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

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/brumby 

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.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/chip