quicko: to nick from another's blog

So was I just catching up on a friend's blog and found four (four!) Australian words in one post ...

--to nick off: to leave one place and go to another, as in "nicking off to Tassie." Different from "to nick" as "to steal, (often but not always) in a non-serious way."

--toblerone: chocolatey wonder! Not quite Max Brenner, but in the same league. As far as I know, toblerone just comes in bar form -- a triangular prism, to be precise. As another friend explained, growing up they didn't so much say "triangular prism" as "the toblerone shape." And they say American geometry's bad! Not only that, they pronounce it oddly. Not "tob-ler-one" as you'd imagine, but something more along the lines of "toe-bler-own." Jiminy crickets!

--to rock up: to arrive. Often late or at an unspecific or unimportant time, as in "I wonder what time she'll decide to rock up," or "they ought to rock up by five."

--to reckon: to think/have an opinion you're passing off as perhaps not quite fact, but something that's also not particularly up for debate. I know I've gone off on it before, but it's just such an everyday word in Australia, yet never ceases to appa...amaze my Midwestern ears.

There you have it. Four Australisms in one post. Don't believe me? Check it out for yourself:

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