What are chooks?

[chloezoebob101]

Like the " bitty baby" from american girl dolls??

 

[yinepu]

Biddy or Bitty is an old term usually refering to an older hen or in slang refers to an older woman like my user name. It.s also used as a name. my mom had a pullet she named Bitty.

it really depends on where you're from as to what the term means.. growing up my grandmother always called the chicks "baby biddies" .. or just "biddies"..
the "old biddies" and "biddy hens" were for the older birds or hens that were setting /brooding chicks


I'm not saying you or anyone else is wrong.. just saying that it seems that people from different areas used the terms differently

 

[Happy Chooks]

In Australia:

chook = chicken
serviet = napkin (this one really threw me - have to admit serviet sounds better)
nappy = diaper
boot = trunk (of car)

And yes, I have family in Australia.




And here's a saying that my Grandmother says that always makes me laugh..........

No flies on you............meaning, you are moving so fast the flies can't land on you.

 

[chloezoebob101]

nappy = diaper??
i thought it would probably mean something like nap

 

[satay]

In Australia:

chook = chicken
serviet = napkin (this one really threw me - have to admit serviet sounds better)
nappy = diaper
boot = trunk (of car)

And yes, I have family in Australia.




And here's a saying that my Grandmother says that always makes me laugh..........

No flies on you............meaning, you are moving so fast the flies can't land on you.

I agree with most of them except the no flies on one. Most i have heard use it more for sarcasim. If some one takes agers to get a joke . The answer would be there's no flies on you is there.(gee your quick). We do use chickens and chooks to mean the same thing but please don't ask the difference beween the word "fanny" beween the 2 country's That was a shock to me til i realized it meant something else over there lol.

 

[satay]

nappy = diaper??
 i thought it would probably mean something like nap

To have a nap is to have a "kip"

 

[chloezoebob101]

i love kips! I'm using that tomorrow and my parents wil be confused!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Hmmm, my grandmother doesn't use it in that context - but she's 86 and hasn't lived in Australia for a long time, so it's possible times have changed.

But now you have me intrigued on the fanny part.

 

[chloezoebob101]

what context? or is it something that shouldn't be shared...

 

[blueferral]

I just looked up "fanny" on urban dictionary. Yes, very different meanings in UK, Australia compared to US.