The Great Australian Adjective is a humorous poem by English writer and poet W. T. Goodge.

It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 11 December 1897, the Christmas issue of that publication,[1][2] and later in the poet's only collection Hits!

For example: The sunburnt ---- stockman stood And, in a dismal ---- mood, Apostrophized his ---- cuddy; "The ---- nag's no ---- good, He couldn't earn his ---- food - A regular ---- brumby, ----!"

An American author so well known as Fenimore Cooper, for example, uses it frequently in some of his nautical romances, in order to depict the character of a rough seaman at the beginning of the last century.

"[6] C. J. Dennis acknowledged this poem when he came to publish his own work, "The Austra-laise", which uses the same stylistic trick of leaving the reader to supply missing words of their choice.