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.
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- goodwife
- goodwill
- goodwill ambassador
- Goodwill Games
- goodwilly
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns
- good wine needs no bush
- Goodwin Sands
- good woman
- Goodwood
- Goodwood Cup
- good-woolled
- good word
- good works
- goody
- goody bag
- Goodyear, Charles
- goodyera
- goody-good
- goody-goodiness
- goody-goody
- goody-goodyism
- goodyness