Answers. Well, kind of. Aussie slang is continually developing and sometimes
is highly localised, ending up with different meanings/usage depending on
which part of the country you happen to be in. Or two different slang words
may mean exactly same thing. Or, to make it more confusing, a slang word
may be used to refer to another slang word which then refers to various
different things. (See below.) An expression that is used in one part of Oz
may be unheard of in another, or, the same expression may even have opposite
meanings, depending on locale. An example is "Micky Mouse," more commonly
used to disparagingly to refer to something that is not all that it should
be, or substandard or faulty. "That cheap drill press is a Micky Mouse
arrangement, if ever I saw one"
Less commonly, it can also be used to indicate exactly the opposite, that
everything is perfect, spic and span. " Now that I've fixed the brakes,
everything on the car is Micky Mouse"
1/. Butchers. A small glass of beer, (5oz?) in South Australia. Said by some
to be given the name because the local butcher could dash over to the pub,
throw the glassful down his throat and be back at work before anyone
noticed. Seems confined to South Oz.
Translation of Robert Bonomi's answer to this one: (which was pure class)
"A crow-eater won't get Olivers at at a rubbity-dub with just one."
"A crow-eater (South Australian) won't get Olivers, (Oliver Twist = pissed =
drunk) at a rubbity-dub (pub = hotel) with just one."
Butchers = butchers hook = crook = the following:
2/. Not well, sick, not working properly: Usually about a person's ill
health "I'm feeling butchers," but less commonly referring to other things -
"that engine sounds butchers."
3/. Angry: "I stayed late at the pub and the missus went butchers at me
when I got home."
I don't think anyone got this one (commonly used in West Oz, don't
know about other states.)
4/. Badly made, counterfeit, second rate: "That $5 note looks butchers
to me."
5/. Look. "Me mates got a new car, I'm goin' over to take a butchers"
I think Robert got all but one, giving his answers in slang, : ) John and
then Alan both got the last one and birtwitlin got number 1
Will post another later today and leave it up for a week.
diggerop
In news:[email protected],
diggerop <toobusy@themoment> dropped this bit of wisdom:
>=20
> 1/. Butchers. A small glass of beer, (5oz?) in South Australia. Said
> by some to be given the name because the local butcher could dash
> over to the pub, throw the glassful down his throat and be back at
> work before anyone noticed. Seems confined to South Oz.
>=20
> diggerop
And here I thought "Butchers" had to do with that nasty habit of the =
indiginous "Butcher Bird".
Good thing Fosters comes in biggetr glasses.
P D Q
"diggerop" <toobusy@themoment> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Ooops. I stuffed up.
>
> Butchers = butchers hook = crook = the following:
Should be
Butchers = butchers hook = crook , or look = the following:
diggerop
Scatter wrote:
> On 2009-11-15, diggerop <toobusy@themoment> wrote:
>> Should be
>> Butchers = butchers hook = crook , or look = the following:
>
> This is actually a fine English tradition as well - cockney rhyming
> slang, me old china.
Where do you think it came from? Just ask me old trouble and strife.
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