Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) a person of Norwegian origin; thus a Scandinavian.

1887		M.D. Woodward Checkered Years (1937) 162: Every one of us has a cough even to Jake, the Norski.
1888		St Paul Dly Globe (Minn.) 25 Jan. 6/2: What the Norski lacked in fistic science was compensated for in sledge hammer blows.
1902		St Paul Globe (MN) 4 May 9/6: Johnny Flynn and ‘Norsky’ Fee acting as recorders.
1910		Coconino Sun (AZ) 25 Nov. 1/1: Then the side-winding Norsky proceeded to play tenpins .
1913		Madison Jrnl (Tallulah, LA) 11 Oct. 3/2: There was that yellow-mustcher Norsky holding the widow on his lap.
1920		S. Lewis Main Street (1921) 39: Like home, lots of Swedes and Norskes in there.
c.1930		(ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 103: Some Swenska or Norski, blond or haggard with a wife and a half dozen kids.
1934		B. Traven Death Ship 319: Let’s go over to that Norske and have a little talk.
1944		‘F. Bonnamy’ A Rope of Sand (1947) 166: Those Norskis stick together.
1963		J. Bier Trial at Bannock 18: But I subsequently found out there was another fellow there, a tall Norski.
1965		LeMay & Kantor Mission with LeMay 237: I remember being thrilled by an anecdote of the Great War: about a Minnesota brigade, big Swedes and Nordskis from the wheat farms and lakes and forests up there [HDAS].
1977		J. Langone Life at the Bottom 237: The Norski, as Amundsen was referred to in the press.
1999		J. Christgau Origins of the Jump Shot 16: Aase had a ready excuse for those who felt he had a special ethnic bond with his tow-headed Norski star.
2001		H. Kizer Like Rain on Kupreanof 167: You’re a smart kid, but you are hard headed, like a squared headed Norski.
2006		L. Lindstrom State of Grace . . . and Other Calamities 13: Soon these Italian-Norwegians became a feared teenage gang that eventually evolved into the powerful and secretive La Cosa Norski.