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▪ I. pos1 colloq.|pɒz|
Also 8 pozz, 8–9 poz.
[Abbreviation of positive.]
Positive, certain; esp. in phrase that's pos. Also as n., and as adv. = positively.
1710Swift Tatler No. 230 ⁋5, I can't d't, that's Pozz. 1711― Lett. (1767) III. 231 'Tis very cold; but I will not have a fire till November, that's pozz. 1711Spectator 4 Aug. 2/1 It is perhaps..speaking no more than we needs must, which has so miserably curtailed some of our Words, that..they sometimes lose all but their first Syllables, as in Mob. reb. pos. incog. and the like. 1716Addison Drummer iii. i, I will be flattered, that's pos! 1801T. S. Surr Splendid Misery II. 143 ‘Fie, fie, Lady Amelia’, said I. ‘I will, poz’, replied she. 1839Thackeray Catherine ii, I will have a regiment to myself, that's poz. 1922Joyce Ulysses 418 Got a pectoral trauma, eh, Dix? Pos fact. 1930[see electron gun (electron2 2 b)]. 1969‘R. Crawford’ Cockleburr ii. vi. 126 ‘Are you sure you weren't spotted?’ ‘Pos.’ 1977Hot Car Oct. 99/4 (Advt.), Smiths electronic tacho (pos earth). 1979SLR Camera Mar. 34/1 Having said that, there are of course the neg/pos experts who will tell you how to produce a 20 × 16 print from a quarter inch portion of a 35mm negative.
▪ II. pos2
var. poss a. |