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English Expression:
10 Aussie Slang Terms with 'Gut'
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To have a gutful:
To have had enough of something.

To have guts:
To be brave or courageous.

Guts:
Your belly or stomach.

Guts:
Your internal organs in your belly.

Beer gut:
A large belly caused by drinking too much beer.

To drop your guts:

To fart.

The duck’s guts

Something amazing or incredible.

To come a gutser:
To make a big mistake or have an accident.

Gutless:
To be cowardly.
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English Expression:
10 Aussie Slang Terms with 'Gut'
Advanced English Lesson

A gutless wonder:
A coward (noun).

To Chuck Your Guts Up:

To vomit.

Bonus Slang Terms:

A kick in the Guts:

A massive disappointment.

To Work Your Guts Out:

To work tirelessly.

Sparrow's Guts:
Asparagus
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English Expression:
10 Aussie Slang Terms with 'Gut'
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Answers at the end!

1. What does the expression "to have a gutful" mean in Australian slang?

A) To be very drunk
B) To have enough of something
C) To be incredibly brave
D) To be cowardly

2. What does it mean to "drop your guts"?

A) To be very tired
B) To make a big mistake
C) To fart
D) To have a stomachache

3. If you are a "gutless wonder", what does that imply?

A) You are very brave

B) You are a coward
C) You have a large stomach
D) You are always hungry

4. What is the Australian slang term for asparagus?

A) Green spears
B) Sparrow's guts
C) Grassy stems
D) Veggie fingers

Answers: 1. B, 2. C, 3. B, 4. B
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10 Aussie Slang Terms with 'Gut'
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All because you sent him outside to play because you couldn't be blamed and
bothered! Oh, please. No, no, no! I've had a gutful of this.

G'day guys, and welcome to Aussie English. My objective here is to teach you
guys the English spoken Down Under. So whether you want to speak like a
fair dinkum Aussie or you just want to understand what the flippin' hell we're
on about when we're having a yarn, you've come to the right place. So sit
back, grab a cuppa and enjoy Aussie English.

So I hope you enjoyed that little clip there at the start. So the character is
called Alf Stewart and anyone who's Aussie is gonna know who he is, but he's
from the TV show Home and Away. And he has been on that show for years
and years and years. I don't know if he's still on it, but growing up, he was
always on it. And he was this character who was very hot headed, and you
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would just be waiting for him to kind of get angry, get up someone, lose his
temper, you know, just just absolutely go nuts. But because it was a TV show,
a drama, sort of a family drama, he can never really swear or get that angry.
So he had to use a lot of words like "flamin'...', which is like, you know, a
really, really, really polite way or, you know, innocuous way of saying
"fucking...", right. Like, "Are you fucking idiot?" Instead of that, you can say,
"Are you flamin' idiot?"

It's kind of archaic. It's not used that much anymore. And it's kind of, you
know, sort of humorous to hear, but that's the whole idea behind it anyway.
So this character was always using loads of slang, and I was recently watching
a compilation of his, on YouTube. So you can find it if you do a search for
"ultimate Alf Stewart compilation Home and Away". I'll try and leave the link
in the show notes here and in the transcript for today's episode.

But he uses so much slang. There is so much Aussie slang in there. Things like
"Strewth!" and "stone the crows", yeah. "Flamin'", "flamin' mongrel". He's just,
he uses heaps. Anyway, so I was watching this compilation and he used that
line that I played for you earlier. "I had a gutful", right. "I've had a gutful." And
so that led me to wanting to make a an episode about Australian slang and
using the word 'gut', right.

We use 'gut', 'guts', 'gutful', in loads of different slang terms and expressions
in Australian English, and other dialects of English would use some of them as
well, though there are probably quite a few that are unique to Australian
English. Anyway, so I've got about ten or so here. I might throw some bonus
ones in. But yeah, we'll go through them and I'll tell you how I would use
these different expressions.

And I just created a reel on Instagram. I've been sort of getting back into
things with Instagram recently. So if you're not following me, go check out
Aussie English on Instagram and you'll see different reels about slang. You
know, I try and do humorous stuff as well. Little skits and comedy, things as
well related to Aussie, Aussie life. But um, let's get into it.

Okay, so number one, this was the expression that Alf used, "to have a gutful
of something", is to have enough of something. And we often use this in the
past perfect tense, right? "To have had a gutful" of something. "I've had a
gutful of your treatment of my friends." "I've had a gutful from you." You
know, you've been giving me. You've been giving me a headache. You've
been swearing at me. You've been treating me badly. "I've had a gutful, mate.
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I've had a gutful." I've had enough, you know. "That's enough. I've had a
gutful." So that's a really good one to use down under.

