Hurryback

RAF Wartime slang for a Hurricane fighter.

"The Hurrybacks are already in the air"

by Gari July 30, 2005

Deadly Treadly

(Aus) Bicycle.

Australian expression for push-bike

"Catchyalayda mate. I'll be round on my deadly treadly"

by Gari July 30, 2005

Wankatank

Aus. slang
Four wheel drives that never leave the bitumen. Mostly found on the Mornington Peninsula but occuring in other parts of Australia:

"Those wankatank drivers should all have to undergo appropriate training to be licenced to drive."

by Gari July 30, 2005

pernickity

pedantic, analy retentive, from the root - to 'pick nits', meaning to pick up small and possibly irrelevant or unimportant details

Charles was always picking nits and complaining about the cleanliness of the squat. Personally I think he is being too pernickity.

by Gari May 08, 2003

Kipper Kite

RAF Slang
Coastal Command Aircraft which convoyed
fishing fleets in the North and Irish Seas.

"He's out on a kipper kite run today"

by Gari July 30, 2005

Greenhouse

RAF wartime slang for Cockpit cover.

"Couldn't get the greenhouse open"

by Gari July 30, 2005

white fella

White fella is not racial and the following poem from Papua New Guinea in pidgin English shows their common day to day use of "whitepella"

I guess that stupid "political correctness" hasn't hit the jungles of PNG yet. LOL

Gari

On Bring in the Pintupi
(after Nosepeg Tjurpurrula)

Whitepella bin go n round
for nothin night n day

bring em here / old people punished!
very bad trip

flour, clothes, sugar
eat em long -
kell em tinna corn beef

tinna fruit / first time
they bin eat em flour

good people in bush country
bloody whitepella bin go n
bring em

spoil em mob properly

by Gari August 03, 2005