doss

About 0.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To avoid work, shirk, etc.

   I am going to doss tomorrow when the match is on.

2. verb 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.

3. noun The avoidance of work.

   I am going to have a doss tomorrow.

4. noun An easy piece of work.

   Circumnavigating the world in a canoe is no doss.

5. noun A place to sleep in; a bed.
6. noun Sleep.
7. adjective Useless or lazy. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt.

   Get a hauld o yersel, ya doss cunt!

8. adjective Good, desirable.

   The place is pure doss, like.

Similar words

doss down crash doce duc dodge the column skive shirk shuck fainaigue skip out

Often followed by

not house and down was houses et in had

Word family

dossed dosses dossing