Meaning of dosser | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work.
   British, Ireland
2. A pannier or basket.
   obsolete
3. rare a bag or basket for carrying objects on the back
   rare
4. A homeless and jobless person.
5. A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
   obsolete
6. Brit a person who sleeps in dosshouses
   Brit
7. One who lodges in a doss-house.
8. (Social Welfare) Brit another word for dosshouse
   Brit
9. a lazy person; idler
10. n (Brit inf) → Penner(in) m(f) (inf), → Stadtstreicher(in) m(f)
    n

Examples

“Illustrating the strength of feeling, some said Dorries was “never here and is as useful as a chocolate teapot”, while “Dosser Dorries” posters appeared in the area.”

“Formerly they endeavoured to occupy all the seats, but the lynx-eyed Metropolitan Police declined to allow any such proceedings, and the dossers, knowing the invariable kindness of the City Police, made tracks for that portion of the Embankment which, lying east of the Temple, comes under the control of the Civic Fathers.”

“To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers.”

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