dosser

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work. Ireland,UK
    — 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.
  2. A pannier or basket. obsolete
    — To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers.
  3. 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 control of the Civic Fathers.
  4. A hanging tapestry; a dorsal. obsolete
  5. One who lodges in a doss-house.

词形变化

dossers plural dossers plural dorsel alternative dorser alternative

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English doss
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English dosser
From doss + -er.
词源 2
Late Latin dosserum, or French dossier (“bundle of papers, part of a basket resting on the back”), from Latin dorsum (“back”). See dorsal.
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