Aussie

English Etymology From a en Australian 1 (or en Australia) + en -ie diminutive. The spelling likely adopted the visual template of the pre‐existing personal diminutive Aussie (from en Austin or en Augusta).en 1885-02 The Chautauquan 5 5 309 https://archive.org/details/sim_chautauquan_1885-02_5_5/page/309/mode/1up The following persons have been graduated in the Class of 1884 [...] Cox, Miss R. Aussie However, while the personal nickname retains standard English phonics with a voiceless /s/, the pronunciation of the national slang (/ˈɒzi/) was driven by a highly productive morphophonological template in Commonwealth slang that strongly favors short stressed vowels and lenited consonants. The clipped base promotes the historically unstressed initial vowel to the short /ɒ/. This reflects a broader Commonwealth phonological rule where the /ɔː/ typically associated with the ⟨au⟩ digraph is shortened before a tautosyllabic /s/ or /s/‐cluster (as in en austral). To lock in this short vowel on the page and prevent readers from reverting to an open‐syllable pronunciation, writers doubled the s as a structural dummy consonant. This created an orthographic trap. The spelling effectively represents a conservative /ˈɔːsi/, preserving the standard phonetic values of both the long vowel and the voiceless fricative. However, the egalitarian colloquial register actively demanded the lenited (voiced) /z/ (compare en Tassie, en Brissie, en possie, en cossie). Thus, the dialect compromised by writing the conservative, etymological ⟨ss⟩, while speaking the colloquial /z/. Though popularized internationally as military slang from 1915 onwards, early printed evidence shows the clipping was already active in Australian sporting vernacular by at least 1913. en 1913-01-29 The Referee Sydney 14 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/120486244 “Aussie,” as the “heads” prefer to call Australian, won by 1min 14sec from the second boat, Lilian. Pronunciation en AU /ˈɔzi/ en NZ /ˈɒzi/ en RP /ˈɒzi/ /ˈɒsi/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Aussie.wav Southern England en GA /ˈɔzi/ /ˈɔsi/ ; cot-caught merger /ˈɑzi/ /ˈɑsi/ en ɒzi ɔːzi ɒsi ɔːsi 2 Proper noun A diminutive of the male given names en Austin, en Osborn, or en Oswald. A diminutive of the female given names en Augusta or en Austina. en colloquial the nation or continent of Australia now uncommon except in sporting chants and in New Zealand. en colloquial en <<c/Australia>>. en colloquial An Australian Shepherd dog. en slang finance The Australian dollar. Translations colloquial: an Australian Australian Arabic: ar أُوزِي, ar أُوزِي ʔozī Bulgarian: bg о́зи n Finnish: fi aussi German: de Aussie m, de Aussi m Japanese: ja オージー ōjī Korean: ko 오지, ko 오스트레일리아인, ko 호주 사람 Polish: pl Australijczyk m, pl Australijka f Russian: ru австра́л m slang, ru австра́лка f slang, ru о́ззи m f, ru о́зи m f colloquial: Australian Shepherd Polish: pl owczarek australijski m Adjective -,more en chiefly Australia New Zealand British South African colloquial en <<c/Australia>>; Australian. en 1987 Hang On To Your Horses Doovers Kerry Cue 5 From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly. en 1998 Gordon L. Steinbrook Allies and Mates: An American Soldier with the Australians and New Zealanders in Vietnam 1966-1967 63 http://books.google.com/books?id=tjFOnGRPSw4C&pg=PA63&dq=%22more%7Cmost+aussie%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=zZe8Tr7fIpCOmQWojtWLBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22more%7Cmost%20aussie%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false Most Aussie officers seemed this way to me; always cool, deliberate, and extremely rational in their decision making, a far cry from the American leadership I had seen during my first year in the army. en 2010 Veechi Curtis; Lynley Averis Bookkeeping For Dummies http://books.google.com/books?id=Bn3WQmSwNMYC&pg=PA81&dq=%22more%7Cmost+aussie%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=zZe8Tr7fIpCOmQWojtWLBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22more%7Cmost%20aussie%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false 81 Here’s something I learned the hard way: The very best time of year to start off with accounting software is the beginning of the financial year (1 July for most Aussie businesses, and 1 April for most Kiwi businesses). en 2011 John Wiley & Sons Inc Wiley Trading Guide 2 153 http://books.google.com/books?id=fNTkGQiN7D8C&pg=PA152&dq=%22more%7Cmost+aussie%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=r5W8Tr21A8nImAXUxMHDBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22more%7Cmost%20aussie%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false For example, if you buy US dollars (USD) using Australian dollars (AUD) and the Aussie dollar falls, you can then sell your US dollars and you will have made money as you will have more Aussie dollars than you started with. en 2008 Lois Nicholls Aussie, Actually 111 http://books.google.com/books?id=TkXLK2Q1Bj0C&pg=PA111&dq=%22more%7Cmost+aussie%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=MJG8TqCCGebamAWBwPSwBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22more%7Cmost%20aussie%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false They’re the “Almost Aussies” who embrace their new culture with a vengeance – some becoming more Aussie than Aussies. en 2008 Janet Fife-Yeomans Heath: A Family's Tale 65 http://books.google.com/books?id=BXqsNg3h3fQC&pg=PA65&dq=%22more%7Cmost+aussie%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=wZy8Tq6TE-znmAWo58G7BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22more%7Cmost%20aussie%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false You couldn’t get more Aussie than the cast he chose—or their cars. The goodies drive Holdens and the baddies cruise around in a big, grunting, chocolate-brown Monaro. en 2010 Quintin Jardine Screen Savers http://books.google.com/books?id=3glVv7KjgO8C&pg=PT125&dq=%22more%7Cmost+aussie%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=PaK8Tvj2CI-6iAfWk7i-CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22more%7Cmost%20aussie%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered “I’m a perfectionist, mate,” he said, his accent becoming noticeably more Aussie, as it always did in private. en 2015 Johnny Lieu https://mashable.com/2015/12/07/cronulla-riots-10-years-on/#WUPkV.afKkqm Cronulla Riots: What happened on one of Australia's darkest days Mashable “Every fucking aussie. Go to Cronulla Beach Sunday for some Leb and wog bashing Aussie Pride ok.” https://web.archive.org/web/20210517200213/https://mashable.com/2015/12/07/cronulla-riots-10-years-on/ 17 May 2021 Usage notes When referring to Australia or its people, pronunciations with /s/ instead of /z/ are considered erroneous by Australians and New Zealanders. When used as a diminutive of the given names en Austin, en Augusta, or en Austina, the pronunciation retains the voiceless /s/ of the root name (e.g., /ˈɒsi/ or /ˈɔːsi/). Derived terms en Aussie box Aussieland Aussieness Kwaussie Aussie burger Aussie cozzie Aussie dollar Aussie kiss Aussie rules Aussie salute Related terms en Argie Hongkie Sinkie Paki Descendants fi aussi ja オージー ōjī ru о́ззи о́зи Translations Australian Italian: it australiano m Japanese: ja オージーの ōjī-no, ja オーストラリア人の ōsutoraria-jin-no Polish: pl australijski References en terms suffixed with -ie