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little boy


noun a cocktail frankfurt.

Contributor's comments: Little Boys are also the NSW term for cocktail franks - when we moved to Qld and had to call them Cheerios we were most confused. Now because our children were born in Qld and now live in NSW they are the ones out of step and think we are really rude calling the franks "Little Boys".

Contributor's comments: Little boys are known as 'cheerios' in Qld.

Contributor's comments: 'Little boys' is wordmapped as Victorian. I encountered a further regional use of this term in the Redcliffe peninsula area of the Brisbane region. My daughter attended the Humpybong Primary School (real name - the BeeGees attended it also) for a few weeks in the late 1970s. I was utterly amazed to find, listed on the canteen menu,'battered little boys'. Of course they battered everything in Queensland in those days.

Contributor's comments: Little boys is also used for saveloys in SA.

Contributor's comments: Little boys are also known as "savs" ie saveloys in Victoria, hence also a rhyming slang - saveloys = little boys (as well as the obvious) - called cherrios also in northern NSW.

Contributor's comments: I've heard them referred to as little boy scouts by many people throughout NSW.

Contributor's comments: Little boy was rhyming slang for saveloy - meaning cocktail frankfurt.



Contributor's comments: Have heard 'little boys' by friends from Geelong, Victoria.

Contributor's comments: Still widely used in northern SA for cocktail frankfurts.

Contributor's comments: My friend from Geelong calls them little boys, but her grandmother (also from Geelong) calls them 'little red men'. I'm from NSW and call them cocktail sausages.

Contributor's comments: Used this in Vic, and now I'm in Qld still ask for little boys, but get funny looks, don't know why?