Australianese
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Australia/əˈstɹeɪljəˌniːz/
Australianese noun: australian English, especially when containing Australian slang or other Australianisms.
Noun
Australianese (uncountable)
- Australian English, especially when containing Australian slang or other Australianisms.
- 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
- 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
Origin of Australianese
From Australian + -ese.
Questions about Australianese
- What does Australianese mean?
- Australianese means australian English, especially when containing Australian slang or other Australianisms.
- What part of speech is Australianese?
- Australianese is a noun.
- How do you pronounce Australianese?
- Australianese is pronounced /əˈstɹeɪljəˌniːz/ (Australia).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Australianese (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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