Kiwi slang word search
Sweet as, chur, yeah nah and she'll be right. Twenty pieces of Kiwi slang to find, and a few to explain to the overseas visitors.
- Chilly bin
- Chocka
- Choice
- Chur
- Dag
- Good as gold
- Hard out
- Heaps
- Jandals
- Munted
- Pack a sad
- Puckeroo
- Scarfie
- She'll be right
- Smoko
- Stoked
- Sweet as
- Tiki tour
- Wop-wops
- Yeah nah
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
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| O | A | R | W | R | B | R | S | Y | A | E | T | C | S |
| I | H | F | S | L | D | O | F | B | S | E | O | K | E |
| C | N | I | L | D | E | O | H | I | G | T | K | A | E |
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| S | G | P | A | C | K | A | S | A | D | A | S | G | O |
| N | E | I | R | E | L | U | I | O | D | T | O | S | G |
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Find these words
- Chilly bin
- Chocka
- Choice
- Chur
- Dag
- Good as gold
- Hard out
- Heaps
- Jandals
- Munted
- Pack a sad
- Puckeroo
- Scarfie
- She'll be right
- Smoko
- Stoked
- Sweet as
- Tiki tour
- Wop-wops
- Yeah nah
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About this word search
Kiwi English has a language of its own. Sweet as means fine, chur means thanks, heaps means a lot, and hard out means very much so. Something munted is broken, the wop-wops are the middle of nowhere, and a tiki tour is the long way round. Smoko is a tea break, a scarfie is a student in Dunedin, and puckeroo, also meaning broken, comes from the te reo Māori word pakaru. Yeah nah, of course, means no.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and words run across, down and diagonally, never backwards. She'll be right is the longest with twelve letters, as SHELLBERIGHT. Good as gold has ten. Dag has only three letters and Chur four, so they hide well. Wop-wops loses its hyphen and becomes WOPWOPS. Double letters help: LL in Chilly bin and She'll be right, OO in Good as gold and Puckeroo.
Give it to overseas visitors or new arrivals and let them guess the meanings before you explain. In the staffroom, the first to finish gets to use each word in a sentence.
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