Mystery bag.

Is that what men call what they put in their pants?

Ooh, mystery bag.

What's that gonna be like?

Hi, I'm Kate Blanchett, and I'm here to teach you about Australian slang.

Or, g'day, cobber.

I'm here to talk to you about some Aussie lingo.

Back of Berk, or back-a-berk.

Back-a-berk is bum, f***, nowhere.

Okay, brekkie.

That's what we call breakfast.

Dinky-die.

That means you're okay, cobber.

Oh, piker.

If you're a piker, it means you're not giving it a good Aussie go.

Thing-o.

You know when you can't remember something when you've got early-onset dementia like I do?

You go, oh, where's that mobile thing-o?

It's a very, very useful word.

What's that, shonky?

Oh, I love the word.

Shonky means something just is so badly made, like most of the films that I've been in, except for Tar.

It's a good one, go see it.

Footie.

Now, this is a really, really important word to know.

This is true football.

It's not soccer, which is also called football.

It's not football.

Or what you call American football.

That's not a football, that's just like a lemon that you just throw around the thing.

This is the real game of football, where people don't wear any pads.

They run like the clappers at one another, kind of try to punch one another, jump in the air and catch the ball.

That is footie.

Love it.

Okay, porky.

Now, that's often what actresses are called.

We're not porky.

Porky is like a porky pie or a lie.

Now, did you tell a porky?

I've used it to my kids a lot.

No, don't tell porkies.

Grundies?

See, maybe this is depending on where you're from.

In Australia, you might call your undies grundies, or you might call them bundies.

I call them bundies or scungies, depending on how often you wash.

Oh, hoo-roo.

This is very, yeah.

So, hoo-roo.

It's like, bye-bye.

Like that one.

Chewy.

Now, this is not Chewbacca.

Chewy is chewing gum.

Because when you're chewing gum, it's really hard to say the word gum.

So you could go, chewy.

Defo.

Really great word.

I usually spell it with two Fs, because you go, defo.

It means that something is absolutely 100% correct.

Like, how would you say, are you coming out tonight, mate?

You go, yeah, defo.

Dunny.

This is not a word that I like my children to use.

We like to use loo.

You don't say toilet in England, because that is really, you just can really imagine what people are doing in there.

If you say dunny, you can, yeah, well, I probably don't need to say any more.

Actually, in the back streets of Melbourne, where I grew up, they used to have these outhouse loos.

And I did a history of Melbourne when I was at a high school, which was really interesting.

We got to walk the back streets.

And the loo man, the dunny man, used to come along, and before you had flushing toilets, he used to take the can.

And I read an account where it was quite common for people to leave a Christmas present for the dunny man.

You know, bottle of beer, stuck into the dunny.

Fair dinkum.

You can imagine that.

I mean, you've heard that one.

That's one's a bit of a cliche.

Two Up.

I mean, this is really, we're really going back in history.

This is a game.

There's a, in Australia, there's a saying that, you know, people will bet on anything, like two flies climbing up the wall.

Which one's going to make it first, mate?

Oh, I don't know.

I reckon the one on the right.

That's a big blowie.

Two Up is like a game you play with two pennies, and you throw them up in the air, and you say, heads, two heads or two tails, and then you bet on how it's going to land.

Two Up.

Two Down.

Bathers.

That's your budgies, smugglers, what you wear to go swimming in.

That's probably quite obvious, isn't it?

But it depends.

If you're in New South Wales, you might say, hey, come on, we're going for a swim.

Bring your swimmers, which is your cosy.

See, there's a few words, cosy, bathers, swimmers.

Mad as a cut snake.

That's me.

No, mad as a cut snake means you're completely off your rocker.

You're insane, basically.

But it's kind of said with affection.

Oh, he's mad as a cut snake.

Milk bar.

Oh, look, it's been a great loss.

The corner store, our equivalent of the corner store was a milk bar, where you could get 20 cents of sweets.

You'd buy your milk, you'd buy your bread.

Yeah, now it's just a 7-Eleven.

Oldies.

That's your folks.

That's your mum and dad.

Which I guess is, that's what I am now.

Yep.

Pash.

Oh my goodness.

This is Cathy Lett, our national treasure, Cathy Lett, our author, introduced me to this word, pash.

That's what we also call a tonguey.

It's when you really get in there with a big old schmooch that's, you know, often ends up in a love bite.

It's like a, it's a really passionate kiss.

Ripper.

That, oh, you ripper, you beauty.

It means that's a really, it's really fantastic.

It's great.

It's something that someone has, you know, they get their honorary doctorate degree or their doctorate in philosophy.

You ripper, mate.

You've got your doctorate in philosophy.

Rort.

Fraud.

Rort.

Yeah.

Basically what most major corporations in America are doing right now.

I hope you've learned something today.

When you eventually come to Australia and see what a wonderful country it is, you'll be able to speak the lingo.

Thanks guys.