14Nov
S is for
Medical
• sickie
Abbreviation: ‘a day’s sick leave’
‘I’m not going to work tomorrow, I’m going to chuck a sickie’
• stubbie
375mL bottle of beer.
*few stubbies short of a six-pack [mentally slow]
Also [Darwin stubbie]
• sandgroper
Resident of Western Australia
Origin: Sand-burrowing desert insect
• Sheila
A girl or girlfriend, a woman.
Origin: Shelah as anglicised spelling of the Irish Gaelic Sile, and it was probably the large number of Irish migrants to Australia that led to this common Irish name becoming a general term for a ‘woman’.
• smoko
Work break
Even non-smokers have smoko, it just means stop to eat or have a coffee
• schermozzle
Shepherd’s Shermozzle
New Zealand competition exemplifying courage and commitment
• spew
To vomit [verb]
• spewin’
Furious [adjective]
• snag
Sausage
Alternate acronym: Sensitive new Age Guy
• strine
Australian slang and pronunciation
• stoked
Very pleased
• shout
To buy a round of drinks
[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]
No comments
Friday, November 14th, 2008 at 12:00 pm and is filed under Medical. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.