Amusing words
- eggcorns
- ninny!
- natch, spiv, susurrus, simulacrum, funambulism, swingeing, fubar, bupkis, high dudgeon, strait laced, supersede
- spotted in NZ online newspapers: Ngati Skippy (=Maori living in Australia)
- selections from a NZ dictionary, "Up The Boohai Shooting Pukakas": ankle-biter, arvo, bach, bikkies, billy, bludge, bot, brass razoo, bollocks, cark, chillybin, chuck, cobber, crook (adj.), dag, dead as a moa, dillbrain, dob, dubbing, downtrou, drongo, dunny, fair go, flat tack, geek (v.), get off the grass!, from go to whoa, grog, grundies, do a Hollywood, hoodackie, hoon, hundreds and thousands, I've got a carbuncle on my pollywonkle, jandals, kai, lolly scramble, mad as a wet hen, Ngati Drongo, nuddy, OE, pack a sad, pavs and savs, piker, pluty, prang, prat, push a turd uphill with a toothpick, Pressbutton, ratbag, rooted, scroggin, scunge, sheila, six o'clock swill, sprog, stonkered, Taranaki gate, technicolour yawn, tin arse, tizzy, turps, Vegemite, Waikikamukau, weak as nuns' piss, whingeing Pom, wobbly (n.), wopwops, Yank tank, yee-haa!
- dingleberries