| 'T' |
| Ta |
Thank
you |
| Taipan |
A
deadly Australian snake |
| Take |
A
swindler, one who defrauds or cheats |
| Take a
piece out of |
To
reprove someone sharply |
| Take a
screw at |
To
look at, examine |
| Take
down |
A
deception or fraud |
| Take
on |
A
fight; to take someone on; to engage a person in combat or in any contest of skill or
endurance |
| Talent |
Larrikins;
bodgies; crooks; the underworld in general; females attending a party or gathering |
| Talk
turkey |
Talk
plain; talk straight |
| Tall
poppy -a- |
Someone
who excels |
| Tallie
-a- |
A
large bottle of beer |
| Tambaroora
muster |
A
collection of money to buy drinks |
| Tank |
An
excavation (generally square) on a station in which water is held for stock |
|
Tar & Feather |
Used to be a form of
initiation in the shearing sheds a few years back, that shearers did to
Rousy's |
| Tarboy |
A
woolshed hand whose job at shearing time is to administer tar to cut sheep |
| Tatts |
Tattersall's
lottery |
| Tazzie
or Tassie |
Tasmania |
| Tea |
The
evening meal |
| Teaser |
A
castrated or partly castrated ram, which is placed in a ewe flock to identify ewes on heat |
| Teddy
bear |
A
flashily dressed and exhibitionistic person |
| Tee
up -to- |
To
arrange or organise something |
| Ten,
twelve, two and a quarter |
An old
formula for a man's rations on farms and stations - 10 lb. Flour, 12 Ib. meat, 2 lb.
sugar, ¼ lb. tea |
| Territorian |
Any
person that lives in the Northern Territory |
| There's
no doubt about you |
A
rather nonsensical phrase of admiration or goodwill |
| Thingo |
Anything
one does not know the real name for eg "What's the name of that
thingo" |
| Thongs |
Sandals
made from rubber or plastic |
| Three
cornered
horse |
A
scraggy, weedy, outlaw horse |
| Three
pen worth of God help us |
A
contemptuous phrase applied to a weakling or an insignificant person |
| Threshing
machine -fight like a- |
To
fight vigorously |
| Throw
in |
As for
chuck in |
| Thursdee |
Thursday |
| Ti
tree |
Incorrect
for tea tree |
| Tick |
Credit |
| Tick
stain |
Discolouration
of wool caused by excreta of the sheep tick or ked |
| Tickle
the peter |
To rob
a cash register or till |
| Tie up
a dog |
To
obtain credit for drinks at a hotel. An account which the debtor fails to pay is called a
mad dog |
| Tiers |
Mountains |
| Tilda |
As for
Matilda |
| Tin
ear |
An
eavesdropper |
| Tin
kettling |
A form
of noise-making to celebrate some special occasion, which consists of banging tins, metal
trays and other objects capable of producing a racket |
| Tinarse |
An
unusually lucky person |
| Tinnie |
Unusually
or fantastically lucky; a can of beer |
| Tipslinger |
A
racehorse or greyhound |
| Tit
-get on one's- |
To
annoy one greatly; to infuriate |
| Tiz up |
As for
flossy up |
| TM
-a- |
A
ready made or Tailor Made cigarette |
|
Todger |
Penis |
| Toe
rag |
Originally
rags which an outback itinerant wound about his toes or feet; a person of small account; a
no-hoper; a £ 1 banknote |
| Toe
ragger |
A
short sentence prisoner in a jail |
| Togs |
A
swimming costume |
| Tom
Collins |
The
supposed source of rumour in the Riverina area |
| Tom
thumb |
A type
of cicada |
| Tomahawk
-to- |
To cut
a sheep during shearing |
| Tommy |
Bread
baked with currants and sugar |
| Tommy
Cornstalk |
An
Australian soldier in the Boer War |
| Tommy
-to- |
To
leave |
| Tongs |
Hand
shears for shearing sheep |
| Tonk |
A
simpleton or fool; an effeminate male |
| Tonked
-get- |
To be
knocked out; beaten in a fight; to be punished |
| Too
right |
Yes,
certainly |
| Topend -the- |
Far
northern Australia |
| Topender
-a- |
Any
person who lives in the Northern Territory |
| Topoff |
A
police informer |
| Torch |
Flashlight |
| Tote |
A
racecourse totalisator |
| Tough
as fencing wire |
Extremely
durable |
| Track |
A
warder who will carry contraband messages or goods out of or into jail for a prisoner |
| Triantelope |
Popular
name for the large Huntsman spider Delena cancerides |
| Troppo
-a- |
A
person who is acting as if being mentally disturbed |
| Trot
-a- |
A
sequence |
| True
blue |
Anything
real Australian |
| Tucker |
Food
in general |
| Tuckerbag |
Was
used to store food in, while in the outback |
| Tuckshop |
The
canteen or cafeteria in a school |
| Tuesdee |
Tuesday |
| Turf
out -to- |
To
throw away or reject |
| Turn
it up |
A
warning to stop |
| Turps |
Any
alcoholic drink |
| Twenty
to a dozen -doing- |
To
work very fast |
| Twicer |
A
double crosser |
| Two-up |
A
gambling game in which two pennies are tossed. Bets are being made on
whether they will fall heads or tails |
