For the yeah, nah one it's easy to understand "yeah it's a good idea, nah I don't wanna do it". Whatever word is said last is the one it means She'll be right pretty much means things will get better
The 'sweet as' is not alone - almost any adjective can have 'as' added after it eg: "OMG! It's hot as outside!" or "That movie was wicked as (where "wicked" = "amazing") or "Jeez, that job is stink as" (where "stink" = bad (not bad smell)). "Stubbies" (which are ugly as) can also mean the small beer bottles; you should look for the L&P world famous in NZ TV ad for a good laugh about stubbies. .
A couple of explanations, Stubbies are a style shorts, elasticated and pocketed. Knackered, a knackery is a horse abattoir, so if your horse was lame, crook, old or had reached the end of his use, he would be sent to the knackery, so if you are knackered you finished. A shout is a turn to buy, I’ll shout coffee, this time you next time. A shout is always returned. What do you get when when you cross a sheep with a kangaroo? A woolly jumper 😂. Doin’ good too 👍
"No Wucken Forries" used to be common, but now fairly rare Back in the 1980s Choice or Chos, was as common as sweet as is now and meaning much the same thing. You left off the popular togs and jandals. Shout means buying more than coffee. A "roof shout" is when builders boss will shout beers for the building crew to celebrate finishing a house. At least they used to. Mean, keen, filthy, sick, flat out, hard out, the wops, wop wops, crib, bach, aunty, chilly bin, bring a plate, all goods, tramping, hokey pokey, mate, stubbie (a small beer bottle), Kiwi, mate etc. Maori words are sprinkled into everyday conversation. Whanau, waka, morena, aroha, kai, ka pai etc
The key thing about the yeah nah or the nah yeah thing is to listen to the last word. That's the actual answer. Wanna grab a coffee? Nah yea....means yes, nah yea nah means no. Last word is key! Also Jumper and Jersey are interchangeable.
Yes that add you are talking about was exempt from scrutiny from complaints to the broadcasting standards authority as it was deemed so common use and not so vulgar rah rah
Bugger: literally is to soddomise another person. But at some point, way back in the distant past, Bugger has become a widely used and a mild expletive.
It's interesting that very few of these examples are exclusive to New Zealand - as an Aussie I think of NZ differences as things like dairy, jandals, chilly bin etc and as a place where you could get Cadbury Snowflakes and other varieties when we didn't have them in Australia.
There was a young Canadian girl doing a farm experience here in NZ for a year,during one of the work day's all the farm worker's were joking around,the girl must have said something funny,so the boss called her a dag,of course,a dag,is the,daggy,pooh covered rear end of a sheep But to Kiwi's,a dag means someone hilarious,or really funny,poor girl took it the wrong way,and burst out crying, All's well that ends well one of the other female worker's explained to her what dag means,, everyone thought it was funny though,,😂
Stubbies is a brand name of shorts from the 70's (???) and they were shorter and tighter than whats common now. Nowdays it's more like rugby shorts that guys wear everywhere.
@@rodrobson903 Agreed. I wore them to school in the 70's, so glad I've never had to subject my son to that. The rugby shorts around now though are all good, in the right setting.
One thing that catches out many from overseas, but especially Americans, is the speed at which we talk. Kiwis speak, once they get over their shyness, incredibly fast. The term ‘she will be right’, comes out as “shelby write”. Almost a single, two syllable word. Another quirk is that we can be quite economical with out replies. A response to something surprising can illicit from an American can be, “Really, yes?”. From a German, “Really, no?”. Whilst from a Kiwi, “Really!”. Cheers Bro. 👍
@@inalarose7875 i find the Amerian English fascinating..Like "a year and a half"...we say 18months..They say "im going on vacation in 2weeks from today"..we say "ive got holidays in a fortnights time"....yep! sweet as....
With regard to the sweater v jumper thing, it's very much like many other things in New Zealand where we use both names for different things. Properly, a jumper is knitted (whether by hand or a machine) whereas as sweater isn't, though some people do confuse them. Likewise, ketchup and tomato sauce are two seperate products, and you can actually find ketchup alongside the tomato sauce in some of the bigger supermarkets. Same deal with cookies and biscuits.
