HayterДЄDVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR - Australia's National AnthemДЄERIAL PING PONG - Australia Rules FootballДЄ FEW STUBBIES SHORT OF A SIX PACK - a little slowДЄ FEW SANDWICHES SHORT OF A PICNIC - a little slowДЄ GOOD BUST - a drunken spree, e.g. Australian-born art critic, writer.ДЄ DINGO TOOK MY BABY - A cry by Lindy Chamberlain in 1980 when she found her baby missingДЄDVANCE AUSTRALIA - Portrait of Caroline Chisholm painted by A.C. Many new slang words are also not included, partly because they have not stood the test of time but also because they would fill another page!ДЄBSO-BLOODY-LUTELY - beyond doubt you better believe itДЄ BUM - Any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum - said by Prime Minister Bob Hawke following Australia's victory in the 1983 America's CupДЄCE - WW1 pilot who had shot down 5 or more enemy aircraftДЄCE IT UP - be asked to improve performanceДЄCROSS THE DITCH - to cross the Ditch means crossing the Tasman Sea to Australia from New Zealand, or vice versaДЄCT - Australian Capitol Territory - CanberraДЄ CUP OF TEA, A BEX AND A GOOD LIE DOWN - marketing phrase for APC powders in 1960'sДЄDD INSULT TO INJURY - to make things worse than they already areДЄ DEAD CERT - horse race that is sure to winДЄ DETERMINED SOUL WILL DO MORE WITH A RUSTY MONKEY WRENCH THAN A LOAFER WILL ACCOMPLISH WITH ALL THE TOOLS IN A MACHINE SHOP - Quote - Robert Hughes 1938-2012. Missing are those with racial undertones as well as many words and phrases that are crude or offensive. There are so many more that could be added to the list below. In their place come new words eg., sus = suspicious blind = drunk. Just as words from the flash language have disappeared, so too are some slang words disappearing from our language e.g., cobber = mate blow = to boast. Others have long fallen into disuse e.g., chant = dwelling place cly-faker = pickpocket.

Vaux Vocabulary of the Flash Language lays down many words that can still be found in our language today, e.g.croak = to die bolt = to run. James Hardy Vaux author of Vocabulary of the Flash Language, Australia's first dictionary, penned at Newcastle in 1812, wrote that to speak good flash is to be well versed in cant terms. And my observations on these people have constantly instructed me that indulgence in this infatuating cant is more deeply associated with depravity and continuance in vice than is generally supposed. I have ever been of opinion that an abolition of this unnatural jargon would open the path to reformation. In some of our early courts of justice an interpreter was frequently necessary to translate the deposition of the witness and the defence of the prisoner. A leading distinction, which marked the convicts on their outset in the colony, was a use of what is called the Flash or kiddy language.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y ZДЄccording to Watkin Tench who who arrived on the Charlotte with the First Fleet in 1788.

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