ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Showing a whole new range of terminology that I am sure all bush poets will embrace.




Orstrayllyan

The following are results from an OZ-words Competition where entrants were asked to take an Australian word, alter it by one letter only, and supply a definition.

Billabonk: to make passionate love beside a waterhole
Bludgie: a partner who doesn't work, but is kept as a pet
Dodgeridoo: a fake indigenous artefact
Fair drinkum: good-quality Aussie wine
Flatypus: a cat that has been run over by a vehicle
Mateshit: all your flat mate's belongings, lying strewn around the floor
Shagman: an unemployed male, roaming the Australian bush in search of sexual activity
Yabble: the unintelligible language of Australian freshwater crustaceans
Bushwanker: a pretentious drongo, who reckons he's above average when it comes to handling himself in the scrub
Crackie-daks: 'hipster' tracksuit pants.
And, for the Kiwis amongst us:
Shornbag: a particularly attractive naked sheep

Yes I reckon there are possibilities - for example




Once a jolly shagman camped beside a billabonk
under the shade of a Coolibah tree
and he sang as he watched and over his hot Latte toiled
Who wouldn’t fancy a hot stud like me.

Up rode the bushwanker mounted on her thoroughbred
range rover with GPS a red fourbie
What do you think you’re doing out here on my property
and what’s that little shornbag doing tied up to that tree?

Up jumped the shagman and sprang into the billabonk
you’ll never have me – though pretty you be
and a yabble can be heard every night from near that billabonk
as they talk about the nice bloke that they had last week for tea

Maureen Clifford ©

Why I would put a © symbol on that I don't know but stranger things have happened.


Now hasn't that just set the poetic juices flowing??? Maybe I am just bored...that's what it is....

Cheers

Maureen

Seen something very much the same on a tee shirt up in Airlie Beach. The punch line at the bottom was

Bastard Articulate English Gentleman


Posted your list on the van park notice board and have had lots of laughs

Thanks Maureen

I assumed the ( C ) was for the poem ??????

Cheers Bob

Yes it was bob - beggars belief doesn't it Have no idea who came up with the definitions.

It's always good if you can give somebody a laugh - might just be the difference for them between a good day and a horrible one so happy that your mates in the park got a giggle.

Cheers

Maureen