Special Report
Australian Words and Phrases Americans Just Don't Get
August 1, 2019 1:44 pm
Last Updated: January 15, 2020 9:15 am
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Sunnies
Sunglasses, for obvious reasons.
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Thongs
Not underwear or part of a revealing bikini, but flip-flops.
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Troppo
Wild or crazy; mentally deranged. It’s said that Australian troops in the Pacific during World War II used the phrase “to go troppo” to describe those whose sanity had been affected by the conditions in the tropics.
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Yakka
Also yakker and yacker. Hard work. From “yaga,” a term for work in the indigenous Yagara language.
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