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  • Published: 2 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143009115
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.00
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Australian Slang

A fun dictionary and funny gift idea for Aussies and visitors




A funny Australian gift idea for tourists and true-blue Aussies alike!

This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slang is a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from overseas, as well as true-blue Aussie blokes and sheilas.

Read this book to discover the meaning behind perplexing Australian discourses such as this one:

G'day mate! How've ya been, you old bastard? Take a butchers at that galah playing aerial ping-pong on the telly. He's about as useful as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking competition. The drongo'll get the spear if he doesn't pull his socks up.

  • Published: 2 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143009115
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.00
Categories:

About the author

Anonymus

Born in the north of England, the author of THE BOY WHO SAW TRUE chose to remain anonymous and would only allow his diary to appear several years after his death, with the stipulation that the original spellings were to remain and some of the names be changed.
His editor Cyril Scott enjoyed a two-fold career as a musical composer and a writer on the occult and other related matters.

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