单词 | doss |
释义 | doss From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdossdoss1 /dɒs $ dɑːs/ verb [intransitive] British English informal (also doss down) to sleep somewhere that is not your usual place, or not a real bed I dossed down on the couch downstairs. → doss around/about→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusdoss• He meant he'd find somewhere to doss down, and that included me.• She knew that Harry liked to doss down in the porch.• I suppose that'd be to stop folks like Vern - like me and Vern - using them to doss down in.• Nor are folk expected to doss down on a pair of planks across the bath.• You can stay here, if you don't mind dossing down on the floor.• The party finished late, so I just dossed on the floor at Adele's.• He lets you doss on the floor of his bedroom.• Here he was a punter, a champagne Charlie, dossing with the underclass.dossdoss2 noun British English informal → a dossOrigin doss1 (1700-1800) doss “a (place to) sleep” ((18-20 centuries)), probably from French dos “back”, from the idea of lying on your back doss2 (1800-1900) doss “a sleep” ( → DOSS1), from the idea of something you could do in your sleep |
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