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doss

[dos] / dɒs /
NOUN
bunk
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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"The weather means they have not had much to do but doss around eating good grass," Mrs McGrath said.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2021

“I was raised with the idea that the arts were a doss – but the arts are vital,” he continues.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2016

The newcomers doss down in Atma's former police station.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2012

“Then”—she pointed to the bonnet of the tractor—“you can doss there.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

One time, Pluto Noak opened the emergency exit for a doss.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

I don’t know but what it might be that there smooth young ’un who dosses hisself up to look like an English gent.

From Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris by Steven Spurrier

He grew up in Clydebank, dossed around at school and left with no qualifications.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2021

"Not in my bunk," returned Ned, who with Gribbs was one of the few who still dossed in the fo'c's'le.

From The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various

The Staff have made up their minds that we should be very much in the wrong box if we dossed down on the toe of the Peninsula.

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Sir Ian Hamilton

You couldn't put him into my seat and fly him to Kot Ghazi while I dossed down with the camel and waited for you to come for me.

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Percival Christopher Wren

I’ve been whalin’ up the Lachlan, and I’ve dossed on Cooper’s Creek, And once I rung Cudjingie shed, and blued it in a week.

From The Old Bush Songs by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

Now, in a Tomb Raider movie out this week, Alicia Vikander plays a tearaway Croft dossing around in London.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2018

When I first heard he went missing, I thought he was just dossing around in someone's house.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2016

And by the way, we’re nicking this castle you’ve been dossing in and giving it to 100 poor families.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2014

It was Matilde and, if her reasoning might have been influenced by the possibility of Mourinho dossing about the lounge during the week, it was undoubtedly sound.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2014

But Gary Drake's Ross Wilcox's cousin so they're always dossing about together.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell


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