rosie

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Rosie (“tea”).

   Now for a quick lamp over the slag. Ever had someone put some snout ash in your rosie? Makes you put on that wry face, doesn’t it? Well, that’s what the slag does.

   1962, Derek Raymond [Robin Cook], The Crust On Its Uppers, London: Serpent's Tail, published 2000, →ISBN, page 21

plural rosies

1. diminutiveinformalrareDiminutive of rose.

   Oh, it should have had been pink and had little rosies and flowers all around it. That's the only way that "the females" could understand it.

   1999 May 30, Judi Sohn, “An Open letter to Apple and the OS X Client Development Team”, in comp.sys.mac.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Dec 2025

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   now that i have successfully propagated some nice little rosies using your method, and have begun potting them, my questions turn to getting them through the winter.

   1994 August 29, Karen Baldwin, “PROPAGATION”, in rec.gardens.roses (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Dec 2025

   Radio collar stuff? My best dog devices are the pruned canes laid on the ground where I don't want them to run. Stopped them from running down the little rosies until I laid the mulch on top of them by mistake. Then the dogs ran down the little rosies.

   2000 April 23, Cass Bernstein, “What color socks do rosarians wear?”, in rec.gardens.roses (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Dec 2025

1. A diminutive of the female given name Rose, Rosemary and other female names related to the rose. Also used as a formal given name.

plural Rosies

1. UScountableinformalA female factory worker during World War II (after the 1942 song Rosie the Riveter).

   […] continued oppression and exploitation of women in the workplace 50 years after the Rosies entered wartime factories.

   2011, Philip C. DiMare, Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, volume 1, page 1087

2. CockneyUKabbreviationellipsisslanguncountableEllipsis of Rosie Lee (“tea”).

   Now for a quick lamp over the slag. Ever had someone put some snout ash in your rosie? Makes you put on that wry face, doesn’t it? Well, that’s what the slag does.

   1962, Derek Raymond [Robin Cook], The Crust On Its Uppers, London: Serpent's Tail, published 2000, →ISBN, page 21