BuzzFeed Oz staff were quizzed on Kiwi words... it didn't go well.
Mikey: Oh I know this one! It's an esky and I ~almost~ prefer it to "esky". ALMOST.
Jenna: This is a fun term for the morgue.
Mat: Your butthole. "Ay bruh, before we go to the dairy to get sux chocolate fush I gotta dump out my chilly bin."
Hannah: Initially I thought a mean/bitchy person, as in an ice-queen. Then, I thought a fridge, which is probs more likely.
Michelle: A cold day.
Meaning: A portable ice box for drinks and food, known as an "esky" in Australia.
Michelle: Thongs mate, they're called thongs.
Shami: A choir of vandals who sing television jingles?
Mat: Little doughnuts full of jam.
Mikey: Is it the marriage of a jaffle and a sandal. So it's like, an edible sandal?
Tania: Thongs (crazy weirdos).
Meaning: A type of sandal. Known as "thongs" in Australia.
Anna: The actual undie, as in, "mah thong-tho-thong-tho-thong".
Mat: Underwear that goes up ya BUTTT.
Shami: Those things Americans call "flip flops."
Mikey: You wear this on your foot. I mean come on NZ you're not even trying.
Rob: A ladies undergarment. (Or a man's. It's 2015.)
Meaning: This is a skimpy type of underwear, otherwise known as a G-string.
Mikey: Is this to do with drugs? I wouldn't know more than that because I'm a good boy.
Rob: Completely rat-shit drunk.
Anna: A sexual position.
Shami: It sounds a lot like the word "mounted" but in a Kiwi accent? So maybe it's that.
Tania: Maggot (drunk/drugged af).
Meaning: Really, really drunk.
Jenna: I think Kiwis say this in the same way Aussies say "mate". Like, technically it's meant to mean "friend" but actually it applies to people who are acquaintances/who you don't actually even like. Like "fuck off aye bruh."
Michelle: "Bruhhhhhhhhhh" an exclamatory statement suitable for all situations.
Tania: Bro (AKA buddy o'pal or sibling o' mine).
Mat: Women wear these to provide support to their breasts.
Anna: Like, bro? or bra?
Meaning: "Bro", a common way to refer to a friend or acquaintance.
Jenna: Buttcrack.
Rob: The space between a Kiwi's front teeth.
Shami: A surprisingly good fashion outlet for jeans and basics.
Anna: Something gooey.
Michelle: The space between two things.
Meaning: To leave. E.g. "Let's gap!"
Mikey: Your parent's sibling's children? How do I know this? Just cuz.
Tania: Cousin and/or friend who you are tight af with.
Jenna: Short for cousin. But I think is applied to friends, too?
Michelle: Cousin?
Meaning: A way to refer to a family member, or close friend.
Mat: Asparagus makes it smell bad.
Hannah: Penis?
Anna: Is this a typo?
Michelle: sixteenth letter of the alphabet?
Jenna: That's just a letter. Comes after N and O and before Q.
Meaning: Slang for methamphetamine, used in the same way as "ice" in Australia.
Mat: You say this when someone punches you.
Anna: Owl without the L.
Mikey: What all New Zealanders say after an Aussie burn?
Rob: When you stub your toe.
Tania: TRUE.
Meaning: A way of referring to someone.
Mikey: The second line to Celine Dion’s classic “My Heart Will Go On”? Near... Faaaaa... Wherever you are.
Jenna: When you want to say "fuck" but you're around your grandma. "Faaaaaaaaaaaaaa stubbed my toe."
Mat: A long, long way to run.
Rob: The sound you make when you're munted.
Michelle: No?
Meaning: An exclamation/shorter way of saying "far out".
Jenna: OK I hear this all the time and have always wondered what it means. I think it's like "cheers"? Like, "Thanks for making me that lolly cake." "Chur, bruh."
Anna: ...burger.
Shami: A sex thing.
Rob: This is good? I think?
Michelle: Yes?
Meaning: An alternative way to say thank you.
Mikey: What nerds get in school?
Jenna: If something is "as" it is at maximum capacity. "Beached as" = "that whale could not possibly be more beached."
Michelle: OK now these are just normal words?
Shami: Definitely a sex thing.
Rob: This is just a regular word. I use it AS often AS a Kiwi does.
Meaning: An alternative way of saying "very" or "really".
Shami: This one I know is in fact an actual sex thing. Like "you're the skux deluxe, babe!" You know?
Jenna: Smelly socks.
Rob: A skunk that sucks.
