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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