Australian slang starting with F

113 Aussie words and phrases beginning with F: from face like a dropped pie to furphy.

• face like a dropped pieA very unattractive face; also said of someone looking thoroughly miserable.
• faceless menUnelected party officials or factional bosses who are seen as pulling the strings, especially in the Labor…
• fair crack of the whipA plea for fair treatment or a fair chance; 'be reasonable'.
• fair dinkumGenuine, honest or true. Also used as an exclamation meaning 'really?' or 'honestly!'.
• fair goA fair chance or reasonable treatment. Also used as an exclamation appealing for fairness.
• fair suck of the savA plea for fairness or reasonableness; an expression of disbelief.
• fair thingSomething fair, reasonable or deserved; also used as an exclamation appealing for fairness or agreeing that…
• fairy breadSlices of buttered white bread covered in hundreds and thousands (sprinkles), a staple of children's…
• fairy flossSpun sugar on a stick, known elsewhere as candy floss or cotton candy.
• fairy martinA small Australian swallow, Petrochelidon ariel, which builds bottle-shaped mud nests in colonies, often…
• fairy penguinThe little penguin, the small blue penguin of southern Australian coasts, famous for its nightly parade…
• fairy-wrenAny of several small Australian birds of the genus Malurus with long cocked tails, the males of which are…
• falconIn football, a blow to the head or face from the ball; also used as a verb, to be hit on the head by the ball.
• fangTo drive very fast; usually 'fang it'.
• fang carpenterA dentist.
• fart in a bottle vulgarUsually in 'running around like a fart in a bottle': rushing about in a frantic, aimless or agitated way.
• fauxganA person who adopts some bogan habits or style without really being a bogan; a fake bogan.
• feathertail gliderA tiny gliding possum of eastern Australia, Acrobates pygmaeus, with a flattened, feather-like tail; the…
• FederationThe union of the six Australian colonies into the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 2. The…
• feedA meal, especially a big or satisfying one.
• feed the chooksTo give the media a press conference or a few prepared remarks.
• Female FactoryA colonial institution in which female convicts were housed and put to work, such as the Female Factory at…
• feral derogatoryAn unkempt, uncouth or badly behaved person. A person with an alternative, back-to-nature lifestyle. Mildly…
• fettlerA worker who maintains railway track, especially one on a gang in the country.
• few stubbies short of a six-packNot very bright; a bit simple or crazy.
• fibroFibrous cement sheeting, widely used for cheap houses and sheds in the mid-20th century; also a house built…
• fiddley-didA pound note, later also a dollar.
• FIFOFly-in fly-out: a work arrangement, common in mining, where workers fly to a remote site for a roster and…
• FIFO widowA partner left at home to run the household alone while the other works fly-in, fly-out shifts.
• figbirdA green, grey and yellow bird of northern and eastern Australia, Sphecotheres vieilloti, related to the…
• figjam vulgarA conceited, boastful person.
• financialHaving money, especially enough to spend. Of a club member, paid up with their subscription.
• find the sticksIn Australian Rules football, to kick a goal or goals.
• fire-stick farmingThe traditional Aboriginal practice of deliberately burning country to manage vegetation and encourage game.
• firieA firefighter, especially a volunteer bushfire fighter.
• first cab off the rankThe first in line, or the first to take up an opportunity.
• First FleetThe eleven ships that brought the first convicts, marines and officials from England to found the colony of…
• First FleeterA person who came to Australia on the First Fleet in 1788, convict or free; also a descendant of one.
• first in, best dressedThose who arrive or act first get the best pick.
• fishoA fisherman or a fishmonger; also the local fish shop.
• fit as a mallee bullVery fit, healthy and strong.
• five-eighthIn rugby league, and in rugby union in Australia and New Zealand, the playmaker positioned between the…
• fizgigA police informer.
• fizzerA failure or disappointment; something that doesn't live up to expectations.
• flagA premiership, especially in football; to 'win the flag' is to win the competition.
• flagfallThe fixed starting charge on a taxi fare. By extension, a fixed charge at the start of a phone call or other…
• flakeShark meat, especially gummy shark, sold as fish in fish and chip shops.
• flame robinA small robin of south-eastern Australia, Petroica phoenicea; the male has a bright orange-red breast.
• flannel flowerA plant of eastern Australia, Actinotus helianthi, with soft, woolly, white flower-like heads.
• flannoA flannelette shirt, typically checked.
• flash as a rat with a gold toothShowy, flashy or overdressed; pleased with oneself.
• flat as a tackVery depressed, flat or lacking energy, especially after a disappointment.
• flat chatAt full speed; extremely busy.
• flat out like a lizard drinkingExtremely busy.
• flat stickAs fast as possible; also, extremely busy.
• flat to the boardsGoing at top speed, with the accelerator pressed to the floor. Working as hard as possible; flat out.
• flat whiteA coffee made with espresso and steamed milk with only a thin layer of microfoam, stronger-tasting than a…
• flatheadAny of various bottom-dwelling fish with a flattened head (family Platycephalidae), popular eating fish in…
• fleece-oA shed hand in a shearing shed who picks up the shorn fleeces and throws them onto the wool table.
• flickRejection or dismissal, in the phrases 'give someone the flick' (get rid of them, end a relationship) and…
• flogTo sell. To steal. As a noun, a fool, a try-hard or an annoying show-off.
• floggerA large pom-pom of coloured streamers on a stick, waved by Australian Rules football supporters, especially…
• flooded gumA tall, smooth-barked eucalypt, Eucalyptus grandis, of eastern Australia, typically growing on creek flats…
• flumA fluke or stroke of luck, especially in sport or gambling; also as a verb, to get or win something by luck.
• fluoroFluorescent, especially of high-visibility workwear; as a noun, a hi-vis shirt or vest.
• fly bogAmong First World War soldiers, jam.
• Flying DoctorThe Royal Flying Doctor Service, which provides medical care by aircraft to people in remote Australia; also…
• flying foxA large fruit bat of the genus Pteropus. A cable with a pulley and handle or seat that a person rides along…
• flywireFine wire or plastic mesh fitted over windows and doors to keep insects out.
• footyFootball, meaning Australian rules football or rugby league depending on the region; also the ball itself.
• footy tippingA competition, often run at work or among friends, in which entrants pick the winners of each round of footy…
• formalA formal dance held for senior high school students, especially at the end of Year 12; the Australian…
• fortyA swindler or sharper; a con man.
• forward pocketIn Australian rules football, either of the two positions on the forward line beside the full-forward, or a…
• fossickTo search for gold or gemstones, especially by picking over old workings or surface ground. To rummage or…
• four seasons in one dayA description of changeable weather, especially Melbourne's habit of swinging from sun to rain to cold…
• fourbyA four-wheel-drive vehicle.
• foxieA fox terrier.
• franger vulgarA condom. Vulgar.
• freckle vulgarThe anus.
• freckled duckA rare Australian waterbird, Stictonetta naevosa, with dark plumage finely speckled with white.
• Fred NerkAn imaginary ordinary person; any man in the street, used like 'Joe Bloggs'.
• free selectionThe 19th-century system in the Australian colonies under which settlers could choose and buy a block of…
• free settlerIn colonial Australia, a person who came as a free immigrant rather than as a convict.
• Fremantle doctorThe cool south-westerly sea breeze that arrives on summer afternoons in Perth and Fremantle.
• FrenchieA condom.
• FreoFremantle, the port city next to Perth; also the Fremantle football club.
• freshieA freshwater crocodile, smaller and less dangerous than the saltwater crocodile.
• friarbirdAny of several large honeyeaters of the genus Philemon with bare, dark heads, such as the noisy friarbird.
• fridgieA refrigeration mechanic, who installs and services refrigeration and air-conditioning.
• fridgingThe theft of drinks and other goods from fridges kept outdoors, on verandahs or in sheds. Chiefly Queensland…
• frill-necked lizardA large lizard of northern Australia and New Guinea, Chlamydosaurus kingii, which raises a wide frill of…
• fritzA large, mild processed meat sausage sliced for sandwiches, known elsewhere as devon or polony.
• frock upTo dress up in one's best clothes.
• frog cakeA small cake shaped and iced to look like a frog's head with an open mouth, first made in Adelaide and…
• from go to whoaFrom start to finish.
• front barThe main public bar of an Australian pub, traditionally the plainest and most down-to-earth.
• front upTo turn up or present yourself, especially to face something (court, a boss, a challenge).
• frothingVery excited or eager about something; originally surfing slang.
• frothyA glass of beer.
• fruit loopA crazy or eccentric person.
• fuck me dead vulgarAn exclamation of astonishment, disbelief or exasperation.
• fuckin' oath vulgarAn emphatic 'yes'; absolutely, certainly.
• fuckwit vulgarA stupid or contemptible person.
• full as a Bourke Street tramVery drunk.
• full as a googVery drunk. Having eaten too much.
• full as a tickVery drunk. Having eaten far too much.
• full bottleWell informed or expert about something; usually 'full bottle on'.
• full-forwardIn Australian rules football, the key forward position closest to goal, or the player in it.
• full upFed up; sick and tired (of something).
• fully sickExcellent, really impressive; especially associated with young people in western Sydney.
• funnel-webAny of several highly venomous Australian spiders of the family Atracidae, especially the Sydney funnel-web.
• furphyA false rumour or an absurd story.