Latest Aussie slang words added to the dictionary

The Oxford dictionary has just expanded to include eleven new slang terms from Australia.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Behold the cask or goon.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
The definition of both words immortalized by the Oxford English
Dictionary as new inclusions from Australia.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Do you know what one of these is called? No,
the goombag?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
So you know, here's the list of Ossie extras, including
best and fairest.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Don't argue, slab and spew spew that's like, this is gross.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
I don't have to read the dictionary. I don't think
this word should belong in English.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Kahn, the Dictionary says, was invented sixty years ago.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Don't argue as a fendoff in sport. Not this, don't
You're never going to mean man.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
According to Oxford Blanda is an Aboriginal word used in
the Northern Territory to refer to a white person or
white people. Gunzel is slang for a person who loves
trams or trains, like this guy with three million ticked
followers and a go pro on his head.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Margot Robbie helped spread the word.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Slab, slab apears. I think you'd say carton appears.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oxford English Dictionary thinks the word goon comes from flagoon,
a large typically half gallon or two lit jar in
which drinks were sold, obviously before the Chief of foil
Option came around.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Does it deserve a place in the dictionary?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, it's a nassy thing room.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Cheers to that, Lake Johnson seven News