‘It actually makes me angry to hear Wessis making jokes about the Ossis or criticizing them for whatever reason.’
‘Ossis and Wessis, as East and West Germans are called, get along just fine in Berlin these days, he insisted.’
‘‘When I realized Ossis and Wessis were growing further apart, I had to illustrate that,’ she said.’
‘The dingiest place we saw in Berlin was on the Wessi side, changing from S - to U-bahn at Yorckstrasse.’
‘As an illustration, he describes how some got their elderly Wessi relatives to smuggle forbidden commodities across the border and then later used those goods as needed.’
‘There are still clashes between Wessis and Ossis.’
‘Now, however, they have sprung back to life, owned perhaps by Wessis but mostly staffed by the Ossis they aim to please.’
Origin
Probably from German Westdeutsche ‘West German’.
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