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parkie

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English

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Etymology

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From park +‎ -ie.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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parkie (plural parkies)

  1. (slang) A parkkeeper; an employee of a public park.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) An Aboriginal who sleeps rough in parks.
    • 2018 April 9, Jack Latimore, “Indigenous people are being displaced again – by gentrification”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Walking into the inner-city Brisbane suburb of West End one morning, I witnessed a group of Aboriginal “parkies” being moved on from a corner of the main road.
    • 2022 October 27, Sian Cain, “Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter to be celebrated with statue in Fitzroy”, in The Guardian[2]:
      The health service was a sanctuary for Aboriginal people, especially the “parkies” – a young Roach among them – who were living on the nearby streets, many having gravitated to inner-city Melbourne to try to trace their families after years spent on reserves and missions.
  3. (UK, Ireland, slang) A parking or traffic warden.
  4. (slang) A person with Parkinson's disease.
    • 2021 August 26, “What do you think of the term ‘Parkie’?”, in Parkinson's Forums[3]:
      Some people with Parkinson’s embrace being called a ‘Parkie’, while others hate the term.

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Noun

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parkie (plural parkies)

  1. diminutive of park