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What do Australians call homeless people?

People Slang PEOPLE Ankle biter : small child Dero : tramp, hobo, homeless person (from "derelict") Digger : a soldier Dill : an idiot 103 more rows

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PEOPLE

Ankle biter : small child

Aussie : Australian

Bastard : an unpleasant person; affectionate appellation, e.g. what you been doing, you old bastard?

Battler : a hard worker only just making a living

Beaut / beauty : great, fantastic

Bingle : minor car accident / fight

Block, do your : get angry

Bloke : man, guy

Blokey : behaving 'manly'

Blow in : stranger

Bludger : layabout

Bogan : young, immature person

Bounce : a bully

Brickie : bricklayer

Bushie : someone who lives in the Bush

Bushranger : outlaw

Cadbury : a cheap drunk (a glass and a half)

Clayton's : fake, substitute

Clucky : feeling broody or maternal

Cobber : friend

Cockie : farmer. Also a cockatoo

Cook : one's wife

Cranky : in a bad mood, angry

Crook : sick, or badly made

Dag : a funny person, nerd

Dero : tramp, hobo, homeless person (from "derelict")

Digger : a soldier

Dill : an idiot

Dipstick : fool / idiot

Dog : unattractive woman

Dole bludger : signing on illegally

Drongo : a dope, stupid person

Figjam : Someone who has a high opinion of themselves

Fisho : fishmonger

Frog in a sock :

(as cross as a) sound angry

Fruit loop : fool

Full : drunk

Galah : fool

Garbo, garbologist : municipal garbage collector

Greenie : environmentalist

Grey hairs : old people

Gutful of piss : drunk

Gyno : gynaecologist

Brass razoo :

(hasn't got a) he's very poor

Hoon : hooligan

Jackaroo : a male farm hand

Jillaroo : a female farmhand

Journo : journalist

Jumped up : stuck up

Kiwi : person from New Zealand

Knocker : somebody who criticises

Larrikin : a joker

Mallee bull:

(as fit as a) very fit and strong

Mate : buddy, friend

Milko : milkman

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Mob : group of people

Mongrel : despicable person

Mongrel : nasty person

Mug : gullible person

Nipper : young surf lifesaver

No-hoper : somebody who'll never do well

Not the full quid : not bright intellectually

Oldies : parents

Ocker : an unsophisticated person

Offsider : an assistant / helper / partner

Piker : social misfit / drop out

Polly : politician

Pom /pommy : an Englishman

Postie : postman

Quid, not the full : of low IQ

Rapt : pleased, delighted

Ratbag : mild insult

Raw prawn :

( to come the) to be generally disagreeable

Reffo : refugee

Rellie : family relative

Ring in : substitute

Rotten : drunk

Salvos : Salvation Army

Screamer : party lover

Shark biscuit : new surfer

Sheila : a woman

Shonky : dubious, underhanded

Skimpy : barely clothed bar staff

Sook : soft or inoffensive person

Spunk : a good looking person

Stickybeak : nosy person

Stuffed, I feel : I'm tired

Surfies : people who go surfing - more than they go to work!

Swaggie : swagman

Swagman : tramp, hobo

Tall poppies : successful people

Tall poppy syndrome : the tendency to criticize successful people

Tickets :

( to have on oneself) to have a high opinion of oneself

Truckie : truck driver

True blue : patriotic

Two pot screamer : person who gets drunk easily

Up oneself : have a high opinion of oneself

Useless as :

an ashtray on a motorbike Incompetent or unhelpful

Useless as :

tits on a bull Incompetent or unhelpful

Vejjo : vegetarian

White pointers : topless (female) sunbathers

Woos : coward

Wombat : derogatory term to indicate someone is a fool. Also jokingly - a person who eats, roots and leaves.

Wowser : spoilsport

Wuss : coward; nervous person or animal

Yobbo : ignorant person

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