2010 K. McGinnis Wildhorse Creek: The country's rotten with brumbies. In them, the artist portrays not only the external features of the animal, human or spirit being he is painting, but also the spinal column, heart, lungs and other internal organs. We get their boofheads so they can have ours. It was registered as a trademark in 1923, and became one of Australias favourite spreads for toast and sandwiches. 1967 J. Wynnum I'm Jack, all Right: It's way back o' Bourke. 2005 H.S. 'From an Aussie!'. A short, squat beer bottle, especially one with a capacity of 375 ml. Yes, said Mr Dixon, any two of ye that can swim. Affectionate, even 'We're all bogans. The first Australian reference to the classic dish occurs two years later. For a discussion of this sense see our Word of the Month article from October 2013. Queensland was constituted as a separate colony in 1859, having previously formed part of New South Wales. Nowhere near - 'The clubs not within a bulls roar of winning the premiership this season.' A matildais a swag, the roll or bundle of possessions carried by an itinerant worker or swagman. In the 1960s, in the form koori, it came to be used by Aborigines of these areas to mean 'Aboriginal people' or 'Aboriginal person'. It was a means of identification. But because of the wide variety of Aboriginal languages and cultures, koori has not gained Australia-wide acceptance, being confined to most of New South Wales and to Victoria. What do you say to a quick look at the banana-benders? 2001 H. Menzies Ducks Crossing: As the tide goes up and down the oysters grow and three years later Bob's your uncle, you've got yourself a motza selling to the fish market in Sydney. 1947 Sydney Morning Herald 12 March: Where you going? he called. The word mallee come from the Victorian Aboriginal language Woiwurrung, but is also found in other indigenous languages of Victoria, South Australia, and southern New South Wales. 1911 Pastoralists' Review 15 March: Labour-Socialist legislation is boomerang legislation, and it generally comes back and hits those it was not intended for. Barcoo was rife among the kiddies and station-hands; vomiting attacks lasting for days laid each low in turn. The design maximises air movement in humid conditions. The convict public servant was assigned to public labour. This term also takes the form captain's call. This term is recorded from the late 19th century. CRICOS Provider : 00120C This sense of bodgie belongs primarily to the 1950s, but bodgie in the sense 'fake, false, inferior, worthless' is alive and flourishing in Australian English. The word is recorded from the 1840s. Unease about the wordconvict led to the creation of euphemistic terms, including government man and public servant (both recorded from 1797). The ethic of standing by ones mates means that many Australians take a dim view of dobbing. The opening of the starting gates to begin a horserace. Fishing for yabbies is often a favourite childhood memory for Australians who lived near a dam or creek. To do a Harold Holt is rhyming slang for bolt. Despite the fact that there have not been zacs in our wallets for fifty years, the wordzac,and the notion that it is not worth a great deal, can still be found in Australian usage.. They had been disappointed so often that now they could hardly believe they had the real thing. 2002 Age (Melbourne) 16 July: Campbell, 25, did not grow up as a bogan chick. A significant change of lifestyle, especially one achieved by moving from the city to a seaside town. The word barrier is found in a number of horseracing terms in Australian English including barrier blanket (a heavy blanket placed over the flanks of a racehorse to calm it when entering a barrier stall at the start of a race), barrier trial (a practice race for young, inexperienced, or resuming racehorses), and barrier rogue (a racehorse that regularly misbehaves when being placed into a starting gate). This word is a shortening of fair dinkum which comes from British dialect. 1966 S. Baker, The Australian Language: An earlier underworld and Army use of bodger for something faked, worthless or shoddy. Yeti are known for their trail and enduro bikes. A sausage. Any of several marsupials of the genus Dasyuris of Australia and New Guinea. Bindy-eye is first recorded in the 1890s. Ocker is usually applied to men but there is evidence for the feminine forms ockerette and ockerina from the 1970s. 1994 P. Horrobin Guide to Favourite Australian Fish (ed. 'Condolence motion to the oysters', barked Rudd. 2014 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 22 September: In the age of instant gratification, rampant consumerism and materialism, men and women are being sold a series of furphies about love. 2005 Sydney Morning Herald 12 March: How do colleagues know when I am having a go at Shane Warne? They can see my fingers moving on the keyboard. However quoll was not the name that European settlers used; native catwas the common term for this animal until the mid 19th century. No tube, no jack, no spare, no car, no bike, no phone, no hearse and no bloody undertaker! In the early records the spelling bonzer alternates with bonser, bonza, and bonzor. Word of the Month article from July 2009. Australia often sees itself as an egalitarian society, the land of the fair go, where all citizens have a right to fair treatment. 