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.
- resurgent
- resurging
- resurprise
- resurrect
- resurrectable
- full moon
- full-motion
- full-motion video
- full-mouthed
- full name
- fullness
- full of beans
- full of oneself
- full of one's own importance
- full of years
- full on
- full (or tight) as a tick
- full out
- full page
- full pay
- full point
- full price
- full professor
- full professorship
- full ride