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Australian hits different (lemmy.zip)
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[โ€“] Cheez@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Short for swimming costume.

[โ€“] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, its seems like etymologically, "bathing costume" got shorted to "bathers" for some people and "cossies" for others. But that's just what the internet tells me, I'm not British