Australian/Canadian Dictionary

Canadian to Australian

In Australia, we tend to shorten words and add an 'o' on the end. Servo= Service Station, Bottlo = Bottle shop etc. In Canada, they generally add words together to make a word that generally means what the two words alone did. Does that make sense?

Just a few I have come across! Additions welcome

• Bangs = Fringe
• Brown Bread = Not like brown bread in Australia (unbleached flour and gross), but white bread with molasses added. Delicious
• Bunny Hugger = I think it's some sort of jumper/hoodie. To me it seems like they're talking about boobs?!
• Christmas Orange = Manderine
• Clamato Juice = Clam flavoured tomato juice (delish... really)
• Caesar = Bloody Mary but with Clamato Juice
• Cookie Tray = Baking Tray
• Dime = 10c
• Double-Double = Two creams and two sugars in coffee. Ordered at Tim Horton's, a coffee chain started by an ex NHL player. Of course.
• Fingering = Giving someone the finger/flipping the bird
• Flat = Carton/Case of beer
• Freezies = Icypoles
• Giviner = (Giving her??) Going hard
• Growler = A (nearly) 2L glass bottle of beer that you can buy from pubs and stuff. Wrong
• Homo Milk = Full fat homogenised milk (so wrong)
• Housecoat = Dressing Gown/Robe
• Hydro Bill = Electricity Bill (from hydro power)
• Keener =Try Hard
• Kraft Dinner, KD= Mac and Cheese in a box, an expansion from Easy Mac (Wikipedia quote: "it so precisely laser-targets the favoured Canadian food groups: fat, sugar, starch and salt")
• Loonie = $1
• Nickel = 5c
• Parkade = Parking Garage/Car Park
• Penny = 1c
• Pop = Soft Drink
• Pritnear = Pretty near, pretty close or something along those lines
• Sharpie = Texta
• Toonie = $2 "It's federal currency and you people talk about it like it's a Hanna-Barbara character"
• Toque (Pronounced Took) = Beanie
• Truck = Ute
• Two-Four = Case/Carton of beer
• Washroom = Bathroom/Toilet
• Wholemeal Bread = A mix between brown and wholegrain. I haven't found actual wholegrain yet