1945 J. DevannyBird of Paradise: Nowadays they waltz Matilda on bikes. Michael Davie in 'Going from A to Z forever' (an article on the 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary), Age, Saturday Extra, 1 April 1989, writes of his visit to the dictionary section of Oxford University Press: Before I left, Weiner [one of the two editors of the OED] said he remembered how baffled he had been the first time he heard an Australian talk about the 'arvo'. It probably came into Australian English via German Yiddish speakers. 2001 S. StrevensThe Things We Do: 'You prick!' The Australian tall poppy is first recorded in 1871, and tall poppy syndrome, the practice of denigrating prominent or successful people, is recorded from 1983. 1988 K. Lette Girls' Night Out: The Skips at school had teased her about being Greek. The biggest bludger in the country'. For further discussions of bogan see our Word of the Month article from Novemeber 2008, and a 2015 article 'Bogan: from Obscurity to Australia's most productive Word' in our newsletter Ozwords.. Slices of bread cut into triangles, buttered and sprinkled with tiny, coloured sugar balls called hundreds and thousands. Also spelt kark, and often taking the form cark it. A team from Sydney was admitted to the national competition in 1982, and one from Brisbane was admitted in 1987. When a daggy sheep runs, the dried dags knock together to make a rattling sound. First recorded in the early 20th century. 2003 E. Vercoe Keep Your Hair On: She's a beautiful woman, your mother, but by God can she carry on like a pork chop about nothing. In horseracing the barrier is a starting gate at the racecourse. 1894 Bulletin (Sydney) 7 July: The argument that there should be profitable industrial prison-labour is a boomerang with a wicked recoil. Following the poems publication, the phrase wide brown land began to be used from the 1930s to refer to Australia. 2003 Daily Telegraph (Sydney) 9 April: Back at least 20 years - to a land where women glow and men chunder. It is not a galah. Olympus explains that he altered it because he didn't want the Fitzroy men to have 'Buckley's chance'. The origin of the word is unknown, although it is perhaps a corruption of the French coin called a sou. I divested myself of anything I owned, he said. 1885 Australasian Printers' Keepsake: He was importuned to desist, as his musical talent had 'gone bung' probably from over-indulgence in confectionery. Acid test is also used figuratively to refer to a severe or conclusive test. 1889 Bathurst Free Press 14 March: Luscious Murray cod, with succulent yabbies and tempting fruit. This term developed out of an earlier verbal form (recorded in the 1920s), emu-bob, meaning 'to pick up pieces of timber, roots, etc., after clearing or burning'. This is a figurative use of oil as the substance essential to the running of a machine, and it was first recorded during the First World War. But pommygrant or jimmygrant, they always had a helping hand for me. Prichard Bid me to Love: Louise: .. See what I've got in my pocket for you Bill: (diving into a pocket of her coat and pulling out a banksia cone) A banksia man. 1964 D. Lockwood Up the Track: We are so close to Queensland that I think we should hop over the border. But sometimes the compulsion just overwhelms me, as a hideous case of Tall Poppy Syndrome grabs me by the throat and, fair dinkum, makes me do it. (adj.) : With all the rain that had been about, most of the gilgais would be full, which meant that wed be drinking fresh water. Word of the Month article from December 2009. To carry on like a pork chop is first recorded in 1975. Fearless in the face of odds; foolhardy. 1952 Meanjin: I've been flat out like a lizard since eight o'clock this morning. 2008 A. Pung Growing up Asian in Australia: My bikini top is crammed so full of rubbery 'chicken fillets' I'd probably bounce if you threw me. Although the towns of Blackall, Coolah and Merriwagga each claim to possess the original black stump, a single stump is unlikely to be the origin of this term. Another illness probably caused by poor diet was Barcoo sickness (also called Barcoo vomit, Barcoo spew, or just Barcoo), a condition characterised by vomiting. A sporting event similar to orienteering, in which teams compete over a course that requires at least twelve hours to complete. It stirred the possum in the people, and for months afterwards they could still feel the enthusiasm. The word has been used to denote another item of clothing - denim working trousers or overalls - but the citation evidence indicates (the last citation being 1950) that this usage is no longer current. In 1837 H. Watson in Lecture on South Australia writes: 'The land here is generally good; there is a small proportion that is actually good for nothing; to use a colonial phrase, "a bandicoot (an animal between a rat and a rabbit) would starve upon it".' It means 'a look', and usually appears in the phrase to have (or take) a geek at. The Australian idiom is first recorded in 1917. In the 1950s another sense of bodgie arose. 