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(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,
A firing position.
* 1916 , various ANZAC soldiers, The Anzac Book ,
* 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,
* 1975 , William D. Joynt, Saving the Channel Ports, 1918 ,
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.
* 1971 , , Cold Stone Jug ,
* 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push ,
pozzy
English
Etymology 1
Unclear, perhaps from a southern African language; from late 19thC, revived during World War I.Noun
(-)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-wallahEtymology 2
From , with spelling shift; variant of possie.Alternative forms
* possieNoun
(pozzies)page 10,
- and Jerry O?Dwyer had shot two crows from the new sniper?s pozzy down at the creek-—and so on.
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
page 84,
- They had also wonderful confidence in their leaders — they knew the best pozzy would be taken up.
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.
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.