An Australian View of Australians

[Keith Webb]

Originally posted by DaveCox
And when you Aussies have shot all the 'roos how are you going to carry on making chunder - fodder for export to the less discerning amongst us?

( Yes you'll need the national copy of the dicshonairy again!)

Found this reference:
From Peter McCarthy, Australia: ?A common Australian euphemism for vomit is chunder, as you undoubtedly know. Is the derivation watch under? This was supposedly shouted out by upper-deck passengers on emigrant ships, before vomiting over the rails to the peril of those below. As an explanation, it sounds a bit too cute. And how long has the word been around? I don?t remember it at all prior to its use in the Barry McKenzie comic strip by Barry Humphries in the 1960s. Perhaps we Australians are the victims of another Humphries practical joke??

Barry Humphries AKA Dame Edna was, with Philip Adams responsible for the movie "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie" based on a comic strip in Private Eye - worth catching if you like the Strine language at it's best (or should that be worst?)