A Dingo’s Breakfast: A Guide to Aussie Lingo

Anne Matthews

ISBN 0734409249 (978-073-440924-9)
RRP $19.95 January 2007
Non Fiction Paperback B+ (210x135mm)

—AVAILABLE NOW—A Dingo’s Breakfast: a guide to Aussie lingo takes an entertaining but informative look at Australia’s unique expressions. Rather than a ‘serious’ dictionary, the book is an amusing and light-hearted collection of words and phrases relating to subjects as varied as people, places, occupations, organisations, activities, food, alcohol and drinking, flora and fauna—in short, virtually all aspects of Australian life. Organised alphabetically, the book also includes feature lists covering such varied themes as: Acronyms and abbreviations, great Aussie inventions, nicknames and diminutives, indispensable pub language, Aboriginal words in common use, unique Aussie brand names, sporting terminology and rhyming slang.