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The old “I hope all your chooks turn to emus and kick your dunny down” Bazza line eh?
Been a while since I heard that one.
Got a problem with that maaaate? 
I remember this shit. Don’t ask me what I had for dinner yesterday though.
I grew up calling it a cossie or swimming cossie as well, in England. Wonder who nicked it from who.
We’ve definitely inherited it from the “Mother Country”. No doubt about that. It’s funny, I’ve been saying “costume” all through, and yet it’s also called “suit” “bathing suit” “swimsuit”, etc. When I think of swimming costumes, I think of the really old-fashioned type, like a tunic down to the knees, with the mob-cap. Swimsuit to me is more modern.
All the Poms that came over here post war called them cossies. True Blue Aussies called them togs (or cossies, or swimmers, or bathers or…)
Take your pick.
I wonder where “togs” is derived from?
Well, ‘togs’ just means clothing in ye olde British slange, so maybe they were swimming togs at one point?
Yes, I use “togs” for all sorts, not just bathers. So, it’s a word in its own right, not short for anything?
Though you have just handed me a golden opportunity to make up some Authentic English Gibberish, no, not that I’ve ever heard.
shrug
It was a very low high water mark for culture, real good shit wazzantit!
But on the subject of the …
Now 'ere down under we certainly have our share of jimmy blakes, and every body elses share to boot, but rattlesnakes we don’t. Probably too gentle a souls to survive amidst the antipodean anguines.
Which it begs two questions:
- Did we trouser that expression from the merkins? and
- is it true?