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  • noun Australia A swimming costume.

Etymologies

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Alteration of cossie

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Examples

  • Here's one bit of news chez Juliette - I've finally struggled back into my swimming cozzie, stuck on my goggles, and plunged back into the cold and dispiriting pool of online dating - only to immediately come face to face with three drowned wasps and a floating condom.

    Dater Archives juliette 2009

  • Here's one bit of news chez Juliette - I've finally struggled back into my swimming cozzie, stuck on my goggles, and plunged back into the cold and dispiriting pool of online dating - only to immediately come face to face with three drowned wasps and a floating condom.

    Archive 2009-08-01 juliette 2009

  • "Come, cozzie," she said, "give me a proper reason for falling in love with this husband of yours."

    The Vicar's Daughter George MacDonald 1864

  • "Well, little cozzie!" she cried, as she kissed me three or four times,

    The Vicar's Daughter George MacDonald 1864

  • Bhs has the answer, with a cozzie that smooths out your lumps, making you look as if you've lost inches, And at just £30, it's a bargain.

    mirror.co.uk - Home 2010

  • But don't expect these farmers to don a high-cut cozzie as they take on

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • We believe, we really do, that Monday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings will see us puffing dutifully around the rain-sodden streets or enthusiastically grabbing cozzie and towel and setting off for the local baths instead of curling up with a takeaway and a DVD.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Glitzy jackets are a great cover-up - even over a cozzie in the summer

    mirror.co.uk - Home 2009

  • ` swimming costume 'is called variously bathers in South Australia and Western Australia, cozzie in New South Wales and swimmers in Queensland.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1 1979

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