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And 'gobby' is an adjective meaning tending to talk too loudly and in a blunt or opinionated way. (And, in my experience, usually said about females.)

AJ

I thought that was 'gabby'

I think there may be a regional aspect to the relative frequencies of gobby and gabby. I've seen and heard both many times but I always associate gobby with a northern accent.

Aj

However a hard re-boot to the back of the head with a shovel has been known to be very effective in treating 'gobbyness'...

That could be painful if he was giving a BJ at the time ;-)

AJ

I don't know the specifics of the slang terms you're requesting. What I do know is that slang is temporal dependent. They rise at a specific point in time, and most always fads with a generation. That applies to anywhere, not just Australia.

While I have heard both gobby and sprog used as British slang (as mentioned by others), I've never heard them used as Aussie slang at all.

I've never heard them used as Aussie slang at all.

Me neither, but a google search for 'gobby slang dictionary' seems pretty conclusive in that respect.

AJ

I've never heard them used as Aussie slang at all.

This page is why I ask:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Australian_English_sexual_terms

gobby – to receive fellatio. As in 'This hot chick gave me a great gobby last night'.
sprog – Semen. Also old Australian term for an infant, as in, "The misses just gave birth to a little sprog", or "The buggar's got 3 young sprogs at home".

Don't know where they got that list from, but the following I have never heard used in Australia in the way the list has them:

bat or bat off - never heard it used that way

blue as in pornographic, have heard it used in US films for that meaning, but in Australian slang a blue is a fight

drum as brothel - - drum is usually used to mean information or gossip

flog - to flog something is to beat it, so I can see where they think this is from, but you never flog yourself, you flog someone else, so the meaning they have is all wrong.

Gobby - - never ehard it used at all

polly waffle = brothel - - never heard it and it sounds more like Cockney rhyming slang.

have a naughty - - is British slang not Aussie

slapa - never heard it used that way

sprog - never heard it used that way

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I suspect everyone one of these has come from British slang and may have been heard being used by some British migrants a 100 plus years ago.

I've know quite a few people that use Sprog when referring to young children, while living here in the NT and in NSW & SA.

yes, as a term for small children some have adopted from the Brits, in the way rugrat is also used for small children has been adopted from the Yanks. But never as a substitute for semen.

Obligatory Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex reference

Not really needed, because I know that Larry Niven article VERY well. Which is, of course, why this came up, because it came up in Book One. :)

Darwin (and the Top End in general) used to have very distinctive slang (gammon (or gammin), budju, grouse, gash etc), but it'd pretty much died out by the late 90's, early 2000s.

Keep in mind my story is set in 1984 / 85. (Finally made it there!)

While you don't use it NOW, what about then?

And yes, I've heard sprog used before regarding children.

The person saying this specifically is an indigenous Australian, is from the NT, and specifically near Uluru. I realize that with the size of Australia, just as in America, the place is so big that what someone says on the east coast isn't what someone says on the west coast.

ETA: I also realize that a lot of Australian slang has British roots, because of being a Commonwealth nation.