aussie
noun (an Aussie, Aussies — informal); adjective (Aussie — informal)
Everyday
- (informal) An Aussie is a person from Australia. tree →
- (informal) Aussie means Australian, as in «Aussie rules football». tree →
In the lessons
It is a friendly, informal word used by Australians themselves and by others: «Aussie slang», «an Aussie barbecue». Aussie rules is a kind of football played in Australia. Phrases: Aussie rules, Aussie slang, true-blue Aussie.
Examples
- My cousin is an Aussie from Perth. tree →
- We had an Aussie barbecue on the beach. tree →
- «G'day» is a classic Aussie greeting. tree →
- Aussie rules football is very popular in Melbourne. tree →
- The Aussies won the cricket match. tree →
- Arvo is Aussie slang for afternoon. tree →
Note
Usually written with a capital A. Said «OZ-ee» (with a z sound), not «OSS-ee». «Oz» is an informal name for Australia. It is friendly, not rude.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «aussie» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «aussie» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/aussie/