Bloody oath! Aussies love swearing, just ask Cate Blanchett. But there are times when swearing isn’t appropriate, like when your granny comes to visit. Don’t

Welcome to March. Summer is slipping away. Soon it will just be a memory of sunburn on your skin after a long day at the

Slip on your thongs and grab a stubbie because this week we going ocker. Referring to the archetypal uncultivated Australian working man, ocker also known as

This week we are offering discounted slang words. Ever been ripped off? Ever shoveled out ten bucks for a slice of gluten free bread about

Drinking: an Aussie tradition, and though we try to do so in moderation, occasionally things get out of hand and we find ourselves doing a

Starve the lizards! No, this isn’t the beginning of some peculiar anti-reptile campaign, rather, starve the lizards is a great Aussie exclamation of surprise that

Phew. Busy, busy, busy. I am flat out like a lizard drinking at the Macquarie office this week. This scaly phrase is a way of saying

This week we are looking at provocative slang words. Do you have a mate who likes to stir the possum? That is, creates a disturbance or

The pub test is the notional measure of public opinion on a proposal or candidate arrived at by asking the average drinker in a hotel

At the Macquarie Dictionary head office, we are fond of road trips. One of our favourite parts of cruising through the outback is when you

This week we are paying homage to a national icon. The bin chicken graces towns and cities across the land. When rubbish is strewn across

After a truly bumper year for new words, and with the ticking over of a new decade, the Macquarie team decided that the time was

A new month means new words. Check out our handful of new words to hold on to in February.  Would you describe 2020 as a dumpster

In this week’s blog we are looking at architecture, to be precise, the architecture of Queensland. Queenslander isn’t just a loud chant you hear at the football,

Hop in. This week we are chucking a lap down the main street of Macquarie Town. To chuck a lap is to drive around the block

In this week’s Word of the Week, I am ordering Australia’s favourite pub meal. The schnitty, the slang name for the legendary chicken schnitzel, comes

What will it be? Which word, from those added to the Macquarie over the last decade, will be chosen as the WORD OF THE DECADE?