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soss

/sɒs/

soss noun: anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.

Noun (1)

soss (plural sosses)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.

Verb (1)

soss (third-person singular simple present sosses, present participle sossing, simple past and past participle sossed)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To soil; to make dirty.
    Synonyms:
    beclart, elt, stain, assoil, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth

Verb (2)

soss (third-person singular simple present sosses, present participle sossing, simple past and past participle sossed)

  1. To fall suddenly into a chair or seat; to sit lazily.
    • sossing in an easy chair1723, Jonathan Swift, Stella at Wood Park
  2. To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss.
    • the coach sosses up and down as one goes that wayMay 24 1711, Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella – Letter 24

Noun (2)

soss (plural sosses)

  1. (obsolete) A lazy fellow.
  2. A heavy fall.
    • wi a soss aboon the claiths
      Ilk ane their gifts down flang1828, William Carr, The Dialect of Craven

Noun (3)

soss (plural sosses)

  1. (slang) A sausage (food product).
    • "Where's Bozz? He never misses a soss sizzle."2012, Carl Leckey, The Very, Very, Last Moa, page 28

Noun (4)

soss (countable and uncountable, plural sosses)

  1. (rare) eye-dialect spelling of sauce

Proper noun capitalized: Soss

Soss

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of soss

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Forms of soss

Noun
pluralsosses
alternative formsuss
Verb
third-person singular presentsosses
present participlesossing
past participlesossed
pastsossed

Origin of soss

From Middle English sosse, sos, soos (“hounds' meat; a mess of food”), of uncertain origin. See sesspool.

Compare souse.

Phonetic spelling of a clipping of sausage

Words formed from soss

Words that rhyme with soss

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Questions about soss

What does soss mean?
Soss means anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.
What part of speech is soss?
Soss can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce soss?
Soss is pronounced /sɒs/.
What is the plural of soss?
The plural of soss is sosses.

Words near soss in the dictionary

  1. Sosnowiec
  2. Sosnowski
  3. Sosnowskis
  4. Soso
  5. Sospita
  6. soss
  7. sossed
  8. sosses
  9. sossing
  10. sossle
  11. sossled

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