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RAF Wartime slang for a Hurricane fighter.
"The Hurrybacks are already in the air"
(Aus) Bicycle.
Australian expression for push-bike
"Catchyalayda mate. I'll be round on my deadly treadly"
Aus. slang
Four wheel drives that never leave the bitumen. Mostly found on the Mornington Peninsula but occuring in other parts of Australia:
"Those wankatank drivers should all have to undergo appropriate training to be licenced to drive."
pedantic, analy retentive, from the root - to 'pick nits', meaning to pick up small and possibly irrelevant or unimportant details
Charles was always picking nits and complaining about the cleanliness of the squat. Personally I think he is being too pernickity.
RAF wartime slang for Cockpit cover.
"Couldn't get the greenhouse open"
White fella is not racial and the following poem from Papua New Guinea in pidgin English shows their common day to day use of "whitepella"
I guess that stupid "political correctness" hasn't hit the jungles of PNG yet. LOL
Gari
On Bring in the Pintupi
(after Nosepeg Tjurpurrula)
Whitepella bin go n round
for nothin night n day
bring em here / old people punished!
very bad trip
flour, clothes, sugar
eat em long -
kell em tinna corn beef
tinna fruit / first time
they bin eat em flour
good people in bush country
bloody whitepella bin go n
bring em
spoil em mob properly
RAF Slang
Coastal Command Aircraft which convoyed
fishing fleets in the North and Irish Seas.
"He's out on a kipper kite run today"