1982 Sunday Telegraph (Sydney) 28 March: So who's the press secretary working out of the NSW Parliament whose press-gallery nickname is Clayton .. because he's the press secretary you're having, when you're not having a press secretary? Since the 1950s surfers have also implored the god's name in a request for good waves. 1967 Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxii: Bikie, a member of a gang or a club of people interested in motor bikes. The term is often associated with the fooling of gullible international tourists, and has accordingly been used this way in television advertisements. 1915 Camperdown Chronicle 2 December: Lord Kitchener told the 'Anzacs' at the Dardanelles how much the King appreciated their splendid services, and added that they had done even better than the King expected. This significant Australian word derives from wrought, an archaic past participle of the verb to work. It is term for any of several eucalypts, especially the blue-leaved Eucalyptus microtheca found across central and northern Australia, a fibrous-barked tree yielding a durable timber and occurring in seasonally flooded areas. 1997 S. Dingo Dingo: the Story of Our Mob: When Polly passed away, none of the children had been permitted to go to the sorry ceremony, the funeral, no children at all. (adverb) 1914 B. 1902 Sydney Mail 10 December: Neenish Tarts On the top of the whole spread the thinnest layer possible of icing made with the white of an egg and icing sugar sufficient to form a thick paste. The phrase is first recorded in the 1980s. 1943 Argus (Melbourne) 27 November: Ive been 'bashed' as the DIs (drill instructors) call it, on the parade ground, 'ear bashed' by ADI (aerodrome defence instructors) lectures, and have sweated and sometimes trembled over the fearsome obstacles on the Bivouac Assault Course. He said when she had a few drinks she began to shout and tried to dominate the conversation. Australia. 1983 Sydney Morning Herald 24 September: Has it helped them feel more relaxed with the boys in their PD group. Possibly reinforced by bouilli tin (recorded 1858 in Australia and 1852 in New Zealand, with variant bully tin recorded in New Zealand in 1849 but not until 1920 in Australia), an empty tin that had contained preserved boeuf bouilli'bully beef', used as a container for cooking.It is not, as popularly thought, related to the Aboriginal word billabong. For a further discussion about this term and its possible origins see the article 'Send Her Down Who-ie?' Sleepouts are often used when hot weather encouraged people to sleep in a sheltered area that might receive cooling night breezes. The term wallaby track is first used to describe the path worn by a wallaby: 1846 J.L. 1873 Herald (Fremantle) 4 January: Three or four days of a fierce westerly wind, succeeded by a strong, cool sea breeze - known up the country as the Fremantle doctor. Howell, Diggings and Bush:Florence was much amused the other evening by her enquiring if she (Flory) was going down to the water to have a 'bogey'. A central base camp provides hot meals throughout the event and teams may return there at any time to eat, rest or sleep. No worries, she said, making space for my gear on the back seat. A fool; also used as a general term of abuse. Chandler wrote in Darkest Adelaide: Sitting on the seat with him was a nice specimen of the Australian larrikin. 2005 Daily Telegraph (Sydney) 8 December: Given that her cousins are real-life princesses, Makim should be the full bottle on the art of pouring and drinking tea like a lady. A fool, a simpleton, an idiot. But he never did win. 2014 Australian Financial Review (Sydney) 8 September: Australia's modern prosperity is now being hit by a national income squeeze as our terms of trade slide from their highest level for more than a century. For a further discussion of Vegemite and to view the advertisement see the article 'A History of Vegemite' on our blog. Stoush is used as a noun and a verb (to strike or thrash; to fight or struggle) from the late 19th century. The makes include 'Sovereign', 'Vebistra', 'Akubra', 'Peerless', 'Beaucaire'. For a more detailed discussion of this term see our Word of the Month article from October 2010. `I can get it back home at Woollies for that price.'. