Meaning

4 senses

  1. (Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable)The avoidance of work.

    I am going to have a doss tomorrow.

  2. (Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable)An easy piece of work.

    Circumnavigating the world in a canoe is no doss.

  3. (Ireland, UK, countable, dated, slang, uncountable)A place to sleep in; a bed.

  4. (Ireland, UK, broadly, countable, dated, slang, uncountable)Sleep.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. On Saturday they decided to just doss around at the park.

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  2. We barely do any work in geography lessons, we just doss about.

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  3. After the bailiff repossessed Tom's house, he was forced to doss down at a homeless shelter.

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Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: dosses
Singulardoss
Pluraldosses

regular

Word family

1 related words
Deriveddossbag

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
dorsaldosagedoseB2dotB1dotedoubleA2

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