Talk:Australiaball/@comment-146.90.151.169-20170525180439

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Cab Sav:Cabernet Sauvignon[a variety of wine grape]

Cactus:dead,not functioning["this bloody washing machine is cactus]

Cane toad:a person from Queensland

Captain Hook:look[noun] [2let's have a Captain Hook]

Cark it:to die,cease functioning

Cat burying shit,as busy as a:busy

Cat's piss,as mean as:mean,stingy,uncharitable

Chewie:chewing gum

Chokkie:chocolate

Chrisse:Christmas

Christmas: Bourke Street

Chuck a sickie:take the day off sick from work when you're prefectly healthy

Chunder:vomit

Clacker:anus[from Latin cloaca=sewer].Also the single orifice of monotremes[platypus and echidna] used both for reproduction and for the elimination of body wastes

Clayton's:fake,subsitute

Cleanskin:Bottle of wine without a label.Usually bought in bulk by companies who then add their own personalised label and use the wine as e.g gifts to clients/cattle that has not been branded,earmarked or castrated

Click:kilometre-"it's 10 clicks away

Clucky:feeling broody or maternal

Coathanger:Sydney Harbour bridge

Cobber:friend

Cockie:farmer[Farms were called cockies in the early days of European settlement because,like the birds of the same name,they made their homes on the edge of permanent waterholes]/cockatoo/cockroach

Cockroach:a pron from New South Wales

Coldie:a beer

Come a gutser:make a bad mistake,have an accident

Compo:Worker's Compensation pay

Conch[adj.counchy]:a conscientious person.Somebody who would rather work and study than go out and enjoy himself/herself

Cooee,not within:figuratively a long way away, far off-England weren't within cooe of beating Australia at cricket

Cooee, within:nearby- I was within cooee of landing a big fish when the line broke.He lives within cooee of Sydney

Cook[noun]:One's wife

Corker:something excellent.A good stroke in cricket might be decribed as a "corker of a shot"

Corroboree:an aboriginal dance festival

Counter lunch/Countery:pub lunch

Coozie:swimming costume

Crack a fat:get an erection

Crack onto[someone]:to hit on someone,pursue someone romantically

Cranky:in a bad mood,angry

Cream[verb]:deafeat by a large margin

Crook:sick or badly made

Crow eater:a person from South Australia

Cubby house:Small,usually timber,house in the garden used as a children's plaything

Cut lunch:sandwiches

Cut lunch commando:army reservist

Cut snake,mad as a:very angry