Hi Tara. Good job. Don't know if you have heard someone say "he's a bit of a dag" or "rattle your dags". The first one means he is cute, funny, quirky and is usually a positive thing. The second one means hurry up! A dag is the matted wool incrusted with poop that go hard, hanging from a sheeps rear end and when they are being rounded up and made to run, these dags bang together and make a rattling sound. 🤣🤣
About 25 years ago I went skiing at Mt Hutt for a long season and I was running low on cash and got a job from a guy at one of the pubs, got picked up at 5am in the dark and off to a sheering shed... and my job was de dagging.
Lol 😁 I'm born and raised in the king country and I've never heard that saying!!! And besides I'd be offended comparing me to a sheeps shitty ass💯💯💯🤣 because that's what it means in our neck of the woods Lol 😁 😆 🤣
My mum used to call me a dag when I was a kid! I might have been a wee bit offended when I found out what a dag actually was... and yes she was the one that filled me in. Lol
@@Kiwiamericans I don't really hear "rattle ya dags" much nowadays, but heard it often 35 odd years ago whilst I as getting ready for school! 😂 I said it to an American lady I was chatting to online a decade or so ago, and she informed me they were called dingleberries in her neck of the woods.
With the exception of chur and stubbies, all of these are the same and used in Australia too. And it's shout *a* coffee as in "I'll shout you a coffee". Shout is used like a verb, and means you'll pay for it with (usually) no expectation of being paid back for it. The noun would be a shout, or coffee/beer shout to be more specific etc. "This is my shout"(meaning it's on you), "I'll shout the next round of beers".
Stubbies were massively populat in the 70s and 80s here in Australia. Men of my vintage (born in the 70s) would certainly have worn Stubbies to school as part of their school uniform. Tend not to see them around much now.
@@shaunmckenzie5509 stubbies was the brand of shorts. They are mainly called ruggers now and they come in either long or short. Till the mid 90s they only had short stubbies. Lowe's sell them!
I like you guys a wee bit, I'll be buggered to live outside Aotearoa, chur, Bros. Enjoy! Yes I've travelled to 65 countries, loved the people, experience, new scenery. No place like home, Whanau and our view.🇳🇿😞❤️
before watching the video, idk if 'tramping' is mentioned, but for you kiwis visiting the US, just know this: that word has a VERY different meaning here! Remove the -ing, and it's actually an insult for us LOL! The first time I heard that one mentioned by a kiwi on youtube I was very confused...."you...you go tramping?......uh...say what now?!" LOLOL
Variations on 'bugger' - if you're really tired then you can be buggered. And if you've broken something irreparably then you've buggered it, or it's now buggered.
A knackers yard is a horse abattoir, back in the day of horse 🐎 powered transport back in the day when a horse was old and decrepit it was off to the knackered yard where it was turned into glue.
You should hangout with a maori family they have their own slang too, it's quite cool when they talk a mix of maori words chucked into English sentences and it works.
And then there is Munted. A particularly extreme case of Buggered. Came into fashion around the time of the Canterbury earthquakes. Buildings were munted.
@@AntipodesAnnie I agree that it has been around for decades, I'm 67 and have used it since my teens, but it really took off after the quakes. Well here in CHCH at least.
Hey, i said she'll be right about 7 weeks ago and let me tell she is not right. I heard a pop in my calf, lost the ability to walk for about a week, im walking with a cane now, still going to work and it hurts every time i bump it on something so i finally went to the docs yesterday and yeah, turns out ive at least partially seperated my achilles tendon. Going for a scan tomorrow to find out how bad it is.👍She'll be right👍
Pretty spot on there, Tara! Just wanted to add "eh" (which I think looks better written out as "aye" - when you read sound out all the letters, tell me that is not the sound we make! 😂) is also like a bookend at the end of a statement that you're making into a question. Eg: "You picked up milk on your way home, aye?" I once heard an ESL teacher tell her students that it's the equivalent of "isn't that right?". You get what I mean, aye? (see what I did there?! 😜)
We also tend to invert the inflections compared to other countries. Questions are supposed to be an upwards inflection but we do downwards for questions and upwards for non questions.
‘Ey’ is pronounced ‘ay’ like when you say aged, just take out the *ged* from aged, and elongate it i guess it’s hard to explain seems how I live in nz and it’s natural the way I say it
I don't know if you've ever heard of this kiwi saying (fart arsing around) which means you just standing around doing nothing. Oh and the sweater and jumper one there's also another one called jersey. When I was in primary school my mother always used to say don't forget to put your jersey on.
Another word: Mean "That's mean" or "Yeah, he's a mean as singer" Mean = Good, Cool,Dope, Top tier. & the easiest way to figure out the "Yeah, Nah" "Nah, Yeah" & "Yeah, Nah, Yeah" ordeal, Which ever word you say last is the word you mean 😂
'She'll be right' is more like we can't control it, let's hope the professionals got it. Or let's hope for the best. Chur bro, shot for bringing it up, because I've been that person.
Eh sounds like eg, but you don’t finish it cos if you did it would become egg🤣🤣.Aye sounds like hay without the without the h. Can be tacked on to anything. Its the intonation you use. Sad- down😔,happy- up😁,BS - long flat🙄,I don’t care or indifference-you put a ohhh in the front. Ohhh ayyye long with a dip at the end. 🤨
One that you don't hear often these days: "Up the booeye". It means something has been made incorrectly, or misaligned, or is wrong. For instance: "The plans are all up the booeye". The layout or measurements for the plan are wrong or don't match up. Or, "the bus timetable is all up the booeye". The times are wrong on the bus timetable. Tomato Sauce is different to Ketchup. Heinz Ketchup is quite vinegary and not as thick as say Watties or Oak tomato sauce. Or as we used to call it, tomtit sauce. Oh, and a couple of things we name differently to other countries, except maybe Oz: Housie = Bingo Chippies = Chips Chips = Fries Postie = Mailman/woman Dustie = Garbage collector Bogie = Booger Lots more, but thought this would be enough here.
I think “up the Booeye” is actually supposed to be “up the bayou” and comes from American slang - I am not sure if it still used there - similar to “up the creek without a paddle”.
I never heard shorts called stubbies, those are bottles of beer. Being rooted is being tired/knackered. I heard something about rooting a sheila but I think I figured that one out. 😀
munt. munter, munted.. (broken beyond repair) eg car crash.. ''well shes munted' talking about the car.. .. or. broke an arm? "i munted it.. or its munted' .. drunk to much? im munted.. someone else is too drunk.. munt head. or munter or munted. generally you can munt something.. be a munter.. or become munted (past tence) we got munted over the weekend .. etc
Sweet as is just a shorted version of saying something like sweet as honey and another way of saying all is good, no worries = all is good, she`l be right is said when it might not be, my shout = I`m paying, bugger is a shortened version of "bugger me" which is quite rude bugger = buggery look that up
My cousin andhis wife wants to move there. But he's worried thathe would get denied by New Zealand due to his criminal record. He is 36 but when he was 17 he was accused of having a relationship with a 15 year old he did 12 years and now has to register as a sex offender for 25 years. But they really want to move out ofthis country. Do you know if New Zealand denies people like him entry?
You are 100% right about being brand loyal, but I hate Watties sauce, it's disgusting, for me I will have tui tomato sauce or Whitlock's Tomato chutney, but my fav is Gregg's Steak sauce
B gger off and b gger is really bad to alot of NZers, as you know NZers use English English where b gger is so very different from US English for booger. I'm sure a dictionary will give you the meaning
burning question for americans... is it like on t.v.?? everytime (on t.v.) an american is on the phone. they never say "bye" they literally just hang up on the other person... its weird. so. is that 'real life' na-yeah, everyone does that.. or just a hollywood t.v/movie thing?? the yeah-nah, no one does that in real life..
Good job. But I have to comment on you American accent slaughtering NZ English. Bugger is pronounced 'bug' 'er'. And 'my shout' is more the slang not shout coffee. Basically it's the same as 'my treat'. Eg " I'll buy you a drink, my shout'.
Yip won't buy any other brand. I'll go into a pub and they give me me sauce for my chips and I taste it. I just think WTf I paid for this shit. This isn't Wattie's .
Hey Tara. You've got a little way to come yet because l think you, like most Americans, believe that the language is called American, not English. It's the Americans who have changed much of the original spelling and accent. Your written word has shortened a lot of it, and to you, you believe that's the original way. Usually it's not. Examples: Labor vs labour. Sensitize vs sensitise etc. Hundreds more. BTW bugger was a swear word for sure. Look it up in a dictionary. Sweater, jumper = jersey!! Compare how you say compost to how we say it. You: Compost as in toast. Us: compost as in lost.
Knackered come from Knacker's Yard where dead horses used to end up.
