ressien.
/ˈrɛzi/, U.S. /ˈrɛzi/ colloquial.
1. = resident n.1 (in various senses).
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > boarder
boarder1530
parlour boarder1768
weekly boarder1800
resident1843
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > hospital or clinic physician > intermediate hospital level
house physician1753
house surgeon1757
resident1892
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1982 D. S. Garden Melbourne Teacher Training Colleges iv. 131 [The] proportion who lived in hostels similarly divided the community as the ‘rezzie’ and ‘non-rezzie’ division had already done.
1990 ‘A. Riefe’ Viper 36 A ‘rezzie’, resident student.
1991 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) 13 Apr. a6/3 Person who hangs around a certain part of the university: tunnel rat, tunnel troll, rezzie. A ‘res dinosaur’ is a person who has lived in student residence for a long time.
2007 J. Rumgay Ladies of Lost Causes iv. 91 I don't often get to spend any fun time with the ‘ressies’ now I'm managing the place.
2008 R. Hill Cure for All Dis. (2009) i. iv. 42 Patients at the clinic are clinnies—& residents of the nursing home are rezzies.
2. British. A resident DJ (see resident adj. 2d).
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1993 Mixmag Apr. 48/1 Guests making the trip include Slipmatt...Ressies are of course Fergus, Ferne and Rush.
1997 City Life (Manchester) 30 Apr. 38/1 Punk to Funk, Stooges to Fugees, Jam to Glam, the eternal mish-mash of pop's most pivotal moments plays havoc with the senses with ressie Phil Beckett joined by..Andy Votel.
2002 Ministry Jan. 170/4 Dublin's not-so-faceless techno linchpins D1 host this hot and sweaty Saturday night with rezzies Eamon Doyle and Mark Broom.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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