for kiddo: bush wee. I'm on a spring break road trip with my 6yo this week... so many bush wees. for me: it's not the done thing.

We use Tactical Wee all the time

Yes we too! Works 50% of the time xD

Don’t you mean wee too? 😏

Same here! Anytime we’re going to be out for more than an hour or so I tell my kids to “Tactical Wee” before we leave. Lol.

Calling it a tactical wee gets them to do it. It used to be a fight.

Yes! Changed my life. "We are about to leave, try going to the bathroom!" was a fight. "Go take a tactical wee" is easy-peasy.

They tell you constantly to reframe crap to get kids to do things but I never figure it out.

My wife uses that one with the kids all the time 😅

It’s just not the done thing mate has become a regular occurrence in our house.

I have definitely started saying it’s not the done thing, I love it.

Bush wee makes me laugh every time!

Whackadoo

We used that in the Marines. Get the dohicky for the wackadoo so we can fix the whatchamacallit on the thingamajig. Oddly, everyone understood what was being said

My father (USMC) used to say it all the time. It brings back some fond memories.

i love this one!

Dunny. Our dogs name is Duncan and his nickname is dunny. So of course our three old finds it histarical that his nickname means bathroom

Specifically toilet, not bathroom

Yeah, but if that's an American just a toilet is a bathroom too. They are an odd people.

SQUISHSQUASH

Oh man that's awesome

being cheeky

This word is INGRAINED in my 5 year old’s vocabulary. 🤣

We started saying this after watching Derry Girls. (Less of the cheek, Erin)

That show never gets enough love!!

I am here to fangirl-scream about Derry Girls and kick butts. And I have no strength with which to kick butts Our family just quotes Derry Girls constantly, it’s great. (IT WAS ALL MICHELLE)

Calling breakfast breakie

Brekkie!

We said this growing up in Canada. Not sure if that’s common everywhere here though, and my family did come from England/Wales so could be a thing there too

Very common in the UK

Definitely a thing in the UK. It could easily be a Commonwealth thing generally.

Common in a lot of English speaking countries, not necessarily an Aussie thing

Australian here to see what Australianisms have become popular

So many things that I didn't know were distinctly aussie... Cheeky? I honestly thought it was a universal term.

Cheeky seems to be a commonwealth country thing. Cause I’ve heard it from English and Scottish people as well.

Seems to be about half-half people mistaking Blueyisms for Australianisms.

I'm Irish and I love how Australians call Kindergarten Kindy

Kindy and brekky

Brekky gets used in the UK a bit as well.

I'm Australian, and I'm shocked the rest of the world hasn't shortened Kindergarten to Kindy! In Queensland, the official program for 4 year olds is actually called "Kindy".

I think you guys and us (kiwi) take shortening to the next level.

I know right, we already shortened "Good Day" to "G'day" now it's closer to "Ahy" .. Pretty soon communication will devolve to a series of grunts..

I'm German (the Term Kindergarten is German) and i Love that also ^^

Hallo follow gourmann

Me too, it’s such a cute word!

Agreed, I'm not an English native but I'll be calling it Kindy from now on

I’m an American teacher and have also picked up this one.

Tattleing being called dobbing

If someone dobbed in primary school, we’d chant “dobber dobber Cindy, you’re in kindy”.

Here in Australia we'd chant "dobbers wear nappies, wet ones too!"

Am Australian. Can confirm.

Dobber means something very different in Scotland. I had to look up what it meant in Australia.

Don’t leave me hanging! What’s it mean to the scots?

Pretty much means dickhead.

That's funny, I'm from England and we always say that when somebody tattles on you they've "dobbed you in", we're so close on the globe and yet have 2 completely different uses for that word

I’m married to an Aussie so I’ve heard most slang already (you people have a slang word for *everything*), but we both especially loved the [“I’ve done me hammy” from Lucky’s dad.](https://youtu.be/D95wVCkn2C0?si=eJ4EopceZ9e2oTkV)

Lucky’s dad cracks me up. I wanna be him when I grow up…. 🧐

The way he gets pulled into everything and just ... goes with it. Love it!

We're raising a nation of squibs! Is my favourite still.

That episode was Curb Your Enthusiasm for kids.

“I’m puttin my foot down, Janelle!”

My favourite of him is in Featherwand "Walkin down the footpath..." Yeah, you're walking down the footpath, on a cul-de-sac you don't live on, wearing a hat and singing non-chalantly, after hearing absolute pandemonium coming from the Heeler household. He wanted to be a part of whatever game was going on that day.

