'I still have no idea': Morgan Riddle tries her hand at Aussie slang after arriving Down Under with Taylor Fritz

The Aussie tennis season is well and truly upon us, and with it has come the arrival of Morgan Riddle on our shores.

For six years, the American influencer, 28, has joined her boyfriend, tennis star Taylor Fritz, 28, Down Under for the January tournaments, winning a fanbase of her own with her courtside style and social media presence.

Despite being a regular visitor to Australia, it seems Riddle is still baffled by a lot of our, uh, unique homegrown slang.

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The model has put her Aussie know-how to the test, with the help of local digital creator Sarah Maloney, in an Instagram video titled 'Learning the Australian language'.

"This is my sixth year in Australia and I still have no idea what they're saying, so Sarah's going to quiz me on Aussie slang," Riddle tells viewers.

Maloney proceeds to test her with some classic colloquial words and phrases, including "bogan", "chucking a sickie", "rack off" and "cark it".

While Riddle fared well with terms like "arvo" – "it means afternoon, not avocado toast, I didn't know that for four years" – "chuck a U-ey" and "smoko", others left her stumped.

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Maloney received a blank look in response to the word "snag", prompting her to explain the Aussie culinary delicacy to her American pal.

Equally confusing to Riddle was "mainy", slang for driving (or walking or cycling) up and down a street, usually in reference to the main street of a town.

"How do you spell it?" she asked, before Maloney launched into her explanation.

Riddle was at least in good company with this one, as plenty of Aussies in the comments admitted they hadn't heard the term either.

Despite her valiant attempt at some educated guesses, the influencer declared she had done "pretty terrible, actually" in the quiz.

Riddle also lamented our habit of over-complicating slang, declaring, "You guys have nicknames for nicknames."

She doubled down in the caption, writing, "so dunny is slang for the loo, which is slang for a toilet, btw". (She has a point...)

This isn't Riddle's first foray into Aussie culture.

During the 2024 Australian Open, she pledged to "eat a jar of Vegemite" on Instagram live if Fritz defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in the fourth round.

He did exactly that, and hours later, Aussies gleefully watched as Riddle sampled a spoonful of the divisive spread before moving out of frame, audibly retching.

Suffice to say, she didn't continue.

"I learned that you can't eat a whole jar of Vegemite," she told presenter Adam Peacock as she reflected on the incident during last year's Australian Open.

"Your kidneys will go into failure; it's too much B12 vitamins; I actually Googled that."

Riddle also admitted eating it straight from the spoon had been a bold choice.

"Everyone in Melbourne, or Australia in general, is like, 'Try it on sourdough with butter and it'll be good' or, 'Try a Vegemite scroll'," she said.

"It's not meant for [the] normal human palate unless you grow up with it."

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