新西兰俚语俗语大全
新西兰俚语俗语大全新西兰俚语俗语大全
A
A&E (Accident and Emergency room at a hospital)
Aeroplane (airplane)
Afternoon tea (a short break from work in afternoon)
Agro (aggressive/aggression)
Aluminium (aluminum)
American hotdog (hotdog)
Aotearoa (Maori name for New Zealand)
Ar (Ass)
Asphalt (pronounced "ash-felt")
Aussie (Australian)
B
Basin (bathroom sink)
Bassinet (baby cradle)
Bach (small holiday hou, usually at the beach)
Bathroom (room containing a bath/shower, not a euphemism for toilet)
Bench (kitchen counter)
Berm (grass strip at side of road)
Biscuit (cookie)
Bloke (man)
Bog (toilet)
Bonk (xual intercour)
Bonnet (car hood)
Boot (car trunk)
Boxing day (a public holiday on December 26th)
Buggered (exhausted)
Bum (butt)
Bush (forest or scrub wilderness)
Bush shirt (kind of woolen outdoors shirt)
Button-up (button-down)
C
Candyfloss (cotton candy)
Capping (university graduation ceremony)
Caravan (small towed mobile home)
Carton (box)
Cellotape (scotch tape)
Cheeky (humorously impertinent)
Chemist (pharmacy/drugstore)
Chilly bin (portable insulated cooler box)
Chips (french fries)
Chippy (carpenter)
Chook (slang for chicken)
Cinema (movie theatre)
Circular (mailbox flier)
Cocky (farmer, esp. cow-cocky)
College (high school, not university)
Commentator (announcer)
Cordial (generic sweet colored drink)
Cornflour (cornstarch)
Cot (child's crib)
Courgette (zucchini)
Crackers (crazy)
Crayfish (edible lobster-like saltwater crustacean)
Creche (daycare center)
Creek (stream)
Crib (South Island equivalent of "bach")
Crook (sick)
D
Dag (humorous person)
Dairy (small shop that lls dairy products and other incidentals)
Dear (expensive)
Dinner suit (tuxedo)
Dodgems (bumper cars)
Docking (castrating lambs)
Dole (unemployment benefit)
Doughnut (kind of cake filled with cream and jam, not an American donut)
Draughts (checkers - the board game)
Duster (blackboard erar)
Dummy (baby pacifier)
Dunny (toilet)
Duvet (comforter on bed)
Dux (academically top student in final year high school class)
E
Earth (electrical ground)
Entree (appetizer, not main cour)
Enzed (New Zealand, i.e., N.Z.)
Electorate (local voting district)
Exerci book (school workbook)
F
Felt-tip pen (marker pen)
Filled roll (sub sandwich)
Film (movie)
Fizzy drink (soda pop, i.e., carbonated softdrink)
Flannel (washcloth)
Flat (apartment)
Flat out (full speed)
Flat stick (full speed)
Flatmate (someone you share a flat with)
Flog (steal)
Floor it (accelerate fast)
Footpath (sidewalk)
Form 1 - Form 7 (grades at intermediate and condary school)
Fortnight (two weeks)
Freezing works (meat processing factory)
Frock (dress)
G
Gallops (kind of hor racing)
Gidday (hello)
Give it heaps (try hard)
Glovebox (car glove compartment)
Godzone (New Zealand)
Good nick (good condition)
Grotty (run-down/worn-out/dirty)
Ground floor (first floor)
Gumboots (rubber boots)
H
Handbag (pur)
Hangi (Maori underground cooking pit)
Hard ca (wicked personality)
Headmaster/Headmistress (school principal)
Health camp (vacation camp for underprivileged children)
Health stamp (postage stamp supporting health camps)
Heaps (lots, as in "give it heaps")
Herb (is pronounced "herb", not "erb")
Hire (rent)
Hockey (field hockey, not ice hockey)
Hokey-pokey (an ice-cream flavor)
Holiday (vacation)
Hoon (lout)
Hooray (goodbye)
Hotdog (corndog)
Hot water cupboard (linen clot containing hot water heater)
Hot water cylinder (houhold hot water heater)
I
Ice block (popsicle)
Intermediate school (junior-high school)
J
Jandals (flip-flops, i.e., kind of footwear)
Janola (bleach)
Jelly (jello)
Jellymeat (canned pet food)
Jery (sweater)
Judderbar (speed bump)
Jug (kettle)
Jumper (sweater)
K
Kindy (kindergarten)
Kip (sleep)
Kiwi (New Zealander or flightless bird native to New Zealand, never a
contraction of kiwifruit)
Knackered (exhausted)
Knickers (underwear/panties)
Kumara (sweet potato)
L
Ladybird (ladybug)
Lavatory (toilet)
Lay by (lay away)
