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Cab Sav | cabernet sauvignon (a variety of wine) |
Cabbie | taxi driver |
Cactus |
dead, not functioning |
Cakehole |
your mouth |
Call it a day |
to finish what you have been doing for the day |
Camp oven |
large cast iron pot with a lid, for cooking on a open fire |
Cancer stick | cigarette |
Cane toad | someone from Queensland |
Captain Cook, have a |
have a look at something |
Cark it |
to die |
Carpetbagger steak |
beef stuffed with oysters |
Centralia | the inland region of Australia |
Chalkie |
teacher |
Champers | champagne |
Cheapskate |
someone will not spend money or tight wad |
Cheerio |
saying goodbye |
Cheese & kisses |
the missus, you wife |
Chew the fat |
have a good talk together |
Chewie | chewing gum |
Chinwag |
having a good chat |
Chippie |
carpenter |
Chokkie | chocolate |
Chock a block or Chocker's |
full to the point you can fill no more or crowded to over flowing |
Choof off |
go now |
Chook |
a chicken, rooster or hen |
Chuck |
throw something or vomit |
Chuck a spazz | to go off the boil, get out of control angrily |
Chuck a U-ee | make a U-turn, 180 degrees |
Chunder |
vomit |
Clanger |
tell a real big lie or say something inappropriate or a shock |
Claytons |
a fake, substitute.. Claytons is a non alcoholic drink billed as 'the drink you're having when you're not having a drink' |
Cleanskin |
unbranded cattle or not a criminal, or bottle of wine without a label |
Click | kilometre - "it's 10 clicks away" |
Clobber |
Clothes or to hit someone |
Codger | a bloke, fellow, especially elderly and a little odd |
Clocked someone |
you're hit someone |
Clod hoppers |
your feet |
Clucky | feeling broody or maternal |
Coat hanger | Sydney Harbour Bridge |
Cobber |
a mate, a close friend |
G'day Cobber |
welcome close friend |
Cock up, something is a |
its gone all wrong |
Cock and bull |
something is a lie (cock and bull story) |
Cockroach |
someone who lives in the state of New South Wales, don't ask why |
Cockie |
farmer |
Cockie |
cockroach or cockatoo |
Cockeyed | twisted or slanted to one side; foolish, absurd |
Codswallop |
cods-swal-lop a lot nonsense or a lie |
got no Coin |
got no money |
Coldie |
a cold beer |
Come a gutser | make a bad mistake, have an accident |
Compo |
compensation (worker's compensation) |
Conch | conscientious person. Somebody who would rather work or study than go out and enjoy themselves |
Conk |
to hit someone |
Cooee |
call for greeting someone at a distance in the bush or a long way off - far away |
Cook | one's wife |
Cop it sweet |
to get what's coming to you, without try to get back at them |
Corker | something excellent. a good stroke in cricket might be described as a 'corker of a shot' |
Corroboree |
aboriginal festival dance, gathering |
put on your Cossie |
put on your clothing |
you will be waiting till the Cows come home |
you be waiting all day |
Counter meal | pub lunch |
Cow Juice |
milk from a cow |
Cozzie |
swimming costume (NSW) |
that's a load of old Crap |
a lie |
stop the Crap! |
stop what you are doing or saying its not right |
off to the Crapper |
you off to the toilet |
Crack onto |
to make a pass at/chat up someone |
Cranky | in a bad mood |
Crapper | toilet |
Crash | to stay over at someone else's place |
Creamed someone or team |
beaten someone else or a team by a huge margin |
Crikey! |
surprise at something |
Cripes!! I've stepped in something |
in extreme discomfort (as in having stepped into dog poo barefoot) |
Croc | absurd, untrue, load of rubbish |
Crockery |
teeth |
Crook |
ill or something that is not functioning or a criminal |
feeling Crook |
not feeling well |
Crook as Rookwood |
very unwell (Rookwood is a cemetery in western Sydney) |
Croweater |
someone who lives in the state of South Australia, that state's outback has a lot of crows |
Cruddy |
something of low quality |
to make a Crust |
to earn a living, work for wages |
not worth a Crumpet |
something is worthless |
Cunning as a shithouse rat |
someone is very cunning and sneaky |
have a Cuppa |
have cup of tea or coffee |
Curly |
nickname for a bald person |
give someone a bit of Curry |
give someone a hard time of it |
Cut someones lunch |
get involved with someone's partner or possession |
you need to take a Cut lunch |
where you going is a long walk |
Cut lunch commando | army reservist |
mad as a Cut snake |
someone very upset, that could do anything |
Cow-tow |
bow and scrape to someone |
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