Strineadj.n.
/strʌɪn/, U.S. /straɪn/, Australian English /strɑen/ jocular (originally Australian).
A. adj.
Australian.
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1964 A. Morrison in Sydney Morning Herald 19 Dec. (Saturday Mag.), (heading) New light on the Strine language, by Afferbeck Lauder, Professor of Strine Studies, University of Sinny.
1967 Daily Express 6 May 13/6 He said in a broad Strine accent: [etc.].
1974 Times 21 Dec. 10/6 ‘The legs, Ealing, go for the legs!’ she exhorted in a strong 'strine accent.
B. n.
a. An Australian.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun]
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1964 A. Morrison in Sydney Morning Herald 19 Dec. (Saturday Mag.) Selected translations of everyday words will be of interest..also to overseas vistas and to the many New Strines in our mist.
1973 ‘E. McGirr’ Bardel's Murder iv. 93 Iced beer stops up the nose which is why you Yanks and also the Strines talk so funny.
b. The English language as (allegedly) spoken by Australians.
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Strine1965
1965 ‘A. Lauder’ (title) Let stalk Strine.
1965 Listener 2 Sept. 340/1 While I was there they discovered a new dialect or speech pattern called Strine. Strine is simply the way the word ‘Australian’ sounds if you slur and twist it enough.
1980 Daily Tel. 7 Nov. 15/1 He settled into his cramped, double-glazed Australian train cabin (‘Roomette’ in Strine).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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