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| Squiz:
Have a look at, as in, "let me have a squiz at that".
- Contributed by Joy |
| Stubbie:
Small bottle of beer.
- Contributed by Juliette |
| Suss:
To figure out.
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| Suss:
Dodgy
- Contributed by Simon |
| Taa:
Thanks. ie. if someone passed you something you'd say "Taa".
- Contributed by Juliette |
| Tangi:
A maori word which means funeral ceremony.
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| Tangiweto:
Used to describe that child who ruins the fun by always crying.
- Contributed by Mandy |
| Taranaki Gate:
A makeshift gate made from wire and battens.
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| Technicolour Yawn:
Vomit or the act of vomiting. If you drank too much at a party and vomited, you'd say you had a technicolour yawn.
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| That'll do:
That's enough; you can stop now. (Oten used by farmers when working their dogs)
- Contributed by Barb Sutton |
| Thick as pig shit:
Someone who is stupid. Or someone with a low level of intelligence.
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| Three planks short of a bridge.:
Three planks were sometimes used years ago, to get a small cart across a ditch, creek or river, and even though ONLY two were really needed (for the cart wheels themselves), the third was always placed first with the other two being easily placed either side, (the first being the one you stood on whilst you placed the other two "spaced just right" (for the cart's wheelset), and then it was also used for the horse to walk on, to pull the cart across. Anyone SHORT of three planks couldn't figure out HOW to get both the horse AND the cart across the ditch, creek or river. Thus they also probably couldn't figure anything ELSE out either. (not just about how to get a "horse & cart" across a ditch etc.). Thus someone that's "three planks short of a bridge", is someone that's "likely" to be pretty dense, as they obviously can't figure out anything, let alone a simple method of getting ANYTHING across (or past) an easily fixed problem.
- Contributed by QUIX4U |
| Tinnie:
A small amount of marijuana wrapped in aluminium foil. Usual retail; NZ$20 (apparently).
- Contributed by Frank Macskasy |
| Tinnie House:
A (usually) residental house, secretly selling marijuana and other drugs. Often rented for this sole purpose.
- Contributed by Frank Macskasy |
| Toe rag:
Disgusting, stupid or vile person.
- Contributed by StewR |
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