"Australianese" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˈstɹeɪljəˌniːz/ [General-Australian]
Etymology: From Australian + -ese. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|Australian|-ese}} Australian + -ese Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Australianese (uncountable)
  1. Australian English, especially when containing Australian slang or other Australianisms. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Dialects Categories (place): Australia

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          "ref": "1978, Patsy Adam-Smith, chapter X, in The ANZACS, page 102",
          "text": "Anzac burial parties greeted the enemy with odds and ends of Arabic phrases, and with Australianese that must have been incomprehensible to them.",
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          "ref": "1980 January, George Reiger, “Fishing In The Land Of Topsy-Turvy”, in Field & Stream, page 72",
          "text": "While the Australian black, brown, copperhead, the death adder, and taipan snakes are all poisonous, the real troublemaker (or \"stirrer,\" as they say in Australianese) is the tiger snake.",
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