles
- haemorrhoids
rhyming slang since the 1960s farmer giles for piles
- farnarkling
- activity which creates a false appearance of productivity
- Coined by comedian John Clarke in the 1980s television series The Gillies Report.
- fatty-boom-bah
- a taunting name for a fat person
- Especially used by children
- fart-arse
- wasting time
- Stop fart-arsing around and get back to work!
Fe
- feature with
- to have sexual intercourse with
- A favorite expression of the inimitable Bazza McKenzie.
dating from the 1960s
- Feds
- federal police
-
Once a small agency with a defined remit, the organisation now has a broad range of national and international responsibilities.
Loosely, the term means any police officer. - feeding time at the zoo
- a disorderly rabble
- Commonly found when there is something free on offer
Similar to a shark feeding frenzy. - fennackapants
- a term of endearment to a child
- feral
- 1 a type of hippie enviromentalist
- 2 a person living outside the home environment, often as a streetkid
- 3 among teenagers, something disgusting or gross
- 4 someone who is wild in behaviour
- The kids have gone feral!
- ferret
- 1 a player at the tail-end of the batting order
- So called since they follow the bunnies or rabbits in.
cricket slang
- 2 the penis
- To have sex:
Give the ferret a run. - To urinate:
Run the ferret up a drainpipe. ocker slang
- fess up
- to confess to something
- festy
- 1 dirty, grubby, unclean, smelly
- 2 bad, awful, dreadful
- few
- several ice-cold beers or other alcoholic drinks
-
In Aussie if you are going to have a few it has only one meaning.
We're going to the pub for a few.
Fi
- fibro
- a house constructed with fibro cement
- A type of asbestos and cement compressed into sheets, which was the basic component of domestic architecture Australia-wide.
We bought a nice little fibro up the coast. - fielder
- a bookmaker
- Hence, to field is to work as a bookmaker.
He's been fielding for three years now. since the 1930s
- fifty-fifty
- 1 a glass of beer, half old and half new
- Also simply called a fifty.
I'll have a glass of fifty, love.
2 a dance - Usually held in a country or suburban hall, at which the dancing and music is half old-time and half modern.
aussie slang
- fillum
- a film shown at a cinema
- The ocker way of saying ‘film’.
ocker slang
- filth
- excellent, brilliant, wonderful
- The waves were absolute filth this morning!
since the 1980s
- filthy
- very angry, enraged
- A much stronger form of the terms dirty or ropeable
I've never seen him so filthy! - fire
- to perform extremely well
- Our team was really firing in the last quarter.
- firie
- a firefighter
aussie diminutive
- first cab off the rank
- 1 to be first in a queue
- 2 the first to do something
- First Fleet
-
the eleven ships arriving in australia in 1788 - First Fleeter
- a person whose lineage can be traced back to the first fleet
- A cause for great pride since 1826.
- fish frighteners
- a brief men's swimming costume
- See speedos for more terms.
- fisho
- 1 a fishmonger
- 2 a fish & chip shop
- 3 a fisherman or woman
- 4 a street vendor selling fish
- fit as a mallee bull
- superbly fit, strong, and healthy
-
So named after the rural district in Victoria known as The Mallee.
Here's the contender, he looks as fit as a mallee bull. - five o'clock wave
- a fictitious wave
- A tale told to unwary visitors, the wave is supposedly created by the release of water from an upriver dam, passing down the Murrumbidgee River through the town of Wagga Wagga.
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- Get your surfboard and hurry down to Wagga Beach to catch the five o'clock wave!
- fizgig
- a police informer
dating from the 1890s
- fiver
- a five dollar note
-
- fizzy drink
- a carbonated soft drink
- fizzer
- 1 a failure or a fiasco
- 2 a dud firework
- 3 a great party
from the 1940s
Fl
- flake
- shark fillets
- Sold in fish & chip shops.
- flake out
- lie down exhaustedly
- Johno's flaked out on the couch.
- flannie ~ flanno
- a flannelette shirt with a coloured checked pattern
The emblematic dress of:
westies, bevans, scozzers, chiggers, and bogans.aussie diminutive
- flash as a rat ∼ with a gold tooth
- ostentatious, showy
- And a bit too flashily dressed.
- flash language
- jargon of criminals in colonial times
Originated in England and brought to Australia by transported convicts.colonial slang
- flat
- 1 quality tobacco brought in from outside
prison slang
- 2 the centre area of a racecourse used by spectators
aussie turf slang dating from the 1840s
- flat chat
- as fast as possible
- He drove flat chat down the road.
