What does 'pig’s' mean in Australia?
Australian slang 'pig’s' meaning?
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A contraction of pig’s arse. An expression of repudiation equivalent to “like hell”. Effectively the second word is silent.
A variation was pig’s bum. A colleague of mine used it constantly.
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.