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  • Hi, I'm Margot Robbie

  • and I'm gonna teach you some Aussie slang.

  • Bludger, okay, a bludger is like, someone who's lazy.

  • Fair dinkum, kinda like, oh far out.

  • Good on you.

  • "Oh, good on you, mate", like that.

  • So, it was a ripper of a party

  • or like he's a ripper of a bloke.

  • Good.

  • Hard yakka?

  • Hard yakka's like hard work.

  • I've never used the word doovalacky in my life.

  • I have no idea what it means.

  • Oh, so if you can crack on to someone,

  • you're hitting on them.

  • If you kiss too much and like your face is all red,

  • you say you've got pash rash.

  • What you call a thong, we call that a G-string or G-banger.

  • But thongs to us are your flipflops.

  • He's a crook, he's a criminal.

  • I'm feeling crook, I'm feeling sick.

  • Chuck a sickie?

  • If you chuck a sickie, you're like calling in sick.

  • A bottle-o is a liquor store.

  • Tinny can either be a boat or a beer can.

  • Stubby, that's a bottle of beer.

  • You're frothing for it, you're excited for it.

  • You froth those, you really like those.

  • Chunder?

  • Vomit, spew, throw up.

  • Barbie, barbecue.

  • Avo for avocado, arvo for afternoon.

  • So yeah, like, this arvo, we're gonna go to the bottle-o.

  • Get a couple of tinnies.

  • Daks are your pants, like trousers.

  • And so, if you daks someone,

  • it's like when you run up behind them

  • and you pull their pants down.

  • Whinge, so if you're whinging, you're complaining,

  • like you're whining.

  • If you're a dag, yeah,

  • you're kind of a dork or a goof or whatever.

  • A bog is a shit or poop,

  • as you would say in America.

  • A ute is a pick-up truck.

  • Jump in the back of the ute!

  • Togs, your bathing suit.

  • Put your togs on!

  • Ratbag, my nephew's a ratbag,

  • like a cheeky, little so and so,

  • someone who's kinda like misbehaving.

  • Fanny? (laughs)

  • In America,

  • I think you guys call fanny like your bum is your fanny.

  • In Australia, your front bum is your fanny,

  • if you're a girl.

  • Esky, I think you call it a cooler.

  • A cuppa, cup of tea.

  • A dunny is a toilet.

  • Sitting on the dunny, sitting on the toilet.

  • Durry, is a cigarette.

  • You can have a durry, have a darb.

  • Sheila,

  • I think everyone knows that one.

  • A woman, a female.

  • Snag, is a sausage.

  • A sook, someone who's having a cry,

  • like having a sook.

  • Slab, slab of beers.

  • I think you'd say carton of beers.

  • If you're in a room and you say, "It's chockers in here."

  • It's like you can't move,

  • "There's so many people, it's chockers in here."

  • (bleep)wit, yeah, like a (bleep)wit.

  • Doodle's like,

  • it's like kinda what you would call a penis if you were young.

  • A bogan's kinda like white trash.

  • Mozzie, mosquito.

  • Dogs eye, I don't know what's dogs eye.

  • I've never said that.

  • If you're a tosser,

  • you're a dickhead, bit of a jerk.

  • Hooroo, I don't say hooroo.

  • I feel like that's kinda like an older person thing to say

  • but hooroo, I think that means like hello and goodbye.

  • Rackoff, like piss off.

  • Grommet's a young surfer.

  • Shithouse, toilet.

  • Kinda makes sense.

  • Old fella, I guess fella comes from fellow.

  • Like so an old man, like, "Some old fella pranged my car. What a wanker", that sort of thing.

  • Reg grundies, I've never heard that in my life.

  • I mean if you chopped out this part, and had it,

  • just as undies, that's what I call underwear.

  • Spit the dummy, like have a tantrum.

  • Crazy, totally off your rocker.

  • Come a guster...?

  • I don't know what that means.

  • I think that's enough slang for one day.

  • Any Aussie's watching,

  • I'm sorry if I described them incorrectly.

  • And for anyone not Aussie, I hope you learned something!

Hi, I'm Margot Robbie

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