mossies
mossies is the plural of mossie.
mossies is the plural of mossy.
Meaning of mossie
Noun (1)
mossie (plural mossies)
- Any of various species of sparrow, especially Passer melanurus.
- Our four baby mossies have left the nest.1963, Lady Joy Petersen Packer, Home from Sea, page 221
Noun (2)
mossie (plural mossies)
- A mosquito.
- She came out, standing a head taller than him, tugging a loose cotton shift into place, and made for a rough brick fireplace beside a pile of rusting pots and pans.
‘Come inside,’ Willi said. ‘The mossies will eat you alive out here.’1996, Patricia Shaw, The Opal Seekers, unnumbered page
- She came out, standing a head taller than him, tugging a loose cotton shift into place, and made for a rough brick fireplace beside a pile of rusting pots and pans.
Meaning of mossy
Adjective
mossy (comparative mossier, superlative mossiest)
- Covered in or overgrown with moss.
- The moſſy pales that ſkirt the orchard-green, / Here hid by ſhrub-vvood, there by glimpſes ſeen; […]1798, [Samuel Rogers], “An Epistle to a Friend”, in An Epistle to a Friend, with Other Poems. […], London: […] R. Noble, for T[homas] Cadell, Junior, and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, page 10, lines...
- Synonyms:
- moss-grown
Noun capitalized: Mossies
Mossies
- plural of Mossie
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mossies (page history and authors); Mossies (page history and authors); mossie (page history and authors); mossy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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