Kiwi Speak

[FingersCrossed]

Got this e-mail from my cousin (who lives in Melbourne so he has no room to talk lol)

We all sat down and said all the words out loud, perhaps anyone actually in New Zealand can confirm or deny that this is how it's said ? ;D ;D ;D

Kiwi Speak...........


say out loud for full effect!


Milburn - capital of Victoria

Peck - to fill a suitcase

Pigs - for hanging out washing with

Pump - to act as agent for prostitute

Pug - large animal with a curly tail

Nin tin dough - computer game

Munner stroney - soup

Min - male of the species

Mess Kara - eye makeup

McKennock - person who fixes cars

Mere - Mayor

Leather - foam produced from soap

Lift - departed

Kiri Pecker - famous Australian businessman (Kerry Packer)

Kittle crusps - potato chips

Ken's - Cairns

Jumbo - pet name for someone called Jim

Jungle Bills - Christmas carol

Inner me - enemy

Guess - vapour

Fush - marine creatures

Fitter cheney - type of pasta

Ever cardeau - avocado

Fear hear - blonde

Ear - mix of nitrogen and oxygen

Ear roebucks - exercise at the gym

Duffy cult - not easy

Amejen - visualise

Day old chuck - very young poultry

Bug hut - popular recording

Bun button - been bitten by insect

Beard - a place to sleep

Sucks Peck - Half a dozen beers

Ear New Zulland - an extinct airline

Beers - large savage animals found in U.S. forests

One Doze - well known computer program

Brudge - structure spanning a stream

Sex - one less than sivven

Tin - one more than nine

Iggs Ecktly - Precisely

Earplane - large flying machine

Beggage Chucken - place to leave your suitcase at the earport

Sivven Sucks Sivven - large Boeing aircraft

Sivven Four Sivven - larger Boeing aircraft

Cuds - children

Pits - domestic animals

Cuttin - baby cat

Munce - usually served on toast (or tatties)

[nattydread]

i'm sure we've had one like that before.

it always makes me laugh out loud.

I have our kids saying fush and chups already...

[MotherBear]

Not kiwi-speke unfortunately, just a few words to add to the dictionery.

1. Bozone (n.) The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

2. Cashtration (n.) The act of buying a house, which renders the subject
financially impotent for an indefinite period.

3. Giraffiti (n) Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

4. Sarchasm (n) The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person
who doesn't get it.

5. Hipatitis (n) Terminal coolness.

6. Osteopornosis (n) A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

7. Karmageddon (n) It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really
bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

8. Decafalon (n.) The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

9. Glibido (v) All talk and no action.

10. Dopeler effect (n) The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
they come at you rapidly.

11. Arachnoleptic fit (n.) The frantic dance performed just after
you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

12. Beelzebug (n.) Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. Oh boy, do I know this one?!

13. Caterpallor (n.) The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.

And the pick of the literature:

Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole

[FingersCrossed]

[smilie=Lol_2.gif] ;D

[MotherBear]

Here you go, an A-Z of kiwi slang. There'll be a written test at the end of the week followed by an oral test at the end of next week [smiley=icon_mrgreen.gif] .