Dosser

I have used inappropriate words through my radio coms i.e. inbred, dick, dosser etc. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

Darling posed in front of the irrelevant SLAM beds waffling about this, “free floating number”, avoiding the dosser hovels they stuff heroes into, the family accommodation. ❋ Newmania (2007)

From a no-hope dosser from a poor area of England's north east I learnt that no matter where you came from or what had happened to you the future was yours to grasp and shape. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A bitch and a slag apparently, because I was laughing with Kate so she thought I was going to be a bit of a dosser and was probably laughing at her. ❋ Onlyemma (2006)

What would people think if they saw him rummaging through rubbish like some old dosser? ❋ Unknown (2003)

A happy dosser was nosing along the lane and Mr. Mack watched with lenient disdain. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

When he came to the street Mr. Mack touched a finger to his hat, but the happy dosser paid him no regard. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

While it was true that, with the number of tourists wandering about the area looking for Regent's Park, the wax museum or the planetarium, the local police might not keep in mind the occasional dosser they ordered to move along, it did seem reasonable to conclude that someone might be able to identify him with the assistance of what they now had: the sketch. ❋ George, Elizabeth (1996)

"We reckon it's probably a dosser - crept in there to sleep and got hypothermia." ❋ Wingfield, R. D. (1995)

He half expected to disturb a dosser or perhaps even the boy they had been told to look out for, the seven-year-old who had gone out with his guy and still wasn't home at eleven o'clock at night. ❋ Wingfield, R. D. (1995)

Maigret almost held his breath, and kept his eyes fixed on the dosser, who was gazing at him and who, slowly, made up his mind to look at the bargee. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)

A little game that went on until one morning in the full heat of summer, when the Superintendent halted beside the dosser, who was eating a chunk of bread and drinking some red wine. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)

Maigret realised then that he would extract nothing further from the dosser, and when the Ward Sister came to tell them they had stayed long enough, he did not protest. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)

Out of the pile of old newspapers that served to keep the dosser warm, Maigret had just pulled out a small painted toy horse with one leg broken. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)

“I suppose you know that the dosser had been knocked on the head before being thrown into the water?” ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)

Secure upon this point he digs up a nice lot and then fills up his dosser with two sorts of bulbous plants which secrete a glutinous substance but whose name and quality I have never found out. ❋ Giovanni Battista Cerruti (1882)