dosser

Example Sentences

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Fury has incessantly taunted Usyk in social media posts over the past year or so, repeatedly labelling him a "dosser".

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2023

Banners dotted around a constituency calling MP Nadine Dorries a "dosser" were "embarrassing", the chair of the Mid Bedfordshire Conservatives said.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2023

The actors perform adjectives instead of characters: a photographer is "perky"; a young woman is "buxom"; a dosser is "downtrodden" or "defiant"; a policeman – like much of the dialogue – is "plodding".

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2013

“Vell, I didn’t go because of bein’ axed to go, you may be sure o’ that, but my little dosser, Tim Lumpy, you remember ’im?

From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

The children, dancing ahead of the wagons, stirring up the dust of the street, the old people plodding along after, the infant, or the loaf of bread and the jug of coffee in the dosser.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various