The B of Aussie Slang

B & S Ball – Bachelor’s and Spinster’s ball, a huge drunken mess where the admission fee usually covers all you can drink. An annual event, and the highlight of the year for many a young bloke or sheila in rural Australia

B&S Ball shenanigans

Back door bandit – A male homosexual

Back of Bourke –  A very long way away – Bourke is a town far inland in New South Wales

Bag – To rubbish someone, speak bad of them

Balls and all – to enthusiastically get involved

Ball Breaker – A female who gives a guy a knock back (turns him down)

Ball and Chain – How wives are referred to by their husbands

Balls Up – Everything went wrong

Bail Up – To chat to someone for ages

Bang – Sexual intercourse, a bonk

Barbie – Barbeque – to which the beer gut will bring-a-plate, B.Y.O., eat snags, prawns, barramundi and make a bozo of himself when he gets blotto on booze, preferably Bundy, tells a load of bullshit about the Bunyip that lives out the back of Bourke, then gets into a barney and has a biffo with his boofhead mate – did you get that ???

Barker’s Egg – A dog shit

self explanatory I think

Barney – Argument, fight

Barra – Barramundi, a type of fish, popular at barbies

Barramundi

Barrack – Cheer loudly for your favourite team, and show vigorous support

Bash – To attempt something, also a social do (he’s havin’ a bash at his house)

Bastard – Often used as a term of endearment to friends (Hey you old bastard – is a popular phrase)

Battler – Someone who struggles to get by financially, often referred to in economic situations, a hard worker

Beanie – A woollen hat

Beanie

Bearded clam – The female genital area

Beaut – Beautiful or good ” You beaut” means that’s good. “She’s a beaut.”

Beauty – Fantastic, unreal, excellent  – “She’s a beauty, mate.” (Usually referring to their cars)

Beer Gut – The awfully large stomach that makes a man looks pregnant

Yuk

Bible Basher  – The Christian who never stops preaching

Biffo – A fist fight

Big bikkies – Lots of money, expensive  – “He’s making the big bikkies mate.”

Big white telephone  – Toilet

Bikie – Motorbike rider, member of a motorcyle club

Bikkie – Biscuits or cookies

Billabong – Lagoon or waterhole (made famous in the song ‘Waltzing Mathilda”)

Billabong

Billy – Metal tin can used to boil water over a campfire for tea in the bush

Billy

Bindies – thorns or prickles in the grass

Biscuit – Cookie

Bit of a brothel – Very untidy, a mess

Bities – Biting insects

Bitser – Mongrel, mixed breed, many varieties in one object – “He’s a bit of a bitzer mate.” Often used to describe inanimate objects such as cars.

Bitumen – Asphalt

Bizzo – Business – mostly refers to people’s personal information

Black Stump – Non-specific place in the outback, might even be out  “beyond the back of Bourke”

Bloke – Man, fella, guy – generally a specimen with dangly bits

Bloody – an adjective to be used before a noun, or if you want, another bloody adjective, you bloody, daft, boofhead !!

Blotto – Drunk – really, really drunk

Blowie –  An Australian Blowfly – the term has been known to mean something different – if you know what I mean

Blowfly

Blow-in – A recent arrival, a newcomer to the area

Bludger – Lazy person

Blue Rinse Brigade – Old ladies who put drops in their hair to turn it blue! When you parade about with this sort of hair you’re considered really OLD!!!

Dame Edna

Blue – Anargument, a fight, in other words – a biffo

Blue Flame – The act of lighting a fart, it blows out into a flame ( Kids don’t try this at home – unless your blotto Dad is around to put the bloody flames out)

Bluey – Australian cattle dog

Bluey – The Australian Cattle Dog

Bonza – Bloody bonza mate !!!!!! – very, very good

Boofhead – Usually a term of endearment or – anidiot, a silly person – can be both

Boomerang – An article lent on the definite stipulation that it must be returned

Bonk – To have sex, or to bang

Bottlo/Bottle’O –  A bottleshop, off license, liquor barn

Bodgy  – Of inferior quality or a person with dubious character – “He did a bodgy job repairing that mate”

Bored shitless – Very, very bored

Booze  – Alcohol

Bozo – Someone who clowns around, makes an idiot of themselves

Brass – Cash or money

Brass razoo – “He hasn’t got a brass razoo that bloke” – is very poor / broke

Brekkie – Breakfast

Bring-a-plate – when you get an invite to ‘bring-a-plate’ of food to share

Brizzie/Brissie – Brisbane

Bucket – To denigrate or bad mouth someone

Bucket mouth – someone who’s loud and obnoxious – “That bozo’s got a bucket mouth”

Buckley’s – No chance !!!!!! Not a one – so don’t bother boofhead.

Buck’s Night – Stag party, the party a man has before he gets married, where his boofhead bozo mates leave him handcuffed to a pole with a ball and chain attached to his leg

Budgie – An Australian native parrot

Budgy

Budgiesmuggler – A way-too-tight fitting speedo, the lump in the front of these freakish pieces of swimwear looks like a budgie has been stuffed down there

Budgiesmuggler on a bloke

Bug – An insect, to pester, or the delicious seafood delicacy “Moreton Bay Bug”

Moreton Bay Bugs

Bugger 

1) A noun, meaning an unpleasant person

2) A verb, meaning to render something incapable of function

3) There is also a place called ‘buggery’, and if an Australian suggests you go there, you’ve been a bit annoying, best you leave really

Bullshit  – Untrue, exaggerated, total lies, crap , a load of rubbish

Bullshitter – Someone who speaks an untruth, exaggerates, lies, tells you crap or talks a load of rubbish

Bum’s Rush – Hurry someone up or ignore them

Bun in the oven – Pregnant, in the family way, expecting the pitter patter of tiny feet

Bunch of Fives  – Punch someone with your fist

Bundy – A dark rum made in Bundaberg (Queensland) in the sugar cane region where I used to live. A lovely little tipple – of which I’ve tippled a time or two

Bundy Rum

Bunyip  – an Australian creature from Aboriginal mythology, said to lurk in billabongs, who disturbs the night with a shrieking, piercing cry

Bunyip

Bum – arse, butt, backside, ass, rear end

Bum burglar – A male homosexual

Burl – To try or attempt – “Let’s give it a burl mate”

Bush – Outside the city (in the country) or – it has been used to refer to a woman’s pubic area

Australian bush

Bushed – tired, exhausted, worn out, buggered

Bush Buzzer – A lady’s companion, but you’d do well to remember to charge the batteries (a vibrator)

Bushranger – an outlaw, Australian highwayman – think Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly – A famous Australian bushman

Bush Telegraph –  Grape – vine, word of mouth

Bush Tucker – Food gathered from nature in the outback or bush (otherwise known as the forest)

Bushwalking – Hiking in the forest /outback/ bush

Butter wouldn’t melt in my mouth – A person of angelic appearance but usually full of bullshit

B.Y.O. – bring your own – refers to bringing your own booze to a barbie, bash, or restaurant (if they allow it)

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