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.
- policeless
- police lock
- police magistrate
- policeman
- policeman bird
- policeman fly
- policemanish
- policemanlike
- policemanly
- policeman's helmet
- policemanship
- police-master
- police matron
- police message
- police novel
- police office
- police officer
- police orphanage
- policeperson
- Police Positive
- police power
- police procedural
- police rate
- police record
- police reporter