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Australian lingo chook1/10/2024 ![]() A later term modelled on seachange is tree change, referring to a significant change in lifestyle with a move from the city to a rural district.Ģ003 Daily Telegraph (Sydney) 1 December: Sea change investors cause prices to triple. The name of the series itself alludes to the standard English meaning of sea-change ‘a profound or notable transformation’, which has its origin in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest: ‘Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change, Into something rich and strange.’ The Australian meaning is first recorded in 1998, and has generated the verb to seachange, and the name seachanger to describe people who choose a seachange. It derives from SeaChange (1998–2000), the name of a popular Australian television series in which the principal character moves from the city to a small coastal town. He said when she had a few drinks she began to shout and tried to dominate the conversation.Ģ004 Canberra Times 12 December (Magazine Section): In the days when I was a two-pot screamer (as opposed to now when I'm a two-pot sleeper), I could be guaranteed to reveal bits of me which oughtn't to be revealed to anyone.Ī significant change of lifestyle, especially one achieved by moving from the city to a seaside town. Two-pot screamer is the most common of these, but you can also find two-pint, two-middy, and two-schooner screamers.ġ972 Bulletin (Sydney) 3 June: Sefton said she’d become a two middy screamer. It functions in various compound terms with words for measures of alcoholic drink, indicating a person who has a low tolerance of alcohol, or who becomes drunk easily or quickly. to pull down a screamer.Ģ014 Herald Sun (Melbourne) 30 March: Six minutes in he threw himself onto a pack in the goalsquare and took a screamer.Ī second sense of screamer is recorded in Australian English from 1959. The Australian Rules screamer is first recorded in 1953.ġ989 Age (Melbourne) 24 July: 'Leaping Al' Lynch played an inspired game. A screamer is a mark that results from an especially high and spectacular leap for the ball. It is a specific use of the standard English screamer meaning ‘an outstanding specimen’. A mark is the act of cleanly catching a ball that has been kicked a distance of more than 15 metres, and the mark allows the catcher to take an unimpeded kick of the ball. Australian Rules is a team game in which the ball is moved by running, kicking, and handballing. (In Australian Rules football) a spectacular overhead mark. McHugh Birdsville: I'm happy about School of the Air being over… Now they're off to school and in a classroom again they can come home to me and I'm just Mum instead of being their cranky teacher. ![]() It remains the most important means of education for children who have no access to school.ġ960 Bulletin (Sydney) 17 February: Queensland’s first School of the Air, operating one hour daily from the Cloncurry flying-doctor base, got away to a bad start.Ģ009 E. Developed to supplement correspondence education, the School of the Air was pioneered in Australia in 1951. was decked out in a lovely new navy-blue suit… When I walked out onstage feeling rather schmick, I got a nod of acknowledgement from the very handsome artistic director, Richard Bonynge.Ī government-funded educational program that uses a two-way radio communication system (and, more recently, internet technology) to enable children in remote areas to participate in ‘classroom’ activities for part of each day. For a discussion of the origin of schmick, and the term schmick-up that has developed from it, see our Word of the Month article.ġ999 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 28 July: The view over the river and Story Bridge will be pretty schmick.Ģ009 J. Schmick is now often heard in Australian English. From the late 1990s onwards smick is modified to schmick on the model of various Yiddish words borrowed into English. The form smick is found once in the written record in the 1970s, and may be a blend of the words smart and slick. Schmick (sometimes shmick) is a relatively recent addition to Australian English. Birmingham Dopeland: The club sanger is the only reason I stay here. O’Grady A Bottle of Sandwiches: Meals consisted of piles of sangers, made by the pub cook, and brought out at odd intervals.Ģ003 J. ![]() Sangers come in all shapes and sizes for all occasions-there are gourmet sangers, steak sangers, veggie sangers, cucumber sangers, and even double banger sangers.ġ968 D. Sango appeared as a term for sandwich in the 1940s, but by the 1960s, sanger took over to describe this staple of Australian cuisine. Sanger is an alteration of the word sandwich. ![]()
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