Meaning of pozzy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Jam (“fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar”).
   British, slang, uncountable
2. A firing position.
   Australia, New-Zealand, slang
3. A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.
   Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial

Examples

“‘Could you pinch a tin of pozzy out of stores?’”

“The Turco used to say: 'Tommy, give Johnny pozzy,' and a tin of plum and apple jam used to be given him.”

“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 […]”

“They had also wonderful confidence in their leaders — they knew the best pozzy would be taken up.”

“So I says to him, no, I can′t go back to the pozzy I′m sharing with Snowy Fisher and the late Pap.”

“Stretching his legs has been good for him, and this Pitt-street pozzy near the GPO is a splendid spot for a sandwich and a good book.”

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