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‖ kiwi|ˈkiːwɪ|
Also kiwi-kiwi, kivi.
[Maori.]
1. The native New Zealand name of the apteryx, now commonly used in English.
1835W. Yate Acc. New Zeal. 58 (Morris) Kiwi—the most remarkable and curious bird in New Zealand. 1852Zoologist X. 3409 On the Habits of the Kiwi-kiwi. 1873Buller Birds New Zeal. (1888) I. 237 Last Sunday I dined on stewed Kiwi, at the hut of a lonely gold-digger.
2. (With capital initial.) A New Zealander, esp. a New Zealand soldier; also, a New Zealand sportsman. Also attrib.
1918N.Z.E.F. Chrons. 24 May 179/1 In the evening the ‘Kiwis’ gave a performance to a crowded hall. Ibid. 21 June 225/1 The New Zealand boys..will find the ‘Kiwi’ A.D.S. as reasonably safe as is possible. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. ix. 178 New Zealand football representatives acquired the names All Blacks, Fernleaves, and Kiwis. 1947B. Mason in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 333 We were Kiwis, and a long way from home. 1958R. France Race 12 Laurie was not a real Kiwi, or hard-bitten New Zealander. 1960B. Crump Good Keen Man 58, I suspect she was a real Kiwi mum, with a soft spot for her little Harry. 1961in J. Reid Kiwi Laughs 10 Told in a homely Kiwi idiom. 1963N. Hilliard Piece of Land 35 They fill the place with immigrants... A Kiwi'd never look at the prices some of them want. 1974Times 17 June 12/7 It is hurtful to many Australians to see the Kiwis take all the credit for Antipodean anti-Pom feelings.
3. Also Kiwi. A non-flying member of an air force (see also quot. 1938). slang.
1918B. Hall Diary 22 Jan. in Hall & Niles One Man's War (1929) xxxii. 289 Visited the Avenue Montaigne Headquarters. It is full of non-flying aviators. The American pilots call them Kiwis. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 137 Kiwi, Air Force slang for a man on ground duty and not qualified for flying service. 1931Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 78/3 There are terms with which to plaster the green pilot and the non-flyer. Quirks or kiwis are beginners—sometimes the terms are broadened to include the layman. The origin of quirk is somewhat obscure..but kiwi is a derogatory reference to the Australian [sic] kiwi-bird, which, having only stub wings, is unable to fly. 1938Amer. Speech XIII. 156/2 Kiwi,..a person with no practical flying experience; often used as a term of disparagement toward one who speaks with authority concerning flying but whose knowledge is entirely theoretical. 1943Hunt & Pringle Service Slang 43 Kiwi, a word brought over by the New Zealand airmen with a new meaning: men who do not belong to air crews. 1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 307/1 Kiwi, an air force man, esp. an officer who cannot, does not, or does not like to fly.
4. = kiwi berry, fruit.
1972Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 2 Aug. 19/1 Have you noticed a small brown fruit called kiwi in local markets lately?.. Sometimes called a Chinese gooseberry. 1973Sat. Rev. Soc. (U.S.) Mar. 53/1 Twenty-six different crops, most of them fruit—almonds, apples..kiwis, nectarines, olives.
5. attrib. and Comb., as kiwi feather, kiwi-hunter, kiwi-preserve; kiwi berry, fruit = Chinese gooseberry (Chinese a. 2).
1968N.Z. News 23 Oct. 2/4 New Zealand exports of chinese gooseberries will enter the United States—where they are called ‘giant Kiwi-berries’—almost duty-free from next season.
1905Daily Chron. 7 July 6/5 The presents included..a rug of kiwi feathers from New Zealand, and three rare engravings. 1938R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 47 They had covered his shrunken body with fine kiwi-feather cloaks. 1966N.Y. Times 13 Aug. 12 Chinese gooseberries, also known as kiwi fruit, are in metropolitan markets for the third season in increased quantities. 1970N.Z. News 7 Jan. 4/4 A storage technique first developed for bananas has been tested on Chinese gooseberries, now renamed ‘Kiwi fruit’. Ibid. 4/5 A 20 lb. pack of Kiwi fruit. 1973Massey Ferguson Rev. (N.Z.) Mar./Apr. 3/4 Chinese gooseberries or ‘kiwi fruit’, bear extravagantly.
1873Buller Birds New Zeal. (1888) II. 313 Old experienced Kiwi-hunters. Ibid. 315 The heights of Rangitoto, where..there exists another Kiwi-preserve. |