At the Macquarie Dictionary we like to spread good cheer. To celebrate our good mood, we rummaged around the Dictionary database in search of words

Slow day at the office? Is that report taking three times longer than it should because you keep flicking between Instagram and your spreadsheet? Making

There are few more inspiring sights than a group of sharply dressed young blokes loitering on the street corner with absolutely no ill intentions, and

For our first Word of the Week after an extended break, we thought we would step outside ourselves to profile Aussie slang that is popular

We took a short break for our annual Word of the Year competition, but we’re back with five new words to watch. Perhaps some of

The Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year voting is open now. The below shortlist was chosen from the 15 categories under consideration for Word of

The official Word of the Year 2021 for Macquarie Dictionary is strollout. Last year, we had two winners to allow for the overwhelming presence of

The Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year has a shortlist consisting of one word from each of our fifteen (sixteen including COVID-19) categories. While the

It’s been a tough couple of years for high school graduates across Australia. Learning from home, cancelled school formals and exams with the added stress

When’s the last time you made a barry, that is, a blunder or terrible mistake? The shortened form of Barry Crocker, barry is rhyming slang for shocker,

This week we shine a spotlight on a quintessential piece of Aussie slang, a word famous the world over: sheila. A sheila is a woman.

Australia is a nation of gardeners. One of our favourite gardening pastimes is cutting down tall poppies.  A tall poppy is a person who is pre-eminent

This week’s Aussie Word of the Week floated up the Bass Strait into Sydney Harbour where we scooped it up. A sort of reverse Sydney

New month, new words. As we head towards the end of the year, our editors are keeping a close eye on our new words. The

Forty years ago, on 21 September 1981, the first edition of Australia’s national dictionary, the Macquarie Dictionary, was launched. A green and gold cocktail was

We love a good swim, or flail, in the life-affirming waters that wash upon our fine Australian beaches. There are so many beaches to visist