cossie
Meaning
A swimming costume.
Example
Don't forget to pack your cossie and a towel.
Origin
Shortening of 'swimming costume' with the '-ie' suffix.
Variants
cozzie, cozzy
Nearby words
- cornstalkA native-born white Australian, especially a young person from New South Wales. Dated.
- corroboreeAn Aboriginal ceremonial gathering with song and dance. Loosely, any large or noisy gathering.
- corroboree frogA small, endangered frog of the Snowy Mountains region, with bold yellow and black stripes.
- corrugationsRegular ripples worn across the surface of an unsealed road by traffic, which make for a rough, rattling ride.
- cot caseA person so exhausted, drunk or ill that they're fit only for bed.
- could talk under waterSaid of someone who never stops talking.
- couldn't get a kick in a stableSaid of a footballer who hardly gets the ball, and by extension of any ineffective person.
- couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo vulgarTo be hopelessly inaccurate or incompetent.