- flat out ∼ like a lizard drinking
- extremely busy, at top speed
- We've been flat out at work.
since the 1930s
- flick
- 1 get rid of someone or something
- I'm gunna give Nick the flick.
- 2 a movie or film
- Wanna see the new flick at the Roxy?
- 3 to turn back an odometer
- Also known as a haircut.
since the 1920s
- flicks
- a cinema
- Wanna go to the flicks to see that new fillum?
- flipper
- a leg-spinners delivery
-
A low skidding ball, squeezed out between thumb and fingers which kicks forward rapidly upon striking the pitch
The ball comes through faster and lower than anticipated by the person batting.
See mullygrubber, offie and leggie for more deliveries. cricket slang
- floater
- 1 a meat pie served atop mushy peas
-
An aussie culinary treat, particularly common in Adelaide and, to a lesser degree, Sydney.
It consists of a traditional aussie-style meat pie, usually sitting, but sometimes submerged upside down in a bowl of thick green pea soup. - The consumer may also add tomato sauce, mint sauce, salt, pepper, and malt vinegar to personal taste. Often purchased in the street from pie-carts as a late evening meal.
since 1915
- 2 an item that is kept illegally and smuggled between cells
prison slang
- 3 a worker not attached to a gang
wharfie slang
- 4 a human corpse found floating
police slang
- 5 a coin which fails to spin
two-up slang
- 6 a piece of excrement in a toilet that won't flush
- flog
- 1 to sell something
- 2 to steal something
- 3 to whip as punishment
since colonial days
- flogger
- a short stick
-
With a bunch of crepe paper streamers in team colours.
Used in barracking at footy matches. aussie rules
- flyer
- 1 a fast kangaroo
- 2 a female quokka
- 3 a fast shearer
aussie rural slang
- flutter
- a wager
- Are you going to have a flutter on the Cup? In any sport, but especially on the Melbourne Cup, held annually on the first Tuesday of November.
Fo
- footy
- 1 australian rules
- 2 rugby league or union
- 3 soccer
- 4 a football
- Who kicked the footy over the fence? Generally, footy refers to Rugby League in QLD and NSW, and to Australian Rules Football in the other states.
- footbrawl
- a derogatory term for football
- Either aussie rules, rugby league, or rugby union, but not soccer, which is known as catch and kiss.
- form
- 1 a person 's luck, especially when viewed enviously
- He's won lotto again! How's his form?
since the 1960s
- 2 a person 's character
- A lousy dobber! Yeah, that'd be his form.
since the 1920s
- fortnight
- fourteen nights
- Included here for the elucidation of seppos.
standard english
- fossick
- 1 to search for gold in mining refuse
- From a Cornish dialect.
2 to rummage in search of something - She was fossicking through the cupboards looking for some sugar.
since the 1850s gold rush days
- fourby
- 1 a piece of timber measuring four inches by two inches
- I got whacked on the scone by a great lump of fourby.
2 a four-wheel drive vehicle - A contraction of the term four-by-four, numerically 4×4.
- foxie
- a fox terrier
aussie diminutive
since the 1900s
Fr
- franger
- 1 a condom
- 2 a sausage
since the 1970s
- freckle
- 1 the anus
- 2 a chocolate confection topped with hundreds & thousands
- fred
- field ration eating device
-
Consisting of a spoon, a bottle‑opener and a can‑opener.
Know colloquially as a
fucking ridiculous eating device! isssued to the australian military
- Fred Nerks
- archetypal aussie drongo
- There goes Fred Nerks taking up the whole road with his caravan.
since the 1960s
- Fremantle docker
- a seafarers expression
- The afternoon sea breeze that was predictable and in the right direction to enable sailing vessles to arrive at the dock in the port of Fremantle. Because of the prevailing daytime breezes, square rigged sailing ships could rarely find a wind to bring them inshore untill the air rising from the heat of the land caused a sea breeze to appear at the end of the day.
This sea breeze is called the Fremantle Docker for the obvious reason that it is the breeze by which you dock. During the night the land cools and by morning off-shore breezes prevail making it difficult, if not impossible, to dock a square rigged ship. The name was adopted by the AFL team the Fremantle Dockers -
There was one snag to the name: the link between the then Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union, which was de‑registered in 1993 following a criminal investigation.
