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New Zealandese en · PROPN

Etymology

From New Zealand + -ese.

Meanings

  1. (informal) The variety of English spoken in New Zealand.
    • The language we speak is New Zealandese, with its own idiom and pronunciation, and is just as distinctive as the language spoken by Americans, South Africans, Australians and Canadians. 1990, Allan Bell, Janet Holmes, New Zealand Ways of Speaking English, page 34:
    • He also won three bottles of champagne, or in New Zealandese, champers. 2005, Wolfgang Klopfer, Formula 5000 in New Zealand & Australia: Race by Race, page 227: