Most Common Slang's used by Kiwi's............
Most Common Slang's used by Kiwi's............
sweet
sweet as
churchur (showing appreciation as far as i can tell )
stink (that sucks)
not even! (i dont believe you)
no worries
awesome
mint
ill add more as i think of them
the one i know is "flash" means really cool, hip, posh, expensive
will be great if you add more trying to learn more NZ slangs ... ellenmelon
Box of fluffies....
She'll be right !!! in other words don't worry about it
Jackie
http://www.chemistry.co.nz/kiwi.htm
Here you go, a whole website full to go at!
toughen up
good as
good as gold
Ian
DH has started saying "choice" quite a lot, I probably come out with loads these days, but dont think of them as kiwi phrases any more, just part of my normal daily phrases!
Hard case - joker/comedian
This threw me as I was used to "hard cases" being like, errr, violent nutters - so I was always nervous when someone would say they'd introduce me to so-and-so.. "you'll love him, he's a real hard case"
OH has picked up the "yeah, no" ...