doss
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"The weather means they have not had much to do but doss around eating good grass," Mrs McGrath said.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2021
“I was raised with the idea that the arts were a doss – but the arts are vital,” he continues.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2016
The newcomers doss down in Atma's former police station.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2012
“It’s only”—Moron checked that we weren't being overheard—“gone and froze solid! Half the kids in the village're there, right now. Ace doss or what?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
“Then”—she pointed to the bonnet of the tractor—“you can doss there.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
I don’t know but what it might be that there smooth young ’un who dosses hisself up to look like an English gent.
From Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris by Steven Spurrier
He grew up in Clydebank, dossed around at school and left with no qualifications.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2021
He drew out the inclosure, unfolded it, and saw that the paper bore the printed address of the Sailors' Home where Casey dossed when ashore, and where writing-paper was supplied gratis.
From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
I’ve been whalin’ up the Lachlan, and I’ve dossed on Cooper’s Creek, And once I rung Cudjingie shed, and blued it in a week.
From The Old Bush Songs by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
Like two needles in a blinkin' 'aystack clickin' every time—an' 'taint as if the Gunners dossed down reglar with the Line either.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919 by Various
He had got his battery into position at about two o'clock, and they had dossed down beside the guns.
From Pushed and the Return Push by George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
Now, in a Tomb Raider movie out this week, Alicia Vikander plays a tearaway Croft dossing around in London.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2018
When I first heard he went missing, I thought he was just dossing around in someone's house.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2016
And by the way, we’re nicking this castle you’ve been dossing in and giving it to 100 poor families.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2014
It was Matilde and, if her reasoning might have been influenced by the possibility of Mourinho dossing about the lounge during the week, it was undoubtedly sound.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2014
But Gary Drake's Ross Wilcox's cousin so they're always dossing about together.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
