Did you perchance mean one of these? Argo, arco, argo, avo
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Australia, New Zealand, informal Afternoon.
Etymologies
- Abbreviation of afternoon + -o (“diminutive suffix”). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Oh, I have a question - what does the word "arvo" mean?”
“I'll play it while I keep an eye on yet another ODI this arvo!”
“But guess who walked through my door yesterday arvo?”
“Dirk I suggest you watch that doof of an arvo … Mr Hewitsson …. he can squeeze a bunch of egg whites out of a sock.”
“And the Naki crew were indeed good company -all off this arvo to "stick pigs" which is apparently something you do at the weekends in the hills rather than in Coventry on a saturday night.”
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“*Excuses himself while he takes the arvo off work to ponder said KOIs*”
“BTW – I think this is a great type of article that you could have on here regularly – a Friday arvo 'pick of the papers'.”
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“Recently one of The Bobettes spotty little oik friends came over on a sunday arvo.”
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“Unbeknownst to us the malaysian student association had been using our home ground for an impromptu sunday arvo soccer comp.”
“I think I spoke too soon yesterday re: the cold/flu - started to feel pretty tired and achy muscles late arvo and had to ride 20km home anyway.”
Lists
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Strine
Australianisms & other Oz-related vocabulamary.
budgie smugglers, arvo, dingo's breakfast, prang, banana bender, bingle, white pointer, u.s., reg grundies, larrikin, jumbuck, cobber and 122 more...
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pax australiana
first in, best dr..., chalk and cheese, chuck a sickie, banana bender, sandgroper, croweater, budgie smuggler, bludge, bathers, swimmers, bogan, buck's night and 73 more...
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Words I dislike
preggers, hubby, wifey, funky, slurpie, moist, olden, arvo, kthnxbye, fierce, whiff, organza and 14 more...
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girt by sea
Favourites from the Macquarie, Australia's national dictionary.
Tweets
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MRBOGGLE -noun
afternoon. Jun 9, 2009
reesetee I like it. :-) Too bad I'm not in that hemisphere, where I'd be understood. Sep 15, 2007
faraway Yep. Well, I'm not sure about New Zealanders, but generally-speaking, Australians say ARfternoon, yes. Sep 15, 2007
reesetee Interesting! Is this a shortened version of "afternoon," with Australian/New Zealander pronunciation? Sep 14, 2007
faraway noun, colloquial, Australia & New Zealand: afternoon Sep 14, 2007