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years in New South Wales: In calling to each other at a distance, the natives make use of the word Coo-ee, as we do the word Hollo, prolonging the sound of the coo, and closing that of the ee with a shrill jerk. 2002 Koori Mail 20 February: I hope this film will be a turning point in Australians awareness of the complex and painful issues surrounding the Stolen generations. The Australian sense of swag is a transferred use of swag from British thieves slang a thief's plunder or booty. A domestic fowl; a chicken. The word business in this term is from Aboriginal English, and means traditional Aboriginal lore and ritual, and is recorded from 1907. But this meaning is now obsolete. They are sometimes thought to be associated with the Great Depression of the 1930s, when massive unemployment meant that many people travelled long distances looking for work. We pride ourselves with our proven youth development programs for young elite players. However, things are crook in Tallarook is not recorded until the early 1940s. Anywhere beyond the black stump is beyond civilisation, deep in the outback, whereas something this side of the black stump belongs to the known world. ; an assembling of people for inspection, exercises, etc. The jury is still out on this term. A fight or skirmish; a collision. 1905 Brisbane Courier 10 October: A grand chance for hotel and boarding-house keepers, private householders, and all young ladies collecting for the glory box. But we need to turn the 1960s for the more derogatory use ofocker. (These islands are free of quokka predators such as foxes and cats.) 1972 Bulletin (Sydney) 10 June: The Oz habit of shaking hands while looking away at an angle of ninety degrees. The great man signed a football for me and when I get home it's going straight to the pool room. Youve been bringing Johan to Sunday dinner for the last 30 years, do you think I was blind?'. In Tasmania, a bluey or Tasmanian bluey is: a rough overcoat of blue-grey woollen, to be worn by those doing outdoor work during inclement weather. Voters who merely number the candidates in the order they are listed on the ballot paper (without regard for the merits of the candidates) are casting a donkey vote- that is, a stupid vote. Stoush was also used to refer to military engagement during the First World War, and later the phrase the big stoush was used of the war itself. Give it a burl is first recorded in the early years of the 20th century. Used to designate a style of Aboriginal painting that originated in Western Arnhem Land (Northern Territory). 1994 Age (Melbourne) 26 June: No country road anywhere on this continent is ever entirely free of hoons in utes travelling faster than they ought to. The expression a stubby short of a sixpack, recorded from the late 1990s, means very stupid; insane. She announced her retirement in 1924, but gave farewell performances at Covent Garden in 1926, in Sydney, Melbourne, and Geelong in 1928, and then sang in England over the next two years. It became popular around the time of the First World War, and increasingly so into the 1920s and 30s. For a discussion of other terms associated with swagmen, see the article The Jolly Swagman on pages 6-7 of our Ozwords newsletter, October 2007. 2015 Australian Financial Review (Sydney) 1 April: Planning and zoning looms as a barbecue stopper in leafy suburbs, where many residents and traders will defend to the last breath their quiet enjoyment and captive markets. The skirt flares out a little below the knees and generally has a split either at the side or at the rear to enable her to walk. A governments free-market approach to economic management. The word is a borrowing from Yuwaalaraay (an Aboriginal language of northern New South Wales) and neighbouring languages. It was initially used in Australia to refer to a woman of Irish origin, but from the late 19th century onwards it became a general term for a woman or girl. Because it was the most common form of bread for bush workers in the nineteenth century, to earn your damper means to be worth your pay. His titular party head seconded that, claiming quickly to have 'spent most of [his] life as a bogan'. Jacky Howe is first recorded in 1900. 2002 Sunday Telegraph (Sydney) 10 November: The Australian sports public are a forgiving lot. The term is recorded from the 1930s. Other common examples includes budgie (a budgerigar), rellie (a relative), and tradie (a tradesperson). 1954 Queensland Guardian (Brisbane) 20 January: Snow says he thinks that this is the raw prawn. Some have suggested that this is the origin of the association of 'stupidity' with the term drongo. A commemorative ceremony held at dawn on Anzac Day. It is likely that this expression was first used in horseracing to refer to a horse that moved very quickly out of the starting gates. 1994 M. Colman In A League Of Their Own: This was in the middle of the Whitlam government's darkest days and the crowd has gone absolutely troppo when Gough's walked out. He often came very close to winning major races, but in 37 starts he never won a race. 2015 Centralian Advocate (Alice Springs) 10 April: Mining activity can also cause direct and indirect disturbance to sites inhabited by bilbies. 'A long lost convict: Australia's "C-word"?'