Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus./Irish/N.Z.) sunglasses.

1979		Southerly 154: Off-red pants sky blue plastic sunnies 'n well oiled short brown hair the dead man arose.
1983		Surfing 19:10 n.p.: Surfers who at the time saw the wisdom of health care still appeared groovy by wearing John Lennon-type sunnies.
1996		K. Lette Mad Cows 197: He was wearing baggy khaki shorts and reflective sunnies.
1999		Observer Mag. 7 Nov. 48: She will wear a big hat and ‘sunnies.’.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl.
2009		P. Temple Truth 176: He took sunnies out of his denim jacket, big wraparound glasses, put them on, looked around.
2012		L. Redhead ‘Grassed’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] He wore mirrored, wrap around sunnies.
2018		Guardian 9 Jan. 🌐 Tears well and burst behind my sunnies, streak my cheeks as I survey the surviving dog .
2018		G. Disher Kill Shot [ebook] He slipped on a pair of sunnies.
2020		Twitter 7 May 🌐 First time I lost my sunnies and found them on my head.
2021		C. Hammer Opal Country 89: Ivan removes his sunnies.
2021		L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 264: [Sitting] on the Grand Parade boardwalk with Louise, sunnies on.