Strine word NOT in OED

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>How about this?!
>
>http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/0009/05/text/features21.html
>
> >Australians are world famous for being assprad (defined by the Dictionary of
>Strine as "showing pride in the look of one's dwelling and/or floral
>environment").<

With the more conventional spelling, "house proud" is a ubiquitous concept: see

http://www.brizcomm.com.au/cy2-hous.htm

for another Australian example.

Presumably the 'assprad' spelling is from an Australian making a joke about
Australian pronunciation?

[The conventional joke-example of Pittsburgh pronunciation in Pittsburgh is
"dahn-tahn" = "downtown". Some Pittsburghers could be described as
hahss-prahd, no doubt.]

-- Doug Wilson