strine
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- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
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Definition of strine
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(humorous, informal)An Australian.
“The Strines I met were fierce about having a good time […]”
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noun
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(humorous, informal)An Australian.
“The Strines I met were fierce about having a good time […]”
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(Australia, New-Zealand, UK, humorous, informal)Broad Australian English.
“Several Strine forms depend on an assumed equivalence between Strine fortis consonants and Cultivated/RP lenis ones, thus garbler mince (couple of minutes), egg jelly (actually). It is doubtful whether this reflects any real phonetic difference.”
“A TEAM at Griffith University in Brisbane is working on the development of what the university’s newspaper calls a bionic snorter. Translating into English from Strine, this is a bionic hooter, conk, bugle or nose.”
“Dell’Oso describes the encounter of an Asian woman with a surly bus driver whose only language is Strine (a form of Australian English, barely intelligible to many of the native-speakers).”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From a pronunciation spelling of Australian spoken with this accent. Coined by “Afferbeck Lauder” (Alastair Ardoch Morrison) and popularised with his 1965 book Let Stalk Strine. Australian from 1965.
Words you can make from strine
104 playable · top: ESTRIN (6 pts)
Best play estrin 6 points6-letter words
8 words5-letter words
27 words- INERT 5 pts
- INSET 5 pts
- INTER 5 pts
- NEIST 5 pts
- NERTS 5 pts
- NITER 5 pts
- NITES 5 pts
- NITRE 5 pts
- REINS 5 pts
- RENTS 5 pts
- RESIN 5 pts
- RESIT 5 pts
- RINSE 5 pts
- RISEN 5 pts
- RITES 5 pts
- SENTI 5 pts
- SERIN 5 pts
- SIREN 5 pts
- STEIN 5 pts
- STERN 5 pts
- TEINS 5 pts
- TERNS 5 pts
- TIERS 5 pts
- TINES 5 pts
- TIRES 5 pts
- TRIES 5 pts
- TRINE 5 pts
4-letter words
30 words- ERNS 4 pts
- ERST 4 pts
- IRES 4 pts
- NEST 4 pts
- NETS 4 pts
- NITE 4 pts
- NITS 4 pts
- REIN 4 pts
- REIS 4 pts
- RENT 4 pts
- REST 4 pts
- RETS 4 pts
- RINS 4 pts
- RISE 4 pts
- RITE 4 pts
- SENT 4 pts
- SINE 4 pts
- SIRE 4 pts
- SITE 4 pts
- SNIT 4 pts
- STIR 4 pts
- TEIN 4 pts
- TENS 4 pts
- TERN 4 pts
- TIER 4 pts
- TIES 4 pts
- TINE 4 pts
- TINS 4 pts
- TIRE 4 pts
- TRES 4 pts
3-letter words
26 words2-letter words
12 wordsHooks
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