doss
pronunciation
How to pronounce doss in British English:
UK [dɒs]
How to pronounce doss in American English:
US [dɑs]
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- Verb:
- sleep in a convenient place
Word Origin
- doss
- doss: [18] The use of doss in senses associated with ‘lying down on a bed’ comes from an earlier notion of ‘lying on one’s back’. In the 18th century the word was dorse, a borrowing from Latin dorsum ‘back’, but by the 19th century it had become doss, perhaps owing to the influence of French dos. Other English words from the same source include endorse, the adjective dorsal [15], and dossier [19]. This was acquired from French dossier, a derivative of dos, which originally signified a ‘bunch of papers with a label on the back’.=> dorsal, dossier, endorse
Example
- 1. We may as well doss down here tonight .
- 2. Can we doss at your house ?
- 3. Never mind , we can doss down in the car .
- 4. Where did you doss down last night ?
- 5. Cause we have no money for food and no money for a doss .