Friday, March 30, 2018
Sunday, March 25, 2018
muck sb/sth about/around
1) muck sb/sth about/around mainly UK informal
— phrasal verb with muck uk /mʌk/ us /mʌk/ verb
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/muck-sb-sth-about-around
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/mark
to behave in a silly way, or to treat someone or something in a careless way:
Stop mucking about with those ornaments, you'll break something!
I'm fed up with them mucking me about and cancelling our arrangements.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Behaving in a silly way
I’m sure you’ll all agree, guys, the Australian platypus is one cute and cuddly Aussie creature, and one that is incredibly interesting, but it’s one that you should definitely not muck around with if you see it in the wild.
2) platypus noun [ C ] uk /ˈplæt.ɪ.pəs/ ('plat.tis.pas) us /ˈplæt̬.ɪ.pəs/ also duck-billed platypus
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/platypus?q=+platypus
an Australian river mammal with a wide beak whose young are born from eggs
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wild mammals
ref:https://www.theaussieenglishpodcast.com/ae-414-expression-have-egg-on-your-face/
Credit: to photographer.
— phrasal verb with muck uk /mʌk/ us /mʌk/ verb
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/muck-sb-sth-about-around
mark noun
uk /mɑːk/ us /mɑːrk/https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/mark
to behave in a silly way, or to treat someone or something in a careless way:
Stop mucking about with those ornaments, you'll break something!
I'm fed up with them mucking me about and cancelling our arrangements.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Behaving in a silly way
I’m sure you’ll all agree, guys, the Australian platypus is one cute and cuddly Aussie creature, and one that is incredibly interesting, but it’s one that you should definitely not muck around with if you see it in the wild.
2) platypus noun [ C ] uk /ˈplæt.ɪ.pəs/ ('plat.tis.pas) us /ˈplæt̬.ɪ.pəs/ also duck-billed platypus
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/platypus?q=+platypus
an Australian river mammal with a wide beak whose young are born from eggs
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wild mammals
ref:https://www.theaussieenglishpodcast.com/ae-414-expression-have-egg-on-your-face/
Credit: to photographer.
Friday, March 16, 2018
jobs – chippy, sparky, brickie, dunny diver – what are you talking about?!
Why use the correct word when you can have some fun and bamboozle non-native English speakers?
- chippy – a carpenter (they make chips when the cut up wood)
- sparky – an electrician (they make sparks when they make electricity)
- bricky – brick layer
- dunny diver – plumber (they fix toilets, also known as dunnies in colloquial English) (this is less commonly used)
- shiny bum – office worker or executive (because they sit on their bottom all day so it gets shiny)
- desk driver – same as above
- ivory tower – where a shiny bum works and is separated from understanding what the ‘real’ people do
- shrink – psychiatrist
- doc – medical doctor
- garbo or garbologist – a garbage (rubbish) collector. Garbologist is a joke because it makes it sound like a sophisticated job.
- digger – Australian soldier (from when they dug trenches in the 1st World War)
- trady – a trades-person
- milko – milkman ( or woman) who delivers the milk to your doorstep
- checkout chick – cashier (for a female and usually in a supermarket like Coles or Woolies) * Not everyone likes being called a c.c.
- general practitioner (doctor) – quack (particularly a disreputable doctor)
doughies
To drive a car in tight circles at full speed causing the rear wheels to lose traction and raise a lot of smoke/dust: Let's take the Gemini out and do a few doughies. Compare circlework, doughnut, hoops, two-bob.
Contributor's comments: An abbreviation of "doughnuts", refers to the shape of the tyre marks made, also used in WA.
Contributor's comments: [NSW Informant] We called doughies 'doughnuts'. A straight-line version of this was always called 'laying down rubber' or a 'burnout'.
Contributor's comments: "Doughies" is also used in Melbourne.
brumby noun [ C ]
uk /ˈbrʌm.bi/ us /ˈbrʌm.bi/ Australian English
a wild horse, especially one that has escaped from a farm
chip noun (PIECE)
[ C ] a small piece that has been broken off a larger object, or the mark left on an object such as a cup, plate, etc. where a small piece has been broken off it:
wood chips
Polly fell and knocked a chip out of her front tooth.
This mug's got a chip in it/out of it.
wood chips
Polly fell and knocked a chip out of her front tooth.
This mug's got a chip in it/out of it.
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