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Originally Posted by SneakySnake
Kanga goes in the list that only old codgers , and maybe a few tourists use, along with....
Ripper
Beauty
Bonza
Bottler (straight out of the Brisbane Bitter Beer ad - sorry)
Sheila
Crikey
Jumbuck
Tucker bag
Flamin'
Billy(not used for tea anymore except by some old Blackfellas I know) - young peeps use the word Billy for something (shhhh illegal)
Cooee
....... and this list goes on. And then we have to get into the sayings that are more than one word  |
I'd say I still use "ripper" and "beauty" and "bottler" in some circumstances (I always thought "bottler" came from one of my favourite sayings...one I'm pretty sure traces back to the UK: Your blood's worth bottlin'). If we go camping, or when we'd go up to the hut, we'd still use a billy.
Which sends me the way "tadger" did...a lot of this stuff traces back to the
old dart. Some are probably not strictly Strine (for starters, rhyming slang goes back that way), and some may be words that stayed here but fell out of use back there, Strine inheriting them. I'm saying this as an excuse to link to World Wide Words (see link above, at "old dart"), which is a favourite website for this type of stuff.
Cheers,
Marc