Anyone use "dink" for an extra passenger on a bike?

[jefmcg]

Growing up in Australia, then moving to the UK, I've found lots of expressions I thought were Australian were actually UK or (mostly) English. For example, truancy is almost always called "wagging school" and that's apparently from Birmingham. And the place you can buy lunch in Australian school (most kids bring lunch from home) is called a "tuck shop", and "tuck" is common here, even at Eton (yup, they apparently have a tuck shop. Just in case you are wondering this is nothing like the tuck shops I grew up with).

But no one seems to know "dink". It's giving someone a ride ride on your bike, aka a "backie" or .... lots of regional variations, I'm sure. In a sentence "I'll give you a dink on my bike" - I don't recall it as verb, always a noun, Just wondering if anyone grew up with it here, or is it a genuine antipodean word?

 

[Profpointy]

"saddler" is the term where I was brought up - Cardiff. Arguably this could be specific to passenger on the saddle and rider standing up to pedal..

How about "mitching" for bunking off school - South Wales generally.

And "splammed on someone" for "grassing someone up" or "dobbing them in" as the Ozies would have it.

 

[jefmcg]

Yeah, "dob in" is a very important verb in australia Not quite equivalent to "grass" - a bit more neutral. "Grass" has frisson of betrayal, "dob in" depends on context

 

[Profpointy]

Yeah, "dob in" is a very important verb in australia Not quite equivalent to "grass" - a bit more neutral. "Grass" has frisson of betrayal, "dob in" depends on context

The nuances of language - almost but not quite the same meaning. Or same.meaning but different culture.

I love.this sort of thing

 

[winjim]

Tuck shop at school is where you buy sweets and stuff, not proper lunch.

 

[Dave 123]

"Seaty" or "seatie" is what is was/is in Ellesmere Port.

 

[Dec66]

Being brought up on Merseyside, my speech is peppered with idiom. I have to constantly convince Mrs. 66 that I am not deliberately using slang expressions in order that people will ask me what they mean; it's just genuinely the way I speak.

However, I love many of the slang expressions of other regions, and particularly Glasgow, where I lived for a short time. My favourite is the all-purpose word "gub" (verb form) or "gubbed" (adjective). It is fantastically descriptive, and can be used in hundreds of contexts.

It's the WD40 of slang.

 

[Firestorm]

"saddler" is the term where I was brought up - Cardiff. Arguably this could be specific to passenger on the saddle and rider standing up to pedal..

How about "mitching" for bunking off school - South Wales generally.

And "splammed on someone" for "grassing someone up" or "dobbing them in" as the Ozies would have it.

Saddler was called a Backie in Essex.
where the passenger was infront of the rider it was called a crossie

 

[Dec66]

"Seaty" or "seatie" is what is was/is in Ellesmere Port.

Variously "seater", " backy" or "takey".

I've never pinned any of the three expressions to any particular Merseyside region.

 

[Profpointy]

the Scotish term "fish supper" is a huge disapointment when it turns out to be merely fish and chips

 

[Hacienda71]

Having spent a year at school in Melbourne, I get dink and dob. In Manchester and Cheshire a dink is a backie.
How about tubes in the Eskie?

 

[Specialeyes]

Saddler was called a Backie in Essex.
where the passenger was infront of the rider it was called a crossie

It was exactly the same where I grew up in Somerset, so when I moved to Southend and heard the same thing, I assumed it was universal!

 

[Jaykun85]

i know that a word of vulgarity here in the uk is very much common place in australia .. can ya guess what it is ?

 

[Firestorm]

It was exactly the same where I grew up in Somerset, so when I moved to Southend and heard the same thing, I assumed it was universal!

You still in Southend ?

 

[jefmcg]

How about tubes in the Eskie?

usually room in an eskie for a slab.