Wordy Additions is a recurring segment on our boy Karl’s Today show which for the past few weeks has been schooling old people on emergent Gen Y acronyms like YOLO, TTYL and TL;DR. But not until our guide, Macquarie Dictionary editor Sue Butler, uttered the phrase “bush doof” have we been prouder to have stomped on the rotting corpse of the English language in a clearing for six straight hours then wandered up a creek to try and meet a unicorn.
Since I spent my formative years in a place considered to be the bush doof epicentre of
the Southern Hemisphere – Northern New South Wales – I’m personally familiar with the term associated with a
reptilian 40 year old yoga instructor wearing dirt covered rave pants and stomping the same
patch of grass for four straight hours to 160bpm psy-trance.
And, if they buy the new edition of the Macquarie English Dictionary, so to will your grandparents.
“Well that’s an Australianism,” Butler says. “We talk about ‘doof doof music’ for dance music…you can hear it, ‘doof doof doof’, that low beat coming through…we have doof doof cars, and now we also have ‘bush doof’, which is a remote location you go to for a dance party. I stumbled across one of these in South Australia – the remnants, it had happened the night before – it was really amazing, way out in the bush and you’ve got sound systems and a big dance party: hence ‘bush doof’.”
It’s a great day for ‘Straya (and for fire twirling).
“Bush doof” – remote location for a dance party; it’s a new word included in the Macquarie Dictionary!
— The Today Show (@thetodayshow) October 8, 2013
Via IntheMix
