strine dictionary

  • Agro

    Agro is the Strine word for aggressive, or aggression. It is an abbreviation of those commonly used English words. Agro can also be used in noun form to describe a fight. Agroというストラインは「怒っている」や「攻撃的な」という意味で。名詞としても使えるので、その場合「殴り合い」や「喧嘩」という意味になる。 Agro/いらだち | 考えRoo

  • やばいリンガル：Abo

    絶対言うな！ Abo is an archaic and derogatory word for indigenous Australians, deriving from the equally obsolete aboriginal. This is a deeply offensive word and shouldn’t be used, but it is. So we provide it here for educational purposes. Aboは死語に近いアボリジニの省略であり、オーストラリア原住民に対する軽蔑言葉。絶対に使うべきではないが未だに使う人はいるので、教育目的としてここで提供する。 Strine Dictionary | 考えRoo

  • Back To The Basics To Take The Strain Out Of Strine

    Kangaeroo.com originally started as a bit of a joke site focused on Strine–the word to describe Australian English that is a play on the word “Australian” as pronounced in a broad Aussie accent. In the earliest years of the site, language played a central role in content. I created categories like やばいリンガル, which was loosely for words that were a little bit on the naughtier side, or yabai, in both English and Japanese. Then we had 豪cabulary that honed in on individual words that are distinctly Australian with the category being a portmanteau of go (豪), the kanji abbreviation used in Japanese for the now virtually archaic name for Australia…

  • Bonzer Bonsai!

    Given that this site started with the intent of spreading information about Japan and Australia and matters related to these countries, including languages, and then how much focus I have placed on gardening over the past couple of years, it’s surprising that I haven’t had much to say about bonsai. Or bonzer, for that matter. Bonsai is, of course, the Japanese art of miniature tree growing in trays: the literal meaning of the word bon (tray) sai (gro/cultivate). And, despite having written a Strine Dictionary, or list of Australian English terms, one of its notable absentees is the word bonzer, which was perhaps an iconic term Down Under in the…

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    「やばいリンガル」 Flog （鞭打ちする）

    米・英語では誰かをflogすると鞭打ちするという意味だ。しかし、オージー英語では何かをflogするという意味になる。まさか鞭打ちしっぱなしじゃないよね？どのように違うのか見よう。 To flog someone in English as it is spoken in most countries would mean to whip them. But in Strine, the word also has additional meanings. Read on to find out what they are.

  • Zed/Z

    Zed Australian English Z, the final letter of the alphabet. In Australian English (like the English used in every other Commonwealth country except Canada and as the language is taught in Japan), the final letter of the alphabet is pronounced “zed.” In North American English, the final letter is pronounced “zee.”