dosser
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdɒsə(ɹ)/
dosser (plural dossers)
- (British, Ireland) Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work.
- A homeless and jobless person.
- One who lodges in a doss-house.
- (one who avoids work) shirker, see also Thesaurus:idler
dosser (plural dossers)
- A pannier or basket.
- (Can we date this quote?), Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972 ↗, Act 5, scene 1:
- To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers.
- A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
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