The G of Aussie Slang

G’Day – hello!

G’Day cobber – hello good friend

Gabba – Wooloongabba –  Brisbane Cricket Ground

Gabster – radio talk show host

GAFA (pronounced gaffa) – the enormous oblivion of the Australian Outback. Great Australian F**k All.

Galah – Eolophus roseicapilla, also known as the Rose-breasted Cockatoo, Galah Cockatoo, Roseate Cockatoo or Pink and Grey

Galah – a fool or silly individual. Named because of the bird Galah and its behaviour as well as the noise a Galah makes.

Galah occasion – an event or ‘do’ that requires formal dress

Game as Ned Kelly – fearless and audacious type of person

Ned Kelly by unknown artist

Game as a pissant – bold, unafraid, courageous.

Gander – to have a look (Let’s have a gander hey !)

Garage – gas or petrol station.

Golden Fleece Service Station, Main Road, Edgeworth

Garbo – the local garbage collector

Garden state – Victoria

Gargle – a drink

Garlic muncher – someone who comes from central or southern Europe

Gazunder – chamber pot (as in it ‘goes under’ the bed)

Gear – clothing

Gee and Tee – gin and tonic

Geebung – a native born Australian living in the remote parts of the outback

Geek – to take a look (Have a geek at this will ya !)

Get off at Redfern – when a man withdraws before orgasm (Redfern is a suburb in Sydney – to get this you’d have to have known Redfern when I knew Redfern way back when)

Get off my back Scobie – stop nagging me

Get off your bike – lose your temper

Get on your goat – to annoy or irritate another

Get rooted! – a rude and offensive way to tell someone to get lost

Get the arse – get fired

Get the axe – get fired

Get the drift – to understand

Get the Guernsey – receive recognition

Get your dander up – to get angry or enraged

Gibber country – dry land that is covered with rocks or boulders

Ginger Meggs – legs

Gink – stupid person

Ginormous – from gigantic and enormous

Girls’ week – menstrual period

Give it a break! – stop, finish, quit. (Will ya give it a break and shut yer gob!)

Give it a burl – try something, to have a go

Give the flick – to get rid of something or someone

Give you the irits – to annoy

Give you the pip – to annoy

Give you the shits – to annoy

Glide clip – paper clip

Glutton for punishment – someone who often gets in to bad situations or is involved in disagreeable tasks

Go and take a running jump at yourself – an insulting way of dismissing someone

Go and have a cuppa – have a cup of tea or coffee

Go and tart yourself up – a request to dress well

Go bush – 1. to hide or keep a low profile 2. to go to the country to live

Go crook – to lose your temper (Your mother will go crook if she sees you doing that)

Go dip your eye in hot cocky cack – telling you todip your eye in hot bird poop – an insult of course

Go down the gurgler – to fail, to go out of business

Goanna – lizard from the Monitor family, its meat contains a lot of protein

Image courtesy of Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park

Gobful, (to give a…) – to tell someone off generally justly or done for good cause

Gobsmacked – flabbergasted, astonished

Going off – generally used to describe a night spot or party that is a lot of fun (that place was really going off cobber)

Going to the dunny – making for the toilet (or loo)

Gold Coast – tourist destination from Southport to Coolangatta in the Queensland Coast

Golden Fleece Petrol – a brand of petroleum products and service stations operated by H.C.Sleigh and Company

Gong – (The Gong) – Wollongong, New South Wales. (I grew up in Bellambi…a suburb of Wollongong)

Good oil – applies to valuable information, a superior idea or the facts

Good onya – good for you, well done – usually followed by mate

Goog, as full as a – drunk

Granny flat – originally an abode for elderly relatives

Greenie – conservationist

Greengrocer : 1. someone who sells fruit and vegetables. 2. a variety of cicada.

Grinning like a shot fox – used to describe someone who is very happy, smugly contented

Grog – liquor, beer (bring your own grog mate it’s BYO)

Groper – someone from Western Australia

Grouse – great, remarkable, very good

Grundies or Reg Grundies – undies, underwear (Reg Grundie was one of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs)

Reg Grundy – photo courtesy of Grundy Television

Gumtree – a native tree of Australia

Gurgler – drain

Gutful of piss – drunk,

Gutser – to fall apart, collapse or give up. (He came a gutza ya know !)

Gyno – gynaecologist

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“Grinning Bellhops” by Australian Crawl

Grinning Bellhops

Checked into the hotel
Belted flip tops say ‘hi’
Can’t shake this danger money
So hard I try
Miss sinister snake hips
Like some E Poe dream
In my ears lift muzak is ringing
I hear bellboys scream

But you looked so lonely there
You looked so lonely there
You looked so lonely there
When will I see you again?

It ain’t clear thinking
It sure isn’t love
It could be what ever it was I’d been drinking
That made me press ‘up’
Well, I’d be a dead man
If looks could kill
‘Cause at every corridor corner those bellhops
A stony vigil

Ah! The people don’t know what’s
Been going on inside
These hotel doors anyway!

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Related posts:

• The A of Aussie Slang
• The B of Aussie Slang
• The C of Aussie Slang
• The D of Aussie Slang
• The E of Aussie Slang
• The F of Aussie Slang
• The H of Aussie Slang

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