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  • noun UK, Australia, New Zealand Alternative form of mossie (mosquito).

Etymologies

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Form of mossie ("diminutive of mosquito").

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Examples

  • Maybe one should use the term mozzie to refer to those self-proclaimed "skeptics" or those in denial.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Great Regulars: For all his Hindu allusions, he Derek Mahon displays a resistance to the transcendental: eschewing good Karma, he sprays "Deet" at a mosquito, despite being reincarnated as "a mozzie myself once".

    Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Great Regulars: For all his Hindu allusions, he Derek Mahon displays a resistance to the transcendental: eschewing good Karma, he sprays "Deet" at a mosquito, despite being reincarnated as "a mozzie myself once".

    Great Regulars: For all his Hindu allusions, Rus Bowden 2009

  • Instead of just sharing the unique views for each entry, I decided to get a little “mozzie” and share some interesting info about each entry.

    SEM Scholarship Winner Announcement Coming Friday 2006

  • I also got a hydrocortisone cream for some nasty mozzie bites on my arm.

    poke, prod jlundberg 2007

  • Night before last they ate me up pretty good; I've got a good-sized goose egg in the middle of my right quadriceps, and other welts on my left calf and elbow that take me back to my childhood and the extreme reaction I would have to mozzie bites.

    bit, awake jlundberg 2007

  • Also recommend a large sun hat, a mozzie net and anti-mozzie impregnated clothes.

    Preparing for Rwanda 2007

  • Once I had my bags, I could at last have a dipper bath cold water piped in from a stream, eat dinner and tumble into bed under the mozzie net - in a room without outside walls at 2 a.m.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Glenda Larke 2007

  • Because of this, the mosquitos that were minding their own business whilst buzzing around outside were forced indoors, and it must have been like a gourmet banquet to their little mozzie eyes.

    mozzie attack: the aftermath jlundberg 2007

  • It's probably severely out of date but these mozzie bites are driving me insane.

    sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2006

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  • mosquito

    February 25, 2007

  • the other end of the word goes to make the American colloquialism skeeter.

    May 8, 2009