as full as a butcher's pup
Extremely full after eating.
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The Slang MusterAustralian words and expressions
Food and drink
What Australians eat, drink, cook, carry and call it in different places.
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as full as a state school hat-rack
Extremely full; used of a person who has eaten or drunk heavily, or of a very crowded place.
Read the note on usagebachelor’s handbag
A hot supermarket barbecue or roast chicken sold in a handled plastic bag.
barbie
A barbecue.
bottle-o
A bottle shop or liquor store; historically also a bottle collector.
Read the note on usagebring a plate
Bring a dish of food to share at a gathering.
bum nut
An egg.
bush doughnut
Damper dough cooked over a campfire, often on a stick and finished with golden syrup, likened to a doughnut.
Current but uncommonbushman brownie
A durable fruit cake or slab cake made for carrying and keeping, in older Australian cookery.
Historical or recipe-heritage termbutt nugget
An egg, in playful slang.
Current but uncommonchicken in pyjamas
Chicken parmigiana, in playful family or food slang.
Current but uncommoncould eat a horse and chase the rider
Be extremely hungry.
Read the note on usagecould eat the bum out of an elephant
To be extremely hungry.
Read the note on usagedad and mum
Rum, in rhyming slang documented in Australian service usage.
Historical or uncommondandruff cake
A lamington.
Read the note on usagedemocracy sausage
A sausage in bread bought at a polling-place fundraiser on election day.
Esky
A portable insulated cooler; in Australian usage, a proprietary name widely used generically.
Read the note on usagefart fodder
Baked beans.
Read the note on usagefull as a boot
Completely full, replete or very drunk.
full as a Bourke Street tram
Extremely crowded, replete or drunk.
full as a goog
Very full, replete or drunk, depending on context.
full as a pommy complaint box
Very full or very drunk.
Read the note on usagegoon
Cheap cask wine; sometimes the wine-cask bladder itself.
Read the note on usageHarold Holt
Salt, in Australian rhyming slang.
Current but uncommonhoney joy
A small sweet made by coating cornflakes with a baked mixture of butter, honey and sugar, usually set in a paper case.
horse's doover
A hors d'oeuvre, represented by a jocular Australian pronunciation.
I can feel a XXXX coming on
Express anticipation of a XXXX beer; advertising-derived catchphrase.
Read the note on usageice block
A frozen flavoured-water confection; terminology varies regionally.
lammo
A lamington.
Read the note on usagemeat pie
A try in rugby, in Australian sporting rhyming slang.
Read the note on usagemystery bag
A sausage, in Australian rhyming slang (bag rhyming with snag).
Read the note on usageoff like a bucket of prawns in the sun
Spoiled or became unpleasant very quickly.
Read the note on usagepav
A pavlova.
Read the note on usageplonk
Cheap wine or alcoholic drink.
Read the note on usagepot and parma
A pub special pairing beer with chicken parmigiana.
Read the note on usageput on a feed
Provide a meal, often for a group.
sanger
A sandwich.
schnitty
A schnitzel.
Read the note on usagescrambo
Scrambled eggs.
Read the note on usageshout
Buy a round of drinks or pay for another person’s turn.
smashed avo
A cultural shorthand for supposedly discretionary millennial spending, especially in debates about housing affordability.
Read the note on usagesmiley fritz
Fritz sausage patterned so that each slice shows a smiling face, traditionally given to children at South Australian deli counters.
Currentsnag
A sausage.
snarler
A sausage.
Read the note on usagesouva
A souvlaki.
sparrow's guts
Asparagus, especially tinned asparagus, in jocular or remembered Australian usage.
Dated or rememberedstubbie
A small beer bottle; also short work shorts in the plural.
Read the note on usagetank loaf
A loaf of bread baked in an enclosed rounded or corrugated tin, producing a cylindrical or tank-like shape.
Dated or regionally rememberedthrow another prawn on the barbie
An invitation to add seafood to a barbecue; often used as an external stereotype of Australian speech.
Read the note on usageTim Tam slam
Drinking through a chocolate biscuit.
Read the note on usagetucker
Food; provisions.
Wally Grout
A shout or round of drinks.
Read the note on usagewrap your laughing gear around
Eat or drink something eagerly.