. It comes from Dorothy Dix, the pen-name of Elizabeth Gilmer (1870-1951), an American journalist who wrote a famous personal advice column which was syndicated in Australia. (In Australian Rules football) a spectacular overhead mark. The popularity of the adjective lairy quickly spawned a noun and a verb to match. The phrase was first recorded in the 1940s. As a negative symbol it stands for the dreary sameness and ordinariness of Australian suburbia. (In traditional Aboriginal belief) a collection of events beyond living memory that shaped the physical, spiritual, and moral world; the era in which these occurred; an Aboriginal person's consciousness of the enduring nature of the era. 1987 D. Williamson Emerald City: I'm going to keep charting their perturbations .. those Chardonnay socialists of Melbourne aren't going to stop me. A shag is a name for any of several species of Australian cormorant, commonly found in coastal and inland waters, where they are often seen perched alone on a rockthe behaviour that gave rise to the expression. 2015 Australian Financial Review (Sydney) 7 March: If I lose this job I've got Buckley's chance of getting another one. From the early sixteenth century, European philosophers and mapmakers assumed a great southern continent existed south of Asia. The term raw prawn, recorded from 1940, is based on this. Billycart is recorded in the first decade of the 20th century. An invitation to bring a plate of food to share at a social gathering or fundraiser. For a further discussion of boomerang see the article 'Boomerang, Boomerang, Thou Spirit of Australia!' 3. By the 1970s the verbal form had developed into the noun. The phrase is used elsewhere but recorded earliest in New Zealand and Australia. Pokies are coin or card-operated. Yuong Jack Hansen undertook to sit him but failed at every attempt. It probably derives from the generic use of the (originally Irish) proper name Sheila. The term derives from the notion that a topic is so interesting that it could halt proceedings at a barbecue - and anything that could interrupt an Aussie barbecue would have to be very significant indeed! It applied to a person of great heart, who displayed courage, loyalty, and mateship. Poker machines. Bindi-eye is usually considered a weed when found in one's lawn. From the 1980s cleanskin was also used of 'a bottle of wine without a label that identifies the maker, sold at a price cheaper than comparable labelled bottles; the wine in such a bottle'. ; to be successful in the exertion of such pressure. For an earlier discussion of the possibility that the form brass razoo is a euphemism for arse razoo (from arse raspberry a fart) see the article Brass Razoo: is it but a breath of wind? on page 6 of our Ozwords newsletter. These 'wild bush horses' have been known as brumbies in Australia since the early 1870s. ; a panacea. There are suggestions that the term drop bear emerged in the Second World War period (see 1982 quotation below) but the first record is from the 1980s. This sense is first recorded in 1896 in a Henry Lawson story. Usually this activity is surreptitious. Boomerang is an Australian word which has moved into International English. In pre-decimal currency days the larger the denomination, the bigger the banknote. The term is first recorded from the early 1990s but is probably much older than that. In 1949 Prime Minister Ben Chifley spoke of the Labor goal of social justice as 'the light on the hill, which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind'. 1825 Howe's Weekly Commercial Express (Sydney) 23 May: There is at this moment many a poor settler up the country, buried in the bush .. eating salt pork and dampers with an occasional feast of kangaroo. The word Oz reproduces in writing the pronunciation of an abbreviation of Aussie, Australia, or Australian. The early evidence also reveals that there have been various recipes for this tart over the years. Oil is often found in the terms dinkum oil and good oil, both also occurring in the context of the First World War. It was Matthew Flinders, English navigator (and the first person to circumnavigate and map Australia's coastline), who first expressed a strong preference for the name Australia. The gathering together of (frequently widely dispersed) livestock in one place for the purpose of branding, counting, etc. While the first written evidence comes from the early 1980s the phrase probably goes back several decades earlier. Such holes are also known as crabholes, dead-men's graves, or melon holes. 2006 Age (Melbourne) 29 August: When I started this .. Other examples of rhyming slang in Australian English include: Al Capone 'phone', Barry Crocker 'a shocker', billy lid 'kid', meat pie 'a try (in rugby)', and mystery bag 'snag (a sausage)'. 