rark up
v. phr.— «Interesting that you don’t give these anti whaling supporters a good rark up. They aren’t helping your side whatsoever.» —“Re: Today’s laughing stock” by debiddo in New Zealand Usenet: alt.animals.whales Dec. 9, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
To fossick meaning “to rummage about,” derives from the use of fossicking for the practice of literally digging about for gemstones in abandoned mining excavations, a hobby that’s particularly popular in Australia and New Zealand...