"Mossie" meaning in English

See Mossie in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Diminutive of Maurice + -ie. Etymology templates: {{m|en|Maurice}} Maurice, {{suffix|en||ie}} + -ie Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Mossie
  1. (Ireland) A diminutive of the male given name Maurice. Tags: Ireland Categories (topical): English diminutives of male given names, English given names, English male given names
    Sense id: en-Mossie-en-name-diHJeZh5 Categories (other): Irish English, English terms suffixed with -ie
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: Mossies [plural]
Etymology: Form of mossie (“diminutive of mosquito”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|mossie||diminutive of mosquito}} mossie (“diminutive of mosquito”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} Mossie (plural Mossies)
  1. (dated or historical, UK, military, informal, colloquial) A de Havilland Mosquito. Tags: UK, colloquial, informal Categories (topical): Military Synonyms: Mozzie
    Sense id: en-Mossie-en-noun-TXN5LUSR Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 68 Topics: government, military, politics, war
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for Mossie meaning in English (3.6kB)

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Maurice"
      },
      "expansion": "Maurice",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "ie"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Diminutive of Maurice + -ie.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Mossie",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English diminutives of male given names",
          "parents": [
            "Diminutives of male given names",
            "Male given names",
            "Given names",
            "Diminutive nouns",
            "Names",
            "Nouns",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Lemmas",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English given names",
          "parents": [
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English male given names",
          "parents": [
            "Male given names",
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ie",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A diminutive of the male given name Maurice."
      ],
      "id": "en-Mossie-en-name-diHJeZh5",
      "links": [
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ],
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "Maurice",
          "Maurice#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland) A diminutive of the male given name Maurice."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Mossie"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mossie",
        "3": "",
        "4": "diminutive of mosquito"
      },
      "expansion": "mossie (“diminutive of mosquito”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Form of mossie (“diminutive of mosquito”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Mossies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Mossie (plural Mossies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, John Kelly, The Wooden Wolf, page 142",
          "text": "He leaned into the electric gunsight, aiming the Mossie at the left wingroot between engine and fuselage, where he knew there were fuel tanks — his right thumb mashed the control-column firing button.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Air League of the British Empire, Air Pictorial: Journal of the Air League, volume 55, page 8",
          "text": "The Mossies were still able to land before the bombers were over the Channel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Harold A. Skaarup, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Warbird Survivors 2003: A Handbook on Where to Find Them, page 97",
          "text": "Almost 8,000 Mossies were built in Great Britain, Canada and Australia.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A de Havilland Mosquito."
      ],
      "id": "en-Mossie-en-noun-TXN5LUSR",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "dated or historical",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated or historical, UK, military, informal, colloquial) A de Havilland Mosquito."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "word": "Mozzie"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "colloquial",
        "informal"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Mossie"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ie",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Maurice"
      },
      "expansion": "Maurice",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "ie"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Diminutive of Maurice + -ie.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Mossie",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English diminutives of male given names",
        "English given names",
        "English male given names",
        "Irish English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A diminutive of the male given name Maurice."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ],
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "Maurice",
          "Maurice#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland) A diminutive of the male given name Maurice."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Mozzie"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Mossie"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mossie",
        "3": "",
        "4": "diminutive of mosquito"
      },
      "expansion": "mossie (“diminutive of mosquito”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Form of mossie (“diminutive of mosquito”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Mossies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Mossie (plural Mossies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English dated terms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, John Kelly, The Wooden Wolf, page 142",
          "text": "He leaned into the electric gunsight, aiming the Mossie at the left wingroot between engine and fuselage, where he knew there were fuel tanks — his right thumb mashed the control-column firing button.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Air League of the British Empire, Air Pictorial: Journal of the Air League, volume 55, page 8",
          "text": "The Mossies were still able to land before the bombers were over the Channel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Harold A. Skaarup, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Warbird Survivors 2003: A Handbook on Where to Find Them, page 97",
          "text": "Almost 8,000 Mossies were built in Great Britain, Canada and Australia.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A de Havilland Mosquito."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "dated or historical",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated or historical, UK, military, informal, colloquial) A de Havilland Mosquito."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "colloquial",
        "informal"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Mozzie"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Mossie"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.