Number two, to be brave. If you are incredibly brave, you can have guts,
right? To have a lot of guts. "He's got a lot of guts." You know, it's kind of like,
"to have a lot of nerve". Although to have a lot of nerve, if you have a lot of
nerve to sort of do something. You know, "He had a lot of nerve to come up
to me and ask that." It's kind of like you're incorrigible.

It's sort of like you're asking, or you're saying something you shouldn't. You
know, you're kind of going a bit too far, whereas "to have a lot of guts" is just
to be incredibly brave. Right? To be. To be. Yeah. Really brave, really brave.
"He's got a lot of guts."

But we can also use "have the guts to do something". So when we want to
talk about being courageous enough to want to do something, "to have the
guts to", and then the infinitive of a verb. "To have the guts to go to the
shops", "to have the guts to ask this girl out", "to have the guts to go
swimming with sharks". "He has a lot of guts. He's very brave. And I think
that because he had the guts to go surfing with sharks." "To have the guts" or
"to have guts".

All right, number three, your belly. This can be your gut, right? So if you get
kicked in the belly, you "get kicked in the gut". But you could also say "kicked
in the guts". So there's a little bit of a difference between these two, but not
really, right. So 'gut' is just 'belly', your stomach, your belly your tummy. But
'guts' is kind of what's inside your stomach, right. It's kind of like the organs
inside your, your body. And that's not really a slang terms as much, although
we use it in expressions related to your internal organs, right. Which I might
get to in a bit, but that's kind of the difference, you know, "to have a gut", to
have a big belly, and your 'guts' is, you know, on the inside of your gut, if that
makes sense.

So, yeah, your belly can be your gut. And if you have a fat belly, if you've got
quite a large belly from drinking too much beer, we call this a "beer gut". A
"beer gut". So there you go. That was a twofer. Two for one.

What are we up to now? Number four. 'Fart'. To fart. If you 'fart', we can say
"to drop your guts', right? "Oh, who dropped their guts? That stinks!" I always
say this to my son at the moment because, you know, little kids and farts and
going to the toilet and everything, they just constantly talking about it and,
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you know, making jokes about it. Anyway so, Noah, you know, farts from
time to time, my son. And I'm always like, "Noah, did you drop your guts?"
"Who dropped their guts? Someone farted. Who? Who farted? Someone
own up to it. You know, "Have the guts to own up to farting? Who farted?
Who dropped their guts? Who dropped their guts?" And I guess it's kind of a
gross sort of image, right? The idea being that your guts have fallen out of
your rear end, and they stink, right? So you've "dropped your guts". Gross.

All right, number five, something incredible. Something amazing. This is

similar to "the bee's knees". "The cat's pyjamas". These are different ways of
saying. "Oh, that thing is amazing. It's the cat's pyjamas." "It's the bee's
knees." But we can also say "it's the duck's guts". "Oh, man, that thing is the
duck's guts." And I think we just say it because it rhymes, right? The duck's
guts, the bee's knees. You know, it's it's just. We like rhyming slang in
Australian English. So there you go. If that thing is, is amazing, it's incredible.
It's awesome. It is the duck's guts. "I got this new car and it is absolutely the
duck's guts." "It's brilliant. Have you listened to this new album from my
favourite band? It is the duck's guts." "It's just great. It's the duck's guts."
Okay.

Number six. To make a huge mistake. "To come a gutser". "To come a gutser".
"Oh, what happened mate? Looks like you've come a bit of a gutser. Are you
okay? Did you have an accident?" Did you have a- you make a mistake. Tt can
be that too, 'to have an accident', right? So if you, you know, have a bit of a
ding in your car, a bit of a bingle. You take your car out one day and
accidentally crash it. You might have come a gutser, right? You've had an
accident. So to make a big mistake, to have an accident, to come a gutser. "I
thought I did really well on this exam, but turns out I came a gutser." You
know, "I made a lot of errors and it wasn't great. I became a gutser."

