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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of doss.

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Examples

  • WV: dosess - I will need three dosses of beer after seeing these cakes!

    Think They're Organic? [smirk] Jen 2009

  • Wilson, as he "dosses down" on the floor, suggests sleepily to Private

    Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France Vernon Bartlett 1938

  • I don't know but what it might be that there smooth young 'un who dosses hisself up to look like an English gent.

    Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris George Manville Fenn 1870

  • I suppose you mean antependia, rere-dosses, stone altars, copes, and mitres, "said Willis innocently;" which certainly are not in

    Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert John Henry Newman 1845

  • Then had we none but _rere dosses_, (plates of iron or a coating of brick to enable the wall to resist the flame,) and our heads did never ache.

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Various 1840

  • When my brother comes back from university, the red carpet is rolled out (even though he eats all of our cheese, dosses about and stays in bed until 3pm every day), while I get the

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • When my brother comes back from university, the red carpet is rolled out (even though he eats all of our cheese, dosses about and stays in bed until 3pm every day), while I get the

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • Well more he's such a lazy twat that he just dosses off poolside for like his whole shift and leaves everyone else to do all the work.

    abutterfly Diary Entry abutterfly 2007

  • The Horns of Nimon, however, is by far the most entertaining of the three for me, and while the budget may be showing and a few of the performances are a little de trop, it's worth it for Lalla Ward's blistering Romana, one of the few times the Doctor's companion is essentially playing the Doctor (while he dosses about), and - as you might expect from rather good former script editor Anthony Read writing the script and Douglas Adams overseeing it - a strong underlying story and some very sharp lines.

    British Blogs Love 2010

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