Mossie vs Mossier - What's the difference?
mossie | mossier |
(South Africa) The common name for various species of sparrow, especially .
* 1963 , Lady Joy Petersen Packer, Home from Sea ,
* 1969 , J. M. Winterbottom, Cornelis Janse Uys, Some Birds of the Cape ,
* 2004 , , Karoo Boy ,
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A mosquito.
* 1996 , , The Opal Seekers ,
* 2003 , Jack Lagan, A B Sea: A Loose-Footed Lexicon ,
* 2012 , Susan Kurosawa, Coasting: A Year by the Bay ,
(mossy)
Covered in or overgrown with moss.
As a proper noun mossie
is (ireland).As a noun mossie
is (dated|or|historical|uk|military|informal|colloquial) a.As an adjective mossier is
(mossy).mossie
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 221,
- Our four baby mossies have left the nest.
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.
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
* mozzieNoun
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- 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.’
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.
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- 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.