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Doss vs Repose - What's the difference?

doss | repose |

As verbs the difference between doss and repose

is that doss is (intransitive|british|and|ireland) to avoid work, shirk, etc while repose is .

As a noun doss

is work avoidance.

As an adjective doss

is (scotland) describes a useless or lazy person generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt .

doss

English

Verb

(es)
  • (intransitive, British, and, Ireland) To avoid work, shirk, etc.
    • I am going to doss tomorrow when the match is on.
  • (intransitive, British, slang) To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless
    • I normally have to doss in shop doorways or park benches.

    Noun

    (es)
  • Work avoidance.
    • I am going to have a doss tomorrow.
  • Easy piece of work
    • Circumnavigating the world in a canoe is no doss

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Scotland) Describes a useless or lazy person. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt .
    • Get a fuckin hauld o yersel, ye doss cunt!

    See also

    * doss about * doss around * doss down * doss-house * doss off * dosser

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    repose

    English

    Noun

  • (dated) rest, sleep
  • * 1908 ,
    • Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose .
  • *
    • You would not rob us of our repose , would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?
  • quietness, ease; peace, calmness
  • * Dante Divine Comedy,Inferno, Canto 10
    • So may thy lineage find at last repose I thus adjured him
  • (geology) period between eruptions of a volcano.

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    Verb

  • To lie at rest; to rest.
  • * Chapman
    • Within a thicket I reposed .
  • To lie; to be supported.
    • trap reposing on sand
  • To lay, to set down.
  • * Chapman
    • But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom.
  • * Woodward
    • Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth are left behind.
  • To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.
  • To reside in something.
  • (figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
  • * I. Taylor
    • It is upon these that the soul may repose .

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