10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UP THE BOOHAI»
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Examples are coiv-cockie (dairy farmer); section (plot of land); and up the boohai
(boohai is a remote district or area; up the boohai means "very much awry").
Father and son enjoy a quiet moment together with a. 80 pronunciation.
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The Cambridge History of
the English Language
Hear our voices we entreat. The New Zealand journal of History, 18:3-18. McGill,
D. (1988). Up the Boohai Shooting Pukakas. A Dictionary of Kiwi Slang. Lower
Hutt: Mills. (1 989). Up the Boohai Shooting Pipis with a Hay 610 Bibliography.
Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Robert Burchfield, 1994
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Worth A Detour: New Zealand's Unusual Attractions and Hidden ...
The popular Kiwi slang saying 'up the boohai', meaning the back of beyond, is
said to have derived from 'Up the Puhoi' and refers to the isolated settlement up
the Puhoi River. In 1863 a small group of settlers from villages near Pilsen in ...
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Artificial Intelligence – Agent Behaviour
There are numerous dictionaries explaining common usage or less common
usage such as jargon, slang, clichés, idioms and figures of speech, for example
Up the boohai shooting pukekas: a dictionary of Kiwi slang (McGill, 1988).
Finding ...
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Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity
David McGill, Up the Boohai Shooting Pukakas: A Dictionary of Kiwi Slang (
Lower Hutt, New Zealand: Mills Publications, 1988), 122. 2. Mark Stiles, "Jane
Campion," in Jane Campion: Interviews, ed. Virginia Wright Wexman (Jackson: ...
Hilary Radner, Alistair Fox, Irène Bessière, 2009
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Upon That Fish: A Portrait of New Zealand in 292 Lifts
Then we proceeded northwards following the Puhoi River thickly bordered with
khaki-green mangroves, til we came to Puhoi itself, former settlement of
Bohemians, Czechs and Slavs; a place once deemed the back of beyond, 'up the
Boohai' ...
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ACTION=D&CALLER=PROJ_IST&QM_EP_RCN_A=71184. Date accessed
December 14, 2004. McGill, D. 1988. Up the boohai shooting pukekos: a
dictionary of Kiwi slang. Mills Publications, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Metaphors
and Space.
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Aukland-Waikato Historical Journal
To Town With the Daffodils 78:29 Two Early Parnell Medical Practitioners 70: 19
Two Years at Waimamaku Native School 1939-41 71 :34 Turnips and Things 66:
1 8 Up the Boohai and All That 65 : 24 Upper House of Women 66: 1 4 Visiting ...
Auckland Historical Society, 2003
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The Chambers Crossword Dictionary, 3rd edition
... off the point, outoftheway, standoffish, unconcerned, unconnected, unimportant
, up the Boohai 12 back of beyond, back of Bourke, inaccessible, inapplicable,
inconsequent, in the wopwops, longdistance 13 beside the mark, inappropriate, ...
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New Zealand Books in Print
... PB 2l0xl50 l-89 $l0.00 (0959763783), Economics; Wanaka Publishing
Dictionary of Kiwi Slang: Up the Boohai-Shooting Pukakas; DAVID MCGILL, PB
l28p l-88 $l9.95 (0908722354), Humour; Mills Group, The Dictionary of Maori
Language, ...
Bowker, Thorpe, D. W., Staff, D W Staff Thorpe, 1998
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A farm with one hell of a history
The McDermotts discovered it in 1985 when it was put up for sale in a bank .... If something in your life is all up the boohai you just go for a ride out on the farm.". «Stuff.co.nz, Aug 07»
