For instance...
Harriage: In which a nation's media, on the rebound from a TV reality romance, pour all their energy into getting a member of the royal family hitched to a local.
Slurplussing: To involuntarily end sentences with the words "return to surplus in 2015". See also: cusping.
Key-yanking: A popular new activity in which everyday citizens stage interventions on tourists in rental cars.
Key yanking: A popular new activity in which everyday prime ministers stage interventions on waiting staff in cafes. See also: pinot deux, ponyfail.
Moonkill: To go from being unconscionably beastly to indescribably boring.
Groserage: A lecture from a trade minister delivered to a superpower about how they're not doing democracy properly.
Banksing: To travel to Coatesville in a cabbage boat.
Khalaffing: Inexplicably supplying millions of government dollars to a Saudi farm owner as "compensation". (Example usage: "He was Khalaffing all the way to the bank.")
Hanmerogate: To ask service workers if they know who you are.
Edefy: To furnish attack bloggers with information for political gain but naturally not at the behest of the prime minister or his hat.
Collinsing: To give back double.
Ablogalypse: A vision of the end days in which the final living humans are Cameron Slater and Kim Dotcom, who stand naked in the toxic mudflats off Meola Reef, rapping furiously at each other.
Pinot deux: A traditional apology for totally meaningless joking around: stop being so uptight get over it what's your problem? See also: horsing around, bantz, hosking.
Corkerism: A verbal grenade thrown at news media, who then discover the pin is still intact and throw it directly back. See also: Gowered.
Colinic irrigation: The act of wondering whatever happened to a once high-profile leader of a political party, without making any defamatory remarks whatsoever.
Greedy McCreedy: A litigious bull mastiff who launches civil lawsuits against all the other dogs and the Donaldson family.
Hnsn: To comment on the performance of the All Blacks without using any vowels.
Henrywhere: To be everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
Hosking: An elaborate kapa haka performance characterised by tweaking one's cufflinks, tugging at one's suit-jacket lining, condemning one's feckless and impoverished compatriots, and mistaking one's Peroni for a sophisticated foreign lager.
Sirbobbing: To draw oxygen from the fumes of apoplectic leftwing newspaper readers.
Labouratory: A subterranean parlour in which extensive focus grouping is conducted to generate for opposition party leaders pejorative epithets that will be unquestioningly parroted in the media.
Cunliffesque: Really tricky.
Littlish: Really angry.
Tolkeinism: The obligatory inclusion of a reference to The Hobbit in foreign media headlines above any article about anything New Zealand-related.
Winniebago: A great big bus that drives over bridges beeping cheerfully at ordinary hard-working people and accelerating excitedly towards journalists.
Devoyd: To defy hordes of critics and prove yourself not just adept at hitting a small rubber ball but capable of doing a high-pressure job very proficiently after all.
Lolecism: A social media post that defies the laws of political etiquette and/or gravity.
Schadendinkum: New Zealanders taking pleasure in Australians' embarrassment at their Prime Minister making a fool of himself.
Ponyfail: New Zealanders' embarrassment at their own Prime Minister making a fool of himself.
Tauporridge: What you can tell about a person by the way they pronounce Taupo.
Cattonification: The sanctification of a popular artist in which they attain fictional status. (Example usage: "Yesterday acclaimed blogster Eleanor 'Lorde' Rigby, author of the popular erotic novels 50 Shades of Greymouth and John Key, Portrait of a Prime Minister was cattonified.") See also: Plunketted.
Beaver: To unexpectedly become the hero of an important event while wearing an ill-fitting shirt. See also: hairy javelin.
Waistcoating: When a television show infuriates network bosses by rating through the roof.
Time in Liu: To desperately search your archives for sign of any contact with controversial immigrant businesspeople.
Hekiaficatialisational multidiscourse: Talking about education.
Seymourtification: To knock on doors until the blood teems from your knuckles, all the while emoting in the direction of inanimate objects, "Hi!I'm the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Regulatory Reform!"
Swned: Being exposed as a fraudulent, vowel-deficient scoundrel.
Jafattening: When the increasing value of an Aucklander's house comfortably outstrips their income.
Jafantasy: The prospect of buying a first home in Auckland.
Bombaystic: The exasperation most of New Zealand feels at yet another story about Auckland house prices.
Flaggle: Complaining noisily that the money being spent on one thing could be spent better on another thing.
