Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus./N.Z.) a Scandinavian; also adj.

1887		Auckland Weekly News 23 July 21: I am told the ‘Scandies’ lived on the rabbit [DNZE].
1912		Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Sept. 47/1: But this is a song of brave men, wherever is aught to save, / Christian or Jew or Wowser – and I knew of one who was brave; / British or French or German, Dane or Latin or Dutch; / ‘Scandies’ that ignorant British reckon with ‘Dagoes and such’.
1951		R.A. Lochore From Europe to N.Z. 16: If any continental Europeans have ever been popular in this country it is the ‘Scandies’ [DNZE].
1956		T. Sutherland Green Kiwi 137: By the yellow truck stood ‘the Scandy joker’, waving his dooks about.
1968		G. Slatter Pagan Game 161: Erik, the scandalous Scandy from the Skagerrak.
1969		C. Brown Mr Jive-Ass Nigger 82: Scandinavians, being great and hopeless importers of American theories, did not trust black people. (So what, he didn’t trust the Scands either.).
1987		M. Gee Prowlers 41: The place is full of Yanks and Scandies with flags sewn on their back packs [DNZE].
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl.
2015		N. Cummins Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] [A]fter hearing that Scando accent it was like a deaf kid hearing music for the first time.