The English language as it is spoken and written in New Zealand.
'feeling crook' is Kiwi-speak for feeling unwell
Example sentencesExamples
With its flat coastal plain, warm summers, and relatively dry conditions, Gisborne - pronounced 'Giz-bun' in Kiwi-speak - is better known for its Chardonnay vineyards.
It was a scene of incredible affluence - or, to put that into "Kiwi-speak" - it is the domain of the "seriously rich".
Once the tubes are all installed, the sliders and a side of fries - or "chips," in Kiwi speak - arrive stacked in a metal canister.
This time we're completing the circle though, and after thirteen and a half years our somewhat prolonged OE (that's kiwi-speak for 'overseas experience') is coming to an end.
No one inside the gas station could understand kiwi-speak.
Who needs Netflix when you can have Nitflux - a version in kiwi speak with local kiwi stars?
Punt them over to New Zealand: "Sund your wunged thungs there" (that's Kiwi speak for, "Send your winged things there").
They were ranting. Or should that be renting in kiwi speak?
People say things in Kiwi speak that I don't really understand yet.
After changing into my togs (kiwi speak for a bathing costume) I drop into the pool.