For the yeah, nah one it's easy to understand "yeah it's a good idea, nah I don't wanna do it". Whatever word is said last is the one it means
She'll be right pretty much means things will get better
The 'sweet as' is not alone - almost any adjective can have 'as' added after it eg: "OMG! It's hot as outside!" or "That movie was wicked as (where "wicked" = "amazing") or "Jeez, that job is stink as" (where "stink" = bad (not bad smell)). "Stubbies" (which are ugly as) can also mean the small beer bottles; you should look for the L&P world famous in NZ TV ad for a good laugh about stubbies. .
Dont forget the iconic "mean as" which is actually a positive expression.
A couple of explanations, Stubbies are a style shorts, elasticated and pocketed. Knackered, a knackery is a horse abattoir, so if your horse was lame, crook, old or had reached the end of his use, he would be sent to the knackery, so if you are knackered you finished. A shout is a turn to buy, I’ll shout coffee, this time you next time. A shout is always returned. What do you get when when you cross a sheep with a kangaroo? A woolly jumper 😂. Doin’ good too 👍
"No Wucken Forries" used to be common, but now fairly rare
Back in the 1980s Choice or Chos, was as common as sweet as is now and meaning much the same thing.
You left off the popular togs and jandals.
Shout means buying more than coffee. A "roof shout" is when builders boss will shout beers for the building crew to celebrate finishing a house. At least they used to.
Mean, keen, filthy, sick, flat out, hard out, the wops, wop wops, crib, bach, aunty, chilly bin, bring a plate, all goods, tramping, hokey pokey, mate, stubbie (a small beer bottle), Kiwi, mate etc.
Maori words are sprinkled into everyday conversation. Whanau, waka, morena, aroha, kai, ka pai etc
Yes “my shout” is when someone offers to pay - could be a round of drinks, a meal, a coffee etc….
I've heard "no wucken furries' been shortened down to "no wuckers, mate".
The key thing about the yeah nah or the nah yeah thing is to listen to the last word. That's the actual answer. Wanna grab a coffee? Nah yea....means yes, nah yea nah means no. Last word is key!
Also Jumper and Jersey are interchangeable.
Bugger is actually a swear word but has come into common usage now.
You do know what it actually means don't you 🤭
It's become common usage because of the TV advert (I forget what it was advertising) where the dog appears to say 'bugger'
@@roymartin8507 It was advertising the Toyota HiLux with the monstrous pulling power :)
Yes that add you are talking about was exempt from scrutiny from complaints to the broadcasting standards authority as it was deemed so common use and not so vulgar rah rah
@@roymartin8507 Toyota trucks.
Bugger: literally is to soddomise another person. But at some point, way back in the distant past, Bugger has become a widely used and a mild expletive.
It's interesting that very few of these examples are exclusive to New Zealand - as an Aussie I think of NZ differences as things like dairy, jandals, chilly bin etc and as a place where you could get Cadbury Snowflakes and other varieties when we didn't have them in Australia.
What's a Cadbury snowflake?
@@Jovixgal it's like a regular flake but with whlte chocolate on the inside. If you google it you'll be able to see what they were like.
@@inalarose7875 oh yes, I remember those! Yeah, they're pretty bomb. Idk if you can get them anymore though.
“shot cuz” it’s like when someone offers you something or plan something for you etc, it means awesome, thanks, etc
When my Canadian mum was dating my Kiwi dad he mentioned he was knackered. She couldn’t understand why he felt naked 😂
There was a young Canadian girl doing a farm experience here in NZ for a year,during one of the work day's all the farm worker's were joking around,the girl must have said something funny,so the boss called her a dag,of course,a dag,is the,daggy,pooh covered rear end of a sheep
But to Kiwi's,a dag means someone hilarious,or really funny,poor girl took it the wrong way,and burst out crying,
All's well that ends well one of the other female worker's explained to her what dag means,, everyone thought it was funny though,,😂
Stubbies is a brand name of shorts from the 70's (???) and they were shorter and tighter than whats common now. Nowdays it's more like rugby shorts that guys wear everywhere.
Stubbies are not socially acceptable, I have not seen them in years and thats all good
@@rodrobson903 Agreed. I wore them to school in the 70's, so glad I've never had to subject my son to that.
The rugby shorts around now though are all good, in the right setting.
And BTW, you need to pronounce "bugger" with a longer "Ah" sound. The way you say it sounds like "booger" to Kiwi/Aussie ears.
