S
- sacred site
- a place of spiritual significance to aboriginal people
indigenous australia - sandgroper
- a person from western australia
Either born in WA, or regards it as his or her home. - salute ∼ the great australian salute
- to brush flies away with the hand
- saltbush
- a plant that grows in saline areas
Especially found in desert country. - saltie
- saltwater crocodile
aussie diminutive
- Salvos
- the salvation army
The Army's purpose are:
Also the nickname of their op-shops. Let's go down to the salvos.
The advancement of the Christian religion …
of education, the relief of poverty, and other charitable objects beneficial to society or the community of mankind as a whole.
founded by william booth in london in 1865
- sanga ∼ sanger, sambo
- a sandwich
aussie diminutive
- sav
- saveloy
A type of sausage.aussie diminutive
S
- scallywag
- rascal, mischievious person
- schnozz
- nose
- school of the air
- a system of schooling for children in rural and remote areas
Pioneered in Australia in 1951 to supplement correspondence education. Teachers use high-frequency, two-way radio to broadcast lessons and communicate with students. Email, the internet, video, and fax are also used today.
It remains the most important means of education for children who have no access to school. - schooner
- 1 a 285 ml glass of beer in queensland
- 2 a medium glass of beer in south australia
This word is understood around the country.
For more information see
beer, middy, and seven. - scozzer
- a flannie-clad, mullet-sporting yobbo
-
Qld: bevan NSW: westie Vic: scozzer Tas: chigger - Australia-wide known as a bogan
melbourne slang
- scratchy
- instant lottery ticket
Played by scratching the ticket to reveal a prize (if won). - screamer ∼ two pot screamer
- a person who has a low tolerance of alcohol
- screamer
- the spectacular overhead mark in aussie rules
Regarded by many fans as the epitome of skill.
aussie rules
- scungies
- a brief men's swimming costume
See speedos for a full set of synonyms. - scungy
- unpleasant
S
- septic tank ∼ seppo
- an american person
rhyming slang: septic tank for yank
- servo
- petrol station
- seven
- a seven fluid ounce glass of beer
Throughout the country when you order a beer you will get a seven fluid ounce glass.
See beer, schooner, and middy for more information. - shag
- sexual intercourse
- shaggin' wagon
- a panel van
Usually set up with padded velvet, soft lights and stereo, for purposes of seduction.
See panel van for more information. - shag on a rock
- someone isolated, lonely, exposed
Everyone pissed off and left me like a shag on a rock! - shithouse
- of poor quality, unenjoyable
The movie was shithouse. - shit house
- lavatory
- sheep shagger
- a new zealander
aussie slang first recorded in 1894
- sheep's back on the …
- a reference to the wool industry
The source of Australia's colonial prosperity, started by the squatters. - sheila
- a girl or girlfriend, a woman
A nickname and generic use of the Irish girl's name, first used in Australia and NZ, and in Britain in the late 19th century. It is basically a bloke's word; women on the whole do not use it. Don't call me a sheila! Some men seem to think it is a neutral word, rather than a derogatory one, and formerly this may have been the truth, but nowadays women in general don't much like being called sheilas.aussie slang first recorded in 1830s
- shonky
- dubious, underhanded
- shoot through ∼ like a Bondi tram
- make a hasty departure
Two trams typically left the Sydney CBD for Bondi together, the first an express tram which would shoot through from Darlinghurst
to Bondi Junction. -
aussie slang since 1945
- shout
- turn to buy
Usually a round of drinks. - shower
- an admonishment that one has more intelligence than another assumes
I'm not stupid, I didn't come down in the last shower! - show pony
- someone who tries hard, by his dress or behaviour, to impress those around him
S
- sickie
- a period of sick leave, often one day
Usually with the implication that there is insufficient medical reason for the absence from work. Surf's up! I'm chuckin a sickie - skite
- boast, brag
- skull
- to consume a drink – usually alcohol
Drunk in a single draught without taking a breath. - slab
- a carton of stubbies or cans of beer
Usually containing two dozen of either. - sleepout
- a veranda, porch, or outbuilding
Used for sleeping accommodation. - slushy
- a cook's assistant or kitchen hand
- sluggos
- a brief men's swimming costume
See speedos for a full set of synonyms. - smoko
- a break from work for a smoke, coffee, tea, etc.
Nowadays, even non-smokers can take a smoko - snag
- a sausage
aussie slang since 1941
- sook
- one who is soft, inoffensive
S
- spanner water
- very cold water
Because, of course, it tightens the nuts, especially for icebergs.
aussie slang since the 1930s
- speccy
- the spectacular overhead mark in aussie rules
Regarded by many fans as the epitome of skill.
aussie rules
- speedos
- a brief men's swimming costume
There are a host of terms for tight-fitting (and revealing) men's swimwear:
sluggos, budgie smugglers, cock jocks, CJs
dick daks, dick togs, DTs, racers, scungiesa trademark used generically
- spewin'
- very angry
- spew
- to vomit
- spruiker
- someone employed to verbally encourage potential customers
- sprung
- caught doing something wrong
- spit the dummy
- have a tantrum
- sport ∼ a good sport
- fair minded person
- spunk
- a person of either sex who is regarded as sexually attractive
- squatter
- someone who settled on crown land
One of a group of rural landowners who first took up land to run stock without government permission.
Later, with a lease or licence, they became rich and influential, especially on the sheep's back.
colonial era
- squirrel grip
- to grab and crush someone's testicles
To go the squirrel is the practice of gripping another player's testicles in a scrum, maul or tackle in either Rugby League or Rugby Union and is in common use throughout NSW, Qld and the ACT.
rugby slang
- squizz
- a look
Take a squizz at this.
S
- stack
- accident, crash, fall
- stacks
- lots of something
Come over, I've got stacks of beer. - stack on a blue
- become extremely angry
- stickybeak
- a nosy person
- stirrer
- one who causes trouble
- stoked
- very pleased
I'll bet you're stoked with your new car.
originally surfie slang
- stolen generation
- aboriginal children who were taken from their families
From 1883–1969 thousands of Aboriginal children were placed in institutions or fostered with white families. indigenous australia - stonkered
- perplexed, defeated, cornered
- stoush
- a fight or brawl
Hence, an argument or altercation.
Used by soldiers to refer to war or a battle.
WWI was commonly known as The Big Stoush.
aussie slang since the 1890s
- strewth!
- god's truth!
Strewth! That bloke's got no strides on!
A mild oath in strinestrine
- strides
- trousers
- strine
- aussie slang and pronunciation
Do you have a Gloria Soame? What is an egg Nishner?
What are sex? Where checque etcher londger ray?
Professor Lauder knows the answers‼
- stubby
- a short, squat beer bottle
With a capacity of 375 ml. - stubbies
- a pair of short pants
- stuffed
- 1 very tired
- 2 broken
- stump
- a seat
Bus driver welcoming a passenger:
Grab a stump! - stroppy
- in a bad mood, being difficult
- subbie
- sub-contractor
- suicide season
- a feeling of oppression during the approach of the wet season
Afflicts residents of the Top End during the build-up to the wet season and marked by an increase in heat and humidity, causing tension and irritability in the tropical north.
Also called mango madness or simply troppo. - sunnies
- sunglasses
- surfies
- people who go surfing
- suss
- suspicious
That bloke looks pretty suss. - suss it out
- check something
Something's wrong, I'll go and suss it out. - swag
- 1 the possessions of one travelling, usually on foot in the bush
- 2 the blanket-wrapped roll carried by a swagman
- swagman ∼ swaggie
- an itinerant worker or a drifter