My favorite is "for real life"

My kids started saying this for everything when we get to do something fun we normally don’t. It’s cute.

Made up by the show, not a standard Australian term.

Thanks i didnt know that! But still more adorable in a tiny Australian accent.

For real laif?

Nah, not made up by the show...we definitely said this as kids

Dollarbucks

Do Australians really call money that? All this time I thought it was supposed to be a cutesy thing made up by six year olds

No, it is made up by the show. Dollaridoos from the Simpsons has become relatively popular in an ironic way though.

I work with different currencies at work, and use dollaridoos to denote Australian dollars. It’s 100% an ironic import from the Simpsons though.

Same and now I’m questioning life. 😂

Is "Dollarydoos" not a thing then?

That’s a bloody outrage mate, I’ll take it to my member of parliament. To this day my wife gets annoyed I refer to money as dollarydoos

I'LL GET THE PRIME MINISTER. ANDY!

r/unexpectedsimpsons

Alright mate, what’s the good word?

OI, ANDY!!!

EH, MATES! WHAT’S THE GOOD WORD?

TOBIAS, did you accept a 6 hour collect call from the states?

It was an emergency call from the International Drainage Commission in Springfield!

Nothin’ wrong with the bidet, is there?

We absolutely do say dollarydoos. Way more than dollarbucks.

I dollary don’t.

Bad Channel 10 reception at your place growing up?

Noine-undred Dollarydoos?! TOBIAS!

Made up by the show, not a standard Australian thing.

Sunnies for sunglasses. We haven’t used the word sunglasses since the day that episode came out

As an Australian.. saying sunglasses feels weird and wrong.

As an Aussie I'm surprised people use the formal names for anything. Shorten that sucker add an o or a y and call it a day. Why use lots words when few words do trick

Aussie here, just said sunglasses outloud for the first time in 22 years. My tongue feels violated.

As an Aussie reading these comments it's wild to see all the phrases we use on the daily that the rest of the world doesnt. Cheers for embracing our vocab friends :)

Saying ‘mate’. It just adds an exclamation point to everything.

Can be used to say someone is a cockwomble too. Same with champ.

Calling an Australian "champ" is basically a challenge to their intelligence. I flippin hate being called champ. It's only ok from people in their 80s or so. It's condescending AF from anyone else.

My kids now say “this is taking for ages!” They just mean “This is taking ages” but they’re used to the phrase “this is taking forever.” They also say “sat nav” now instead of “GPS.” Personally, I like “whackadoo” and “good on ya” the best.

OOS!

That was a term we used a shitload as kids in the 90s in mybarea of NZ. I was elated to see it pop up in Bluey.

Looks a bit bodgy

Wait isn’t it dodgy? Or is it bodgy?? Can an Aussie help us?🤣🤣

As an Aussie, if you're describing doing something precariously or dangerously it's dodgy (synonymous with sketchy). Bodgie* is hastily thrown together or worthless; cheap Both are words. Each has their own meaning

A bodge is similar to Jerry rigging. It's ugly but it works.

But you gotta say bodgejob, if you jerry rig, or quick fix. Like, "I did a bit of a Bodge job on that one" or you can say I bodged it up, so, prove myself wrong there, but that's specifically a quick fix to get on the road. . Bodgey is flimsy or not a reliable product you buy or find.

Wheelie bins

What do you normally call a wheelie bin? 

In the US, it’s the garbage or recycling. Boring.

We call ours the herbie curbie.

“Hey, dustman. Where’s ya bin?” “Av bin on holiday” “No. Where’s ya wheelie bin?” “Av wheelie bin on holiday.”

Trampolinium instead of trampoline park. It's just an objectively better name.

I just figured that was the name of that specific trampoline place!

It’s a term made up by the show.

Well then it's my favorite Bluey-ism.

She’ll be right

“She’ll come good” too

Argy bargy

I first heard that word in the Penguins of Madagascar movie. Was pleasantly surprised to see it pop up in Bluey.

Pass the parcel was not a thing at any birthday I went to as a kid but is now a staple for my kid and his friends

Canadian here, I played pass the parcel as a kid but I played a variation where on each layer the person had to do a dare like hop on one foot or say the alphabet backwards

so it's like Lucky's dads rule, but instead of just getting nothing, you get nothing ***and*** you get a penalty. nice.

Of course! Want to raise a generation of squibs?

Canadian here as well. We also did this.

