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cossie

noun

Etymology

From costume + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

  1. borrowed from costumer
  2. derived from consuetudo — “custom, habit”
  3. derived from costume
  4. borrowed from costume
  5. suffixed as cossie — “costume + ie”

Definitions

  1. A swimming costume.

    • “Let's not bother with cossies Jack. Let′s pretend it′s years ago.” 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.
    • 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.

  2. A Ford automobile powered by a Cosworth engine, especially the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth or…

    A Ford automobile powered by a Cosworth engine, especially the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth or the Ford Escort RS Cosworth.

    • The 525bhp rear-drive stunner may not be the most powerful Cossie we've ever featured, nor, with its dose-to-standard looks, is it the most outrageous feature car to grace these pages. But what it is, is damn-near perfect!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cossie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA