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Here’s a shortie!July 9th, 2007

Today Catherine said, “I brought you a bikkie today!”

I was confused. A bikkie?

Bikkie is an abbreviation for “biscuit” (a biscuit is a cookie, which was very tasty by the way!).

In New Zealand English it’s okay to end words with an “ie.” See if you know what these words (Kiwi slang) might be:

  1. gummie
  2. hottie
  3. rellie
  4. scarfie
  5. sunnie
  6. wellie
  7. brekkie
  8. kornie
  9. mozzie
  10. sickie
  11. chrissie
  12. sammie
  13. brickie
  14. wharfie
  15. barbie (not the doll)
  16. pressie1
  17. cuzzie3
  18. chippie3
  19. pommie3
  20. tinnie6
  21. kiddie
  22. sparkie11
  23. reckie14
  24. flattie18
  25. possie21

Maybe they’re trying to put the “kiw-ie” in common words? Feel free to add to this list…

Categories:kiwi-ism, speech

21 Comments so far ↓

  • Orange Girl // Jul 10, 2007 at 12:23 am

    I brought you the bikkie as a pressie :-)

  • ndiginiz // Jul 10, 2007 at 11:06 am

    Tena koe ehoa
    Yep, here’s a new one for your list but an old one from my neck of the woods….
    “choiceboidoidie”

  • Johnny-johnny // Jul 10, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    Strickly speaking, hottie could be about a member of the opposite sex as well.

    Ooh, and some more for the list:
    – cuzzie
    – chippie
    – pommie

  • Jeff // Jul 10, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    Kia ora, I haven’t heard that one before! Is that like saying choice, buddy? :)

  • Jeff // Jul 10, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    And pressie, cuzzie, chippie and pommie! The list grows… it’s already long :)

  • Helen // Jul 11, 2007 at 2:02 pm

    Don’t forget tinnie ….

  • Jeff // Jul 11, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    What’s a tinnie?

  • Helen // Jul 11, 2007 at 2:37 pm

    It has two meanings ….
    1. A tin/can of beer
    2. Weed wrapped in tin foil

  • Johnny-johnny // Jul 11, 2007 at 8:44 pm

    I meant chippie as slang for a carpenter but french fry is just as good :)

  • Jeff // Jul 11, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    Yikes! I’ll fix that… I thought it was a french fry?

  • Craig // Jul 12, 2007 at 2:26 am

    Another one!

    Sparkie = electrician :)

  • Jenna // Jul 12, 2007 at 9:16 am

    I don’t think I would survive NZ. Singaporeans are easier to understand!

    Also, you MUST stop by if you are in Ohio! I will give you a buckeye and we can sing the Illini fight song. I keep hoping that you will surprise everyone and show up at Megan and George’s party this weekend….I’m keeping my fingers crossed. : )

  • Jeff // Jul 12, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    Thanks for that one Craig, the list grows and grows and grows…

    Jenna – I’d love to stop by along the way to D.C.! I won’t make it to the wedding party this weekend… I hope you have a good time. I’m jealous :(

  • Philip // Jul 12, 2007 at 4:42 pm

    Reckie (pronounced rickie) – Reconnaissance mission, usage “I’m just here on a reckie, to see if we’ll come here on holiday next year”.

  • Jeff // Jul 12, 2007 at 5:03 pm

    Thanks Philip, I haven’t heard of that one either…

  • sue // Jul 14, 2007 at 4:03 am

    don’t forget of course the national thank you
    chur chur
    or is it chr chr?
    i can say it but clearly not spell it

  • Jeff // Jul 14, 2007 at 8:02 am

    I’d prefer to hear that over the British “ta” any day!

  • Orange Girl // Oct 17, 2007 at 2:25 pm

    Oh! You don’t have ‘flattie’ on the list and you’ve got two of them (your American friends may wonder what it is I know about you to know enough that you have two!)

  • Jeff // Oct 17, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    Thanks OG :) added!

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  • Jeffrey // May 26, 2008 at 12:02 am

    Someone at work this morning said to me, “Looks like you’re in your possie,” which rhymes with mozzie and means position.

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