From ‘lock it in Eddie’ to ‘daggy’ and even ‘capsicum’: Travellers share the hilarious Aussie slang that British people just don’t understand
- Travellers are sharing the common Aussie slang and phrases Brit just don’t get
- A post to the Aussies in London Facebook group drew in hundreds of responses
- Some Aussies said ‘woop woop’ and ‘daggy’ left Brits scratching their heads
- While others said they were met with blank stares when saying ‘capsicum’
- Other confusing terms included ‘carry on like a pork chop’ and ‘rough as guts’
From ‘daggy’ to ‘woop woop’ and even ‘capsicum’, expats living in the UK are sharing the common Australian phrases British people don’t understand.
A post to popular Facebook group ‘Aussies in London’ asked its members which Australian words and phrases leave Brits baffled prompting a lively discussion.
Many said they were met with blank stares when asking for ‘capsicum’ and others said expressions like ‘carry on like a pork chop’ or feeling ‘rough as guts’ had non-Aussies puzzled.
Australians living in London are sharing the common Aussie phrases that confuse Brits like ‘Lock it in, Eddie’, ‘woop woop’ and ‘carry on like a pork chop’
One user said he was met wih blank stares when he asked for capsicum at Subway while another wrote that ‘bubbler’ which is slang for water fountain confused their students
‘Yeah, nah mate on your average Strayan arvo our in Woop Woop, we’d grab our Vee-Dub or probs our ute and put on Accadacca and hoon down the bottlo to grab ourselves a carto or a sack of goon,’ one commenter joked.
‘Asked for capsicum at Subway…the silence was deafening – they say peppers’ a second said.
‘Dag/daggy – I use it so often my partner has incorporated it into his vocabulary,’ wrote a third.
One user noted people didn’t know what they meant when they said eggplant rather than aubergine and zucchini instead of courgette.
‘Kids at school called bubblers ‘water fountain’. They had no clue when I shouted it wasn’t time for the bubblers,’ one mum recalled.
”You’re right’ but in a ‘you’re welcome’ kind of way,’ another suggested while a similarly third said: ”You right?’ meaning what the f* are you doing?’ and not ‘hello”.
Other Aussies in London said the terms ‘crack the s***s’, ‘dogging’, ‘woop woop’ and ‘under the pump’ were foreign to poms.
‘To make a bee line for someone. I said that and no one had a clue what I was saying,’ a member responded.
‘Feeling dusty or rough as guts,’ another wrote and a third said: ‘Carrying on like a pork chop’.
One traveller mentioned saying ‘Lock it in, Eddie’ in references to Eddie McGuire’s stint as host on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire went over Brits’ heads.
‘Day after a big night, I asked someone ‘How’d you pull up?’ – blank stares,’ said another.
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