Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

possie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: possie
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A firing position.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Slang

noun

A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Colloquial

Example Sentences

"I'm just sitting in my possie, my place, waiting for something to happen."
"'There is a beautiful odour in the possie where we are,' HG Clark wrote to his family..."
"Away from the firing line, these possies and dugouts could be made larger..."
"1984, Garrie Hutchinson, A Practice Game at the Old Home Ground, from From the Outer, reprinted 2001, David Headon (editor), The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection, page 289, The fans seem happy to be back, finding their formerly favourite possies in the stands, or around the strangely sunken perimeter fence."
"1998, Business Review Weekly, Volume 20, Issues 47-49, page 102, Of course, it helps if you are very rich and regularly pay more than $40,000 for a couture outfit to be guaranteed of a near-front-row possie at the bi-annual parades (winter and summer collections)."
"It′s in a good people-watching possie and if you have an early dinner between 3pm and 7pm you get a 40% discount."

Etymology

From position + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

possies (plural) pozzy (alternative)

Rhymes With

aussie mozzie mossie mozzy cossie pozzy cozzie

Questions

What does possie mean?: A firing position.
Where does possie come from?: From position + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

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