Australian exclamation equivalent to "WOW!"
Oh, crikey! Look at that king Croc!
similar to blimey. shortened corruption of "christ the king" to express displeasure at a happening or event.
oh, crikey! The telly is on the fritz again.
its not really australian as such, origonally men of the english black country, us working class midlanders always uses this word insteda saying "oh god", white ausies musta borrowed the word from our prisoners.
john: oh crikey, walsall are loosing, why dow they get the ball out to the em,
mick: I know, they bloody hopeless
Euphemism for the blasphemy 'Christ kill me!'.
Akin to 'Cor blimey!' (God blind me).
Used when suprised/shocked.
"Crikey! I wasn't expecting that."
An Australianism or Aussieism made famous by the Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, most normal Aussies do not use this word much at all.
Real words from a Lebanese Australian (in jest)
If our children say Crikey, we beat them.
A ceramic sphere with an abstract ornate pattern emblazoned on it, often with a hole on one end.
Oh, blimey, don't break that crikey!
An exclamation of surprise, like when I test drove my car for the first time and the turbo came in.
Me: Mmm, sounds ok, bit slow though.
2 seconds later...
Car: Fsssssssssssssssssstttttt Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap Ptchooooooooooo
Me: CRIKEY MOSES!!!!!!!!