Wednesday, May 03, 2006

OZ words

Just like the competition the Washington Post holds, so do we Down Under enjoy a good word game. For these, only one letter is changed. I wonder though, do you have to be an Australian to understand these?

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 which has been run over by a vehicle.
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.
shornbag: a particularly attractive naked sheep.

2 comments:

Jpatrick said...

I wonder if Lynn Viehl knows that we are two different people. Bet she does.

Jaye Patrick said...

Bet she does, too. She knows my real name.