Moss vs Doss - What's the difference?
moss | doss |
Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the division Bryophyta (formerly ).
(countable) A kind or species of such plants.
(informal) Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.
A bog; a fen.
To become covered with moss.
To cover (something) with moss.
(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 moss and doss
is that moss is any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the division Bryophyta (formerly division: Musci) while doss is work avoidance.As verbs the difference between moss and doss
is that moss is to become covered with moss while doss is to avoid work, shirk, etc.As a proper noun Moss
is {{surname}.As an adjective doss is
describes a useless or lazy person. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt.moss
English
(wikipedia moss)Noun
- Spanish moss'''; Irish '''moss'''; club '''moss .
- the mosses of the Scottish border
Usage notes
* The plural form mosses'' is used when more than one kind of moss is meant. The singular ''moss is used referring to a collection of moss plants of the same kind.Hyponyms
* (simple plant) alga, cryptogam, lichenHypernyms
* (Bryophyta) bryophyteDerived terms
* (Tillandsia usneoides ) * (Bryozoa) * (Bartramia spp. ) * a rolling stone gathers no moss * et al) * black moss (Tillandsia usneoides ) * bog moss * ) * carrageen moss (Chondrus crispus ) * * ) * ) * ) * club moss, club-moss, (club-foot moss) (Lycopodiaceae) * ) * ) * ) * enmoss * ) * * (Tillandsia usneoides ) * ) * ) * head moss * ) * ) * Iceland moss () * idle-moss * Irish moss (Chondrus crispus ) * ) * (Tillandsia usneoides ) * ) * moss-agate * moss animal, (Bryozoa) * moss-back, mossback * moss-backed, mossbacked, mossy-backed * moss-bag * moss-bank * moss-basket * moss-bass * ) * moss-berry, (Vaccinium oxycoccos ) * (Botaurinae) * moss-box * ) * moss-carder, ) * ) * spp. ) * (Bryozoa) * ) * * ) * moss-earth * mossed * mosser * mossery * moss-fiber, moss-fibre * moss-flow * moss frog (Rhacophoridae) * mossful * moss-gold () * moss green * moss-grown, mossgrown * moss-hag, moss-hagg * moss-hagger * * moss-head * * moss-house * mossify * mossland * mossless * moss-litter * ) * moss-oak * moss opal * moss-peat * ) * mossplant * (Bryozoa) * moss-rake * moss-reeve * ) * ) * moss-seat * moss-starch * moss stitch * moss-tenant * moss-trooper * mosstroopery * moss-trooping * moss-whin () * ) * moss-wood * moss-work * mossy * oak moss * pearl moss (Chondrus crispus ) * peat-moss * ) * reindeer moss () * * ) * * * ''spp. ) * snake moss () * Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides ) * spike moss (Selaginellaceae) * ) * tree-moss * unmossed * white mossVerb
- An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.
See also
* muscoidReferences
* A New English dictionary on historical principles , Volume 6, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie, Charles Talbut Onions, editors, Clarendon Press, 1908,pages 684-6----
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!