Kiwi lurgies and collywobbles flummox new New Zealand doctors

Kiwi lurgies and collywobbles flummox new New Zealand doctors

(necessitating a chapter in Coles’s Medical Practice in New Zealand of a list of colloquialisms)

“Doc, could you have a shufti at this? My knee’s been a bit crook since I dinged it the other day. I keep thinking I’ll go arse over tit. To make matters worse, I’ve had a dose of the trots for yonks. I feel really knackered, like I could kick the bucket at any time.”

Also interesting:

A ‘hottie’ -- might be a hot water bottle or a sexually attractive man or woman

Vomiting – could be chundering or spewing

Dreaded lurgi – flu, head-cold, febrile illness

Collywobbles – nausea usually associated with nervousness

but best (?), in reply to how the patient is feeling: “I’m just a box of birds”

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