rosie

name

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.

noun

1. (US, countable, informal)A 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.”

2. (Cockney, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang, uncountable)Ellipsis 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.”

3. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative 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.”

4. (diminutive, form-of, informal, rare)Diminutive of rose.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”