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Australianese
Reference material by Wiktionary contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
English
Etymology
From en Australian -ese.
Pronunciation
en /əˈstɹeɪljəˌniːz/ AU
Noun
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Australian English, especially when containing Australian slang or other Australianisms.
en 1978 Patsy Adam-Smith The ANZACS x 102 Anzac burial parties greeted the enemy with odds and ends of Arabic phrases, and with Australianese that must have been incomprehensible to them.
en 1980 George Reiger Fishing In The Land Of Topsy-Turvy Field & Stream January https://books.google.com/books?id=8tR3aBIi53sC&pg=PA72&dq=Australianese 72 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.
en 2015 S. A. Gordon Grand Slam https://books.google.com/books?id=2sgoBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT82&dq=Australianese Xoum 9781921134401 'You said "ass" like an American.''Well, I know you wouldn't understand me if I said it in Australianese.'
Anagrams
en aaaeeilnrsstu Eurasian teals
en Australia Dialects