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This encyclopedic edition of Australia's national dictionary is truly international and uniquely Australian.
Read this book to discover the meaning behind perplexing Australian discourses such as this one- G'day mate! How've ya been, you old bastard? Take a butchers at that galah playing aerial ping-pong on the telly.
A dictionary of Australian and New Zealand English with extensive encyclopaedic content and a great many proper names, particularly of Australian people and places.
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The Dinkum Dictionary: A Ripper Guide to Aussie English
With over 240 entries new to this edition, this text is a comprehensive reference to Australian slang. The book includes translations of such phrases as rattle your dags and explains such descriptions as a lair who likes to stir the possum.
A Dinkum Aussie Dictionary
The Penguin Book of Australian Slang scales the heights - and plumbs the depths - of the Australian language.
It's the new millennium and slang has never had it so good -- the Macquarie Slang Dictionary, as the most up-to-date record of the 'poetry of the masses' in Australia, is a celebration of this.