Australian & NZ slang
Aussie and Kiwi vocabulary — bogan, daggy, brekkie, sheila, bach, jandals — the whole Antipodean lexicon, including outback dialect, surf and beach culture, and Sydney/Melbourne street slang.
Australian and New Zealand slang clusters around two long-running impulses: diminutive abbreviation (the universal "-o" and "-ie" endings — arvo, servo, dunny, thongs) and a deflationary attitude toward sincerity that treats earnestness as a faux pas. The vocabulary draws on convict-era English, Aboriginal English, Maori, and post-war migrant slang, with strong Cockney rhyming residue. Signature exemplars: mate, bogan, no worries, taking the piss, chockers. The category leans Australian working-class and suburban (NSW/Victoria coastal), generation cuts across boomers to Gen Z, platform mostly oral with TikTok pockets around bogan-core revival. NZ contributes a quieter strand — chur, sweet as — distinguished by Maori loanwords and a softer cadence.
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