Kiwi terms added to Oxford dictionary
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Kiwi terms added to Oxford dictionary
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19-09-2024, 11:37 AM
Maori & Kiwi words have been added to the latest Oxford dictionary. They include 'waka jumper', 'mahi' & 'chilly bin.'
 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5284...dictionary
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
19-09-2024, 04:43 PM
Waka jumper? Lol I love their sense of humor.
I didn't think it's typical for a phrase to be added to a dictionary is it?
19-09-2024, 04:53 PM
(19-09-2024, 04:43 PM)nzoomed Wrote: Waka jumper? Lol I love their sense of humor. I wondered about that, but perhaps it is. That, or they've created a precedent with it.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
19-09-2024, 09:02 PM
(19-09-2024, 04:53 PM)Lilith7 Wrote:(19-09-2024, 04:43 PM)nzoomed Wrote: Waka jumper? Lol I love their sense of humor. Or else perhaps they just joined the two words together? 
19-09-2024, 09:37 PM
waka jumper
nouninformal•New Zealand noun: waka jumper; plural noun: waka jumpers an MP who leaves their political party during a parliamentary term. "the bill ensures that parliamentarians who are voted in by their electors cannot be waka jumpers"
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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