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Saturday, November 7, 2026

ABC Wordage quiz: It's time to get to work

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Humanoid figures act out "bludge", "smoko" and "yakka" in an illustration

Some seemingly modern words for how we work have a surprising history.(ABC News: Jarrod Fankhauser)

Roll up your sleeves. Let's get down to business.

Your challenge in today's Wordage quiz is to sort words and phrases for work according to how old they are.

There's no time for a smoko or to have a bludge. This will require some hard yakka. 

Source: Oxford English Dictionary, Etymonline, Green's Dictionary of Slang, Merriam-Webster, Macquarie Dictionary

How to play:

  • Drag each name into the shaded box. Hit Submit when you're happy.
  • You have three guesses per round. And there are always three rounds.
  • You can get a hint if you're stuck.

Where to find all the ABC's quizzes

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Take a squiz at the ABC News quiz topic page and see if you're a whiz at our previous quizzes.

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