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…

 

21 Responses to Here’s a shortie!

  1. Orange Girl says:

    I brought you the bikkie as a pressie :-)

  2. ndiginiz says:

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

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

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

  4. Jeff says:

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

  5. Jeff says:

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

  6. Helen says:

    Don’t forget tinnie ….

  7. Jeff says:

    What’s a tinnie?

  8. Helen says:

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

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

  10. Jeff says:

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

  11. Craig says:

    Another one!

    Sparkie = electrician :)

  12. Jenna says:

    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. : )

  13. Jeff says:

    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 :(

  14. Philip says:

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

  15. Jeff says:

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

  16. sue says:

    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

  17. Jeff says:

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

  18. Orange Girl says:

    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!)

  19. Jeff says:

    Thanks OG :) added!

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  21. Jeffrey says:

    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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