The Colour In Aussie Colloqualism - Part 2

I've gathered more words of Aussie slang for your reading pleasure:

• Pop-off - FART
• Dag - SHIT THAT HANGS ON THE WOOL OF A SHEEP'S BUM!
• A bit ho-hum - NOT SHIT HOT/JUST AVERAGE
• Howz ur dad? - SAME AS 3 ABOVE (I really don't see how it's even related!!! - told ya confusing bunch!)
• Six of 1 or 1/2 dozen of the other - SAME THING/NO DIFFERENCE
• Bunging it on - FAKING IT.
• She can talk underwater with a mouth full of cement - SHE TALKS INCESSANTLY
• As flat as a shit-carter's hat - FLAT AS A SHEET OF PAPER
• Hoo Roo - GOODBYE

A little bit of background about a shit-carter. 

 

In the days of old, when the sewage system was nowhere similar to what we have nowadays with the flush and all.  In those days, the loo was basically a tall wooden structure, similar in size to the broom closet, with a roof and a raised floor with a "hole" in it.  Beneath this "hole" sat a tin container.  A person needing to visit the loo will have to enter this "closet" and stoop over the "hole" (it was oval in shape, long and as broad as the width of your hips) to do the necessary through the hole into this container (I know, I know, too much info!).  Obviously someone had to take it away once it was full and replace it with an empty one!  

 

One guess as who a shit-carter is!  I'm guessing that his hat was really flat & no one could really tell me why it was so if it was so!!!!  I really have my doubts about what the flatness of the hat had to do with the job he had to do!  Oh well....

 

Welcome to Australia!