Aussie Word of the Week
We've got a sugar rush of Aussie slang for you to chew on, so sit down and unwrap this week's Word of the Week.
A lolly isa sweet or piece of confectionery. Particular to Australia and New Zealand, lolly has been part of Aussie slang since the 1850s. A conversation lolly is a sugarylollywith a conversational, often romantic, sentiment impressed into it. These have been part of the Aussie diet since the 1890s. Lolly water is acarbonated soft drink and sometimes used to refer to cordial.
If this blog is getting too sickly sweet for you, good news, there are a few non-sugar related uses of lolly in Aussie slang. Lolly can mean money or dosh, as in I'm running out of lolly. It can also refer to your head: to do your lolly is to lose your temper.
Lolly legs can be eitherlong, skinny legs, or, a tall, lanky person with long legs, while lolly bags is a synonym for speedos. We'll leave that one up to your imagination.
Each week, we have a look at a slang word from Australian English. You can see otherAussie Word of the Week posts from the Macquarie Dictionary here.
