housie
/ˈhaʊsi/noun [mass noun] chiefly Australian /NZ
Bingo: housie is being played somewhere on the island every night...
- Similar to the popular housie or tombola, students won cash prizes in this game.
- They had no devotion to the Rosary and they were not interested in parish novenas or working to continue the regular housie nights.
- The fun and games continued with housie occupying most of the time.
Origin
1930s: perhaps from housey-housey.
- press lord
- pressman
- pressmanship
- pressmark
- pressmaster
- press matter
- press mold
- press-mold
- press money
- press mould
- press night
- press notice
- press number
- press office
- press officer
- press-on
- pressor
- pressoreceptor
- press (or push or hit) the panic button
- press-packed
- press-pad
- presspahn
- press pass
- press people
- press person