2006 Stock and Land (Melbourne) 4 May: Removing the stereotypical image of farmers being whinging cockies is also important. Although I must say this is a very cunning, contrived piece of legislation, if that is what they set out to do. 2011 Townsville Bulletin 27 August: Voting for same-sex marriage is a vote for equality, and a vote for a fair go for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Australians. The word can also be used as a polite way of saying bullshit. They're all 'blueys' to us. In some regions boomerangs are decorated with designs that are either painted or cut into the wood. For a further discussion of the origin of the phrase see the article 'Folk Etymology in Australian English' in our Ozwords newsletter. In early records it is variously spelt as galar, gillar, gulah, etc. Renfrey did not join in the &oq;mud bath&cq; and did not play 'aerial ping-pong', as the rugby exponents in the army termed the Australian game, until 1946. 1943 Australasian (Melbourne) 10 July: There are books on this and books on that about past, present, and future international relations all deadly dull And I am fed up to dolly's wax with them. It seems likely that he was named after the bird called the 'drongo'. It is sometimes shortened, as in were flat out like a lizard trying to meet the deadline. As the locals know, a plate alone will not do. 2013 Gympie Times 16 March: This week he took Craig Warhurst on a muster to show how much help a good dog can be to a property owner. For more about wine terms in Australian English see the article 'Wine in Australian English' on our blog. To pull down or remove the trousers from (a person) as a joke or punishment. Not so leery, perhaps, as his prototypes of Melbourne and Sydney, but a choice specimen of his class nevertheless. Yowie may come from the word yuwi dream spirit in the Yuwaalaraay language of northern New South Wales. The verb rort first appears in 1919. Neil Finn? 2005 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 22 May: The pathetic and increasingly unwatched Footy Show on Channel Nine whipped up another 'ducks on the pond' furore over the proposal to include the outspoken Rebecca Wilson on their panel. First recorded in the 1820s. It is an abbreviation of the British dialect wordgoggy'a child's name for an egg', retained in Scotland as goggie. 1957 Overland x: We used ter have a snake in the dunny - lav., sir. The word is probably a figurative use of an earlier Australian sense of cark meaning 'the caw of a crow', which is imitative. From this sense arise a number of colloquial idioms. Moz is an abbreviated form of mozzle, which is derived from the Hebrew wordmazzal meaning 'luck'. A checkout operator at a supermarket. Although green ban is used elsewhere, the term was recorded first in Australia in 1973. A day's sick leave, especially as taken without sufficient medical reason. The word is first recorded in the 1860s. The notion is often expressed as riding on the sheeps back, and sometimes as living off the sheeps back. The origin of the word is now given for the first time. It often occurs in the phrase on the wallaby track and in in the abbreviated form on the wallaby: 1849 Stephen's Adelaide Miscellany: The police themselves are usually well-treated in the bush.. they make a 'round' through the district, and get a meal at every hut, and one man from every said hut (besides those mobs on the 'wallaby track') stops for a night at the police-station in return. 1949 L. Glassop Lucky Palmer: I get smart alecks like you trying to put one over on me every minute of the day. To search or rummage for something. Look, I try not to do it all the time, honest! 1992Sun-Herald(Sydney) 5 July 30/1 My local plonk shop where I am caught browsing through the Australian white wine section by one of the counter-jumpers. 2014 Advertiser (Adelaide) 31 May: I was feeling crook at the Ipswich races and over the weekend. Later it is also used to mean a trifling sum of money, as in the phrase not worth a zac. Trams last ran on the line in 1960, but the phrase has remained a part of Australian English. The following quotations show the evolution of the recipe: 1917 War Chest Cookery Book (Australian Comforts Fund): Anzac Biscuits. To subject (a person) to a torrent of words; to talk at great length to; to harangue. 2012 D. Foster Man of Letters: He's never been one to big-note himself. First recorded in 1982, it derives from the childrens television series Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo (1966-68). A person who is publicly censorious of others and the pleasures they seek; a person whose own behaviour is puritanical or prudish; a killjoy. 2012 S. Williams Welcome to the Outback: Along with hordes of grey nomads, I spend a day checking out the Australian Stockmans Hall of Fame. Ant's pants is an Australian variant of the originally US forms bee's knees and cat's whiskers with the same meaning. 1974 Australian Women's Weekly (Sydney) 19 June: Known far and wide as 'the little Aussie battler', Ernie Sigley battles on regardless with his undoubted talent and the team of regulars on his entertaining show. The term is used withallusion to an emu bending its neck toward the ground in search of food.
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