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Aussie Words in the Aussie Guards series

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Take-away food is takeout or carry-out in America.  In Australia, food doesn't go!  It gets taken out.

Teasing.

Goodbye, usually said to children.  Usually thankfully.

Faucet.

People having tea are having supper, also known as dinner, so tea time is supper time.  Tea breaks at other times might be morning tea or afternoon tea, even though most people are having coffee these days.

Tea should be kept warm while the tea steeps, that is, while the boiling water soaks into the tea leaves.  So people make covers for tea pots called tea cozies because they keep the tea cozy and warm.  Tea cozies are dome-shaped to cover the dome-shaped tea pots.

Thongs are flip flops.  A different kind of beachwear than you might have envisaged!

Australians tick off lists that Americans check off.  To tick something is to indicate approval; it is correct.  Just to be confusing, ticked off can mean annoyed.

Toasted sandwich.

Not a problem.

You are so right you are almost too right!

Rhymes with schoolie, the school leavers who have tremendous end-of-school celebrations.  Toolies lurk around the outskirts hoping to take advantage of drunken teenagers.

Fine woman.

Flashlight.

Tradesperson, blue-collar worker.

A person who has gone crazy after spending too long in the tropics is said to have gone troppo.

Food.  Tuck in to your tucker.

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