I legit thought she said booger hahah
I thought that too 😂 bug ah but joined 😊
One thing that catches out many from overseas, but especially Americans, is the speed at which we talk. Kiwis speak, once they get over their shyness, incredibly fast.
The term ‘she will be right’, comes out as “shelby write”. Almost a single, two syllable word.
Another quirk is that we can be quite economical with out replies. A response to something surprising can illicit from an American can be, “Really, yes?”.
From a German, “Really, no?”.
Whilst from a Kiwi, “Really!”.
Cheers Bro. 👍
I think Americans talk sort of slower because they over-pronounce many syllables and put emphasis where it sounds weird to us.
Very well explained!👍🏻
@@inalarose7875 i find the Amerian English fascinating..Like "a year and a half"...we say 18months..They say "im going on vacation in 2weeks from today"..we say "ive got holidays in a fortnights time"....yep! sweet as....
With regard to the sweater v jumper thing, it's very much like many other things in New Zealand where we use both names for different things. Properly, a jumper is knitted (whether by hand or a machine) whereas as sweater isn't, though some people do confuse them. Likewise, ketchup and tomato sauce are two seperate products, and you can actually find ketchup alongside the tomato sauce in some of the bigger supermarkets. Same deal with cookies and biscuits.
Yes, to me jumper is a shortened form of "wooly jumper" ie knitted from wool yarn
If its wool or a mix I would call it a Jersey, maybe it's a southern thing, I've never said jumper but always associate that word with Aus.
I'm in my 40s and have never used the term "sweater", it's a very American term. What you're referring to is a sweatshirt.
@@DomingoDeSantaClara not just a Southern thing, I call wooly tops jerseys (and sweatshirts too) but "jumper" for me is def a knitted/wooly jersey.
not to be confused with a cardy.. cardigan (buttoned jumper).. lol
Toyota NZ did bugger ads - some of them are on UA-cam e.g. Bugger - BANNED Toyota TV commercial - Both ads
We got those here in Australia - they were sick as bro
Hi Tara. Good job. Don't know if you have heard someone say "he's a bit of a dag" or "rattle your dags". The first one means he is cute, funny, quirky and is usually a positive thing. The second one means hurry up! A dag is the matted wool incrusted with poop that go hard, hanging from a sheeps rear end and when they are being rounded up and made to run, these dags bang together and make a rattling sound. 🤣🤣
About 25 years ago I went skiing at Mt Hutt for a long season and I was running low on cash and got a job from a guy at one of the pubs, got picked up at 5am in the dark and off to a sheering shed... and my job was de dagging.
Lol 😁 I'm born and raised in the king country and I've never heard that saying!!! And besides I'd be offended comparing me to a sheeps shitty ass💯💯💯🤣 because that's what it means in our neck of the woods Lol 😁 😆 🤣
My mum used to call me a dag when I was a kid! I might have been a wee bit offended when I found out what a dag actually was... and yes she was the one that filled me in. Lol
I have not heard those terms… thanks for sharing
@@Kiwiamericans I don't really hear "rattle ya dags" much nowadays, but heard it often 35 odd years ago whilst I as getting ready for school! 😂 I said it to an American lady I was chatting to online a decade or so ago, and she informed me they were called dingleberries in her neck of the woods.
With the exception of chur and stubbies, all of these are the same and used in Australia too.
And it's shout *a* coffee as in "I'll shout you a coffee".
Shout is used like a verb, and means you'll pay for it with (usually) no expectation of being paid back for it. The noun would be a shout, or coffee/beer shout to be more specific etc. "This is my shout"(meaning it's on you), "I'll shout the next round of beers".
Stubbies were massively populat in the 70s and 80s here in Australia. Men of my vintage (born in the 70s) would certainly have worn Stubbies to school as part of their school uniform. Tend not to see them around much now.
@@melbclayman Ah OK, it might be my age, or where I live (Vic). But I've never heard that term for short shorts.
@@shaunmckenzie5509 stubbies was the brand of shorts. They are mainly called ruggers now and they come in either long or short. Till the mid 90s they only had short stubbies. Lowe's sell them!
@@melbclayman - tradesmen often wore them before Occupational Health and Safety became a thing. Lots of plumber's crack happening with Stubbies.
