Strine

plural Strines · alternative strine · alternative 'Strine · alternative 'strine

1. humorousinformalAn Australian.

   The Strines I met were fierce about having a good time […]

   2025, Lynne Tillman, Thrilled to Death: Selected Stories, page 220

alternative strine · alternative 'Strine · alternative 'strine

1. AustraliaNew ZealandUKhumorousinformalBroad Australian English.

   Dell’Oso describes the encounter of an Asian woman with a surly bus driver whose only language is Strine (a form of Australian English, barely intelligible to many of the native-speakers).

   1992, Gillian Bottomley, From Another Place: Migration and the Politics of Culture, published 2009, page 133

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   Several Strine forms depend on an assumed equivalence between Strine fortis consonants and Cultivated/RP lenis ones, thus garbler mince (couple of minutes), egg jelly (actually). It is doubtful whether this reflects any real phonetic difference.

   1982, J. C. Wells, Accents of English, volume 3: Beyond the British Isles, page 595

   A TEAM at Griffith University in Brisbane is working on the development of what the university’s newspaper calls a bionic snorter. Translating into English from Strine, this is a bionic hooter, conk, bugle or nose.

   1989 July 8, “Ariadne”, in New Scientist, page 120