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What does 'pig’s' mean in Australia?
Australian slang 'pig’s' meaning?

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'pig’s' meaning

3 definitions

  1. Matthew

    A contraction of pig’s arse. An expression of repudiation equivalent to “like hell”. Effectively the second word is silent.

    • Example: "I'm drinking beer tonight." "Pig's you are!"
  2. John B

    A variation was pig’s bum. A colleague of mine used it constantly.

    • Example: 'Mate, pig's bum to that idea'.
  3. Cargill

    Gammon: very common among Aboriginal Australians, but practically unheard of by everybody else. Literally means “pig’s arse” or “pig’s bum” (a type of cured meat), and it has that connotation, sort of. It’s very flexible, and can mean artificial, fake, kidding, joking, but also insincere and untruthful, or hypocritical.

    • Example: 1. I don't trust that politician fella - he's gammon! 2. "Look out, there's a big spider on your back! Haha - just gammon!" 3. "We didn't want to mow the lawn every week,so we just put in gammon grass."

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