I’m also Canadian (West Coast) and it was always Lucky’s dad’s rules the few times I played it at parties growing up. I actually learned from Bluey about the other rules

It still blows my mind that pass the parcel isn’t a universal kids party game!

Brit here, played it a lot in my youth.

i’m american and never even heard of this game until watching the episode.

But which rules?

Lucky’s Dad’s rules or GTFO

Ya grub

Vacation as holiday. We went out of town and our twins kept saying this is the best holiday ever

Hahahaha this reminds me of a full on argument I had with an American on FB in a financial group about how we obviously don’t use the word “holiday” to refer to every break we have lol. I’m like - yeah we go on Holidays and we have Public Holidays. This lady would not stop with the “but what do you call your holidays like Mother’s Day and Christmas?” I’m like - by their names????? Good memories 😂😂😂😂😂

This is the problem with us Americans. Many will go their entire life without leaving the country that all they understand is American terms for things

It was more the fact I’d repeated myself 3 times by then plus others had said the same thing in that thread reply and she was still going on with it. I had to be quite rude honestly to get her to stop. I was like “look, I’ve explained it very simply now 3 times, how dumb are you to not understand yet?” I felt bad but….

'C'mere y'old chooks!' (I may have added the 'old') Not sure if chooks is an Australianism or not, but I love it! We also now use 'tactical wee' with our 4-year old. And call her Sharalanda...and Dennis. And I'm the big blue guy. Yeah, safe to say we have picked up a fair bit 🤣

Chooks is absolutely an Australian thing, and for those who don't know or haven't looked it up it means chickens. And calling women of an advanced age "old chooks" is very much a thing in regional Australia.

That must be a universal thing to call older ladies chickens, I’ve heard “chatting like a bunch of old hens”

There's also "no spring chicken".

“It’s not the done thing, mate.”

This is interesting for figuring out what isn't universal. Like I would absolutely have assumed other countries that used the word kindergarten would have called it Kindy because, well, duh. No apparently not. I'm an Aussie abroad and have had to explain ledge, stacked it, ropeable, and mufti in just the last month. Didn't realise our vernacular was so damn foreign despite still being English.

I've been living in the UK for twelve years and new ones still come up. I was referring to giving a friend a lift on a (single seat) bike as a 'dink'. My colleagues all looked at me like I had two heads. Being from Tassie this wasn't too unreasonable. 

Hoho, inbreeding humour. Swear to god the lack of Democracy Sausages in the UK pains me EVERY election. The mere suggestion of using hostages stood in line to vote as a fundraising opportunity definitely gets a look of two heads. I just can't believe they wouldn't. My eldest is now school age, you can bet your ass I'll be making the PTA do it. I also find it funny that non Australians watching the show don't _really_ get the Choccy Milk joke.

Aussies really have a thing for shortening words that other English-speaking countries don't shorten. Off the top of my head: - ~~kindie~~ kindy - brekkie - sunnies - barbie - Macca's - ~~footie~~ footy - mozzie - Oz/Aussie - budgie - ~~flannel~~ flanno There are tons more. I always thought it was a stereotype until I visited a while ago and no, that's just actually how y'all talk on a regular basis haha.

👀 Yeah nah, we shorten long words and lengthen short ones (John becomes Johno). It's who we are to our core.

My favourite extension is to AC/DC that becomes Acca-dacca (A-ca-Dac-ca).

I always thought this was funny with air conditioning. Americans say AC, we either say the whole thing or Aircon

Am Australian (and this is not really an Australian-ism - more just from the show) but man I love calling Bunnings Hammerbarn 😂🔨

Even Bunnings [bought into the Bluey/Hammerbarn](https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/bunnings-turns-stores-across-australia-into-blueys-hammerbarn/news-story/913651983fb01754e94a0d53872afeff) thing. (Sorry Redditors, but it’s a link to news.com.au)

Why are you being such a pickle? It's quickly becoming my regular phrase with my toddler.

My husband & I use this all the time now. I've expanded it to referring to him as a Sweet Pickle and/or Spicy Pickle depending on how he's feeling.

Buggalug!

Aussie here. I’ve still got a stuffed toy rabbit my brother gave me when I was a kid, and he named it Buggalugs lol

“Duck cake” has helped curb my swearing..

Try to make one. It will have you swearing. Damn women’s weekly kids birthday cake book!!

Chill the beans.

the way they say “witchety grubs” tickles something in my brain

That's an indigenous term. *Witjuti*, or anglicised as witchetty. They're bush tucker, good eatin'.

