Hard Kiwi slang word search
Up the boohai, box of birds, rark up and hōhā, alongside sweet as and she'll be right. Twenty-eight pieces of Kiwi slang in an eighteen by eighteen grid, hidden in all eight directions, backwards included. For expats who miss home and visitors learning the lingo.
- Bach
- Box of birds
- Chilly bin
- Chocka
- Choice
- Chur
- Dag
- Good as gold
- Hard out
- Heaps
- Hōhā
- Jandals
- Ka pai
- Mean as
- Munted
- Pack a sad
- Puckeroo
- Rark up
- Scarfie
- She'll be right
- Smoko
- Stoked
- Sweet as
- Tiki tour
- Togs
- Up the boohai
- Wop-wops
- Yeah nah
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- Bach
- Box of birds
- Chilly bin
- Chocka
- Choice
- Chur
- Dag
- Good as gold
- Hard out
- Heaps
- Hōhā
- Jandals
- Ka pai
- Mean as
- Munted
- Pack a sad
- Puckeroo
- Rark up
- Scarfie
- She'll be right
- Smoko
- Stoked
- Sweet as
- Tiki tour
- Togs
- Up the boohai
- Wop-wops
- Yeah nah
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Kiwi slang keeps going well past sweet as. Box of birds means feeling great, up the boohai means way off track, and to rark someone up is to tell them off. Hōhā means fed up and ka pai means good, two of the many te reo Māori words that everyday Kiwi English has taken in. Mean as means excellent, and a bach is the holiday home, called a crib down south.
Eighteen by eighteen, in all eight directions, backwards included. She'll be right is the longest at twelve letters, then Up the boohai at eleven. The short ones are the hard part: Dag has three letters, and Chur, Bach, Togs and Hōhā have four, with Hōhā written as HOHA. The X appears only in Box of birds. Two-word phrases like Ka pai and Mean as run together as KAPAI and MEANAS.
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