POWER OF AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH WORDS

MATCH EACH NUMBERED WITH ITS OWN CORRECT ALPHABETED MEANING

 TEST ONE

1. The bait attracting fish to a line or lure
2. Something extremely impressive
3. An Australian soldier
4. The opening of the starting gates to begin a horse race
5. The person working doggedly for a livelihood
6. Australia; Australian
7. A Queenslander
8. A topic of great public interest, especially a political one
9. The hardships, privations, and living conditions of the outback
10. To give support by shouting names
    1. Ant’s pants
    2. Anzac
    3. Aussie
    4. Banana bender
    5. Barbecue stopper
    6. Barcoo
    7. Barrack for
    8. Barrier rise
    9. Battler
    10. Berley

Answers: 1.j 2. a 3. b. 4. h 5. I 6. c 7. d 8. e 9. f 10. g

TWO

1. Exaggerate one’s own importance
2. The rabbit-eared bandicoot
3. A child’s four-wheeled go-cart
4. A member of a gang of motorcyclists
5. A fight or skirmish; a collision
6. A mongrel
7. A cylindrical container of tin, enamel ware, or aluminium, fitted with a lid and a wire handle
8. An imaginary marker at the limits of settlement
9. An arm of a river
10. You’re a really valuable person

1. Big note
2. Bikie
3. Bilby
4. Billabong
5. Billy
6. Billycart
7. Your blood’s worth bottling
8. Bingle
9. Bitser
10. Back stump

Answers:

1. a 2. c 3. f 4. b 5. h 6. I 7. e j 9. d 10. g

THREE

1. Make a rapid departure
2. A satisfied person
3. An importunate request
4. Extremely drunk
5. Extremely happy
6. A young male who drives dangerously or at reckless speed
7. A request for a heavy fall of rain
8. A person selling imitation diamond pins, new-style patent razors or infallible tonics
9. Cask wine
10. A retired person traveling extensively within Australia by campervan, caravan or motor home

1. Full as a goog
2. Goon
3. Grey nomad
4. Happy as larry
5. Happy little vegemite
6. Hard word
7. Do a harold holt
8. Hoon
9. Send it down hughie
10. Illywhacker

Answers: 1. g 2. e 3. f 4. a 5. d 6. h 7. I 8. j 9. b 10. c

FOUR

1. Confectionery sugar
2. Root beer
3. Can
4. Chicken
5. French fires
6. Soft drink
7. Trash can
8. Sidewalk
9. Crackers or cookies
10. Sofa
    1. Biscuit
    2. Castor sugar
    3. Chips
    4. Cool drink
    5. Ginger ale
    6. Lounge
    7. Tin
    8. Chook
    9. Kitchen tidy
    10. Footpath

Answers:  1. b 2. e 3. g 4. h 5. c 6. d 7. I 8. j 9. a  10. f

FIVE

1. Scold, dress down
2. Check out
3. Sure thing
4. Go away
5. Janitor
6. Plane ticket
7. Locomotive
8. Slot machine
9. Drug store
10. Wise guy
    1. Tick off
    2. Piss off
    3. Engine
    4. Poker machine
    5. Chemist’s
    6. Caretaker
    7. Sus out
    8. Cinch
    9. Airticket
    10. Galah

Answers: 1. b 2. g 3. h 4. b 5. f 6. I 7. c 8. d 9. e 10. j

1. Lots of
2. Goodbye
3. Genuine
4. Relatives
5. Good-looking
6. Trousers
7. Constant chatter
8. Fliff flops
9. See you this afternoon
10. Lonely
    1. Daks
    2. Earbashing
    3. Fair dinkum
    4. Heaps
    5. Hooroo
    6. Rellies
    7. Spiffy
    8. Thong
    9. Cya this arvo
    10. Like a shag on the rock

Answers: 1. d 2. e 3. c 4. f 5. g 6. a 7. b 8. h 9. I 10. j

SIX

1. Looking stupid while smiling
2. Crazy, out of control
3. Criticize
4. Very thirsty
5. Unreasonable
6. Impress people by their appearance or bahaviour
7. Immediately or promptly
8. Unemployed
9. Tricky
10. Very dry
    1. Cut down the tall poppies
    2. Dog-whistle politics
    3. Dry as a dead dingo’s donga
    4. Dry as a wooden god
    5. Fair suck of the sauce bottle
    6. Flash as a rat with a gold tooth
    7. Grinning like a shot fox
    8. Mad as a cut snake
    9. On the knocker
    10. On the wallaby track

Answers: 1. g 2. h 3. a 4. d 5. e 6. f 7. I 8. j 9. b 10. c

SEVEN

1. Postpone making a decision
2. Everything will be all right
3. In trouble or a big mess
4. A fair deal
5. Litter picking work
6. Supply and demand principle
7. Oh my god
8. Excessively talkative
9. Very strong or resilient
10. Female prison
    1. See which way the cat jumps
    2. She’ll be apples
    3. Factory
    4. Stone the crows
    5. Talk the legs off an iron pot
    6. Tough as woodpecker lips
    7. Up a gum tree
    8. Fair go
    9. Emu bob
    10. Economic’s rationalism

Answers: 1. a 2. b 3. g 4. h 5. I 6. e 7. d 8. e 9. f 10. c

EIGHT

1. Imaginary animal
2. Warning for female’s presence
3. Imagination
4. Firefighter
5. Big and ugly
6. Full enough
7. Extremely drunk
8. Cigarrette
9. Defeat comprenhensively
10. Pash rash

1. Like a drover’s dog
2. Full up to dolly’s wax
3. Dropbear
4. Ducks on the pond
5. Done like a dinner
6. Dreamtime
7. Firie
8. Maggot
9. Durry
10. A skin irritation caused by a kiss with stubble

Answers: 1. c 2. d 3. f 4. g 5. a 6. b 7. h 8. I 9. e 10. j

NINE

1. Fake
2. A small cake
3. A bag of items sold at a show
4. A sick day
5. A person
6. An awesome person
7. Expensive
8. Saltwater crocodile
9. One who dislike other’s fun
10. Stupidity
    1. Gammon
    2. Pikelet
    3. Ciggybuttbrain
    4. Cunt
    5. Sickcunt
    6. Showbag
    7. Saltie
    8. Sickie
    9. exxy
    10. wowser

Answers: 1. a 2. b 3. f 4. h 5. d 6. e 7. i 8. g 9. j 10. c

TEN

1. A TAFE certificate
2. Chocolate biscuit
3. Toilet
4. A rural dance party
5. Uncool
6. Truant
7. Devastated
8. A whipped cream bulb
9. Shit
10. Disgusting
    1. Jillawa
    2. Goona
    3. Bush doof
    4. Daggy
    5. Cert
    6. Chockie bickie
    7. Nang
    8. Wag
    9. Devvo
    10. Festy

Answers: 1. e 2. f 3. a 4. c 5. d 6. h 7. I 8. g 9. b 10. j

ELEVEN

1. A celebrity from perth
2. Petrol station
3. This afternoon
4. Definitely
5. Sandwich
6. Condom
7. A good-looking person
8. An aussie battler
9. Smoke cannabis
10. A no-hoper
    1. Sanger
    2. Franger
    3. Servo
    4. Sarvo
    5. Derro
    6. Deffo
    7. Budju
    8. Ozibatla
    9. Perthonality
    10. Choof

Answers:  1. i 2. c 3. d 4. f 5. a 6. b 7. g 8. h 9. j 10. e