mossie
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Is mossie a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (South Africa) Any of various species of sparrow, especially Passer melanurus.Examples: "Our four baby mossies have left the nest."; "Another highly successful species, which has become a serious pest of fruit, is the Mossie or Cape Sparrow. The male mossie, with his black and white head and rufous mantle, is rather a handsome little bird; his wife lacks the head markings, being grey-brown with a pale eye-stripe."; "He laughs a deep laugh that rumbles up from somewhere in his drumskin stomach. It spooks the mossies on the overhead telegraph wire."South-Africa
noun (English)
1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A mosquito.Examples: "She came out, standing a head taller than him, tugging a loose cotton shift into place, and made for a rough brick fireplace beside a pile of rusting pots and pans. ‘Come inside,’ Willi said. ‘The mossies will eat you alive out here.’"; "Tip 1 : Make sure there is clearance between your body and the net. If the net touches your skin, the mossie will be able to bite you through it."; "He had becoms full of Bay intelligence about mosquito repellent measures. Apart from the obvious—mossie coils, citronella candles, zappers, fine nets suspended over beds and Rid roll-on or spray—he decided to invest in bush gear from an army disposal store. The mossies, who know a city slicker when they bite one, had been stinging clear through his Calvin Clone T-shirts from the Hong Kong markets and feasting on his bare arms as if presented with a juicy buffet."AustraliaNew-ZealandUKcolloquial
name (English)
1. (Ireland) A diminutive of the male given name Maurice.Ireland
noun (English)
1. (dated or historical, UK, military, informal, colloquial) A de Havilland Mosquito.Examples: "He leaned into the electric gunsight, aiming the Mossie at the left wingroot between engine and fuselage, where he knew there were fuel tanks — his right thumb mashed the control-column firing button."; "The Mossies were still able to land before the bombers were over the Channel."; "Almost 8,000 Mossies were built in Great Britain, Canada and Australia."UKcolloquialdatedhistoricalinformal
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