pozzy

n. <澳俚>职位,职务,差事

发音

AU /ˈpɒ.zi/

词形变化

pozzies 复数

别名

possie

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Jam (“fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar”).

    俚语 不可数 政治 军事
  2. 1.

    A firing position.

    澳大利亚 新西兰 俚语 政治 军事

    1916, various ANZAC soldiers, The Anzac Book, page 10, […] and Jerry O′Dwyer had shot two crows from the new sniper′s pozzy down at the creek-—and so on.

    1942, Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume III: The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916, 13th(?) Edition, page 340, Brown himself, unaware even that there was an officer among his captives, picked up his rifle, went back to his “pozzy,” and dismissed the incident from his mind […]

  3. 2.

    A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.

    澳大利亚 新西兰 非正式

词源

Unclear, perhaps from a southern African language; from late 19thC, revived during World War I.

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