Ossie
[ˈɑːsi]Meaning
diminutive of Oscar, Oswald and other names beginning with Os
Background Story
Ossie is a diminutive of Oscar, Oswald and other names beginning with Os. It also stands in for given names such as Osama, Osman, Ossian, Osmond, Osbourne and Osvaldo, and in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic it is a diminutive of Joseph and Yousif. The name is recorded as used in Anglo-Saxon, Basque, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Germanic and Hungarian, with the variants Oz, Ozzie and Ozzy.
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