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Muzzie
 n.— «Shepparton Magistrates Court today heard Mohammed had been asked about bomb-making and taunted as a “Muzzie” by his co-workers.…Mr Regan told the court it was the nature of the town to use nicknames and refer to the Halal butchers as “Muzzies.”» —“Muslim butcher accused of murder was taunted, court told” in Melbourne Australian Associated Press Nov. 17, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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