pozzy
nounEtymology From position + -y (“diminutive suffix”), with spelling shift; variant of possie.
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Government, Military, Politics, War Australia, New Zealand, Slang A firing position.
- 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.
- 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, 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 […]
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- They had also wonderful confidence in their leaders — they knew the best pozzy would be taken up.1975, William D. Joynt, Saving the Channel Ports, 1918, page 84:
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Australia, New Zealand, Colloquial A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.
- So I says to him, no, I can′t go back to the pozzy I′m sharing with Snowy Fisher and the late Pap.1971, Herman Charles Bosman, Cold Stone Jug, page 36:
- 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.2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 62: