Appendix talk:Australian English terms for people

Hi where does the term bombthrower come from? It's unknown in South Australia? 60.226.238.242 04:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It's an old word, not used much now, from the 1800's RooZ 06:25, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Back foot (?)
From "bomb thrower": "...especially if the bloke is on the back foot with them."

This term is not covered in the list. I can relate it to gridiron football and boxing, and WAG it being "on the outs" just from context, but that is all OR. What is the meaning of the phrase, and maybe how it originated? 71.234.215.133 10:46, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

What is the point of this appendix?
Many of these terms are not terms for people at all (arvo, blue, root, etc.).

Many of the "General terms", a few of the "Work related terms", and many of the "Terms or nicknames for ethnicities", are not particularly Australian, but rather slang words used in exactly the same way everywhere else in the English-speaking world.

Also, some of the "General" terms appear again in other sections (Curry, wog) or should (jack). And in some cases (pom) the multiple entries contradict each other.

Almost all of the descriptions that are more than a single line are at least slightly ridiculous. For example, "mate" goes on for a while about all the ways it can be used—none of which are specific to Australia, or even to the word "mate" ("friend" can be used in all of the same ways), and all of which are nouns, and then it says "Also used as a noun".

Anyway, I can't tell from the article what the point of having this list in an encyclopedia is supposed to be, so I have no idea how to go about improving it. --70.36.140.233 18:48, 3 September 2012 (UTC)


 * You mean you "can't tell from the appendix what the point of having this list in a dictionary is supposed to be". This is an appendix to a dictionary, not an article in an encyclopedia. But — yeah, it's a total mess. —Ruakh TALK 19:32, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

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