Hey Bro!
Thinking about my last year in New Zealand and all the new words that a ‘gaucho’ can learn, we decided to put some of them together for you, our dearest readers!
- Kia Ora: Hi or Good luck! A Maori greeting now used widely by non-Maori as a mode of bicultural display.
- Amber, the amber fluid: Beer
- Arvo: Afternoon
- Barbie: barbecue
- Beautee: an exclamation of delight
- Bend the elbow (or wet the elbow): to have a few drinks
- Binder : a solid meal
- Brekky
- Box of Birds: Fine, happy, going well!
- Chews: Sweets, lollies
- Choice: very good
- Crack a fat: to achieve and erection
- Chilly bin: A cooler bin, used for keeping drinks cold.
- Dickhead: A Fool
- Dinky-die: Truly, Certainly: ‘I did see a ghost, dinky-die!’
- Drunk as a wheelbarrow: Unable to move without help
- Dunny: a toilet, bathroom, privy.
- Earbash: To talk incessantly
- Ehoa: Mate, Friend
- Flicks: Movies, Pictures
- Flog: To steal
- Full as a bull: Very Drunk
- Gate: mouth, ‘Shut ya gate!`
- Good on you: Said to encourage
- Grot: A toilet
- Grouse: Fine, excellent
- Good as gold: A good job well done; not a problem; an affirmative answer.
- Happy as Larry: Very Happy
- Hooray: A Kiwi farewell
- Hot chips: French fries
- Kai: Maori word for food
- Littlie: An infant child
- Lolly: A sweet
- Mad as a meat-axe: Very angry or crazy
- Mean: Really amazing or awesome.
- Narked: Annoyed
- Neat: A universal word of approval shared by New Zealand young
- In the nuddy: naked
- Ossie : Australia, or referred to an Australian
- Pav: A New Zealand meringue pudding with a fruit and cream filling used as a dessert tease for weight-watchers
- A piece of piss: Something easily accomplished
- Poor cow: An unfortunate or miserable person
- Rapt: Extremely pleased
- To have a Rat: To be eccentric or slightly crazy; To be eccentrically singleminded about something: ‘She has a rat about Aussies taking over New Zealand’
- Root: To enforce sexual intercourse
- Session: A drinkning bout with acquaintances
- She’ll be right/apples/jake: It’s all right, okay
- Sheila: a girl (friend); a woman
- Shivoo: A party, a ‘shiny’ (from French chez vos ‘at your place‘, the Kiwi’s choice of venue)
- Shook on: keen on, attracted to
- Sickie: A period of sick-leave from work, often caused by ‘Mondayitis’
- Smoko: Refreshment break from work
- Stirrer: A trouble-maker
- Sweet as: All good, is cool. `Sweet as, bro!’
- Troppo: Crazy
- Tonky: Fashionable, trendy
- Togs: Clothing item you for swimming. Bathing suit.
- Yeah-nah: Means no.
- Ziff: An old fashioned word for a beard: ‘A patriarchal diff hid his true feelings for grandma’
Tell us what you think! =)