Aussie (Australian)

B

Basin (bathroom sink)

Bassinet (baby cradle)

Bach (small holiday house, usually at the beach)

Bench (kitchen worktop)

Bush (forest or scrub wilderness)

C

Chilly bin (portable insulated cooler box)

Chips (crisps)

Chook (slang for chicken)

Cocky (farmer, esp. cow-cocky)

College (high school, not university)

Cordial (squash drink)

Cot (child's crib)

Creek (stream)

Crook (sick)

Chuddy (Chewing Gum)

Choice (Fantastic)

D

Dairy (small shop that sells dairy products and other groceries)

Dear (expensive)

Duster (blackboard eraser)

F

Flat out (full speed)

Flat stick (full speed)

Form 1 - Form 7 (grades at intermediate and secondary school)

Flicks (Cinemas)

Flog (Steal)

Footie (Rugby, usually union rather then league, never soccer)

G

Give him the horn (to sound your car horn!)

Good nick (good condition)

Gumboots (Wellington boots)

'Give it a hurl' (Try it)

Godzone (New Zealand, short for "God's own country")

H

Hokey-pokey (ice-cream with honeycomb)

Humps (sleeping policemen)

Haka (Maori dance performed in threatening fashion before All Black rugby games)

Hangi (Maori feast cooked in an earth ovan)

Hongi (Maori greeting, performed by pressing noses together)

I

Ice block (lolly-pop)

Intermediate school (middle school)

J

Jandals (flip-flops, i.e., kind of footwear)

K

Kauri (native tree)

Kindy (kindergarten)

Kip (sleep)

Kiwi (New Zealander or native bird, not short for kiwi fruit)

L

Local rag (local newspaper)

Lolly (sweet)

M

Mate (friend)

Mr. Whippy (van that sells ice-cream cones)

N

Nick (steal)

O

Oz (Australia)

P

Pakeha (Europeans)

Pants (trousers)

Plonked (drunk)

Pom (Englishman)

Ponga (Native bush tree)

Pashing (Kissing or snogging)

Plunkett Rooms (Childcare centre(

Q

R

Rice bubbles (rice krispies)

Rimu (native tree)

S

Sandshoes (canvas sneakers)

Singlet (vest)

Skivvy (kind of shirt)

Spunky (a cute guy)

Standard 1 - Standard 4 (grades at primary school)

Sussed-out (understood)

Swimming togs (swimming suit)

T

Tramping (walking/ hiking)

Trots (kind of horse racing - but the legs of the horse are tied to prevent them running!)

U

Ute (pickup truck)

V

Varsity (nickname for university)

W

Whinge (moan and complain, in particular "whinging pom")

Wops (rural areas)

Waka (Maori canoe)

Food And Drink Terms

Butternut- Type of pumpkin

Capsicum- Bell Peppers

Cervena- Farmed Venison

Crayfish- A slightly sweeter and pincer-less type of lobster

Eggplant- Aubergine

Entree- Appetizer

Feijoa- Fleshy, tomato-sized fruit with melon-like flesh and a tangy, perfumed flavour

Hogget- The meat from a year-old sheep. Older and more tasty (though less succulent) then lamb, but not as tough as mutton.

Hot Dog- A rather digusting- looking battered sausage on a stick, dipped in tomato ketchup. What the rest of the world know as a hot dog is known in NZ as an American hot dog.

Kiwifruit- Hairy brown egg-sized fruit with juicy green centre which swept the world in the 1980's to become the garnish of choice.

Kumara- Particularly delicious type of sweet potato and a long- standing Maori staple; often served as kumara chips with sour cream.

Lamington- Sponge cake coated in chocolate or pink icing and rolled in desiccated coconut.

Muttonbird- Gull- sized sooty shear- water, said to taste like oily and slightly fishy mutton, hence the name.

Pikelets- Small thick pancakes served cold with butter and jam or whipped cream.