Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie English Podcast where I teach you 50+ Australian slang words you need to learn! Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Android | RSS Download MP3 + Transcript Watch the video here! AE 482 – 50+ Australian Slang Words You Need to Learn G’day, guys! What’s going on and welcome to this episode of Aussie English. Today, we’re going to be talking about 50 different Australian slang terms you need to know. Let’s go. * Arvo. Arvo. This is just afternoon. You might hear this, what are you doing this arvo? or What are you doing tomorrow arvo? and it just means, what are you doing this afternoon or tomorrow afternoon? Arvo. * The Aussie salute. ‘The Aussie salute’ is what we used to refer to when someone does this, because it fly’s in their face, and they move their hand like this, because we have a lot of flies in Australia. * To bail. If you bail on something or bail on someone or you just need to bail, it just means that you need to leave. Sorry, guys, I’ve got to bail. I have to go home. I’ve got to get dinner. I’ve got to bail. Sorry about that. Gotta bail. * A barbie. ‘A Barbie’ is just a barbecue. So, you might have friends over on the weekend, get on the deck, get some food, put it on the barbie, cook it up, you’re having a barbie, you’re having a barbecue. A Barbie. * Bathers. ‘Bathers’ is an incredibly common way of saying ‘swimsuit’ the gear that you wear when you go to the beach or when you go to a swimming pool, because you want to swim, you put your bathers on. * Beauty. Oh man, what a beauty! ‘A beauty’ is something that is really good as in ‘beautiful’. It is a beauty. He got a new car. It is a beauty. What a beauty! That car is a beauty. * A billabong. ‘Billabong’ is an Aboriginal word for a pond, a small piece of water, a small thing of water, in a dry river bed. This is a billabong. And it is also a brand of surfing gear in Australia. * A Billy. ‘A billy’ is a tea pot usually made out of a metal tin. A tin of some kind. You put it on a campfire. You use it to heat water when you camping. A billy. * A bludger. ‘A bludger’ is someone who is lazy and doesn’t work. If they don’t have a job or when they are working they’re incredibly lazy, they are a bludger. And you’re going to often hear this in the phrase ‘dole bludger’, which means that you are receiving government benefits because you don’t have a job. You’re a dole bludger. That guy is a real bludger. * Bogan. Man, this is one that is hard to explain. ‘A bogan’ is someone who is usually uncouth, unsophisticated, uneducated, swears a lot, is just an unpleasant person, usually. it’s sort of Australia’s version of a redneck. A bogan. A bogan. And a bogan usually doesn’t know they’re a bogan. Everyone thinks someone else is a bogan. But bogans themselves, probably won’t say, yeah, I’m a real bogan. Okay? Bogan. Be careful how you use that Down Under. * Booze bus. The booze bus.