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Advantageous vs Pozzy - What's the difference?

advantageous | pozzy |

As an adjective advantageous

is being of advantage, beneficial.

As a noun pozzy is

(uk|military slang) jam (fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar) or pozzy can be a firing position.

advantageous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being of advantage, beneficial
  • * 1900 , Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim Chapter 32
  • *:Jim took up an advantageous position and shepherded them out in a bunch through the doorway.

    • Synonyms

    * gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; behooveful

    Derived terms

    * advantageously

    pozzy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Unclear, perhaps from a southern African language; from late 19thC, revived during World War I.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (UK, military slang) Jam (fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar).
  • *1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 136:
  • *:‘Could you pinch a tin of pozzy out of stores?’
  • * 1929 , , 1995, page 170:
    • The Turco used to say: ‘Tommy, give Johnny pozzy ,’ and a tin of plum and apple jam used to be given him.
    Derived terms
    * pozzy-wallah

    Etymology 2

    From , with spelling shift; variant of possie.

    Alternative forms

    * possie

    Noun

    (pozzies)
  • 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.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.
  • * 1971 , , 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.