Kiwi Vocabulary (Kiwi-isms)

I've realized over the past three months that Kiwis possess many little qwerks in their day-to-day talk that your average American would find funny/interesting. So I thought the easier way to illustrate this would be by writing a short story in Kiwi English. We even got a born and raised Kiwi to recite it for us. Here's the clip:

Here's what she said if you didn't follow:


Emma and I would be keen on buying heaps of lollies from the shop but, they would not fit in the boot and two, the lollies we like are only available in Australia. So instead, Tally- wearing a frock and a jumper, and me- wearing my jandals because it's mufti day, walked down the footpath to the dairy. We didn't find what we were looking for but picked up some chocolate biscuits instead and were surprised that the dairy also had coriander, capiscum, and kumara. On the way back to our flat,  one of my mate's happened to be passing by and asked "how are you going?, Weather looks rough for the rest of the day". I said "No, she'll be right. Better be off before it rains, nice seeing you" to my mate and he said "sweet as, see you later".


Here are the translations if you still didn't follow, including a few terms not in the story:


Vocabulary:
Biscuit= cookie
Dairy= convenience store
Lolly= candy
Sidewalk= pavement, footpath
Keen= interested, want to
Jumper= sweater
Frock= dress
Lounge= living room
Coriander= cilantro
Capsicum= pepper
Kumara= sweet potato
Heaps= tons, lots, bunches
Boot= trunk
Jandals= flip flops
Mufti day= casual clothes day
Boot = car trunk
Flat= apartment
Mate=friend, colleague
and there's more:
Full stop= period
Flat white= espresso with milk, no foam
Bach= cabin, vacation home
Whinge= complain
Plaster= band-aid
Lemonade= Sprite






Sayings:
Sweet As= Really cool, great
Easy As= Really easy
XX As= See a trend? Just put "As" after a word to emphasize it
She'll be right= it's ok
Take the piss= To make fun of / joke
Having a tramp= going for a walk


I'm sure we forgot some other great ones, but this will get you started. Glad to educate you in Kiwi! Be looking for our Rosetta Stone: Kiwi package soon.


Cheers,  Will