naussie n.
(Aus.) a recently arrived immigrant.
Sun. Mail (Brisbane) 21 Dec. 1/5: State’s Share of ‘Naussies’ [...] 649 nominations for 19’s ‘Naussies’ had been forwarded to London and recommended for shipment. | ||
Northern Standard (Darwin) 5 Feb. 8/1: Prowling Naussie Gets 3 Months Twenty-three year old Anpad Oniga, a Hungarian lately employed at Rum Jungle, was sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour [etc]. | ||
Aus. Women’s Wkly 28 Dec. 24/3: These Naussies take the cake. [...] Deliver them a Christmas tree and the whole flaming family starts crying and laughing at the same time and flinging their arms around each other like they'd been apart for years. | ||
‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxvi 4/2: naussie: New Australian. A migrant. |