Drowse vs Doss - What's the difference?
drowse | doss |
The state of being sleepy and inactive.
To be sleepy and inactive (also figurative).
* 1902 , , Moon-Face :
* 1973 July, Melville Bell Grosvenor, Homeward with Ulysses'', published in ''National Geographic , volume 144, number 1:
To nod off; to fall asleep.
To advance drowsily.
* 1873', , ''The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today'' (' 1915 republication), page 285:
* 1966 , John Cunyus Hodges, William Congreve, the man: a biography from new sources , page 25:
* 2002 , Marsha Ward, The Man from Shenandoah , page 55
* 2008 , Sarah Mayberry, Cruise Control'', published in ''Best of Makeovers Bundle , page 209:
To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.
(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 nouns the difference between drowse and doss
is that drowse is the state of being sleepy and inactive while doss is work avoidance.As verbs the difference between drowse and doss
is that drowse is to be sleepy and inactive (also figurative) while doss is (intransitive|british|and|ireland) to avoid work, shirk, etc.As an adjective doss is
(scotland) describes a useless or lazy person generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt .drowse
English
Noun
(-)- in a drowse
Verb
(drows)- Under the aching noonday glare, when the green things drooped and the birds withdrew to the depths of the forest, and all nature drowsed , his great "Ha! ha!" and "Ho! ho!" rose up to the sky and challenged the sun.
- In August the cicadas chorused, and the dusty olive trees drowsed in the sun.
- the wary tadpole returned from exile, the bullfrog resumed his ancient song, the tranquil turtle sunned his back upon bank and log and drowsed his grateful life away as in the old sweet days of yore.
- Congreve held fast to the Greek poets, but otherwise seems to have drowsed his way through Trinity studies.
- Ida had kept him awake while he drowsed his way up the old King's Trace in eastern Missouri, feverish and weak.
- They were led into a large, attractive room with twin massage beds, and welcomed by their masseurs—in Balinese tradition, he had a male masseur, Anna a female. He drowsed his way through the first half hour of the treatment,
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* drowsy * drowsilyAnagrams
* * *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!