Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. New Zealand.

1919		Eve. Post (Wellington) 19 Mar. 3/4: [advt.] Back to dear old ‘Enzed’ once more / And mighty glad you are, too.
1922		Truth (Wellington) 4 Nov. 12/3: Lewis is now to meet Maddox at Ashburton for the feather championship of Enzed.
1924		Truth (Wellington) 16 Aug. 9/4: If there are any other lady coaches in Enzed besides Mrs Martin of Green Island we have not yet heard of them.
1930		Truth (Wellington) 23 Oct. 17/2: All proposals to bring an overseas tennis combination to Enzed this season having fallen flat [etc.].
1940		Eve. Post (Wellington) 6 Nov. 6/5: [letter] Will the government earn everyone‘s respect by a display of sufficient backbone [...] I am, etc. En Zed.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 43/1: En Zed phonetically New Zealand, its inhabitants En Zedders.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].
2019		P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 20: ‘Big man’s going to NZed tonight’.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

1919		Aussie (France) XIII Apr. 4/1: Billo out of the 32nd swapped uniforms with an Enzed bloke, and had fourteen days up the Rhine, while his Enzed cobber did the heavy as an Aussie round Amiens.
1928		Truth (Wellington) 13 sdec. 15/4: The performance made him [i.e. a racehorse] an Enzed proposition.
1930		Truth (Wellington) 23 Oct. 17/2: he could not spare the time from his practice as a solicitor to defend his Enzed title.
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3. (also enzedder) a New Zealander.

1919		Aussie (France) XI Feb. 12/1: [I]t shows that we have won the regard and friendship of our splendid cobbers, the Enzeds.
1921		(con. WWI) E. Lynch Somme Mud 139: And we’d change places with the N.Z.s now.
1925		Eve. Post (Wellington) 24 Oct. 9/5: ‘Enzed’ writes at length to ‘The Post’ on ‘The Yellow Peril,’ basing his remarks upon tho statements recently made by the ex-Kaiser.
1930		Eve. Post (Wellington) 14 July 8/6: As an ‘Enzedder’ I take my hat off to the British team.
1946		P.L. Soljak N.Z. 117: New Zealanders have coined or adapted many expressions to meet local requirements, as illustrated by the following: [...] Enzedder: New Zealander.
1949		L. Glassop Lucky Palmer 83: [of a horse] Reed let the Enzedder go and he shot away with a winning break.
1955		N. Pulliam I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 25: New Zealand is variously the Quaky or the Shaky Islands [...] and its inhabitants are Enzedders.
1967		‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxiv 4/5: enzedder: A New Zealander.
1988		see sense 1.
1993		B. Moore Lex. of Cadet Lang. 21: Enzedders have sex with sheep — they have to. More sheep there than women.
2003		see sense 1.