Ringbarked is a uniquely New Zealand slang term meaning circumcised, drawn from the agricultural practice of ringbarking — cutting a ring of bark all the way around a tree trunk to kill it, often used in land-clearing. The metaphor is blunt and characteristically Kiwi in its rural, no-nonsense humour, transplanting a farming term into casual anatomical slang. It's the kind of word that makes farmers laugh and everyone else do a double take.
He made a joke about being ringbarked and half the shearing shed cracked up.
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(slang, idiomatic, New Zealand) Circumcised.
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