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Rural language


by Dianne Bardsley

New Zealand’s farming heritage has always been a rich source of colourful language. Ewes are sometimes referred to as dollies, grannies and career girls; dogs as powder puffs and flea taxis; and musterers as mutton punchers, dog-wallopers and scree-scramblers.

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‘The colonial adjective’


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