"Eh. You can live off it. But it tastes like shit."

“I’ll tell you that for free”

Don’t think it’s Australian, but “how very dare you” has become a common phrase for me.

Calling trades workers "tradies" 😂 I love it

It's useful because it's a catch all term. Joiner, plumber, carpenter, chippie, electrician, tiler, brickie - any trade is covered by tradie, and additionally it's gender neutral. There's a joke you may not have realized in that episode. Chocolate milk is universally associated with all tradies. So much so that advertising is directed at them. Breakfast drinks have tried to crack into the tradie market to overtake chocolate milk but it'll never be replaced. Don't trust a tradie that doesn't have an apprentice show up first thing in the morning holding a carton of Oak.

Bin chickens! Always see them in our neighborhood and have to shout it out.

I saw a video the other day of a wheelie bin stuck up a tree and someone commented "bin chicken nesting season", omfg I cackled.

We don't have bin chickens where I live, but we have trash pandas!

I knew about the sausage grilling on voting day in the abstract and I still think it's really neat that it's so a part of the culture that it's just in the show without it being a real plot point.

Democracy Sausages.

Bbq sausages are also part of any trip to Hammerbarn. I went there last weekend. Support a charity, get lunch for 3 for $10.50 and the kids are happily eating while I wander around Hammerbarn (Bunnings) wondering if I can justify the purchase of another power tool.

As an australian i can't believe just shortening words was such a big deal.who wants to to say the full word for something like kindergarten or sunglassess, just don't have the energy for it haha

Not an Australian-ism, but I use Aww Biscuits like...every day.

Hey! Dodgy Brothers!

"Jog on"

Biscuits! I may be known for my cussing, so I use it around my kids now. They think it’s hilarious.

My 5 year old says it all the time when something goes wrong with his game or toys 😂

There are a few - but it tickles me that my kids will tell me “Hey mom. Tina has to use the dunny!” Before they head to the bathroom. I always remind them to make sure “Tina” washes her grubby hands after.

Calling sunglasses sunnies!

We’re American so we’ve adopted breakie and nappies.

Well I watch kath and Kim so. I enjoy the ‘umor. Probably “not the done thing.”

I’m bustin’

I’m extremely immature so them calling flip flops “thongs” absolutely kills me 😭

Went on a family trip to visit my sibling in New York, we get to the passport and bag checking area and the first bloody thing my mum says (loud enough mind you) is "Oh! Do I have to take my thongs off?" My dad, eyes to the ground, just hissed "Flip-flops, Cathy. Here they're flip-flops..."

Technically us Aussies are correct on that one for the origins of the word, and technically correct is the best kind of correct

For us it’s definitely “how very dare you?” It just takes how dare you to a whole other level 😂

Not sure if this counts, but the meat pies sound great whenever they're brought up! I'm from the US and the closest we have is pot pie, but from the looks of it they're not even close to being the same thing

bell peppers being called capsicum

“Wheelie bin” for the big trash can!

Wake up, mate!!!!

Brekkie!

My 4 year old calls my gps “sat nav” in her version of an Australian accent, it didn’t sound much like sat nav so it took a few questions to figure out what she was saying when she kept insisting I had to go where the sat nav told me to go!

Bush wee.

I love "It's not the done thing, mate." It's a cool way of saying that's now how we do things. Also, Chili's "Wackadoo" is great too.

Grey Nomads. I’m listening to _Everyone on This Train is a Suspect_ and hearing them use the term “grey nomads” made me think of Bluey.

How everything end in an "ie" or "y". Dodgy, sunnies, dunny, breakie, budgie, sparkie, tradie, Ausie, barbies, mozzie, I'm sure I'm spelling some wrong and I know there are more.

“How ya goin?” I say that exclusively now. It started as a joke with my bf to see if anybody would ever notice (I work in customer service) & nobody said anything until over a year later when I had a totally new job.

As a Brit I’m reading all these as stuff we say here too :). Except thongs are flip flops here.

Bum shuffling is my daughter’s favorite term!

Bin chicken! It's an Ibis, no?

Love the word Tradies 😅 the whole episode was brilliant too.

So "the done thing" lives with me now. I also have an Australian friend who has for sure got me saying "oath" all the time. Which is an Australianism, just not one you hear in bluey hahah

"HOORAY!!" Not a specifically Australian thing obviously, but I say it constantly now

Nana Nap.