I like you guys a wee bit, I'll be buggered to live outside Aotearoa, chur, Bros. Enjoy! Yes I've travelled to 65 countries, loved the people, experience, new scenery. No place like home, Whanau and our view.🇳🇿😞❤️
When you say she'll be right you add mate at the end so you have she'll be right mate or bro
Tara. That was really flash. Keep up the great work. Even after 20 years here, I still get a word that forces me to say, WHAT?
In Australia, no worries can also be said 'no wuckin forries!' Stubbies are very Australian as well.
before watching the video, idk if 'tramping' is mentioned, but for you kiwis visiting the US, just know this: that word has a VERY different meaning here! Remove the -ing, and it's actually an insult for us LOL! The first time I heard that one mentioned by a kiwi on youtube I was very confused...."you...you go tramping?......uh...say what now?!" LOLOL
Good job nz schooled you now 👏
Yes tramping has a very different meaning in the usa
We understand the insulting variation. We just don't use it that much if at all.
Cloudy and Wet in Auckland,
Not yet beach weather, might need to upgrade the TOGs,
Stubbies are rugby shorts. Men wear them to work also because there is next to no restrictions in terms of movement.
Not sure if you have reacted to them or not, but if you want some genuine Kiwi humour, try looking up the old Lift Plus ads xD
Variations on 'bugger' - if you're really tired then you can be buggered. And if you've broken something irreparably then you've buggered it, or it's now buggered.
Many crossovers here with Australian slang, although some are definitely more Kiwi.
A knackers yard is a horse abattoir, back in the day of horse 🐎 powered transport back in the day when a horse was old and decrepit it was off to the knackered yard where it was turned into glue.
The car's crook. He's feeling crook. He went crook at me.
You should hangout with a maori family they have their own slang too, it's quite cool when they talk a mix of maori words chucked into English sentences and it works.
Haha modern day pigeon english/slang XD
And then there is Munted. A particularly extreme case of Buggered. Came into fashion around the time of the Canterbury earthquakes. Buildings were munted.
Yeah, nah. I’ve been used munted since I was high school, nearly 30 years ago.
@@AntipodesAnnie I agree that it has been around for decades, I'm 67 and have used it since my teens, but it really took off after the quakes. Well here in CHCH at least.
Thats originally an Australian slang.
Yes munted is one particularly for brits I went to college there I’m kiwi born and raised and got told off for using munted in my work
Minted is Northern English.
Hey, i said she'll be right about 7 weeks ago and let me tell she is not right. I heard a pop in my calf, lost the ability to walk for about a week, im walking with a cane now, still going to work and it hurts every time i bump it on something so i finally went to the docs yesterday and yeah, turns out ive at least partially seperated my achilles tendon. Going for a scan tomorrow to find out how bad it is.👍She'll be right👍
Pretty spot on there, Tara! Just wanted to add "eh" (which I think looks better written out as "aye" - when you read sound out all the letters, tell me that is not the sound we make! 😂) is also like a bookend at the end of a statement that you're making into a question. Eg: "You picked up milk on your way home, aye?" I once heard an ESL teacher tell her students that it's the equivalent of "isn't that right?". You get what I mean, aye? (see what I did there?! 😜)
We also tend to invert the inflections compared to other countries. Questions are supposed to be an upwards inflection but we do downwards for questions and upwards for non questions.
‘Ey’ is pronounced ‘ay’ like when you say aged, just take out the *ged* from aged, and elongate it i guess it’s hard to explain seems how I live in nz and it’s natural the way I say it
Tomato sauce actually has more tomatoes in it than ketchup, ketchup generally has more sugar in it to sweeten it
Ah, dunno? Watties tomato sauce is terribly sweet. So over sweet. I prefer the sauces aren't so red and less sugar.
@@Mcfreddo - I much prefer Barker's tomato sauce. It's more tomato-y and has a bit of tang to it. Watties is really sweet.
@@Mcfreddo Watties sauce is just terrible!
Our pronunciation is perfect. For New Zealand English. As for tomato sauce, Tuimato is the way to go.
What’s weird about me is that I watch these top videos when I already live in New Zealand and I was born in New Zealand but I still watch these vids
Haha - you are not the only one! The majority of my audience are New Zealanders
@@Kiwiamericans oh nice . Your videos are good . Love from New Zealand 🇳🇿
"Brilliant!" - that's one I often heard Kiwis use to signify that they approved of something you did or said.
