doss

verb

/dɒs/UK/dɑs//bɔs/

Etymology

Perhaps from Latin dorsum (“the back”), i.e. what one lies on when sleeping; perhaps from English dialect doss (“a hassock”).

1
To avoid work, shirk, etc.
- I am going to doss tomorrow when the match is on.
2
To sleep, especially in the open or in a makeshift bed, commonly in a derelict building…
To sleep, especially in the open or in a makeshift bed, commonly in a derelict building because one is homeless.
- I normally have to doss in shop doorways or on park benches.
- "You can doss on the floor.
3
The avoidance of work.
- I am going to have a doss tomorrow.
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1. 4
  An easy piece of work.
  - Circumnavigating the world in a canoe is no doss.
2. A place to sleep in
  A place to sleep in; a bed.
3. Sleep.
4. 7
  Useless or lazy. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt.
  - Get a hauld o yersel, ya doss cunt!
  - Convinced it's no bullshit, the doss cunt dismisses the session. Ah walk tae freedom; perr auld Spud gits taken doon.
5. 8
  Good, desirable.
  - The place is pure doss, like.
6. A surname.
7. Abbreviation of dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate.
8. plural of DoS

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA