rosie

rosie (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of Rosie (“tea”).
   • 1962, Derek Raymond [Robin Cook], The Crust On Its Uppers, London: Serpent's Tail, published 2000, →ISBN, page 21:

     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.

From rose +‎ -ie.

rosie (plural rosies)

1. (informal, rare) Diminutive of rose.
   • 1994 August 29, Karen Baldwin, “PROPAGATION”, in rec.gardens.roses‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 7 December 2025:

     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.

   • 1999 May 30, Judi Sohn, “An Open letter to Apple and the OS X Client Development Team”, in comp.sys.mac.misc‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 7 December 2025:

     <sarcasm> 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. </sarcasm>

   • 2000 April 23, Cass Bernstein, “What color socks do rosarians wear?”, in rec.gardens.roses‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 7 December 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.

• EROIs, sorie, Siero, Ieros, osier, Osier

• IPA^(key): /ʁo.zi/
• Homophones: rosi, rosies, rosis, rosit, rosît

rosie f sg

1. feminine singular of rosi

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.ɕɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɕɛ
• Syllabification: ro‧sie

rosie f

1. dative/locative singular of rosa