There are a 15 categories in the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year competition (you can check the full list of words here). Each category

The Macquarie Dictionary COVID Word of the Year is rona. The word was chosen from a list of 20 COVID-related words. You can see the

2020, am I right? Well, we aren’t going to sit around and wait for another year to clobber us, and we aren’t going to get

Fashion! It never goes out of style, that’s why this week’s Word of the Week is the Darwin rig, more commonly known as a Territory rig.

This week we are buying tickets to the cow-pat lotto, a form of lottery in which a cow is placed in a pristine paddock which has

This week we are closing up shop early on our suburban shopping strip and heading across the road to the bowlo for a few schooners and

At the Macquarie Dictionary, we are preparing to announce which word survived the battle royale of 2020 to come out on top as Word of the

Are you a couple of lamingtons short of a CWA meeting? We hope not, because this ingenious phrase means stupid, as in lacking a full

This week we are investigating a rort, that is, a trick, lurk, or underhanded scheme: a confidence trick. We have looked at this before through the

Surf’s up. Grab your board and catch the five o’clock wave, a fictitious wave that passes down the Murrumbidgee River in Wagga Wagga each day. The

Ah, the smell of peak hour traffic, don’t you just love it? Well, no, but while you’re on the school run, you might find yourself

This week we have a piece of chargrilled Aussie slang we can’t wait to slather in sauce and sink our teeth into. That’s right, we’re

Australia has some of Earth’s most unique fauna. We have animals like the platypus and echidna that can’t be found anywhere else in the world.

Yes, that’s right, as 2020 creeps towards 2021, we at Macquarie Dictionary HQ are gathering our committee of wordsmiths to decide on our Word of

This blog was inspired by the blue swimmer, which as well as being a kind of crab turns out to be a slang name for

We’ve got a sugar rush of Aussie slang for you to chew on, so sit down and unwrap this week’s Word of the Week. A

There’s a fundamental rule in dictionary-writing that colloquialisms should be avoided in definitions. The idea is that the language should be neutral in register – not

You think that merino woollen jumper you’re wearing just came to you beautiful and soft. No! You are wearing that jumper thanks to the work of a ringer!