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oath |
Certainly! (various versions, including "My oath", "By oath", and "Fucking oath". |
ocker |
Australian |
off yer face |
Completely drunk |
offside, to get |
To be in bad with someone |
offsider |
Assistant |
oil |
News, truth - "the real oil" |
on side |
To be in a satisfactory position or situation |
op shop |
Opportunity shop, a shop selling donated goods and clothes to raise funds for charitable purposes |
outer, to be on the |
Out of favour, to be unpopular or unacceptable |
out on one's/it's own |
To be beyond reproach or equal |
out to it |
Dead drunk, fast asleep |
Oz |
Australia |
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pack a sad |
Refuse to talk to someone, equipment which suddenly no longer works said to have "packed a sad". |
packet of salts, to go through like a |
To run or cut through (opposition etc.) quickly and easily. |
paddock |
Usual name for agricultural field (unlike some parts of Oz where it's more of a slang term), slang for sports field |
pair of bastards on a raft |
Poached eggs on toast |
Pakeha |
Usual term for 'European' or 'White' - especially one born in New Zealand, foreigner, Päkehä |
Palangi |
Pacific Island term for Pakeha, also Palagi (both prn Pa-'la-ngi) |
park over |
To give something |
party pooper |
Being negative |
pavlova |
Meringue-like dessert with soft centre named after Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova who toured NZ early 1900s. Often shortened to pav. |
piece-of-piss |
Easy |
pie-cart |
Mobile food seller's street stand |
pig's arse (bum, ear) |
Expression of disbelief, disagreement, derision. |
pike out |
To give up when the going gets tough |
piker |
One who gives up easily (see pike-out), shorks responsibility, leaves the party early. |
piss awful |
Extremely awful |
pissed |
Drunk, inebriated |
pissed off |
Angry, as in "I'm really pissed off!" |
pisshead |
Heavy drinker, alcoholic |
pissing down |
Raining heavily |
piss around |
Waste time or effort in a futile manner, ie fart about |
piss up |
Social gathering with alcohol |
plod |
Friendly term for local policeman |
poked |
Exhausted |
pollie |
Politician |
pom |
English person (not used by PC people), eg "whinging pom" (very rarely pommy - except by English people themselves). |
poop |
Excreta (not information or ship's stern) |
possie, pozzie |
Position, situation, predicament |
pot on, to |
To inform on, to betray. |
pottle |
Small container |
powhiri | Formal Maori welcome. |
primary school | Elementary school |
primers | First 4 classes in primary school occupying the first 2 years of a child's schooling, roughly for 5 and 6 year olds (prn. primmers) |
puku | Stomach, tummy |
pukeroo, pakaru | Something that is broken, buggered, rooted or otherwise dysfunctional. |
purler, to come (go) a | To have a spectacular, heavy fall, a cropper. |
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quack |
General medical practitioner |
Queen St farmer |
Investor in farm land (after main street in Auckland) |
quiet, on the |
On the sly, secretly |
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rack off |
Go away (said in anger) |
rage |
Noun: an exciting and noisy (especially adolescents') party or event. Verb: to behave in a noisy, excited or abandoned way at such a party or group, to dance in an abandoned manner, to be high on drugs. |
ralph |
To vomit. (also chunder) |
rapt | Stoked or chuffed. Very pleased. |
rark up |
To scold or rebuke severely, to stir up. |
raro |
Powdered fruit drink - sometimes applied to other cordial brands too, abbrev of 'Rarotonga' although product not from that tropical "paradise" |
rat |
"Like a rat up a drainpipe" = very quickly. "Not to give a rat's arse" = not to care much about |
rattle yer dags |
"Hurry up, get a move on!" |
ratty |
Angry, irritable |
ra(r)zoo |
Also "brass razoo. A small or worthless(imaginary) coin. |
read |
"You wouldn't read about it!". Expression ranging from disbelief and chagrin to tolerant surprise, you wouldn't believe it! |
reg(g)o |
A car registration windscreen sticker |
rellies, rels |
Relatives |
rhubarb season, up yours for the |
Another version of "up yours", an expression of contempt or rude dismissal (heard used most effective by women, with reference to menstruation, ie. a taboo.) |
right as rain |
Perfect |
right, she'll be |
It's okay, it will be all right in the end, Don't Worry, Be Happy |
right! , too |
Emphatic agreement. |
ringbark |
To kill a tree by cutting away a ring of bark from around the trunk. A debilitated person. Also a circumcised man. |
ring-in |
Also ringer. A fraudulent substitution. |
rip into |
To attack a person or task vigorously, to 'tear a strip off' a person. |
road, to be sent (to go) down the |
To be sacked from a job, made redundant |
root |
Have sex; rooted - stuffed |
rooted, get |
Contemptuous dismissal. "Get rooted!" |
ropable, ropeable |
Very angry, very 'wild', etc (eg, "I was ropeable when the mayor said he wasn't going to take any notice of public opinion.). Fit to be tied. |
rottie |
Rottweiler breed of dog. |
rough as guts |
Unpolished (referring to a person) |
RSA |
Returned Servicemens Association "Going to the Rahza" means going to the RSA. |
rubbish, to |
To criticise severely. |
rugby |
Usual football (not normally called "rugger"), see also league, touch |
rumpty | Something unlovely, in a bad state of repair. Uncertain feelings, at 'sixes and sevens' emotionally. |
rustbucket | A person of low worth; a dilapidated vehicle that still goes. |
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