Cossid vs Cossie - What's the difference?
cossid | cossie |
(Anglo-Indian) A courier or messenger.
*1834 , ‘News from Candahar’, Accounts and Papers , 11.XL:
*:On the 28th April a cossid arrived here from the Sirdars of Candahar, with letters from Dost Mahomed Khan, and Nawab Jubbar Khan.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game (Folio Society 2010), page 221:
*:As elsewhere, contact was maintained by means of fleet-footed messengers, known as cossids , who took their lives in their hands running the gauntlet with secret despatches concealed on them.
(UK) A swimming costume.
* 2007 , Elizabeth Slater, Sky ,
* 2009 , Brenda Sensicle-Creese, Sensicle, But Not Always ,
* 2009 , Madeleine St. John, The Women in Black ,
As nouns the difference between cossid and cossie
is that cossid is (anglo-indian) a courier or messenger or cossid can be (zoology) any member of the cossidae while cossie is (uk) a swimming costume.cossid
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
cossie
English
Alternative forms
* cozzie (Australian)Noun
(en noun)page 121,
- “Let's not bother with cossies Jack. Let?s pretend it?s years ago.”
- She remembered the times they had swum at Eleni beach totally naked, the moon and stars lighting the little waves as they rolled slowly to shore.
page 3,
- I struck off boldly, but soon found myself unaccountably labouring. The reason became abundantly clear when I stood up, clad only in two three-foot-long shoulder straps, with two stone of waterlogged cossie round my ankles.
page 72,
- She would just change now very quickly and then run down to Lingerie and—no, she thought, I won?t; I?ll go to the cossies' first, because I don?t want anyone to see me carrying that parcel from Lingerie (which used a different patterned wrapping paper, printed with a lace and ribbom design) because they might guess what?s in it, or they might ask. So I?ll just go to the ' cossies first.