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dossers

dossers is the plural of dosser.

Meaning of dosser

Noun (1)

dosser (plural dossers)

  1. (Ireland, UK) Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work.
    • 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.2023 October 20, “Labour takes Nadine Dorries’ former seat in Mid Bedfordshire byelection”, in The Guardian, UK
  2. A homeless and jobless person.
    • 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...1890, William Booth, chapter 3, in In Darkest England and the Way Out
  3. One who lodges in a doss-house.

Noun (2)

dosser (plural dossers)

  1. (obsolete) A pannier or basket.
    • To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers.1626 February 13 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey...
  2. (obsolete) A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.

Questions about dossers

What is dossers the plural of?
Dossers is the plural of dosser.

Words near dossers in the dictionary

  1. dossel
  2. dossels
  3. dosser
  4. dosseret
  5. dosserets
  6. dossers
  7. dosses
  8. dosses about
  9. dosses around
  10. dosses down
  11. dosses off

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