Doss

Word DOSS
Character 4
Hyphenation doss
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Doss"

What do we mean by doss?

Sleep; rest. noun

A crude or makeshift bed. noun

To go to bed, especially in a crude or makeshift bed; sleep. intransitive verb

A hassock. noun

To attack with the horns; toss.

To pay: as, to doss down money.

A place to sleep in; a bed; hence, sleep. noun

To sleep in a convenient place. intransitive verb

To avoid work, shirk, etc. verb

To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless verb

Work avoidance. noun

Easy piece of work noun

Describes a useless or lazy person. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt. adjective

Sleep in a convenient place verb

The avoidance of work.

An easy piece of work.

A place to sleep in; a bed.

(by extension) Sleep.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Doss

The word "doss" in example sentences

I had read about doss-houses (they are never called doss-houses, by the way), and I supposed that one could get a bed for fourpence or thereabouts. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Such, sir, are you by general confession; such are the things achieved by you, the greatest and most glorious of our countrymen, the director of our public councils, the leader of unconquered armies, the father of your country; for by that title doss every good man hail you with sincere and voluntary praise. " ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

And he would; right now his doss was a stable garret, cheap enough and cool enough even by day, now it was summer, but boring. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

An Unfortunate could not get out of the weather and find a bit of food unless she could convince a man to take her in or give her small change so she could rent a bed for the night in a common lodging house called a doss-house. ❋ Cornwell, Patricia (1930)

Name, age, occupation, place of birth, condition of destitution, and the previous night's "doss," were taken with lightning-like rapidity by the superintendent; and as I turned I was startled by a man's thrusting into my hand something that felt like ❋ Unknown (2010)

As an instance of their despatch, they will take your bedding ashore in the morning, and by tea-time you will receive it ready for turning in, the blanket washed and dried, the hair teazed and made so soft that you would scarcely fancy it was the same old "doss" again. ❋ J. J. Smith (N/A)

For myself, I had not been in a bed for so long that I positively felt restless, and almost rolled out of bed so as to have a comfortable "doss" on the ground (it seemed like a case of the pig returning to its wallowing). ❋ P. T. Ross (N/A)

There are many kinds of doss-houses, but in one thing they are all alike, from the filthy little ones to the monster big ones paying five per cent. and blatantly lauded by smug middle-class men who know but one thing about them, and that one thing is their uninhabitableness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They have remedied many of the atrocities attendant upon the irresponsible small doss-houses, and they give the workman more for his money than he ever received before; but that does not make them as habitable or wholesome as the dwelling-place of a man should be who does his work in the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I believe Gadget wrote about the tendency of many “Police Officers” to do the bare minimum at the front line before trying to find a comfy doss job. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Embankment; but things looked brighter for next week, and he might possibly get in a few days 'work and have a bed in some doss-house. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One arm only he sported, from the shoulder of which was suspended a small and tattered bundle with the mud caked dry on the outer covering from the last place he had pitched his doss. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The little private doss-houses, as a rule, are unmitigated horrors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To pound one's wife to a jelly and break a few of her ribs is a trivial offence compared with sleeping out under the naked stars because one has not the price of a doss. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Many a distillery's flowed under the bridge since we were gentlemen; but let's forget the long road we've travelled since, and hit our doss in the good old fashion in which every gentleman went to bed when we were young." ❋ Unknown (2010)

"You cawn't ever come back 'ere again for a doss," they warned me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"On the doss," they call vagabondage here, which corresponds to "on the road" in the United States. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In both instances, I found that the smallpox was the cause of their being "on the doss," which means on the tramp. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Just as we've become adept at finding the shortest and the quickest and the most economical, so we can sniff out anything that's not a doss. ❋ Michael Hofmann (2010)

I'm not suggesting that Essex is some kind of Steinbeckian doss house. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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