Here's a short list of some words I've come across while I've been here. Yes, I have started saying some of them. It'll be a hard habit to break when I come home!
aubergine: eggplant.
banger: sausage.
biscuit: a cookie. not bread.
boot: trunk of a car.
brekkie: breakfast
car park: parking lot
cheers: thanks, bye, anything really.
chemist: pharmacy.
chips: french fries
chippies: potato chips
chilly bin: cooler
chocolate fish: chocolate covered marshmallow. usually given as a reward.
chur: like cheers, but shorter. because cheers is too much to say?
courgette: zucchini
dairy: convenience store.
eh: typically used at the end of a sentence to indicate that it is a question.
feijoa: a really yummy fruit.
flash: something really cool or good looking.
good on ya: good job, congrats.
heaps: a lot.
hokey pokey: vanilla ice cream with honeycomb toffee bits. delicious.
hundreds and thousands: jimmies/sprinkles.
jandals: flip flops
jug: electric kettle.
jumper: sweater/jacket.
keen: eager, enthusiastic, ready.
kia ora: hello, welcome.
L&P: Lemon and Paeroa. a lemon-y tasting soda. also delicious.
lolly: any candy. not just lollipops.
Maori: the indigenous people of NZ.
nappy: diaper.
Oz: Australia. Also called Aussie.
pakeha: non-Maori, NZ Europeans.
pissed: very intoxicated.
pram: stroller
prawn: shrimp
pudding: more like lava cake than pudding.
serviette: napkin.
she'll be right: it's all good, no problem.
sunnies: sunglasses
sweet as: cool, awesome, sweet.
ta: thank you.
tea: as in afternoon tea, evening tea; a generic term for a meal.
tramping: hiking
trolley: shopping cart
togs: bathing suit
torch: flashlight
windscreen: windshield.
world famous in...: things around here usually claim to be world famous in new zealand.
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