| a into g |
arse into gear (Hurry up and get your a into g) |
| anklebiter |
small child |
| arse over tit |
head over heels |
| Aotearoa |
Maori name for New Zealand, meaning Land of the Long White Cloud |
| bach |
small holiday home |
| bite your bum |
go away, get lost |
| box of fluffies |
Everything's great; couldn't be better (also 'Box of fluffy ducks) |
| bush |
woods, forest |
| bogan |
white trash. Drinks beer, smokes dak, wears black, usually unemployed/able |
| BYO |
Bring your own beer or wine (usually applies to restaurants but you'll see it on party invites) |
| chips/hot chips |
French fries |
| chilly bin |
sealable insulated box for keeping food and/or drinks cold |
| choice |
very good (Choice! You brought some beer over) |
| chook |
chicken |
| chippies |
potato chips/crisps |
| crook |
sick; unwell |
| chocka |
choc-a-block; full; overflowing |
| cocky |
farmer |
| crib |
Southland equivalent of bach |
| dag |
hard case; joker; comedian |
| dak |
pot; marijuana; grass |
| daks |
trousers |
| dairy |
corner store |
| dunny |
toilet, bathroom, lavatory |
| duvet |
quilt, dooner |
| down-trou |
To beat someone outright in competition. The looser has to drop his daks |
| EFTPOS |
Electronic Financial Transaction Point of Sale (you can use your EFTPOS card to pay for goods and services) |
| eh |
Tacked on to the end of sentences (Nice day, eh?) |
| going bush |
To take off for the bush for an extended period to get away from it all |
| good as gold |
good job; well done; not a problem; yes |
| gumboots |
rubber boots; wellingtons; wellies |
| hard case |
joker; comedian |
| hard yakka |
hard work |
| heaps |
a lot (Miss you heaps) |
| hangi |
traditional Maori earth oven |
| hoon |
usually associated with young males, fast cars, loud stereos and alcohol |
| hunky dory |
Everything's great; couldn't be better |
| ice block |
popsicle |
| jandals |
thongs, flip-flops |
| jack up |
to organise (I'll see what I can jack up) |
| kai |
Maori for food |
| lolly |
candy |
| long drop |
an outside toilet constructed over a hole in the ground |
| metal road |
a country road with a gravel or shingle surface |
| mountain oysters |
lambs testicles |
| nick away |
to leave quickly and surreptitiously (I'm nicking away before the speeches start) |
| pack a sad |
become morose; ill-humoured; moody. Also means broken or dead (My f*cking car packed a sad on me this morning) |
| pakeha |
Maori word for Europeans |
| piker |
one who gives up easily |
| pav |
pavlova - a national dessert topped with kiwifruit |
| piece-of-piss |
easy (That exam was a piece of piss) |
| piss |
any alcohol (also grog) |
| root |
to have sex |
| rough as guts |
unpolished; coarse; vulgar |
| rack off |
piss off; go away |
| rark up |
give somebody a good telling off |
| rattle your dags |
hurry up; get a move on |
| rellies |
family, relatives |
| scull |
drink beer rapidly |
| scarfie |
university student |
| shufti |
look; examine (Take a shufti at this, will ya) |
| skiting |
bragging; showing off |
| sickie |
Taking a day off work because of ill-health, genuine or otherwise |
| smoko |
break; rest period |
| sook |
softy; scaredy cat |
| spinner |
someone who is a little flaky |
| spit the dummy |
throw a tantrum; get mad |
| stirrer |
trouble-maker; agitator |
| stuffed |
really tired (also buggered or knackered) |
| Sunday driver |
Almost inevitably the driver will be wearing some kind of hat and be driving really, really, really, really, really slowly |
| sunnies |
sunglasses |
| suss |
to figure out (I'm going to suss this Rubik's cube out if it kills me) |
| shit show |
no chance (He's got shit show of getting an invite now) |
| tin-arse/tin-bum |
lucky person |
| tinny |
lucky |
| tramping |
hiking |
| togs |
swimsuit, bathing suit |
| ute |
utility vehicle, small pickup truck |
| wally |
clown; loser |
| wet blanket |
someone who spoils the fun of others |
| whinge |
complain |
| wobbly (pack a wobbly) |
become angry, get snotty |
| wop-wops |
out of the way location |
| yarn |
a tall story (Barry can't half spin a yarn, eh?) |
| yack |
conversation (I had a good old yack with him this morning) |
