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slang for a reasonable amount of spending money, for instance enough for a 'night-out'. Almost certainly and logically derived from the slang 'doss-house', meaning a very cheap hostel or room, from Elizabethan England when 'doss' was a straw bed, from 'dossel' meaning bundle of straw, in turn from the French 'dossier' meaning bundle. Dosh appears to have originated in this form in the US in the 19th century, and then re-emerged in more popular use in the UK in the mid-20th century.
Noun. 1. A person who sleeps rough, a homeless person. Derog. 2. A person who lives by exerting the least amount of personal effort. Derog.
Stupid person; DIMWIT, MORON. Notes: derived from "Dim as a TOC-H light." (Doss-house). (ed: In all fairness, we should praise the work Toc-H has done over the last 50+ years to promote the creation of "a fairer society by working with communities to promote friendship and service, confront prejudice and practise reconciliation." - to find out more visit http://www.toch.org.uk/)
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Dosshouse is British slang for a cheap lodging house, especially one used by tramps.
Doss money is British slang for the money required for a night's lodging.
v sit about not doing much. You might describe one of your less-productive colleagues as a dosser, because he (or she, I suppose — laziness is not quite confined to males) sits around dossing all the time instead of working.
Derogatory term for Gipsys. particularly the type that live in communes of stinking caravans with pyres of junked Mk 4 Granadas and heaps of domestic rubbish left festering on public open spaces. c.f. Hackney Marshes today! Note: not the real Romany types , but dirty workshy theiving bastards. Otherwise, tramp, dosser, one who wears old clothes or someone will stoop to pick up a 2p coin from a street
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Dosser is slang for a vagrant.Dosser is British slang for person who sleeps in dosshouses.Dosser was th century British slang for a large basket.
An exceptionaly lazy person
Dossbag is British slang for a sleeping bag.Dossbag is British slang for a lazy or slovenly person.
Doss down is British slang for to lie down to sleep.
(1) Do nothing or as little as possible during a lesson. (2) An easy task. "General Studies is a right doss!" (3) The end of a cigarette that has been smoked, usu. by an older or richer boy or girl. "save us a doss."
Doss is slang for a place to sleep in such as a bed and also to sleep. Doss is British slang for an unpleasant person.
Verb. 1. To sleep rough. {Informal} 2. To rest, to idle away time. Often followed by about or around. E.g."I spent the weekend dossing around with my mates on Blackpool beach." Noun. An easy task. E.g."That maths exam was a doss." {Informal}
Doss around is British slang for to do nothing in particular.
Dossy is slang for stupid, simple.
out of work
Verb. To sleep rough. Also doss-down. {Informal}
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A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.
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Same as Dorsal, n.
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A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
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A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.
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A pannier, or basket.
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See Dosser.
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