Confused American mom makes hilarious list of ‘Aussie words she doesn’t understand’ after watching Bluey
An American mom admitted she knows ‘nothing’ about Australia after watching Bluey
Bluey is an Australian children’s show about a blue heeler dog and his adventures.
Holly made a list of “weird” words that are not commonly used in the US.
Some of the 21 words and phrases included ‘pavlova’, ‘budgie’ and ‘takeaway’
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An American mother has openly admitted she knows “nothing” about Australians after watching the popular children’s show Bluey.
While watching the show with her baby, Holly, from Missouri, made a list of “weird” terms and phrases that aren’t commonly used in the US.
From ‘Good for you’ to ‘pavlova’, ‘budgie’ and ‘take away’, every Aussie knows instantly what these words mean, but Holly was left scratching her head.
“I’m a young American mom and seeing Bluey made me realize something: I know NOTHING about Australia,” she wrote on Facebook, posting a screenshot of the listing.
“I’ve made a list on my phone of things that don’t make sense to me in Bluey.”
After watching the popular Australian children’s show Bluey, Holly, the American mother of one, realized she knew “nothing” about Australia. “I made a list on my phone of things that don’t make sense to me in Bluey,” Holly wrote on Facebook (pictured: the list).
Bluey is an animated Australian children’s show about a six-year-old blue-heeled dog and his adventures, but even adults have come to enjoy watching the adorable show (Bluey pictured front and center with his family)
Bluey is an animated Australian children’s show about a six-year-old blue-heeled dog and his adventures, but even adults have come to enjoy watching the adorable show.
The list included 21 words and phrases that most Australians use in everyday language.
First on the list was ‘good on yah’ which means ‘well done’, followed by ‘dobber’ which means a person who secretly tells someone when another person has done something wrong.
The list included 21 words and phrases that most Australians used in everyday language, including ‘dubious’, ‘rockmelon’ and ‘satellite navigation’.
Holly also had no idea what ‘dubious’, ‘dunny’ or ‘rockmelon’ meant.
In the US, the ‘rockmelon’ fruit is known as a melon and ‘dunny’ is an Australian slang term for bath.
The word ‘dubious’ is used Down Under when referring to someone or something that is not trustworthy.
Some lesser-known phrases include ‘Higglty pigglty’, which means all over the place, and sat-nav, which is an abbreviation for ‘satellite navigation system’.
After sharing the list with the Bluey Mums Facebook group, the Australian parents offered an explanation for each word.
“OMG as an Australian I love this list,” one mum wrote, and another said: “Wait…some people don’t know what a love heart is.”
A third said: “I’m in the UK, most of the words I get, but one thing that baffles me is what do Americans call a takeaway?”
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