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单词 norski
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Norskin.adj.

Brit. /ˈnɔːski/, U.S. /ˈnɔrski/
Forms: 1900s– Nordski, 1900s– Norski, 1900s– Norskie, 1900s– Norsky.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Norsk n., -y suffix6.
Etymology: Probably < Norsk n. (compare sense 2 at that entry) + -y suffix6, partly remodelled after -ski suffix. Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. s.v. records the words chiefly from north-western states (i.e. from areas with high levels of Norwegian settlement).
U.S. slang (frequently humorous or mildly derogatory).
n. = Norsk n. 2. Occasionally attributive or as adj.
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1927 L. Colcord & O. E. Rölvaag tr. O. E. Rölvaag Giants in Earth i. v. ii. 159 Norskies... A whole shoal of them—and they are coming right here!
1947 T. Veblen in C. A. Madison Critics & Crusaders 310 They did not want him for two very good reasons: he was not a doctor of divinity..and he was a Norskie suspected of agnosticism.
1965 C. E. LeMay & M. Kantor Mission with LeMay 237 I remember being thrilled by an anecdote of the Great War: about a Minnesota brigade, big Swedes and big Nordskis from the wheat farms and lakes and forests up there.
1987 G. Keillor Glass of Wendy in Leaving Home (1989) 32 If you told a priest joke you had to put a quarter in the glass, and for Norskie jokes, moron jokes, jokes about drunks.., the jury at the bar assessed a fine.
1993 C. Davies in A. Ziv & A. Zajdman Characteristics of Jewish Humor iii. 31 The successive American jokes and dialect stories about dumb Paddies..Norskies, Polacks, and so on.
2004 F. Wolff Room for Summer xii. 94 My father was Norwegian. Never want to hit a Norskie on the foot ya know—might kill him.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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