19 June 2012

charnie bum?

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The ABC news site has an article about how the Oxford English Dictionary will be adding “bogan” to the dictionary.

I was surprised to see that the article also mentions that the Macquarie Dictionary has state based alternatives for “bogan” including “charnie bum” for the ACT.

Don’t know what the VICs are playing at though, I have never heard of a “scozzer”.

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yellowsnow said :

As for Canberra – i thought the Kambah equivelent of Charnie bums were the Boganvilleans?

Boganville is Queanbeyan, dude. Think Westies crossed with a B&S Ball, driving around in utes covered in as many stickers as possible.

yellowsnow said :

They also missed Sydney’s Shire dwellers….

Hobbits?

As a formerly out and proud flanelette wearing resident of Sydney’s western suburbs, I was disappointed ‘Westie’ didn’t get a mention. It’s like they’re trying to deny us our birthright or something!

They also missed Sydney’s Shire dwellers (a distinctly intolerant and homogenous subspecies scared to venture north of the Georges River; though shy and weak individually, they hunt in large packs to protect their territory from outsiders).

As for Canberra – i thought the Kambah equivelent of Charnie bums were the Boganvilleans?

Keijidosha said :

You can’t include “charnie bum” without the equivalent southside “kam-booner”.

As a former Kambah resident for many years, I can assure you that there is no such thing as a ‘kam-booner’. I’d bet my beloved 1983 Falcon on it. But I am familiar with ‘charnie bum’ and laughed my booner @rse off when I read that article.

I thought Booners were a variant of the Westie. Faded black jeans, desert boots (or the similar ‘boon boot’), flannie over a faded Metallica/Megadeth/Gunners t-shirt. Winnie blues in flannie pocket. Mullet haircut preferred, but not mandatory.

Funny. At school we always guessed “booner” was specific to Canberra. And I always loved the term “chigger” (someone from Chigwell) when I lived in Hobart.

Never heard of “charnie bum” though. I thought the accepted term was Charnie Carney??

You can’t include “charnie bum” without the equivalent southside “kam-booner”.

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