| Abo | A member of an Australian aboriginal people; an Australian Aboriginal. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| Af | In southern Africa, esp. in Zimbabwe and South Africa: a black African. | 1974 | Go To Quotation |
| arvo | Afternoon. | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| barge | An argument, dispute. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| binghi | An Australian Aboriginal. | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| bombora | A dangerous stretch of water where the waves break over a submerged reef of rocks. | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| bonzer | Excellent, extremely good. Also absol. as n. Obs. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| bot | intr. (See quot. 1941 botting n. at Derivatives.) | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| Buckley's | In full Buckley's chance (or hope, etc.): a forlorn hope, no chance at all. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| cliner | A girl; a sweetheart. Now rare or Obs. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| cobber | A companion, a mate, a friend. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| corsetry | concr. Corsets collectively. Also attrib. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| cruel | trans. To spoil; to destroy all chance of success with. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| depresh | Colloq. abbrev. of depression n. 5. | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| dicken | An interjectional exclamation expressing disgust or disbelief: come off it!, cut it out! Also const. on. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| didgeridoo | A musical instrument of the Australian Aborigines, consisting of a long tube made from bamboo… | 1924 | Go To Quotation |
| dingo | trans. To back out of; to shirk. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| dink | A ride or lift on the bar of a bicycle. Also v. trans., to give (a person) such a lift. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| gee | The accomplice of a cheapjack or showman. Also gee-man. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| hipper | (See quots.) Cf. hip-hole n. at hip n. 3. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| hooray | Good-bye. Cf. hurroo int. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| jollo | A party, esp. one at which liquor is drunk. Cf. jolly n. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| kero | Austral. and N.Z. Colloq. abbrev. of kerosene n. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| kip | A small piece of wood from which pennies are spun in the game of two-up. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| kooka | = kookaburra n. | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| kunai | A large coarse grass, Imperata cylindrica, found in tropical Asia, Australia, and… | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| loppy | A handyman on rural stations. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Major-Mitchelling | The action of Major-Mitchell v. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| metho | Methylated spirits, esp. as an alcoholic drink. Freq. attrib. | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| mo | A moustache. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| mockered up | Dressed up. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| molly-hander | = molly-dooker n. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| mulga wire | An informal network for conveying information; a piece of information so conveyed; a rumour, esp.… | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| murlonga | In Australian Aboriginal usage: a white man who sexually exploits Aboriginal women. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| nap | Bedding used by a person sleeping in the open air. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| Naretha | a blue bonnet parrot of the endangered subspecies Northiella (or Psephotus)… | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| nit | Signalling or warning of a person's approach: ‘Beware!’, ‘Look out!’. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| nit-keeper | A person who keeps a lookout, usually while some illegal activity is being carried on. Also occas. in extended use. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| nuddy | = nude n. Only in in the nuddy. | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| outbacker | A native or inhabitant of the Australian outback, or (rarely) of the remote inland… | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| outbackery | The (cultivation of) attitudes, values, and culture supposedly characteristic of inhabitants of the Australian outback. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| Oz | Australia. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| paddymelon | Any of several plants of the family Cucurbitaceae, esp. the trailing… | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| pearler | = purler n. 2. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| pig-rooting | Austral. and N.Z. The action in a horse of kicking up with the hind legs (cf. pig-root v. 2). | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| pig-rooting | Designating a horse that pig-roots; of or relating to pig-rooting (cf. pig-root v. 2). | 1913 | Go To Quotation |
| pin bullock | In a team of draught bullocks: either of the pair of bullocks nearest to the vehicle to… | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| pink-eye | Chiefly in Western Australia: a period of rest, a holiday; spec. a journey undertaken… | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| plonk | Cheap wine of inferior quality. Also, more generally: wine or alcohol of any kind. | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| Pong | A Chinese person. Also occas.: a Japanese person. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| qualup bell | A small western Australian shrub, Pimelea physodes (family Thymelaeaceae)… | 1916 | Go To Quotation |
| rammies | With pl. concord. Trousers. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| robbo | A horse and trap, esp. one in a ramshackle condition; the driver or hirer of one of… | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| roo | intr. To hunt kangaroos. Freq. in present participle. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| Salvo | A member of the Salvation Army; pl., the Salvation Army. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| shicker | intr. To take alcoholic drink, to get drunk. | 1913 | Go To Quotation |
| subbie | A subcontractor. | 1973 | Go To Quotation |
| swelp | perversion of so help, in the oath ‘so help me God’: see so adv. conj. 19, and cf. s'elp adv., s'help adv. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| toey | Restive, anxious, touchy. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| tucker | trans. To supply with food. Also refl. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| tug | A rogue or sharper; also, an uncouth or rowdy fellow, a larrikin. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| twang | Opium. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| two-up | Austral. and N.Z. A gambling game played by tossing two coins, bets being laid on the showing of two heads or two tails. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| U-ey | A U-turn. | 1976 | Go To Quotation |
| uni | Colloq. abbrev. of university n. 1. Also attrib. and Comb. Cf. Univ n. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| wog | A germ or parasite; an insect; an illness or disease. Cf. bug n. 3d. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| zac | A sixpence. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
