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Post by nobodyhere on Nov 23, 2024 6:20:21 GMT 10
I've lived in Australia for all but 3 years of my life, and I've always thought that "dropkick" was a slang term for a loser, idiot, worthless person, etc. Now I'm told that it's a shortened version of "dropkick punt", which is claimed by several sources to be rhyming slang for "vagina".
BTW, I live in a rugby state, so the term "dropkick punt", as opposed to "drop punt", makes no sense to me.
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Post by arewelost on Nov 23, 2024 8:16:05 GMT 10
I am familiar with the first explanation but not the second.
Perhaps the second version comes from the British where rhyming unrelated words seems to have evolved.
"Hit the frog and toad"
"Up the Khyber Pass"
"Have a butcher's" (this one goes to the next level, being a shortened version by omitting the word "hook")
Similar to "Have a Captain(s) at that"
I am sure Mike will be able to translate these without looking them up.
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Post by Mike Harding on Nov 23, 2024 8:38:22 GMT 10
Drop-kick = a useless person.
"Drop-kick punt" - never heard the expression. A Google suggests a "dropped kick" in Aus Rules is referred to as a punt with the obvious rhyming connotation.
I'm pretty sure it's one of these stupid inner Melbourne AFL "in-crowd" expressions - there's a heap of them most only known to about 200 people who like to use them in order to make anyone not in their little club feel stupid and excluded.
Australian/South African author Peter Temple used them extensively in his novel Truth, so much that a glossary was required. I recall one of the expressions I asked my friend who was born and grew up in St Kilda and spent his working life as a builder around central Melbourne and even he didn't know it.
Personally, I find them irritating.
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Post by nobodyhere on Nov 23, 2024 9:00:02 GMT 10
I've always thought rhyming slang was absurd. To me, the point of slang is to abbreviate the language, not complicate it. I'm just wondering if young Australians use it at all. How many of them would know what Reg Grundies are?
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Post by arewelost on Nov 23, 2024 12:33:55 GMT 10
There are not many words that rhyme so perfectly with Grundies, so I would feel confident in making a guess there.
As for more words instead of abbreviations why is it so common to see "Big green shed" written instead of the name? Not from me though.
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Post by peter57 on Nov 23, 2024 18:24:28 GMT 10
I think because all Bunnings ARE big green sheds.
ps, if reg grundies is slang for undies that will be a curse because it takes me straight to abbott's budgie smugglers, and that's not a pretty picture.
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Post by nobodyhere on Nov 23, 2024 18:55:24 GMT 10
The reason that I asked this question was that a non-Australian was called a dropkick and misinterpreted the slur in the profane sense, presumably after having researched it on the Internet. That then called into question my own understanding of the word.
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