pozzy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Jam (“fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar”). UK,slang,uncountable
    — ‘Could you pinch a tin of pozzy out of stores?’
  2. A firing position. Australia,New-Zealand,slang
    — 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.
  3. A position or place, especially one that is advantageous. Australia,New-Zealand,colloquial
    — So I says to him, no, I can′t go back to the pozzy I′m sharing with Snowy Fisher and the late Pap.

词形变化

pozzies plural possie alternative

词源

词源 1
Unclear, perhaps from a southern African language; from late 19thC, revived during World War I.
词源 2
From position + -y (“diminutive suffix”), with spelling shift; variant of possie.
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