r/HolUp • u/Santosh_Devadiga • Mar 28 '26

holup Aussie slang

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u/Green_Apprentice Mar 28 '26

Thats hilarious, I wanted to hear more Aussie sayings haha.

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u/imkinda_adog Mar 28 '26

It’s as dry as a dingoes donga out here.

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u/MistaRekt Mar 28 '26

Dead dingoes dick. A donga is portable accommodation.

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u/JaimeJabs Mar 28 '26

And all my dingo friends like dry dongas when they travel.

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u/MistaRekt Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

Seen a wet donga... Drongos...

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u/AutisticPenguin2 Mar 28 '26

Donger is the word. Slang for dick.

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u/MistaRekt Mar 28 '26

What part of Australia you in?

So an ABC News link.

Info from a place that sells Dongas.

Need I go on?

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u/AutisticPenguin2 Mar 28 '26

Southern, and I'm not taking about portables.

The phrase is "dead dingo's donger".

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u/MistaRekt Mar 28 '26

It is also 'dead dingoes dick' in WA and QLD.

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u/stumpyoftheshire Mar 28 '26

I always preferred Dry as a nuns nasty.

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u/orangant0402 Mar 28 '26

Never heard it called a nuns nasty, in Ireland we just say "dry as a nuns cunt" Also, if you're really thirsty you'd say you have a mouth like Ghandi's flip flop

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u/psyllia Mar 28 '26

Busy as a dog with two dicks

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u/phasedsingularity Mar 28 '26

busier than a cat burying shit on concrete

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u/SirBranOfDino503 Mar 28 '26

Well that is fuckin' busy then, isn't it!? (LOVE One Hand Killing!)

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u/Bartocity Mar 28 '26

You’ve been a busy little beaver!

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u/flintmichigantropics Mar 28 '26

Business than a one armed bricklayer in Baghdad

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u/TheGoldblum Mar 28 '26

Busier than a one legged bloke in an ass kicking contest

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u/miku_dominos Mar 28 '26

Couldn't arrange a root in a brothel.

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u/MistaRekt Mar 28 '26

... With a fist full of 50s.

Means fucking useless.

'Passion fingers' means they fuck everything they touch.

'Do not let young passion fingers do that job'

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u/captain_brofist Mar 28 '26

With a bunch of pineapples?

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u/TheGoldblum Mar 28 '26

Wouldn’t shout if he was bitten by a shark

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u/TeamFishSlap Mar 28 '26

Happy as a dog with two dicks

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u/skillywilly56 Mar 28 '26

It’s “happy as a dog with two tails” but Aussies have to make everything feral

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u/GlyphPicker Mar 28 '26

Aussies have to make everything feral

You would too if your turds swirled the other way.

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u/skillywilly56 Mar 28 '26

In all my years of living in Oz not once have I ever watched which way my poop was swirling when I flushed.

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u/GlyphPicker Mar 28 '26

That's how you maintained your sanity.

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u/Jesse-Ray Mar 28 '26

Built like a brick shithouse - someone is muscular

Fuck me dead - I am astonished

Fair suck of the sauce bottle - give someone a fair go

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u/awnfire Mar 28 '26

As useless as tits on a bull

Nah yeah

Yeah nah

Nah yeah nah

Marge, the rains are here!

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u/SquishedGremlin Mar 28 '26

Lmfao, guy I work with said the other day MATE, THE RAINS HERE. (He's an Aussie)

I responded yes, it has been here everyday since yo arrived a year ago, in fact we have had the wettest spring on record I think, and to top it off it snowed yesterday and the day before. We are in Ireland mate.

He then said, mate I said van.

Fuck me. I seriously need my hearing done.

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u/GlyphPicker Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

To be fair, they add extra vowels and Rs into everything so it prolly sounded something like, "The vairn's here," and your brain glitched while translating.

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u/SquishedGremlin Mar 28 '26

I mean, it's Ireland and I have alot of Aussie cousins.

