Australian slang for a tall bottle of beer — typically a 750ml bottle, larger than a standard stubby (375ml).
Australian slang for a tall bottle of beer — typically a 750ml bottle, larger than a standard stubby (375ml). Tallies are a practical format for home consumption and are common at bottle shops across Australia. The informal, affectionate diminutive form is characteristic of Australian English, which routinely shortens words and adds -ie or -y. Buying a few tallies is a standard move before a backyard gathering.
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He grabbed a couple of tallies from the bottle-o on the way to the barbie.
(AU, slang) A tall beer bottle.
"tallie" means: A tall beer bottle.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
"tallie" means: A tall beer bottle.. Register: informal slang, fine in casual conversation, texting and social media but not in academic essays, business writing or formal speech. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
“Swen and Tallie moved in together on Tomodachi Life and it let me name their household so I named it "Locket Timeline" and hurt my own feelings”