Still more Aussie idioms to help you decode Australian blogs and other media.

C

• Cactus: not functioning, ruined, messed up, dead. [e.g. Oh no! The TV's cactus! How am I going to watch the cricket?!]
• Chrissie: Christmas. Aussies love turning the end of words into an “ee” sound… No it’s not babyish!
• Chunder: vomit, both noun and verb.
• Crook: sick, faulty. [e.g.s - I can't come out, my kids are crook; and Oh no, this is a crook TV! How am I going to watch the cricket?!]

D

• Dag: silly person, a term of affection despite its origin (dirty wool around a sheep’s bum) and its adjectival use below.
• Daggy: corny, nerdy, out-of-fashion.
• Daks: trousers.
• Dummy-spit: tantrum, angry tirade.
• Dunny: toilet. You may as well get used to me using this word, there’ll inevitably be a lot of toilet jokes on this site.

Well, if you’ll excuse me, I gotta go chunder in the dunny now; my guts are a bit crook and they haven’t been right since Chrissie.