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Definition of Ossi in English: OssinounPlural Ossis, Plural Ossies ˈɒsiˈōsē derogatory, informal (in Germany) a citizen of the former German Democratic Republic. 〈非正式，常贬〉（德国）原德意志民主共和国公民 Example sentencesExamples - Its the expansion of the West German hostility to Ossies now finding echoes in complaints from London tradesmen about Polish plumbers.
- Using the provincial city of Karlsruhe as a backdrop, The Student Conductor is set in 1989, when the Berlin Wall was first crumbling and tensions between Ossis and Wessis were emerging.
- The protest was just one sign of how deeply disenchanted many east Germans, ‘Ossies ‘, are with their west German, ‘Wessie ‘, neighbours and vice versa.
- Employed by a construction company for almost half the wage paid to his West German counterpart, he and the other Ossies were given accommodation in a removals container.
- ‘The wall in their heads ‘- the psychological division between so-called Ossis and Wessis - did not rise overnight.’
- Meanwhile, an astounding 24 percent of those in the west and 12 percent of so-called Ossis said they want the Wall back.
- Inhabitants of the Federal Republic of Germany, known as the ‘Wessies,’ had joked that the land inhabited by their eastern cousins, the ‘Ossies’, was perhaps German, but clearly was neither democratic nor a republic.
- After the initial tidal wave of western capitalist media (try watching German MTV), it seems that ‘Ossies ‘have become at least a little disillusioned with it all.
- It was a necessary concession, as the Ossies felt dominated by their western counterpart.
- It has helped reduce health inequalities between the former East and West and contributed to a remarkable rise in life expectancy of the ‘Ossies.’
OriginGerman, probably an abbreviation of Ostdeutsche 'East German'. Definition of Ossi in US English: Ossinounˈōsē derogatory, informal (in Germany) a citizen of the former German Democratic Republic. 〈非正式，常贬〉（德国）原德意志民主共和国公民 Compare with Wessi Example sentencesExamples - The protest was just one sign of how deeply disenchanted many east Germans, ‘Ossies ‘, are with their west German, ‘Wessie ‘, neighbours and vice versa.
- Its the expansion of the West German hostility to Ossies now finding echoes in complaints from London tradesmen about Polish plumbers.
- Using the provincial city of Karlsruhe as a backdrop, The Student Conductor is set in 1989, when the Berlin Wall was first crumbling and tensions between Ossis and Wessis were emerging.
- Employed by a construction company for almost half the wage paid to his West German counterpart, he and the other Ossies were given accommodation in a removals container.
- It was a necessary concession, as the Ossies felt dominated by their western counterpart.
- It has helped reduce health inequalities between the former East and West and contributed to a remarkable rise in life expectancy of the ‘Ossies.’
- Inhabitants of the Federal Republic of Germany, known as the ‘Wessies,’ had joked that the land inhabited by their eastern cousins, the ‘Ossies’, was perhaps German, but clearly was neither democratic nor a republic.
- After the initial tidal wave of western capitalist media (try watching German MTV), it seems that ‘Ossies ‘have become at least a little disillusioned with it all.
- Meanwhile, an astounding 24 percent of those in the west and 12 percent of so-called Ossis said they want the Wall back.
- ‘The wall in their heads ‘- the psychological division between so-called Ossis and Wessis - did not rise overnight.’
OriginGerman, probably an abbreviation of Ostdeutsche ‘East German’. |