dosser

Example Sentences

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Fury has incessantly taunted Usyk in social media posts over the past year or so, repeatedly labelling him a "dosser".

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2023

Banners dotted around a constituency calling MP Nadine Dorries a "dosser" were "embarrassing", the chair of the Mid Bedfordshire Conservatives said.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2023

The actors perform adjectives instead of characters: a photographer is "perky"; a young woman is "buxom"; a dosser is "downtrodden" or "defiant"; a policeman – like much of the dialogue – is "plodding".

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2013

From time to time a ray of light passed between his legs, tracing a great quarter of a circle on the pavement; and in the shadow a man appeared with his dosser and his lantern.

From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Flaubert, Gustave

“Vell, I didn’t go because of bein’ axed to go, you may be sure o’ that, but my little dosser, Tim Lumpy, you remember ’im?

From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)