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Slang

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 5:38 pm
by warooa
I like to think I'm pretty well-versed in Aussie slang but found a few words I'd not encountered before. Whether obscure or before my time I dunno - anyone shed light on any of these?

KEEK
GAZOB
DONAH
SLEEVER
JOSSER
CLINER
DOXIE
OOPIZOOTICS

Cheers, Marty

Re: Slang

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 6:25 pm
by william williams
MARTY
I have heard the word DONAH pronounced DONGAH meaning out in the bush I believe

and the other word is doxie I believe means pick up girl

bill williams

Re: Slang

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 6:43 pm
by keats
Marty, you are reading the field for the next race in Dubai. (Back the 2)

Neil

Re: Slang

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 6:57 pm
by Stephen Whiteside
I'm told 'cliner' is Yiddish for 'small'. (The German for 'small' is 'klein'.) Slang for a woman, or a girl.

I'd love to know what 'gazob' means! C.J. Dennis uses it in the Bloke.

Re: Slang

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 7:11 pm
by keats
gazob
A foolish person.

keek
To have a look

cliner
A young girl.

and I'm guessing a josher is a joker.

Neil

Re: Slang

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 7:17 pm
by keats
donnah

slang Brit
: woman; esp : sweetheart

sleever

1
a : a garment worker who sews in sleeves
b : a laundry worker who presses sleeves and neckbands of shirts on heated forms
2
: a worker who reinforces the pouring openings of paper bags

Doxie
dox·y (dks)
n. pl. dox·ies Slang
1. A female lover; a mistress.
2. A sexually promiscuous woman.


OOPIZOOTICS
(epizootics)
appear to be flu like symptoms.


Best I can find.

Neil

Re: Slang

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 7:27 pm
by keats
Josser brings up many things

1. Josser
A slang derivitive for the sheath of the penis{commonly known as CONDOM}.
Give me a josser im avin a posh madam palm.

josser  

jos·ser [jos-er] Show IPA
noun British Slang.
fellow, especially one who is or is made to appear foolish or simpleminded.

josser [ˈdʒɒsə]
n Slang
1. Brit a simpleton; fool
2. Brit a fellow; chap
3. (Christian Churches, other) Austral a clergyman


A Josser is someone who was not born into a circus family, nor married into a circus family, but is in a circus nonetheless. The term is also used (rarely) to refer to a clergyman (Australia), or even more generally, a fool or a simpleton (Britan).

Take ya pick!

Cheers

Neil

Re: Slang

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 7:38 pm
by Neville Briggs
The Cassell's Dictionary of Slang gives these definitions ;

KEEK ( or keck ). US slang for pocket.

GAZOB. simpleton or fool.

DONAH. wife or girlfriend. or queen in 3 card trick.

SLEEVER. beer glass holding 13 oz. or in NZ, drinking straw.

JOSSER. grandee or clergyman.

CLINER. woman or girl.

DOXIE. derogatory term for prostitute or immoral woman.

OOPIZOOTICS. fit of eccentricity or craziness. ( epizotic : an "epidemic" among animals. )

Re: Slang

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 8:54 pm
by warooa
I knew someone would have the inside running .. . .

and it's Oopizootics by a nose in the 5th at Dubai

:lol:

Re: Slang

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 10:02 pm
by manfredvijars
dox•y (ˈdɒk si)

n., pl. dox•ies.
1. a mistress.
2. a prostitute.

SLEEVER: Garment worker

Josser
Origin: late 19th century (in Australian sense 'a clergyman')

Josser definition, fellow, especially one who is or is made to appear foolish or simpleminded.

DONAH
The sexual act of taking human or dog excrement, rubbing it on ones face in the shape of a mustache and "chinstache", and refusing to wash it off for extended periods of time.
That kid jonah was doing the donah last school year until we got tied him down and washed it off of him. Man, that kid LOVES shit on his face.


gazob
aussie slang definition
gazob: A foolish person.


keek (kk) Scots
intr.v. keeked, keek·ing, keeks
To peek; peep.
n.
A look, especially a quick one; a peek.

Cliner" is used in C.J. Dennis's book "The Sentimental Bloke" and is defined at the end of the book as " A young unmarried female".

Oopizootics - an undiagnosed complaint (C.J.Dennis 1916)