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Australianese en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /əˈstɹeɪljəˌniːz/ (Australia)

Etymology

From Australian + -ese.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Australian English, especially when containing Australian slang or other Australianisms.
    • 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. 1980 January, George Reiger, “Fishing In The Land Of Topsy-Turvy”, in Field & Stream, page 72:
    • Anzac burial parties greeted the enemy with odds and ends of Arabic phrases, and with Australianese that must have been incomprehensible to them. 1978, Patsy Adam-Smith, chapter X, in The ANZACS, page 102:
    • 'You said "ass" like an American.' 'Well, I know you wouldn't understand me if I said it in Australianese.' […] 2015, S. A. Gordon, Grand Slam, Xoum, →ISBN: