AE 978 - Aussie Slang: A Beak/Sticky Beak

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I am going to teach you the Aussie slang phrase "a beak" or "a sticky beak".

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Transcript of AE 978 - Aussie Slang: A Beak / A Stickybeak

G'day, you mob! Welcome to this episode of Aussie English, the number one place for anyone and everyone wanting to learn Australian English. Today is one of the two episodes in the Australian Slang series. If you would like the second episode, if you would like access to all the bonus episodes, make sure that you sign up for the Premium podcast, which you can access above, and you will be able to get access to over nine hundred other podcast episodes, videos, interviews, transcripts, downloads, everything like that.

Anyway, let's get into today's episode. So today I want to cover the Australian term "beak". Right. And it's associated with "stickybeak". Right. If someone is a stickybeak, they want to know your business. They have a sticky beak. Obviously humans don't have beaks. Birds have beaks. Birds don't have noses. Humans do. So "beak" is actually referring to nose. Right. And obviously, if you put your "beak" in everything, if you are "a sticky beak" where your beak gets stuck into a lot of other things or to other people's business, it's that you are very nosy. Related to the nose again. You want to know what's going on with other people. You want to learn other people's information, you want to learn their business. You're very, very nosy. You put your beak in everything. You are "a stickybeak".

So let's go over some example sentences. Maybe you've got someone who's a family member wants to know everything about you at all times. Who are you dating? Who are your friends? Where are you travelling? What are you doing? What are you studying? You might say to them, "Mate, why are you such a stickybeak? Why do you need to know everything? Get your beak out of my business!" Right. "Get your beak out of here. Get your beak out of here, you stickybeak."

Another example might be that you are at school, you're studying. You know, you're in a lesson. You're writing down answers to problems that you get to do in maths class or something like that. And the other students, sort of stickybeaks, and they want to know what you've written down. They want to cheat off you. They want to take your answers and write them down for themselves. So they put their beak into your business and they're trying to learn your answers. Right. So, "Get your beak out of it, mate. What do you- you're such a stickybeak. Get out of it. Get out of it."

So there you go, guys. That is the term "beak" or the expression "stickybeak" in Australian English. Beak is referring to your nose. And if you have a sticky beak, you obviously have a nose that is always in other people's business, a bit of a sticky beak.

So anyway, guys, thanks for joining me as always. My challenge to you is to go down in the comments and try and use this expression in your own words. OK, write a comment using the word "beak" or "stickybeak" and create your own sentence so that you can learn what you've just learnt, ok. Anyway, for everything else on the English, check out www.aussieenglish.com.au and the podcast, the Aussie English podcast. Also, don't forget to subscribe and like and I'll see you next time. Cheers.