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parkie¹

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From park + -ie.

noun parkies · parky

  1. slang A parkkeeper; an employee of a public park.
  2. Australia, New Zealand, colloquial An Aboriginal who sleeps rough in parks. 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.
  3. Ireland, UK, slang A parking or traffic warden.
  4. slang A person with Parkinson's disease. Some people with Parkinson’s embrace being called a ‘Parkie’, while others hate the term.

Parkie²

Where it comes from

From Park(inson's) + -ie.

noun Parkies

  1. informal A person with Parkinson's disease.

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@misc{parkie_2026,
  title = {parkie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/parkie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}