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clipping
bikkie - biscuit
obvi - obviously
barbie - barbecue
brekkie - breakfast
mozzie - mosquito
postie - postman
Aussie - Australian
aggro - aggressive
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"bikkie"
Everyone loves slang, but there's a particular formula that lots of Australian slang follows: "clipping" and "alteration".
"Clipping" is the process of shortening a word usually to create a more informal version of that word — the slangy "obvi" from "obviously" is a good example.
And "alteration" is just that: you somehow change the word to suit. In the case of Australian slang, words are clipped, and then a diminutive suffix is added to the clipped word. In this case, "bikkie" (the colloquial Australian word for a "cookie"), is clipped slang for "biscuit" (the British English word for a type of cookie), and it uses the "-ie" diminutive suffix.
Australian English is full of words based on this formula. "Barbie", of the now-infamous "throw another shrimp on the barbie," is short for "barbecue"; "brekkie" is short for "breakfast"; "mozzie" is short for "mosquito"; "postie" is short for "postman"; "Aussie" is short for "Australian"; and the list goes on.
Diminutive suffixes aren't just limited to "-ie", either: the word "aggro", another colloquialism, is a clipping of "aggressive" with the diminutive "-o" tacked on the end, for instance.
Bikkies, which is also spelled bickies, also appears in the colloquial phrase big bikkies, which refers to a lot of cash, as in "It costs big bikkies."
Erstellt: 2026-05