From time to time I use a word you lot struggle to understand the meaning of due to my kiwi background and the slang of said country. I've slowly learned a lot of your slang and uses, so I thought I'd help you out with mine. This is lifted from a FB post but is a good collection
Chur – Thanks Bro!
Cuzzie – Cousin or relative
Dairy – Local convenience stores, sometimes found on corners
Jandals – The things you wear on your feet in summer
Jafa – This one is more of an insult. Jafa is word to call someone from Auckland, the people that come out of Auckland
Munted – Broken, not working
Hungus – Greedy, or a way to call someone a pig. A shortened version of Humungous
Bach – A holiday home, often found by the beach
Sook – Someone that needs to man up and stop whinging
Root – To have sexy time
Tiki Tour – To travel around
Shot – Often used as ‘Shot bro’, meaning thanks bro
Solid – Awesome
Sweet as – Sounds good, awesome, thanks
Pakeha (Par-key-ha) – White man
Heaps – Meaning many, or ‘alot’
A into G – Arse into Gear. Get your sh*t together. Eg. “Get your bloody A into G”
No worries – It’s okay, not a problem
Mean Feed – A real nice meal, often a large meal
Ta – Thank you
Mate – Friend
Not Even – Not true
Sick – Awesome. The ‘i’ must be stretched, pronounced ‘siiiick’
Mean – Awesome The ‘e’ must be stretched, pronounced ‘meeeean’
Kiwi slang
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Re: Kiwi slang
Solid here means favour - "do me a solid mate"
Don't get your munted and your munter mixed up. Munter is a derisory term for a female.
Root - search for
Sweet has has died out here - "sweet as a nut" used to be the phrase in the early 90s.
Ta and mate are the same here, especially in the middle of the UK. Us Brummies use "ta" a lot. Ta mate in Birmingham is often replaced with "ta bab". Everyone in Brum is a bab. It's an affectionate version of mate or pal.
Cheers is used more than thanks here.
Some other Brummie stuff
Pop - a fizzy drink
Squash - a cordial drink (not pop)
Sound - catch all saying - "he's sound" (a nice bloke) "I'm sound" (I'm good thanks) "Sound, thanks" (nice one, cheers) etc. "that's sound" (yeah, sure, go ahead)
Mardy - miserable, moody, probably got a cob on
Cob on - in a bad mood
Piecy - (pronounced peace see) a slice of bread. Do you wanna piecy with your chips? (pre-cursor for a chip butty)
Yampee - someone who's a bit soft in the head, a bit simple
Don't get your munted and your munter mixed up. Munter is a derisory term for a female.
Root - search for
Sweet has has died out here - "sweet as a nut" used to be the phrase in the early 90s.
Ta and mate are the same here, especially in the middle of the UK. Us Brummies use "ta" a lot. Ta mate in Birmingham is often replaced with "ta bab". Everyone in Brum is a bab. It's an affectionate version of mate or pal.
Cheers is used more than thanks here.
Some other Brummie stuff
Pop - a fizzy drink
Squash - a cordial drink (not pop)
Sound - catch all saying - "he's sound" (a nice bloke) "I'm sound" (I'm good thanks) "Sound, thanks" (nice one, cheers) etc. "that's sound" (yeah, sure, go ahead)
Mardy - miserable, moody, probably got a cob on
Cob on - in a bad mood
Piecy - (pronounced peace see) a slice of bread. Do you wanna piecy with your chips? (pre-cursor for a chip butty)
Yampee - someone who's a bit soft in the head, a bit simple
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Re: Kiwi slang
thanks for that Kwacky... I'll be all set when I visit Munter means much the same in NZ but can be used for a bloke that is useless at everything, or stuffs up something specific rather badly.
The one that caught me out when I first got to Aussie was "good sort". In NZ that's is used generically for anyone that is a nice person, easy to get on with. In Aussie it's specifically for describing members of the opposite sex you think are hot. So when I said to my ex when we were first going out "that bloke Derek is a good sort" I got a VERY strange look and asked to explain what hell I meant by that
We has a comedian called Fred Dagg back in the 80's, so someone you think is funny you can say "Old Pete is a bit of a Dagg!" . That translated differently in Aussie, and at my wedding, my best man told my brand new father in law hes was a dag, which the FIL took as he was getting called a dry dangly piece of sheep poo, didn't go down well
The one that caught me out when I first got to Aussie was "good sort". In NZ that's is used generically for anyone that is a nice person, easy to get on with. In Aussie it's specifically for describing members of the opposite sex you think are hot. So when I said to my ex when we were first going out "that bloke Derek is a good sort" I got a VERY strange look and asked to explain what hell I meant by that
We has a comedian called Fred Dagg back in the 80's, so someone you think is funny you can say "Old Pete is a bit of a Dagg!" . That translated differently in Aussie, and at my wedding, my best man told my brand new father in law hes was a dag, which the FIL took as he was getting called a dry dangly piece of sheep poo, didn't go down well
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