All right. Number seven. To be very drunk. This is great, "to have a gut full of
piss", right? "To have a gut full of piss." So 'piss' here means alcoholic drink,
right? Alcohol. So if you drink a lot of beer, you drink a lot of piss. Um,
there's. I should do an episode on piss, right? There's so many different
expressions and slang terms related to 'piss'. It's similar to 'guts'. But yes, if
you are drunk, you've had a gut full of piss, you know, or you have a gut full
of piss. You are incredibly drunk, mate. "He went to the pub, he came home
and he had clearly had a gutful of piss." And, you know, it's just like him
because he's got a beer gut, you know, that he's going to get into the, into
the beers. He's going to sink a lot of piss, and he's going to end up with a gut
full of piss. He's going to end up wasted, drunk.
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Number eight. Cowardly, right? If you're a bit of a coward, if you're a

cowardly. If you're a cowardly person, you are "gutless", right? So it's the
opposite of being brave. If you are very brave, you "have guts". And if you
don't have guts, you are "gutless", right? You are without guts. "Gutless". But
it's interesting. We don't really use "He is very gutful" to mean "He's very
brave". Whereas "gutless" and "gutful". You would think those are opposites,
but yeah, "gutful". We use that for having had enough. "I've had a gutful." So
yeah. "You are gutless. You're a coward", you know, you're too scared to save
people. He's a, "He's a gutless superhero." "He's got these powers that he
should be using to save people. But he's always too scared. He's a coward.
He is gutless."

And we can also use it when talking about a coward, right? The noun, as
opposed to the adjective, a coward is a "gutless wonder". He's a "gutless
wonder". "That guy, that kid is a gutless wonder. He is weak." "He's afraid.
He's fearful. He is a gutless wonder."

All right. And the last one here, number ten to vomit, is "to chuck your guts
up", right. And again, that idea of your stomach is coming up, right?
Everything inside your stomach is coming up, you're vomiting, you're
"chucking your guts up". You're "throwing your guts up". You could even say
you're "vomiting your guts up". And it kind of just emphasises the fact that
you are being sick, you know?

So some bonus ones, guys, I've got a few here. If you have a really massive
disappointment, this can be "a kick in the guts", right? Like "a kick in the
stomach". You could also say "a bit of a kick in the teeth". All those things are
unpleasant. They're probably more than disappointing, but a massive
disappointment would be "a kick in the guts".

You know, when the team made it to the finals and then they lost just as the
final siren went. It was "a massive kick in the guts", you know, a huge
disappointment.

To work tirelessly. This is "to work your guts out", right? You can "work your
guts out". You can work your, "work your ass off". You can work your guts
out. It's interesting. We have them as like, different phrasal verbs, "guts out"
and "ass off", right? To "work your guts out". To "work your ass off"? Yes, to
work tirelessly. "He worked his guts out trying to repair the car."

And then lastly, we use a bit of rhyming slang here for the word asparagus,
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right? The vegetable asparagus. And we often call this "sparrow's guts", right?
"Can you grab some sparrow's guts from the fridge? I think I might cook with
some tonight." "We went to the shops, we went to Woollies, we went to
Coles, and we bought some sparrow's guts." "I love sparrow's guts."

So there you go, guys. Hopefully you've enjoyed this episode. I definitely
recommend learning some of these and going to use them out and about
when speaking Australian English. I think you'll get a few different people
turning their heads. They'll notice, you know, if you chat to some Aussies and
you say, ah, you know, "The other day I had a gutful", "I was working my guts
out at work and some guy dropped his guts, some gutless wonder dropped
his guts, and I had had a gutful. I had had enough." That was, you know, that
was the worst. So I went, "I went to the pub and I decided to have a gut full
of piss and grow my gut into a bit of a beer gut."

So there you go, guys. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you like it, let me
know and I might do some more in the future. I thought I would just try
something a little different, but yeah, it's always a pleasure. Thank you very
much. I'm your host, Pete, this is Aussie English, and I'll chat to you next time.
Tooroo!

Well, because you sent him outside to play because you couldn't be
bothered. Oh, please. No, no, no. I've had a gutful of this. Is that you, Mr.
Stewart? Well, who the hell else do you think it would be? Get in here, you
pair of flaming galahs! Flaming hell. I'll tell you what. If she wasn't a shearer, I
would have decked her. Damn Yankees, wouldn't even give me a straight
answer. Holy mother of.. Ah, watch it! That's enough out of you. I don't need
your flaming lip as well. Hey, I suppose you're right. It's absolutely out of the
question. We can't possibly take advantage. All right, I'm agreeing with you.
There's no need to flog a dead horse. I'll tell you what, boy! When this is over,
you're gonna wish you'd never been born!
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