Doze vs Doss - What's the difference?
doze | doss |
To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap.
* L'Estrange
To make dull; to stupefy.
* Samuel Pepys
* South
(slang) To bulldoze.
(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 verbs the difference between doze and doss
is that doze is to sleep lightly or briefly; to nap while doss is to avoid work, shirk, etc.As nouns the difference between doze and doss
is that doze is a light, short sleep or nap while doss is work avoidance.As an adjective doss is
describes a useless or lazy person. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt.doze
English
Verb
(doz)- I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
- If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
- I was an hour in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
- They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.
Synonyms
* SeeDerived terms
* dozer * doze off * dozySee also
* catnap * nap * shuteye * sleep * slumber ----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!