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cossie, cozzie colloq. (orig. and chiefly Austral.).|ˈkɒzɪ|
[Dim. of costume n.: see -ie.]
A bathing-costume; a swim-suit or pair of swimming-trunks.
1926‘J. Doone’ Timely Tips for New Australians Gloss. Cossie, a sea-side term applied to a swimming costume. 1958A. Hackney Private Life xiv. 134 Young Stan's brought his cozzy. 1959D. Hewett Bobbin Up 30 He imagined them lying on the dark sand.., undoing the straps of her cozzie. 1973Observer 2 July 31/1 No sooner had the prescribed walk in swimming cossie and platform shoes been negotiated. 1981Times 27 Aug. 11/1 A girl in a cozzie with a dead animal draped over her shoulders is a powerful image. |