Australian slang: does anyone actually say this? learning aussie slang

[MrJarryd]

1. True
2. True
3. Never heard that before.
4. True

[SignorSprezzatura]

Buckley's Chance = William Buckley was a convict who escaped from a landing party near Sorrento during the first abortive attempt to settle on Port Phillip Bay. He gradually made his way up towards the current site of Melbourne and lived with the indigenous people there until during the second, successful settlement attempt by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner he was discovered 30 or so years after his escape. Hence Buckley's chance means to have very little chance but yet some chance. Another version was to have "Buckley's and None", which was a conflation of the original story and the name of a prominent early department store (i.e. Buckley's and Nunn) which I believe was located in Collins St.

[datUtimatum]

Accadacca is just the name of the band. They're Australian. The rest of the world been saying it wrong for years.

[alanahams]

Never heard bouncy mouse. But all the others i commonly hear in rural NSW.

[rogerdavis]

Bouncey Mouse?! Someone’s pulling your leg, love!

[MartinSchurmann-ymly]

Struth actually goes back to at least Elizabeth in English Shakespeare used to use the term. It was a way of hiding blasphemy.

[ChuckyMcNubbin]

Roos are also known as big reds if they're the red roo ones. We also have greys. They're also called skippy.

[jayne]

My son’s teacher is American, the school decided to give each home room an Australian animal name, my son’s American teacher told the class she would give them the name the galahs. Us parents had a good laugh. In Australia, if you call someone galah, it means they are an idiot. A bunch of galahs means they are all stupid

[moonorchid]

1. Yes
2. Also yes, but you’re more likely to have someone (older) say “you’ve got bucklys of that happening!”
3. Have not heard that before. But I love it!
4. Just watch home and away… i mean… if you want your brain to die. Strueth is used the time by a character on that. Also more of an older generation thing. But yeah an exlclaimation, could be of surprise or disbelief etc

[jdeelp]

When I hear "Strewth", all I picture Alf Stewart. Lol!
His famous for "Strewth" and "Stone the flam'n crows" 🤣

I never used Strewth but the older generation in the family does.

Ac/Dc one is correct

But the other two, surprisingly, never heard of it in all my life.

[sandrabell]

Just for context these divine buildings are the original Rialto and Olderfleet buildings in Melbourne NOT Tasmania so please viewers, don't go to Hobart looking for them! :)

[paulholmes]

Certified aussie here 1976 model.West australian mine worker worked with people from all over the country Akka Dakka is pretty old school you wouldn't hear it much anymore. Buckey's chance definitely used again pretty old school. You would hear it as "You've got two chances mate Buckey's and none.".Never once heard Bouncy Mouse. Strewth you would hear again pretty rarely another pretty old school term, used as an exclamation.

[BeyondDictation]

Also just to refine your usage just say “I’ve got Buckleys” or “there’s Buckleys of that happening” etc, saying the full thing is all good but shortening it to just Buckleys is some expert usage

[zetizahara]

Except bouncy mouse, I’ve heard them all before. A lot of our slang is outdated now. We are subject to something called cultural cringe here in Australia, which might account for it disappearing a bit.

[Emsies]

Other helpful ones to know are ‘wonky’ which means crooked, like something is out of alignment as in, “The picture on the wall is wonky.” And here a ‘rubber’ refers to an eraser and not a condom.

[mikilaa]

Everything but bouncy mouse is legit, but I will start using it 😂

[lukehayes]

Heres some extra reading for you.

The servo, dunnies, cobba, rangas, all of the different names we've got for tradies like sparkies, chippies and brickies, and all the different fast food nicknames we've got, like going for a maccas run, getting a zinger box from dirty bird, or getting a HSP from the local kebab joint

[paulclissold]

william buckley was a convict in 1803 he escaped and came back to civilization 32 years later all hope was given up. my ancestor was his guard.

[twilightroach]

They are older slang terms (AC/DC have been around since 1973) but I’ve never heard of a bouncy mouse.

[TildaM]

All real slang. Also my boyfriend from america got very confused when I said "I'm just having a sook" which means just complaining. Threw me lol