football

en-noun

football (countable and uncountable, plural footballs)

→ Bulgarian: фу́тбол (fútbol)

→ Czech: fotbal

→ Dutch: voetbal (calque)

→ German: Fußball (calque)

→ Hebrew: כדורגל (calque)

→ Hungarian: futball

→ Japanese: フットボール (futtobōru)

→ Korean: 풋볼 (putbol)

→ Maltese: futbol

→ Portuguese: futebol

→ Romanian: fotbal

→ Russian: футбо́л (futból) (see there for further descendants)

→ Spanish: fútbol

→ Thai: ฟุตบอล (fút-bɔn)

→ Turkish: futbol

[ˈfʊʔt̚bɔːl]

[ˈfʊʔtʰbɔːl]

[ˈfʷʊʔt̚bɑɫ]

From Middle English fotbal, footbal, equivalent to foot + ball, which may refer to the act of kicking a ball with the feet or to the fact the game was played on foot (as opposed to on horseback or with players in fixed positions). The name for the briefcase is a play on “dropkick”, the code name of an early version of the nuclear war plan.

ավստրալական ֆուտբոլ

game in Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

ball

in all varieties of English and in all games called "football"

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, southern New South Wales, uncountable) Australian rules football.

Victoria; Northern Territory; Victoria; Northern Territory


pot

From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”).
The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.

pussitus

cue sports: act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket

not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

There are plenty of pubs and bars all over Australia (serving beer in schooners – 425ml or middies/pots ~285ml), and if you don′t fancy those you can drink in wine bars, pleasant beer gardens, or with friends at home.

2009, Deborah Penrith et al., Live & Work in Australia, page 187:

Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

(Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).


bathers

The bathers they wore looked sort of the same as now, but their hair was really different.

2001, Laurene Kelly, The Crowded Beach, page 10:

No one here wore bathers. Both boys wore their homemade underpants, the brand name, ‘Sydney Flour’, emblazoned across the back, as old flour bags were not wasted, but recycled.

2008, Lyn Aldred, Neptune's Fingers, page 10:

I was looking at a pair of bathers to buy and talking about the life of the bathers and how to extend their life.

2009, Jacqueline Ann Wharton, Freedom Through Adversity: Ten Steps to Overcoming a Troubled Mind, page 69:

(South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia) A swimsuit; a bathing costume.


yaffler

(archaic, Tasmania, slang) A loud-mouthed, obnoxious person


piner

Then there was Bunny D—, an Aboriginal piner who had been in the camps with Dad and who was famed for his bush skills.

2023, Richard Flanagan, Question 7, Knopf, page 152:

(Tasmania) Someone who fells Huon pine trees; a logger, someone involved in the Huon timber trade.


inchman

From inch (“unit of length”) + man (“soldier”).

We sit under the eaves to eat, or on stumps in the grass (there are “inchmen” about, giant lumbering bull ants).

1990, Beverley Farmer, A Body of Water: A Year's Notebook, page 46:

They would walk many miles along Ocean Beach and they would eat the fleshy leaves of the plant they called pigface and she called dead men's fingers, would rub the bite of jack-jumpers and the inchmen with the pulpy flesh.

1994, Richard Flanagan, Death of a River Guide, page 203:

Outside in the yard we had fierce orange bull ants whose bite was like a red-hot needle; and, for a season, two nests of the dreaded inchmen.

2004, John Harwood, The Ghost Writer, page 9:

(Australia, chiefly Tasmania) Any of several species of large, aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mainly endemic to Australia.


chigga

From "Chigwell" (a working-class suburb of Hobart).

(Tasmania, informal, sometimes derogatory) A young working-class person from Hobart, Tasmania


man fern

He'll likely mistake you for a man fern.

At the beginning they set up their trade in groves lined with manfern fronds […].

2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 177:


field police

He was some years under my orders when I was police-magistrate of the Oatlands district, during which period he acted successively as my assistant-clerk, constable of the field-police, leader of several roving bands in quest of the aborigines, and one of the directors of the Oatland volunteers.

1871, Marcus Clarke, Old Tales of a Toung Country:

Arthur had established a field police in 1825, with an initial complement of 300 men.

2017, Nick Brodie, The Vandemonian War, Hardie Grant Books, page 14:

(Tasmania, now historical) A police force charged with maintaining order beyond towns and other settlements, in the countryside or bush.


narkie

(Tasmania, informal) Synonym of turbo chook


Belgium sausage

en-noun

Belgium sausage (plural Belgium sausages)

(Tasmania) a large sausage, usually sliced and eaten cold


nointer

(Tasmania, informal) a mischievous child


beastly careless

en-adjective

beastly careless (comparative more beastly careless, superlative most beastly careless)

more beastly careless (comparative)
most beastly careless (superlative)

(Tasmania, informal, uncommon) indifferent