An explanation of the term given by an Australian in answer to a question on Twitter is that 'It refers to soneone(sic) whose brain has been cooked by overexposure to conspiracy theories and unhinged online rhetoric'. The term is also loosely associated with the far right. Emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, the word made the shortlist for 'Word of the Year' in 2022.

Cooker – a derogatory term for conspiracy theorist according to the National Dictionary Centre, 'a derogatory term for a person involved in protests against vaccine mandates, lockdowns and a range of other issues perceived to be infringing on personal freedom'.It's usually an uncultured person with vulgar behavior, speech, clothing, etc. Regional variations include 'Bevan' in and around Brisbane, and 'Boonah' around Canberra. The major difference between the two is that yobbo tends to be used as a noun, whereas bogan can also be used adjectivally to describe objects pertaining to people who are bogans. Bogan – an Australian term for describing someone who may be a yobbo ( redneck).Bludger – a person who avoids working, or doing their share of work, a loafer, scrounger, a hanger-on, one who does not pull his weight originally, a pimp.and told him never to pretend to me again he was a battler'. The first citation for this comes from Henry Lawson in While the Billy Boils (1896): 'I sat on him pretty hard for his pretensions, and paid him out for all the patronage he'd worked off on me.

Battler – a person with few natural advantages, who works doggedly and with little reward, who struggles for a livelihood and who displays courage.The origins of some of the words are disputed. It has been claimed that, in recent times, the popularity of the Barry McKenzie character, played on screen by Barry Crocker, and in particular of the soap opera Neighbours, led to a 'huge shift in the attitude towards Australian English in the UK', with such phrases as 'chunder', 'liquid laugh' and 'technicolour yawn' all becoming well known as a result. Oxford University Press also published The Australian National Dictionary.īroad and colourful Australian English has been popularised over the years by 'larrikin' characters created by Australian performers such as Chips Rafferty, John Meillon, Paul Hogan, Barry Humphries, Greig Pickhaver and John Doyle, Michael Caton, Steve Irwin, Jane Turner and Gina Riley. Oxford University Press published the Australian Oxford Dictionary in 1999, in concert with the Australian National University. In 1981, the more comprehensive Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English was published. Morris's Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages (1898). The first dictionary based on historical principles that covered Australian English was E. One of the first dictionaries of Australian slang was Karl Lentzner's Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia and of Some Mixed Languages in 1892. The vocabulary of Australia is drawn from many sources, including various dialects of British English as well as Gaelic languages, some Indigenous Australian languages, and Polynesian languages.

Most of the vocabulary of Australian English is shared with British English, though there are notable differences.

JSTOR ( September 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īustralian English is a major variety of the English language spoken throughout Australia.

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