New Zealandish?

With apologies to my Kiwi friends, I realized when teaching a class on how to express the adjective form of a country that I don’t know the form for New Zealand.

For example, Australia becomes Australian when expressed as an adjective.

What is the form for New Zealand? New Zealandish? Couldn’t find it on the net.

I do know that a person from New Zealand is called a New Zealander.

I feel like an idiot. Brain cramp. Help.

Edit: Bloody tmwc answered my SMS just as I posted this. Now my idiocy is on display for all to see.
He wrote that it is simply “New Zealand.”

Isn’t it “New Zealand”? As in New Zealand lamb, the New Zealand music scene et cetera.

EDIT: Just seen Tomas’ edit. Bloody tmwc indeed.

Let’s look at some analogies.

England -> English, Poland -> Polish
(Remove “land” and add “lish”)
so New Zealand -> New Zealish

Swaziland -> Swazi, Thailand -> Thai
(Remove “land”)
so New Zealand -> New Zea

Scotland -> Scottish, Finland -> Finnish
(Remove “land”, double final letter, and add “ish”)
So New Zealand -> New Zeaaish

Ireland -> Irish
(Remove “land”, remove final letter, and add “ish”)
So New Zealand -> New Zeish

I like the first one best.

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Chris, are you taking the piss? I may have to give you a wedgie :laughing: .

I just say “Kiwi”. It’s so much easier.

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I like your list, Chris.

You’ve also got:
Taiwanese - New Zealandese;
Singaporean - New Zealandan;
Brazilian - New Zealandian;
Iraqi - New Zealandi; and
Icelandic - New Zealandic.

Any others?

I just say “pretty much just Australian.”

What’s the adjective for “United Kingdom” ?

I bet someone says “crap”

Mostly, maaate, cuz, bro’ or sis, but more frequently, sheep shagger, although “pretty much Australian . . except for that weird prediliction for sheep”, covers it.

HG

In the same vein, what do you call someone from HK? Massachusetts? The Bronx? How about if you hail from French Lick, Indianna (a la Larry Bird)?

Even my own country…Regina? Spuzzum?

Someone from HK? Mostly I call them cunts.

HG

except the “ese” seems to apply only to 4 countries Japan, Taiwan, China, Vietnam . All Asian countries. New Zealanders dont really consider themselves asian i think?

i rather like New Zealandic or New Zealandian myself

Maltese
Burmese
Portuguese
Viennese
Tyrolese
Congolese
Timorese
Faroese
Guyanese
Lebanese
Marshallese
Réunionese
Sammarinese
Senegalese
Sudanese
Surinamese
Togolese

wow a whole lotta “ese” going on here :notworthy:

javanese
balinese

Martin Scorcese

Dirty Knees

Look at these

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what do you call someone from New Zealand

…a winner…

67,000,000 sheep can’t be wrong…

UKainian.

The Maori people arrived in New Zealand from a mystical homeland, whose precise location they seem to have forgotten. Personally I’m pretty sure it was in fact Ireland. Look at all the cultural similarities, except that the Irish don’t really drink.

They also have a much cooler name for NZ, which presumably doesn’t have the same adjectival problem: Aotearoa (Land of the long white sheep)