Strayan Dictionary: Avo, Arvo, Mabo, ScoMo and all the essential Strayan words: Avo, Arvo, Mabo, Bottle-O and Other Aussie Wordos

by Dominic Knight

The hilarious dictionary of Australia's unique words and phrasesThe most un-un-Australian dictionary ever created, The Strayan Dictionary is your indispensable guide to the native tongue of Warnie, Hawkie, Dame Nellie, Kylie (Minogue and Mole), Little Johnny, Barty and of course Boonie.More bonzer than a long weekend, as respectable as an underarm delivery and as easy to understand as 'yeah-nah-nah-yeah-nah', The Strayan Dictionary is guaranteed* to be as honest as a sickie, as useful as a beer snake and as unputdownable as a stubby, * This guarantee is a furphy (also defined within)'One wishes one had learned Strayan instead of the Queen's English. This book is bloody grouse, cobber.'QUEEN ELIZABETH II 'How good is The Strayan Dictionary! How good is constantly saying "how good!"'SCOTT MORRISON 'Reading this thing is like being flogged with warm letters.'PAUL KEATING 'My quote was placed on this back cover without my knowledge.'GLADYS LIU 'I started reading The Strayan Dictionary, but I pulled out after a few pages.'BERNARD TOMIC 'This book was useless. I still don't know what "xenophobic" means.'PAULINE HANSON

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 3, 2019

About the author

Dominic Knight was one of the founders of The Chaser satirical newspaper in 1999, and also one of its destroyers in 2004 after the group finally acknowledged that it would never turn a profit. Since then he’s worked on the team’s various projects in print, stage, radio, television and online. Most recently he wrote for ABC-TV’sThe Hamster Wheel, Yes We Canberra! and The Chaser’s War On Everything.
In recent years, Dominic has begun writing fiction in an attempt to spend less time with his Chaser compatriots. His first novel Disco Boy (2009) portrayed the career travails of a disaffected law graduate suspiciously like himself, and its successor Comrades (2010) delved into the grubby world of student politics. He’s working on a third novel, which may appear in 2013 in the unlikely event that he gets his act together. Dominic regularly appears at various writers’ festivals whether he’s invited to speak or not, and is currently on the board of the National Young Writers’ Festival.

In 2012, Dominic began hosting Evenings on ABC Local Radio in NSW and the ACT. He can be heard from 7-10pm Monday to Friday on 702 ABC Sydney, 666 ABC Canberra, 1233 ABC Newcastle and ABC stations across NSW.

Dominic has lived in Sydney nearly all of his life and plays the bass reasonably well and tennis appallingly. He is overly fond of karaoke.

Reviews

[Judy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Typical Dom Knight dry, satirical, cheeky, Aussie humour.
The selected entries include
A wide range of topics : e.g. just within the A section we find Tony Abbott, Acca Dacca, Adani and av-a-go
Current events and people : Behrouz Bouchani, Ash Barty, Israel Falou, Barnaby Joyce.
Typical Aussie expressions : Budgie smugglers, bludger, motza, Flamin' galah
Our penchant for adding an "O" to words : ambo, arvo, bottle-o, ScoMo.

An easy read and lots of fun.

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite funny and a much better history/lingo book than a pile of dry history books.