ozzie
See also: Ozzie
English
Etymology
From a pronunciation of hospital with h-dropping, + -ie.
Noun
ozzie (plural ozzies)
- (northern Britain, slang) A hospital.
- 2001, Nursing Times, Nursing Mirror (volume 97, issues 5-8)
- I became most distressed when talking to a man from Liverpool who said he was going up the ozzie? I thought he was planning to examine an Australian, but it turned out he was going to the hospital.
- 2014, Maureen Lee, The Seven Streets of Liverpool
- What a way to start the new century – in the ozzie or a police cell.
- 2001, Nursing Times, Nursing Mirror (volume 97, issues 5-8)