parrie
/ˈpari
/noun NZ informal
Informal term for paradise duck. a discordant orchestra of parries followed me for hours...
- A parrie in hand is better than 8 mallards that might take off before I get there.
- Still parrie season but I saw bugger all.
- The summer season is now open for hunting parries.
Origin
1940s: abbreviation.
- re-eligibility
- re-eligible
- underfur
- undergarment
- undergird
- underglaze
- undergo
- undergrad
- undergraduate
- underground
- underground economy
- underground mutton
- Underground Railroad
- undergrowth
- under guard
- underhand
- underhanded
- underhandedly
- underhandedness
- underhit
- underhung
- underinsurance
- NiCad
- Nicaea
- Nicaean