DICTIONARY OF NEW ZEALAND ENGLISH
bikeshed: A shed where pupils left their bicycles during school for safe keeping.
cicada: large cricket like insect
Ginger Molloy: popular cartoon character of Australian origin.
jandals: Acronymic tradename- japanese sandals - known as thongs or flip flops elsewhere.
Kahawai: sea fish sometimes known as sea trout.
urinal: during the 1950s the boys' toilets were often a corrogated iron shed some distance from the main school buildings.The urinal area was often open to the sky.
McCarthy: Winston McCarthy was a famous Rugby commentator on radio whose trade-mark call was "Listen. Listen. It's a goal!"
macrocarpa: large pine like tree from California used for shelter belts and timber in NZ.
Maori; indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.
shanghais: A single rubbered catapult.
Wikitoria: Maori transliteration of Victoria.