Cossie
Pronunciation
/ˈkÉ’zi/, /kÅzi/Rhymes: -É’zi
Alternative forms
- cozzie Australian
Full definition of cossie
Noun
cossie
(plural cossies)- (UK) A swimming costume.
- 2007, Elizabeth Slater, Sky, cossies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7BUxT-LmGYyhiQfz1bSHBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22cossie|cossies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 121,“Let's not bother with cossies Jack. Let′s pretend it′s years ago.â€She remembered the times they had swum at Eleni beach totally naked, the moon and stars lighting the little waves as they rolled slowly to shore.
- 2009, Brenda Sensicle-Creese, Sensicle, But Not Always, cossies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EgwxT9qWJsKXiAfc4aHzBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22cossie|cossies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 3,I struck off boldly, but soon found myself unaccountably labouring. The reason became abundantly clear when I stood up, clad only in two three-foot-long shoulder straps, with two stone of waterlogged cossie round my ankles.
- 2009, Madeleine St. John, The Women in Black, cossies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nxExT9-iJ8uXiAfeq7WUBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22cossie|cossies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 72,She would just change now very quickly and then run down to Lingerie and—no, she thought, I won′t; I′ll go to the cossies first, because I don′t want anyone to see me carrying that parcel from Lingerie (which used a different patterned wrapping paper, printed with a lace and ribbom design) because they might guess what′s in it, or they might ask. So I′ll just go to the cossies first.
Synonyms
- bathers Australian