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n. (context UK Australia New Zealand English) (alternative form of mossie mosquito English)
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Mozzie may refer to:
- A mosquito, a flying insect
- Mozzie (White Collar), a character in the comedy drama series
- The Mosquito, a sonic weapon used to deter youth congregation
- De Havilland Mosquito, a WWII combat aircraft
- In powered hang gliding, a powered harness
Internet-related:
- Mozilla (mascot), a cartoon lizard personifying Netscape & Mozilla
- MozzIE, an extension for the Web browser, Internet Explorer
Pejoratives:
- A derogatory British slang term for a Muslim
- A derogatory term for Māori people
Usage examples of "mozzie".
Aussie mozzie repellents include delightful ingredients like diethyl toluamide and bicyclo heptene dicarboximide.
I got my head down under the mozzie net and listened to the jungle conducting its life around me: crickets, beetles and other insects clicking and buzzing, unknown things scratching around in the undergrowth.
Eventually I gave him a burst of mozzie rep, which really pissed him off.
I lay there covered in cam cream and mozzie rep and thought about Kate.
I kept wanting to scratch it and rub at the mozzie bites that felt as if they covered every exposed inch of flesh.
The rest of us just sat there for the next five hours, eating biscuits, drinking water, swatting flies, and rubbing on mozzie rep.
Another useful approach is just to buy a few metres of cheap mozzie net and drape it over stakes placed next to the plants.
I got bitten by more mozzies inside than outside, and the band played nonstop Central American classics.
Mansonia mozzies have a special piercing siphon to get air out of underwater plant stems.
While these nontoxic remedies can do a good job on the mozzies, they might not do much for your love-life!