Australianese

English

Etymology

From Australian +‎ -ese.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /əˈstɹeɪljəˌniːz/

Noun

Australianese (uncountable)

1. Australian English, especially when containing Australian slang or other Australianisms.
   • 1978, Patsy Adam-Smith, chapter X, in The ANZACS, page 102:

     Anzac burial parties greeted the enemy with odds and ends of Arabic phrases, and with Australianese that must have been incomprehensible to them.

   • 1980 January, George Reiger, “Fishing In The Land Of Topsy-Turvy”, in Field & Stream, page 72:

     While the Australian black, brown, copperhead, the death adder, and taipan snakes are all poisonous, the real troublemaker (or "stirrer," as they say in Australianese) is the tiger snake.

   • 2015, S. A. Gordon, Grand Slam‎^[1], Xoum, →ISBN:

     'You said "ass" like an American.'
     'Well, I know you wouldn't understand me if I said it in Australianese.' […]

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