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6000 new words into the Australian National Dictionary

Food and drink words: Goon of Fortune — a drinking game based on Wheel of Fortune involving cask wine and a Hills Hoist. Neenish tart — a sweet Australian bakery staple distinguished by its half-and-half pink and brown icing. Babyccino — a children’s drink made of hot milk that is frothed. Chateau cardboard — cheap cask wine. Battered sav — a battered and deep fried hot dog. Boston bun — a large spiced bun with a thick layer of coconut icing. Fairy bread — buttered white bread covered in sprinkles, is a popular children’s birthday food. Picture: Supplied. Fairy bread — buttered white bread covered in sprinkles, is a popular children’s birthday food. Picture: Supplied.Source:Supplied Chiko roll — a savoury snack invented inspired by the Chinese spring roll consisting of vegetables and meat. Chocolate crackle — a sweet dessert which is a mixture of rice bubbles, sugar and cocoa. Copha — a form of vegetable fat shortening made from hydrogenated coconut oil. It is 100% fat, at least 98% of which is saturated. Dagwood dog — a sausage in a stick fried in batter, common at shows Devonshire tea — an afternoon tea served with scones with jam and cream. Fairy bread — sliced bread spread with butter and covered with sprinkles, typically cut into four triangles. Kransky — a smoked Australian sausage. Long black — a black coffee Terms for people: Pube — a public servant. Rurosexual — a metrosexual male who lives in country Australia. Ranga — a person with red hair. Bogan — an uncouth or unsophisticated person, regarded as being of low social status. Bronzed Aussie — an Australian person with a natural tan. A grey nomad, meaning an older traveller, has made the list. Picture: Supplied. A grey nomad, meaning an older traveller, has made the list. Picture: Supplied.Source:Supplied Bush baptist — a fictitious religious affiliation, invoked by a person who does not claim or admit affiliation with a particular church. Chardonnay socialist — a person in middle class Australia, they are comfortable rather than rich. Checkout chick — a person who works on the cash register in a supermarket. Firie — a firefighter. Grey nomad — an older traveller. Mrs Kafoops — an anonymous or unnamed person. Skip — a term used to describe an Anglo-Saxon Australian. Tradie — a worker that specialises in a particular trade or craft requiring skill. Political references Hawkespeak — references Bob Hawke’s long sentences. Howard’s battlers — working-class Labor supporters that voted for Liberal prime minister John Howard. Keep the bastards honest — Democrats’ slogan coined by leader Don Chipp in the 1980s. Indigenous words Akudjura — a bush tomato. Bilma — a clapstick. Bunji — a mate. Kumanjayi — a substitute name for a person who has died.

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