What do aussies call kangaroos

Home Species Kangaroos. The division is arbitrary: the species we call kangaroos are simply the larger animals in the Macropus genus. A Red Kangaroo can weigh 90kg and can grow two metres tall. It's for this reason they're featured on the Australian coat of arms: an animal that can only move forwards as a symbol of national progress. Click to tweet A kangaroo on the move. Where do kangaroos live? Kangaroo behaviour Like all marsupials, kangaroos have pouches where the joeys are reared, drinking milk from mammary glands.

Threats to kangaroos Kangaroos have few natural predators: Dingoes , humans, Wedge-tailed Eagles and, before their extermination, Tasmanian Tigers. Stories about native species Get email news. Support river restoration Donate now. What's Bush Heritage doing? Donate to support native species.

More species. Root: sexual intercourse. This one can get really get foreigners in trouble. There are numerous stories about Americans coming to Australia telling people how they love to "root for their team.

On the same note, a "wombat" is someone who eats roots and leaves. Servo: gas station. In Australia, a gas station is called a petrol station. Sickie: sick day.

Sook: to sulk. If someone calls you a sook, it is because they think you are whinging. Stubbie holder: koozie or cooler.

We totes totally get it! Abbreviated words create familiar friendly feels. Uncover the explanations for the below comprehensive guide to Aussie slang words, listed alphabetically by categories:. There you have it. The Urbanest ultimate guide to Aussie slang. Why not avago at dropping a few Aussie slang words into your next convo with your roomie?! Each Urbanest is unique and different. Depending on what living experience you are after, we are able to offer specific properties.

Someone whose "lift doesn't go to the top floor" or whose "lights are on but no-one's home". Derives from a racehorse of that name in the s, which never won a race out of 37 starts. Jack, Brisbane, Australia. Face like a dropped pie - ugly. Just so descriptive and used a lot by Australians working here in East Timor. Usually about me. Wayne Lovell, Dili, East Timor. Firies - firefighters. Doug, Sydney. Origins of "chunder". In our original article we wrote that the word "chunder" originated with the first immigrants to Australia, who suffered from seasickness during the voyage.

They'd shout "Watch out under! Stuart from Orpington suggests an alternative theory, quoting the Oxford Dictionaries : "s, probably from rhyming slang Chunder Loo 'spew', from the name of a cartoon character Chunder Loo of Akim Foo, who appeared in advertisements for Cobra boot polish in the Sydney Bulletin in the early 20th Century.

Fit as a Mallee bull - very fit and strong, in good physical condition. The Mallee is a region in Victoria, South Australia - a dry area where an animal would need to be tough and fit to survive. Monica Meren, Bossay-sur-Claise, France.

Full as a centipede's sock drawer - very full. I heard a guy say this after a particularly big meal while on a visit to Melbourne. Brian Murdoch, Glasgow. Garbos - refuse workers. Go off like a frog in a sock - go berserk. Barton Mills, Suffolk. Go troppo - go crazy. I think it was first applied to people thought to have become a bit strange from the tropical heat in places like Darwin.

I have one experience of going troppo, albeit briefly, and in Devon! H Arshi, Exeter, Devon. Have a root - have sex. A bit awkward when at a jumble sale, someone asked if they could help and you said "it's ok, I'm just rooting around!