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surfie

(ˈsɜːfɪ)
n
(Swimming, Water Sports & Surfing) slang Austral and NZ a young person whose main interest is in surfing, esp when considered as a cult figure
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SURFIE SHORTS Quick dry shorts, PS16, M&S These shorts can be worn during or before sports, and look good as casual wear.
It is three miles from the adventurous surfie resort of Newquay on Cornwall's rugged north coast.
Top dog surfers as well as happy amateurs are invited to bring home the Golden Surfie.
I grew up as a surfie girl in Australia which means I spent my youth in a teeny-weeny string bikini.
An important exception was the case of the artist Martin Sharp, who in 1964 published a cartoon in OZ magazine satirising the coarse habits of an ocker surfie. A magistrate sentenced Sharp to four months' imprisonment for indecency.
Another Surfie is off Pensarn with Velvet Scoter and Scaup, and three more Scaup are at RSPB Conwy.
Everywhere there were tanned "surfie chics" with touselled hair and tatts, women in shorts and bikini tops striding along behind "real dogs", Labradors and Retrievers, Cockers and the occasional Westie from the Gorbles!
She regularly skips school to sit on the beach while her surfie boyfriend Jamie enjoys the waves, and she is very uncertain about what she will do at the end of her Grade 10 year.
(5) The film is based on the novel by two teenage girls, Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey, and apparently reflects their autobiographical experiences of growing up in Sydney in the late 1970s.6 Set in the beachside suburb of Sylvania Waters, the narrative centres on two girls, Debbie Vickers and Sue Knight, as they eagerly manoeuvre their way into the mindless sexual oppression of the masculinist surfie subculture.
Become a grunion (an apprentice surfie) when you book lessons that'll have you standing on the board before you can yell "duck".It's pounds 35 for a half-day and pounds 55 for a fullday from www.iwantoneofthose.com
Victoria, Australia Table 1 Age Groups of Participants Age groups 18-25 26-40 41-60 61-75 Over 75 Men 2 3 7 3 2 Partners 0 1 3 0 0 Table 2 Education Level of Participants Education Men Partners Primary school only (ages five-12 years) 1 0 Completed secondary school (ages 13-18 years) 5 0 Passed final year of secondary school 1 1 Tertiary diploma/trade 7 2 University 3 1 Unknown 3 0 Table 3 Self-Labelled Masculinities of Participants Label selected % of participants Macho 11.8 Nerd 0 Ocker 5.9 Regular guy 52.9 Sensitive new age guy 23.5 Sports mad 35.3 Surfie 0 Traditional 29.4 Yuppie 5.9