Little help from Australia please?

Re: Little help from Australia please?

Ted Shuck, Centennial, CO

>I think "bicki" is slang for biscuit, or cookie in 'merican.

Ted

Re: Little help from Australia please?

Derek Cohen (in Perth Australia)

>"Can you tell be what Bicki means?"

Hi Ernie

Well I'll take a stab at this. Ozzies (Australians) have a tendency to abbreviate/diminutive words.

Consider this:

"So I set aside my sunnies, picked up my tinnie, and threw another snag on the barbie".

Translation: So I set aside my sunglasses, picked up my beer can, and placed another sausage on the BBQ.

So what can "bicki" be? Probably it is "biscuit" (OK, "cookie" on the other side of the Pond), in which case the spelling you are looking for is "bikkie".

"Where's the bikkie?" ....Where's the biscuit?

Perfect sense?

Regards from Perth

Derek

Some Aussie tidbits

GolfSteve in Calgary

>Hi Derek,

I almost cracked up when I heard about the "bikie" gangs (ie. motorcycle gangs) on the local news in Australia. If you called a motorcyle gang member a "bikie" here, you'd be risking your life.

Other things I learned about Canadian/Aussie cookies/bikkie's:-

Around here Canadians like their "cookies" to be soft and a bit chewey; if you leave a cookie sitting out on the counter it will become a dessicated hard, crunchy toothbreaker, so in addition to liking the chewey texture, a soft cookie is a sign of freshness.

In hot/humid Brisbane and Gladstone, where I worked for a while, good bikkie's were always dry and crunchy. If you left a bikkie sitting on the counter, it would get soft and moldey (not to mention the ants would be right at it). There a hard cookie was a sign of freshness.

Just my theory about why the good cookies in Canada were soft and chewey and the good cookies in Austrlia were hard and brittle...

Re: Little help from Australia please?

McKay

>So....the rest of us use a biscuit jointer. Do you guys down under use a "bicki jointer" "I used #20 bickis using my bicki jointer"?

And,

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>do you get cookies or biscuits on your computer?

what is the context ?

Ian in Sydney

>The other thing about 'stralian slang is it can be very sensitive to the context and spoken nuance.

so your 'bikkie' is not necessarily a reference to what a septic tank would call a cookie