Are you seeing your mates this arvo because it's been yonks? Do you shout 'ave a go, ya mug to your football team from the stands? Or tell your mate his team has got Buckley's chance of winning the AFL Grand Final? Do you mutter `stone the crows' when surprised? Or have you got your wobbly boots on? Perhaps you've recently developed a verandah bum.

Aussie English may be the most inventive and creative language in the world. This larrikin lexicography by Kel Richards tells the stories behind almost a thousand Aussie words and phrases.

So if you've ever wondered how `bloody' became an all-purpose swear word, why `bludger' means a lazy person, or even what `dangle the dunlops', `possum knockers' or `molly-dooker' might mean, then you need to read this bonzer book.