Michelle: "AAAAWWW SKUX" I don't know what it means beyond that line everyone uses.
Hannah: Gross.
Meaning: A way of calling someone cool, but even cooler than cool. Often related to someone with #swag and popularity amongst people of the opposite gender.
Jenna: A big penis.
Mat: Huge penis?!??!
Shami: A hungry fungus.
Mikey: When there is a group of people who have all drank far too much alcohol and the morning after one person will say, "Hungus". It means everyone in the vicinity is hungover.
Tania: Well hung.
Meaning: Very hungry.
Michelle: Is there not just one meaning to mean?
Jenna: Psst, Kiwis, this is a real word.
Mat: Like being rude to someone because you're an asshole??
Rob: Average.
Mikey: What does this mean?
Meaning: A way of referring to something as "cool" or "awesome", has positive connotations.
Mat: How I'd describe my personality lmao nailed it.
Rob: "Yes, I'm OK with the thing you just said."
Michelle: That something is sweet as, like "mmmmm that cake is sweet as".
Jenna: As good as it can be.
Tania: Heaps good.
Meaning: Another way of saying good/great/fine/yes.
Mikey: I can't Handel this one.
Jenna: The Bachelor.
Anna: The composer.
Mat: When you forget your wallet at home you have to go bach to get it.
Michelle: What you call a bachelor?
Meaning: A beach house.
Rob: A type of cow or that guy I went to school with.
Mikey: A nice New Zealand gentleman.
Jenna: Meat.
Mat: ...and Julia Stone.
Anna: The beef.
Meaning: Very angry.
Mat: Like making out. Do you wanna tu meke with me? Shirts optional.
Rob: Tu meke. Me meke. We all meke.
Mikey: When you start a letter to your friend "meke" you say "Tu Meke".
Anna: Like when Aussies say onya?
Michelle: A type of food?
Meaning: A Maori phrase, used by Kiwi's instead of saying "too much".
Anna: Police siren.
Rob: I hope it's rhyming slang for cops.
Mat: Fucking far away.
Michelle: An idiot?
Tania: Fuck that.
Meaning: The middle of nowhere/far away.
Rob: Good Christchurch (That's Wellington).
Tania: Girl Crew.
Jenna: I want to say Gold Coast but that's in Australia. Are Kiwis particularly fond of the Gold Coast?
Anna: Gift certificate.
Michelle: Gold Coast? Why are there so many acronyms?
Meaning: Good cunt.
Jenna: That bit of crap on a sheep's bum.
Mikey: A silly person.
Shami: Gross and sloppy.
Rob: You're a dag. I'm not.
Anna: Yuck.
Meaning: A comedian/joker.
Tania: Young gay boy.
Mikey: New Zealanders can't spell Twinkle.
Jenna: You're not fooling me.
Shami: When twins wink at each other at the exact same time.
Rob: A slim, hairless young gay man.
Meaning: Correction fluid/white out.
Jenna: Old guy.
Anna: A giraffe?
Mikey: Gazza's brother.
Mat: What you call pizza when you have a mouthful of pizza.
Tania: Hoe.
Meaning: "Give us a", another way of asking for/requesting something.
Mikey: A sheep and a New Zealander? (Kidding I know that Australia has more sheep per capita than NZ jokes are funny).
Jenna: One True Pairing. GUYS THAT'S NOT KIWI STOP TRYING TO CLAIM EVERYTHING AS KIWI.
Tania: Over the Paparore.
Anna: Eh?
Shami: Out to party.
Meaning: On the piss.
Mikey: An STD?
Michelle: Like Contiki but less fun.
Jenna: Oh is this short for Contiki Tour aka a rite of passage where you spend thousands of dollars to not remember your trip to Europe coz you're so pissed?
Rob: A holiday young people go on in Europe where they get munted and catch a venereal disease.
Shami: Contiki Tour. Ew.
Meaning: A drive around to just have a look, with no real point or destination.
Jenna: When you're aroused but sad at the same time. A sad erection.
Michelle: Taking all your sads, and putting them in a bag and taking that bag to sad-town.
Mat: It's like an inappropriate boner - like you're visiting your accountant and it's NOT THE TIME but oop! There it is, you packed a sad and just have to sit there.
Hannah: Fuck off.
Mikey: What happens when you have to play New Zealand in the rugby world cup final.
Meaning: Getting upset/stroppy.
Mikey: Oh this one is easy. It's urination again.
Anna: FUCK OFF!
Rob: Easy as bruh.
Hannah: Piece of shit.
Michelle: Easy as shit.
Meaning: Easy to do.