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Cossie vs Mossie - What's the difference?

cossie | mossie |

As nouns the difference between cossie and mossie

is that cossie is (uk) a swimming costume while mossie is (dated|or|historical|uk|military|informal|colloquial) a.

As a proper noun mossie is

(ireland).

cossie

English

Alternative forms

* cozzie (Australian)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK) A swimming costume.
  • * 2007 , Elizabeth Slater, Sky , 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.
  • * 2009 , Brenda Sensicle-Creese, Sensicle, But Not Always , 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.
  • * 2009 , Madeleine St. John, The Women in Black , 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.

    Synonyms

    * bathers (Australian)

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    mossie

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South Africa) The common name for various species of sparrow, especially .
  • * 1963 , Lady Joy Petersen Packer, Home from Sea , page 221,
    • Our four baby mossies have left the nest.
  • * 1969 , J. M. Winterbottom, Cornelis Janse Uys, Some Birds of the Cape , page 93,
    • Another highly successful species, which has become a serious pest of fruit, is the Mossie' or Cape Sparrow. The male ' mossie , with his black and white head and rufous mantle, is rather a handsome little bird; his wife lacks the head markings, being grey-brown with a pale eye-stripe.
  • * 2004 , , Karoo Boy , page 78,
    • He laughs a deep laugh that rumbles up from somewhere in his drumskin stomach. It spooks the mossies on the overhead telegraph wire.

    Etymology 2

    Diminutive formed from (mosquito).

    Alternative forms

    * mozzie

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A mosquito.
  • * 1996 , , The Opal Seekers , unnumbered page,
    • She came out, standing a head taller than him, tugging a loose cotton shift into place, and made for a rough brick fireplace beside a pile of rusting pots and pans.
    ‘Come inside,’ Willi said. ‘The mossies will eat you alive out here.’
  • * 2003 , Jack Lagan, A B Sea: A Loose-Footed Lexicon , page 211,
    • Tip 1 : Make sure there is clearance between your body and the net. If the net touches your skin, the mossie will be able to bite you through it.
  • * 2012 , Susan Kurosawa, Coasting: A Year by the Bay , unnumbered page,
    • He had becoms full of Bay intelligence about mosquito repellent measures. Apart from the obvious—mossie' coils, citronella candles, zappers, fine nets suspended over beds and Rid roll-on or spray—he decided to invest in bush gear from an army disposal store. The ' mossies , who know a city slicker when they bite one, had been stinging clear through his Calvin Clone T-shirts from the Hong Kong markets and feasting on his bare arms as if presented with a juicy buffet.

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