Fremantle Dockers inaugural CEO David Hatt and inaugural chairman Ross Kelly utilised a myth around a common vernacular term in WA to get the name across the line.
He allayed the board's fears that effectively the name didn't come from the docks at all, it came from the famous sea breeze which the chairman affirmed was called the ‘Fremantle Docker’ as it used to blow the sailing ships into Fremantle harbour.
since 1995
- Fremantle doctor
- an afternoon cool sea breeze from the indian ocean
- Bringing relief on a hot summer's day to the residents of WA Like Fremantle, many towns have given it a local name.
Albany, Geraldton, Esperance, Eucla and Perth all have their doctor. first recorded in the 1870s
- Freo
- the city of freemantle, wa
- freshie
- freshwater crocodile
-
Crocodylus johnstoni is a species of crocodile endemic to the northern regions of Australia.
Unlike their much larger relative, the saltie, they are not known as man-eaters and rarely cause fatalities, although they will bite in self-defence if cornered. aussie diminutive
- friend of Dorothy
- homosexual male
- From Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, played by Judy Garland, a gay icon.
- frig
- 1 an exclamation
- Used as a substitute for the word fuck.
What the friggin' hell is going on here?
2 to masturbate
3 to have sex - frog & toad
- the road
- It's time to hit the frog.
rhyming slang since the 1900s frog & toad for road
- frostie
- an ice-cold beer
- froth & bubble
- 1 double
2 troubleaussie racetrack rhyming slang since the 1960s
Fu
- fuck
- 1 an exclamation
- Used to express disgust, annoyance, anger, amazement, wonder, and delight. Often euphemised to eff .
See bloody or frig for an alternative term
2 sexual intercourse - I suppose a fuck's out of the question, then?
- 3 to ruin, spoil, or wreck
- All that drinking has fucked my liver.
- 4 to astound or amaze
- It fucks me how he can keep on drinking.
- 5 a contemptible person
- Leave me alone you stupid fuck!
- 6 a much stronger equivalent of other swearwords
- I don't give a fuck.
- 7 a substitute for the word 'god' in oaths and the like
- What in fuck's name are you doing!
- 8 to not care at all
- I really don't give a flying fuck!
- fuck about
- 1 to waste time
- Let's just fuck about until smoko.
- 2 to treat someone unfairly
- I'm being fucked about by that mob!
- fuck around
- to cheat on someone sexually
- fuck all
- very little, virtually nothing
- fuck buddy
- a friend with whom you have sex
- Without the trappings of a committed relationship.
- fuck-load
- an awful lot
- They've got a fuck-load of problems.
- fuck-me boots
- women's long-legged, sexually alluring boots
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- fuck-off boots
- men's large and imposing footwear
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The bouncer was wearing his big fuck-off boots. - fuck over
- to take advantage of another
- To swindle or cheat someone.
- fuck up
- 1 to blunder
- He fucked up the project with his mistake.
- 2 to ruin or wreck
- That storm last night fucked up the fishing today.
- 3 a person who is mentally or emotionally unstable
- Don't let Harry come, you know what a fuck up he is.
- fucked up
- 1 severely affected by alcohol or drugs
- 2 mentally or emotionally wrecked
- 3 a state of total abnormality
- This whole town is fucked up!
- fucker
- 1 any person
- So the old fucker was right!
2 any thing - I can't get the fucker started!
- fuckwit
- a stupid person
- Unique aussie blending of fuck and nitwit.
- fuck with
- to meddle with
- fudge
- 1 to deceive by falsifying documents, applications, etcetera
- We got the car loan but I had to fudge my bank balance.
2 to illegally move your hand over the line in a game of marbles - full
- intoxicated, drunk
- Used throughout Aussie.
He was full of piss and bad manners!
I was as full as!
He was fuller than a State School bike-rack. - full of beans
- energetic
- full on
- intense, confronting
- fully
- completely, without reservation
- Used as an intensifier.
It fully reminds me of my trip to Europe. aussie youth slang since the 1990s
- furphy
- a rumour, or an erroneous or improbable story
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From the name of a brand of water cart manufactured by J. Furphy & Sons, which became popular as gathering places where soldiers could exchange gossip, rumours and fanciful tales. from wwi
- fuzzy wuzzy angels
- a term for native papua new guineans
- Reknowned for giving great assistance to Australian soldiers during World War II
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