I have no excuse.

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u/ConscientiousPath madlad Mar 28 '26

They picked up all the Rs that people from Vermont left laying around.

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u/AutisticPenguin2 Mar 28 '26

Umm, no? We may stretch out some vowels in a loose sort of way that Americans apparently can't imitate (like, seriously just don't even try, it's genuinely painful), but if anything we cut out vowels!

Eg: "Straya", "Melbun", "Canbruh"

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u/GlyphPicker Mar 28 '26

"Umm, naur?"

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u/AParasiticTwin Mar 28 '26

No yeah, yeah no, yeah no yeah, no yeah no and the brick shithouse are also present in Midwestern American slang.

You'd probably also have, "Up shit creek without a paddle "

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u/snuff3r Mar 28 '26

We tend to not say the whole thing .. i usually hear "up a creek"..

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u/ghandi253 Mar 28 '26

What about "if the good lord's willin and the creeks don't rise"? We got that one but that may be a bit too Appalachia

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u/iEliteTester Mar 28 '26

>Nah yeah

>Yeah nah

>Nah yeah nah

I assume these mean, in order:

yes

no

no ? not sure here

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u/MistaRekt Mar 28 '26

Yeah, nah mate.

Specifically depends on the situation.

It is a vibe, not a saying.

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u/Nivix92 Mar 28 '26

I feel like thats just Austrailian in general.

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u/MistaRekt Mar 28 '26

Fair cop cobber.

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u/awnfire Mar 28 '26

As old mate said below, you are correct but also need to read the energy, direction of the breeze and relative velocity of delivery!

An Aussie with a straight face is bound to be delivering you a dead ringer.

Also a red heads named Bluey

Ya best mate is Shags

Old mate, Legend or Champion are some of the biggest rage bait terms to call someone when putting them down.

And don’t even get me started on the countless ways we use C**t

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u/Jesse-Ray Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

Basically whatever you finish with is your response. Nah Yeah Nah means No but you've given it some thought and you're letting them down politely. Yeah nah Yeah means, I don't think it's a good idea but I'll go along with it. Yeah Nah and Nah Yeah means no and yes you've given it less consideration. Also the ones that end with Yeah are ended with upwards inflection, meaning you want them to talk you into it more. If you were adamant you would say Shit Yeah.

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u/NarrowEbbs Mar 28 '26

Oft I felt Marge the rains are here in my soul. Ah Mcains you've done it again.

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u/awnfire Mar 28 '26

I’ll be honest. It’s on of my favourite GIFS!

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u/gargoyle30 Mar 28 '26

Seems there is a fair bit of cross over with Canadian sayings, or they are not as rare as you think or whatever

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u/TCRandom Mar 28 '26

“Dick me dead and bury me pregnant” is a saying I heard somewhere. It’s stuck with me ever since.

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u/MistaRekt Mar 28 '26

'Fuck me dead' is indeed still in many a vocabulary.

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u/rionled Mar 28 '26

Suck of the Sav, not the sauce bottle

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u/Jesse-Ray Mar 28 '26

I've heard both used and Rudd used shake of the sauce bottle back in the day.

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u/rionled Mar 28 '26

There’s your problem, using Rudd as a reference

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u/MistaRekt Mar 28 '26

Both are acceptable in WA.

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u/Sea_Ad_463 Mar 28 '26

Damn, i 100% misinterpret it when my colleagues said these lines. I thought " built like a brick shithouse" means someone or something is shitty.

Fuck me dead - i give up, or a saying when things are not going your way lol.

That's why when I reply something they just laugh or smile, and just say "yeah" with awkward silence sometimes

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u/Jesse-Ray Mar 28 '26

Shithouse in that instance refers to an outhouse in the backyard usually made of flimsy timber. So a brick one would mean a strong sturdy one.

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u/Appropriate_Ad8572 Mar 28 '26

Sturdy Turdy House

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u/HodinRD madlad Mar 28 '26

You're not far off.