“Bugger off mate” you’ll hear a lot in arguments
Check out 'How to Dad' & his stubby Tara
From one New Zealand youtuber to another. Good luck with your channel ❤️
I don't know if you've ever heard of this kiwi saying (fart arsing around) which means you just standing around doing nothing. Oh and the sweater and jumper one there's also another one called jersey. When I was in primary school my mother always used to say don't forget to put your jersey on.
The word Ketchup is Malay for sauce. Most of what you have said is also found in Australia and UK slang.
Another word: Mean "That's mean" or "Yeah, he's a mean as singer" Mean = Good, Cool,Dope, Top tier.
& the easiest way to figure out the "Yeah, Nah" "Nah, Yeah" & "Yeah, Nah, Yeah" ordeal, Which ever word you say last is the word you mean 😂
Knackered can also mean something has broken down - the motor is OK but the starter is knackered (or buggered)
Sounds so stupid & ridiculous! 😠
@@aheat3036 A lot of slang is
If you want a channel that also helps with Kiwi slang etc is How to Dad. He’s Awesome as 😎
'She'll be right' is more like we can't control it, let's hope the professionals got it. Or let's hope for the best. Chur bro, shot for bringing it up, because I've been that person.
Ah yeah, how yaa going? All right? That's the story.
When is smoko and what time do you knock off?😆
Yeah, nah its pretty good ay bro, havin a mean as time. I get off at five but ill be hangin with the missus.
Ill shout a round next time cuz.
Eh sounds like eg, but you don’t finish it cos if you did it would become egg🤣🤣.Aye sounds like hay without the without the h. Can be tacked on to anything. Its the intonation you use. Sad- down😔,happy- up😁,BS - long flat🙄,I don’t care or indifference-you put a ohhh in the front. Ohhh ayyye long with a dip at the end. 🤨
Wonderful sharing
One that you don't hear often these days: "Up the booeye". It means something has been made incorrectly, or misaligned, or is wrong. For instance: "The plans are all up the booeye". The layout or measurements for the plan are wrong or don't match up. Or, "the bus timetable is all up the booeye". The times are wrong on the bus timetable.
Tomato Sauce is different to Ketchup. Heinz Ketchup is quite vinegary and not as thick as say Watties or Oak tomato sauce. Or as we used to call it, tomtit sauce.
Oh, and a couple of things we name differently to other countries, except maybe Oz:
Housie = Bingo
Chippies = Chips
Chips = Fries
Postie = Mailman/woman
Dustie = Garbage collector
Bogie = Booger
Lots more, but thought this would be enough here.
Spud ,,,,, potato
Pass the cow ,,, may I have the milk
Just Let it go ,,, forget about it an get on with it
Here's a link to a short doco from the 60's about the job of a Dustie in Wellington at that time.
m.ua-cam.com/video/rwA9nDK8TUM/v-deo.html
I think “up the Booeye” is actually supposed to be “up the bayou” and comes from American slang - I am not sure if it still used there - similar to “up the creek without a paddle”.
@@minnowx7099 Not in this case. It is to do with a Maori place name.
@@minnowx7099 We used to say "up the boohah" as in "you need a kick up the boohah/bum!" Still say it nowadays.
Bugger - Baa-gah (high-low) , Chur - Ch-urrr (high-high)
Don't forget your tog Tara when go swimming this summer.
Since the Christchurch earthquake munted is the new knackered
no worries aye
I never heard shorts called stubbies, those are bottles of beer. Being rooted is being tired/knackered. I heard something about rooting a sheila but I think I figured that one out. 😀
Its a 80s slang word
munt. munter, munted.. (broken beyond repair) eg car crash.. ''well shes munted' talking about the car.. .. or. broke an arm? "i munted it.. or its munted' .. drunk to much? im munted.. someone else is too drunk.. munt head. or munter or munted.
generally you can munt something.. be a munter.. or become munted (past tence) we got munted over the weekend .. etc
Another NZ saying is, like a box of fluffy ducks, used in the contexts of How are you today, like a box of fluffy duck.
"I'm like a box of fluffies, mate: all sh*t and feathers" 😂😂
There use to be a brand of shorts called stumbles they don't exist but the name stumbles has just stuck in the vocab
Bugger Toyota commercial you can watch on you tube. Used to be a rude word here until this advertising campaign.
