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The Dinkum Dictionary

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The Aussies are amazingly inventive and colorful in their language. Guess the meaning for "go at it bald headed" or "neddies." This dictionary clearly defines such stumpers. Sample definition: on the bot - cadging/borrowing, usually with no intention of paying back.

At the end of the book are useful lists, such as occupations (garbo/garbage collector, minder/bodyguard, sparkie/electrician) or 3 pages just listing words for fools (chucklehead, drongo, galah, gink, troglodyte, yobbo) and another 3 pages of drinking words.

It's fun to read, even if you never make it to the land down under.

As a writer I find it a fabulous resource of the inique turn of phrase that Australian's use. It is a very colorful language, raw, rude, funny, visual, dry, toungue in cheek, always irreverant, rebelious and never dull. It's a brilliant guide for those who want to decifer what the hell we're talking about amd a great insight into the colorful origins of out culture. I've had a copy for over ten years and I'm still using it.