The Penguin Book of Australian Slang

The Penguin Book of Australian Slang
Author: Lenie Johansen
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1996-01
Genre: Australianisms
ISBN: 9780140255737


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The Penguin Book of Australian Slang scales the heights - and plumbs the depths - of the Australian language. For twenty years Lenie Johansen has been tuning in to and recording what Australians really say on the streets, in the pubs and to their family and mates. In this remarkable collection of classic and current colloquialisms she displays for readers all the inventiveness with words and the love of colourful expressions that have made Oz English unique.


The Penguin Book of Australian Slang
Language: en
Pages: 536
Authors: Lenie Johansen
Categories: Australianisms
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01 - Publisher: Penguin Books

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The Penguin Book of Australian Slang scales the heights - and plumbs the depths - of the Australian language. For twenty years Lenie Johansen has been tuning in
Aussie Slang
Language: en
Pages: 89
Authors: Sarah Dawson
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-08-02 - Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

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What Australian say – and what they really mean. Australia has given the world thousands of colouful words and expressions. From the back of Bourke to the rou
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Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Gordon Kerr
Categories: Australianisms
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Penguin Australia

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This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses
Australian Slang QBD Excl
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Anon
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-23 - Publisher: Penguin Books

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Illywhacker
Language: en
Pages: 1119
Authors: Peter Carey
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-01 - Publisher: Vintage

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In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old