Who fancies a winter dip down at the beach, or maybe at the local pool? The Aussie crawl is an Australian invented freestyle swimming stroke now used

Welcome to our new words blog, where we share new and topical words, some of which were submitted by you via the suggest a word feature

Beautiful words don’t just sound beautiful, some roll off the tongue with ease, some hit the air in sharp tones while others stretch out as

Welcome to our new words blog, where we share new and topical words, some of which were submitted by you via the suggest a word feature

Each new edition of the Macquarie Dictionary features a foreword written by an esteemed Australian writer. For the Eighth Edition, we were honoured to welcome

Here at the Macquarie Dictionary, we receive (and welcome) messages from everyone about new words, changes to definitions and grammar and spelling bugbears. Many of

As the temperature drops from summer to autumn (and into winter), the leaves start to change colour and fall from the trees, and we button

Which would you use if three of these creatures flew over your boat?   We’ve discussed the differences between person and people before, but what

More than 3,500 new entries have been added to the new Macquarie Dictionary Eighth Edition. The words reflect changes in our usage of Australian English since the

This blog goes out to all the accident-prone people of the world, our fellow uncos. Unco or The Man from Unco means awkward or clumsy.

By the time you reach retirement age, you have earned the chance to wander. Grey nomads are as much a part of the Australian landscape

We all know on person who specialises in ruining our fun. A wowser is slang name for a prudish teetotaller; a killjoy, spoilsport or nark; a person who doesn’t

One-pub town is a way to describe those small Australian country towns you drive through on a road trip. They often sit on a crossroads

Recent events have led to an upsurge in suburban gardeners across Australia planting their own little veggie patches. We can’t talk about growing our own

Trackies, a staple of Australian fashion since the glorious 1990s, have had a resurgence in recent years…

We’ve got you pegged with this week’s Aussie Word of the Week. Commonly used in New South Wales and Queensland, peg is an adaptable piece

This week’s Macquarie Word of the Week is dedicated to all Ned Flanders fans. A mollydooker is a slang term for a left-handed person. In

This week we are travelling over topography, out of our dense city centres to the backblocks. Part of Aussie slang since the 1860s, backblocks is a term for the outer suburbs of a city…