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.
- field pay
- field pea
- field physics
- field piece
- field plot
- field poppy
- field position
- field post
- field postcard
- field post office
- field practice
- field preacher
- field preaching
- field-programmable
- field punishment
- field ranger
- field rank
- field rat
- field reeve
- field regulator
- field return
- field rheostat
- field rhubarb
- field roller
- field room