An Australian mystery – the pie with no source

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From bowling greenish to TV screen, I’ve been tackling immoderate unusual words this week, each unsocial to Australia. Let’s commencement connected the lawn, wherever you whitethorn find a fewer mallet-swingers successful Yarraville oregon Brunswick, each whacking a rubber ringing towards 2 sticks down the different end.

Cousin to croquet, trugo was calved 100 years agone astatine the Newport Railway Workshops. That’s Newport adjacent Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge, not the Sydney version. Legend says bid crews successful their downtime would get a carriage’s buffer ring, positive the shops’ sledgehammers, to spot who could wallop the projectile down the aisle. “True go!” – the admirer’s outcry – mutated into the endemic crippled loved by the Footscray Doughnuts, and different clubs.

Well and good, yet Julie Garland wrote, “I began playing trugo astatine Port Melbourne. Question being: what bash I telephone my chap trugo players. Trugoans? Trugonites? Any ideas?” Trugoniks? Trugoannas? On pondering options, I suggested a trugodor, and Julie returned to her mallet happy. If lone each enigma was arsenic elemental to solve.

Trugodor Justin Mansfield wields his mallet astatine the Footscray Trugo Club.

The Ned Kelly enigma remains an unfastened file. If you don’t cognize the pie, representation a premix of mince, bacon, food and ovum – positive a herb portion for other health. Many bluish readers won’t beryllium crossed the Ned Kelly pie, the melange allegedly emerging successful the Beechworth portion of north-east Victoria, which perchance accounts for its name. I’m not sure. For each my digging, the Ned Kelly remains a pastry without source.

Keeping with crims, let’s determination to Heartbreak High, the Australian Netflix dramedy greenish lit for its 3rd and last play this year. Here the puzzle stems from Ca$h, whose nickname should outcry shady. A bashful asexual, Ca$h is simply a transportation biker who keeps his Year 12 peers successful coke and enactment pills. When not dealing, Douglas Piggott (his existent name) is stealing cars and strutting astir successful big-brand polo shirts.

Epitomising eshay, arsenic the teens say. Eh, you accidental – eshay? The connection was investigated by Mark Gwynn, a elder researcher astatine the Australian National Dictionary Centre. His ain lexicon defines the slang arsenic “a young antheral who is portion of a radical associated with anti-social behaviour and characterised by the wearing of definite marque statement clothing”.

Just arsenic intriguing, eshay’s origins stem from pig Latin, that pseudo-Cicero codification converting canine into ogday, schoolhouse into oolskay, oregon trash into ashtray. The elemental regularisation is to transportation the archetypal consonant/s to the tail, past adhd ay. Eshay then, according to Gwynne’s sleuthing, is simply a porcine makeover of sesh, a contraction of session, being teen-speak for a dope-smoking circle. Not definite astir you, but sometimes I miss the days of state and grouse.

Though I’m hardly ropeable, this week’s last enigma. Did you cognize the connection is unsocial to our shores, astatine slightest successful the furious sense? Erin Cook, an Aussie journo based successful Indonesia, learnt this past month, realising ropeable means thing to anyone beyond our shores, beryllium that successful Java, Leeds, Washington oregon Wellington.

Erin shared her revelation connected X, the slang linked to moody heifers, oregon horses, oregon immoderate beast warranting tethering. Among the post’s 100 replies, different unsocial Australian presumption landed, from hoon to spruik, chooks and chokkas, daks to larrikin, rort to Manchester (the linen, not the city), bogan to bludger, and heaps more. Starve the lizards, seems my homegrown caseload of mysteries has lone conscionable accumulated.

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