LekhoriLekhoriTo avoid work, shirk, etc.
I am going to doss tomorrow when the match is on.
To sleep, especially in the open or in a makeshift bed, commonly in a derelict building because one is homeless.
I normally have to doss in shop doorways or on park benches.
The avoidance of work.
I am going to have a doss tomorrow.
An easy piece of work.
Circumnavigating the world in a canoe is no doss.
Useless or lazy. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt.
Get a hauld o yersel, ya doss cunt!
Good, desirable.
The place is pure doss, like.
A surname.
Perhaps from Latin dorsum (“the back”), i.e. what one lies on when sleeping; perhaps from English dialect doss (“a hassock”).
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