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A bogan or a bevan? Do you know your Aussie slang?
Alf Stewart knows his regional lingo
ARE they a bevan or a bogan?
Do you have a few roos loose in the top paddock and have you ever come across a black bob?
The Macquarie Dictionary with the ABC has whipped up an Australian Word Map to help all of us speak 'Strayan.
Every Australian area has been broken down with a stack of "regionalisms".
So how well do you speak Strayan? Click the location to see the full lists.
(And leave a comment with any you think have been left out)
- AJ
- bar
- beamie
- Belgium sausage
- best and fairest
- bevan
- big lunch
- black bob
- bobby pin
- Bogan gate
- bolero
- bopple
- brandy
- brumby
- bubbler
- bucket
- bulb
- bullhead
- bunge
- Burdekin duck
- cabaret
- Callaghan Parks
- Charmaine
- cheerio
- chuck a lap
- coffee roll
- convenience store
- cowal
-
cracked off
- a few roos loose in the top paddock
- agates
- aggie
- AJ
- alleys
- arpy barpy
- arrester bed
- arvo
- Ashgrovians
- assembly
- back-seat bogan
- Baillie
- bar
- Barcoo fly veil
- Barney Box
- barry
- batch
- bathers
- baths
- bedlam
- beer goggles
- beer o'clock
- berko
- best and fairest
- bevan
- big lunch
- bindi-eye
- bindy
- Binjour Bear
- a cut lunch and a water bag
- as dry as a blacksmiths apron
- assembly
- a touch of sugar
- baldie
- banana-hammock
- bar
- barie
- baron sausage
- barrow
- barry
- the bay
- bazman
- belly flop
- best and fairest
- big lunch
- bilby
- bird-cage
- Black
- black aspro
- bloke of
- blue swimmer
- blue swimmer crab
- bluey
- bobby pin
- bodgies
- Bogan gate
- bogey
- bommy knocker
Head to Macquarie Dictionary to check out the other regions:
Australia broken down into its regionalisms.
- Sydney Region
- Hunter Valley and North Coast
- New England District
- The Riverina
- South Coast and Southern Tablelands
- Central West NSW
- Brisbane Region
- Central Coast Qld
- North Coast Qld
- Far North Qld
- West Central Qld
- Darwin and North Coast
- The Centre
- Northern West Australia
- Central West Australia
- Perth Region
- Tasmania
- Wimmera and Mallee
- Central Highlands Victoria
- Western District
- Northern Victoria
- Gippsland
- Melbourne Region
- Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas
- Adelaide Region
- Far West New South Wales
- Northern South Australia
