pozzy
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈpɒ.zi/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒzi
Etymology 1
[edit]Unclear, perhaps from a southern African language; from late 19thC, revived during World War I.
Noun
[edit]pozzy (uncountable)
- (British, military slang) Jam (“fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar”).
- 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 136:
- ‘Could you pinch a tin of pozzy out of stores?’
- 1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XVII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 237:
- The Turco used to say: 'Tommy, give Johnny pozzy,' and a tin of plum and apple jam used to be given him.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From position + -y (“diminutive suffix”), with spelling shift; variant of possie.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]pozzy (plural pozzies)
- (Australia, New Zealand, military slang, Digger slang) A firing position.
- 1916, various ANZAC soldiers, The Anzac Book, page 10,
- […] and Jerry O′Dwyer had shot two crows from the new sniper′s pozzy down at the creek-—and so on.
- 1942, Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume III: The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916, 13th(?) Edition, page 340,
- Brown himself, unaware even that there was an officer among his captives, picked up his rifle, went back to his “pozzy,” and dismissed the incident from his mind […]
- 1975, William D. Joynt, Saving the Channel Ports, 1918, page 84:
- They had also wonderful confidence in their leaders — they knew the best pozzy would be taken up.
- 1916, various ANZAC soldiers, The Anzac Book, page 10,
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.
- 1971, Herman Charles Bosman, Cold Stone Jug, page 36:
- So I says to him, no, I can′t go back to the pozzy I′m sharing with Snowy Fisher and the late Pap.
- 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 62:
- Stretching his legs has been good for him, and this Pitt-street pozzy near the GPO is a splendid spot for a sandwich and a good book.
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