Strine

• strine, 'Strine, 'strine

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.

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /stɹɑen/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɹaɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

Strine (plural Strines)

1. (informal, humorous) An Australian.
   • 2025, Lynne Tillman, Thrilled to Death: Selected Stories, page 220:

     The Strines I met were fierce about having a good time […]

Strine

1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal, humorous) Broad Australian English.
   • 1982, J. C. Wells, Accents of English, volume 3: Beyond the British Isles, page 595:

     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.

   • 1989 July 8, “Ariadne”, in New Scientist, page 120:

     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.

   • 1992, Gillian Bottomley, From Another Place: Migration and the Politics of Culture, published 2009, page 133:

     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).

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• Strines

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