You forgot “lessgo!” (Lets go)
Tata for thank you - Loo for toilet - To the loo for goodbye - Chute for awesome - hardout for a lot :)
Goodbye is toodle loo, or toodle pip, but that is British I'm pretty sure.
Tara is another "bye bye" term. Sounds like ta raah.
Sweet as is just a shorted version of saying something like sweet as honey and another way of saying all is good, no worries = all is good, she`l be right is said when it might not be, my shout = I`m paying, bugger is a shortened version of "bugger me" which is quite rude bugger = buggery look that up
(Shit yeah) is a common one
My cousin andhis wife wants to move there. But he's worried thathe would get denied by New Zealand due to his criminal record. He is 36 but when he was 17 he was accused of having a relationship with a 15 year old he did 12 years and now has to register as a sex offender for 25 years. But they really want to move out ofthis country. Do you know if New Zealand denies people like him entry?
You are 100% right about being brand loyal, but I hate Watties sauce, it's disgusting, for me I will have tui tomato sauce or Whitlock's Tomato chutney, but my fav is Gregg's Steak sauce
I tend to use Ketchup to make my sweet & sour sauce
And also we don't wear stubbies now it's more known as rugby shorts even if your not playing rugby 😂
Thats bugga is correct
I would call a jumper a Jersey.
I don't know if it's deliberate...but you pronounced a couple of words in a kiwi accent.
Oh really!? That’s interesting
There is a difference between ketchup and wattles saice
B gger off and b gger is really bad to alot of NZers, as you know NZers use English English where b gger is so very different from US English for booger. I'm sure a dictionary will give you the meaning
burning question for americans... is it like on t.v.?? everytime (on t.v.) an american is on the phone. they never say "bye" they literally just hang up on the other person... its weird. so. is that 'real life' na-yeah, everyone does that.. or just a hollywood t.v/movie thing?? the yeah-nah, no one does that in real life..
Sweet
Jandals is a good ones ( flip flops , or thongs ) also depends on the situation chur can also mean thanks check out how to dad he’s brilliant
Yes he is great!
Nz slang is neat ehhh
Tamoto sause for me watties of course 👍😁
This is SOooo FUNNY!
Kiwi say "Moving house", Canadians and probably Americans just say "Moving"
It’s my shout… not exclusive to coffee. And yes, you’re not Kiwi unless it’s Watties 😂
"Kick it in the guts" means to start a machine.
Eh is also used to ask for agreement eh you know what I mean eh…
Ive always spelled it "ay". Eh is more of a shortened "meh"
Good job. But I have to comment on you American accent slaughtering NZ English. Bugger is pronounced 'bug' 'er'. And 'my shout' is more the slang not shout coffee. Basically it's the same as 'my treat'. Eg " I'll buy you a drink, my shout'.
Addendum, our "er" is more of a "ah" so itd be "bug'ah".
And as a side note our "a" sounds like a short snappy "uh"
@@arcrosis I agree with you except that since living in Southland as a kid I love my 'R's. It was more the unclear 'ug' in bug that I was focussed on.
@@fin7251 ah, yes, i get what you meant now.
Bugger it.
We really are watties sauce loyal 🤣🤣🤣
Yip won't buy any other brand. I'll go into a pub and they give me me sauce for my chips and I taste it. I just think WTf I paid for this shit. This isn't Wattie's .
Watties for tom sauce, masterfoods for mayo, heinz for aioli.
watties sauce 4 life haha
Upto aunty is another one
Go look up bugger. You will be horrified we use it so casually
It's aee not ehh
Here’s a good NZ slang video ua-cam.com/video/pa6QAIe5GvI/v-deo.html
Hey Tara. You've got a little way to come yet because l think you, like most Americans, believe that the language is called American, not English. It's the Americans who have changed much of the original spelling and accent. Your written word has shortened a lot of it, and to you, you believe that's the original way. Usually it's not. Examples: Labor vs labour. Sensitize vs sensitise etc. Hundreds more. BTW bugger was a swear word for sure. Look it up in a dictionary. Sweater, jumper = jersey!! Compare how you say compost to how we say it. You: Compost as in toast. Us: compost as in lost.
Yeah nzers like Aussies have an irresistible desire to shorten words
Australian Aborigines have recently produced a movie called ""Sweet as", they claim the name is of Aborigine origin circa 1980's....
Cept kiwis have been using 'az' since way back
Sorry, nah stubbies are not culturally acceptable
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