Dosser vs Dosses - What's the difference?
dosser | dosses |
(British, Ireland) Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work.
A homeless and jobless person.
A pannier or basket.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
(Webster 1913)
(doss)
(intransitive, British, and, Ireland) To avoid work, shirk, etc.
(intransitive, British, slang) To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless
Work avoidance.
Easy piece of work
(Scotland) Describes a useless or lazy person. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt .
As a noun dosser
is someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work.As a verb dosses is
third-person singular of doss.dosser
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (one who avoids work) shirkerEtymology 2
. See dorsal.Alternative forms
* dorsel, dorserNoun
(en noun)- To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers .
Anagrams
*dosses
English
Verb
(head)doss
English
Verb
(es)- I am going to doss tomorrow when the match is on.
- I normally have to doss in shop doorways or park benches.
Noun
(es)- I am going to have a doss tomorrow.
- Circumnavigating the world in a canoe is no doss
Adjective
(en adjective)- Get a fuckin hauld o yersel, ye doss cunt!