New Zealandern.
/ˌnjuː ˈziːləndə/, U.S. /ˌn(j)u ˈziləndər/ A native or inhabitant of New Zealand. Formerly also: spec. †a Maori (obsolete).
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New Zealander1770
Zealander1773
Maori1834
nigger1858
moa-hunter1870
Hori1933
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of New Zealand > [noun]
Zealander1773
New Zealander1837
Maorilander1892
Pig Islander1909
dinkum1916
kiwi1918
1770 J. Cook Jrnl. 31 Mar. (1893) 226 We have always been told..that this is a Sufficient proof that both they and the New Zelanders have had one Origin or Source.
a1771 S. Parkinson in J. Cook Jrnls. (1955) I. facing p. 209 (caption) New Zealanders Fishing.
a1791 J. Wesley Serm. lxxiv, in Wks. (1811) IX. 320 A Hottentot, a New-Zealander.
1837 in R. McNab Old Whaling Days (1913) ix. 167 They saw the chief officer, James George Bailey, a New Zealander.
1841 M. Edgeworth Let. 14 Mar. (1971) 586 A New Zealander boy with large head and frizzled black hair and face as yellow as dirty gold.
1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 742/1 The New Zealanders, or Maories..are located, with the exception of a few hundreds, in North Island.
1886 J. A. Froude Oceana xx. 323 The Australian, the New Zealander, the Californian will have as much in them..of the ancient ‘Merry England’ as the severely earnest Northern American.
1901 C. Rose-Innes With Paget's Horse 174 All the other New Zealanders whom I met were..well educated.
1966 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 20 Oct. (1970) 430 We departed in a New Zealand airplane with the Prime Minister and Mrs. Holyoake to the tune of a thousand New Zealanders singing.
1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Dec. 74/5 Tony Washington [is] a stout red-headed New Zealander on a two-year contract as Government adviser and schoolteacher.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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