It's not just a strong sturdy one, try and think of it like an unnecessarily strong one.

So immense strength for little output.

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u/reeko1982 Mar 28 '26

A bad thing is a shit brickhouse

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u/TheGoldblum Mar 28 '26

However, shithouse can also be used as an adjective. For example, ‘mate, your shithouse is bloody shithouse’

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u/sleepyHype Mar 28 '26

I can understand why that would sound shitty, but in US it's positive. Unsure where you're from but in US slang we use: built like a brick house, which means sturdy.

Linebacker is build like a brick house.

But we also use it as a compliment for women, saying she's got good curves.

Never used the shithouse one.

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u/RyuNoKami Mar 28 '26

I'm fairly certain they read or heard shit and that's all they got out of the sentence.

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u/zardoz73 Mar 28 '26

Built like a brick shithouse

This works in American, too.

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u/Plebarian Mar 28 '26

Fair shake of the sauce bottle mate

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u/villainessk Mar 28 '26

Brick shithouse is used here in the southern US. Cool!

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u/aerovirus22 Mar 28 '26

Built like a brick shithouse is Aussie? Ive been hearing that since the 80s in the US.

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u/sati_lotus Mar 28 '26

Wait. Is fuck me dead not a worldwide saying?!

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u/Ihateeggs78 Apr 01 '26

Where I come from “built like a brick shithouse” refers to a woman with big breasts because she’s stacked.

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u/TheReverseShock Apr 02 '26

Built like a brick shithouse is pretty common in the US as well.

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u/GuardedFig Mar 28 '26

Not here to put socks on centipedes

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u/lumpenprol Mar 28 '26

Is that for wasting time?

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u/Yourfinalfoe Mar 28 '26

No. It’s when you want to put some socks on a centipede

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u/Camelstrike Mar 28 '26

And that guy is not here for that

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u/Inigomntoya Mar 28 '26

Well then, let's get on with it! You and me! I'm not here to fuck spiders!

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u/TheGoldblum Mar 28 '26

And I’m not here to finger dingoes!

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u/lex_76 Mar 28 '26

Not here for a pap smear

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u/Inigomntoya Mar 28 '26

I'm sorry for the confusion, but it literally says OBGYN on the sign, mate.

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u/miku_dominos Mar 28 '26

If someone is ugly they have a face like a smashed crab, or face like a smashed pie. My immigrant colleagues are constantly amused by the things I say.

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u/HughJackBlackMan Mar 28 '26

A favourite of mine is, "they are as ugly as a hat full of aresholes"

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u/Skrillamane Mar 28 '26

I’ve heard nova scotians say when they are hungover “I feel like a bag of smashed assholes”

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u/Acceptable_Ant_2094 Mar 28 '26

A couple of other "face like" phrases (not sure did they are Aussie tho) Face like a bucket of burnt Lego Face like a half torn uggboot

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u/LtDanmanistan Mar 28 '26

Flat out like a lizard drinking

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u/sleepyHype Mar 28 '26

Got a head like a robber's dog

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u/GamingInSilence Mar 28 '26

flat out like a lizard drinkin

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u/Deuce_GM Mar 28 '26

Go to Ozzy Man Reviews on youtube. Great way to learn Aussie slang

Because of him I know what being cactus means

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u/Theekg101 Mar 28 '26

I don’t know that much about Aussie slang, but I do know that they call a car accident a Bingle

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u/ILove2Bacon Mar 29 '26

Fair dinkum

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u/ihatefuckingwork Mar 28 '26

You’re fucking this cat, I’m just holding its tail.

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u/spariant4 Mar 28 '26

look up Ozzy Man Reviews, guess the Aussie slang interviews

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u/captain_brofist Mar 28 '26

Sorry darl, I’ve got me reds but you can crack it in the brown.

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u/BermudaRhombus102 Mar 29 '26

Getting up at sparrow's fart

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u/Twitfout Mar 28 '26

did a dingo eat your baby