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.
- partogram
- partogramm
- Parton, Dolly
- partook
- partouse
- partouze
- part-own
- part-owner
- part-ownership
- part pay
- part payment
- part playing
- part publication
- partridge
- partridgeberry
- partridge bird
- partridge-breast
- partridge-breasted aloe
- partridge cane
- partridge dance
- partridge dove
- partridge eye
- partridge feather
- partridge hackle
- partridge hawk