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Date "DOSS-HOUSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Doss-house (A). A cheap lodging-house where the poorer classes sleep on bundles of straw. (See above.) In the New Review (Aug., 1894) there is an article entitled "In a Woman's Doss-house," which throws much light on the condition of the poor in London. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| "DOSS-HOUSE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DOSS-HOUSE" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DOSS-HOUSE": youth-hostel-cum-doss-house. | |
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| Language | Translations for "DOSS-HOUSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | koldustanya (doss house), éjjeli menedékhely (doss house, dump). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oss-houseday ночлежка (doss house, flophouse). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-o-o-s-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: osseous. | |
-3 letters: dosses, douses, housed, houses, shooed, soused, souses, sudses, sussed. | |
-4 letters: doses, douse, hoods, hosed, hoses, house, oohed, sheds, shoed, shoes, shoos, souse. | |
-5 letters: does, dose, doss, dues, duos, edhs, hods, hoed, hoes, hood, hose, hued, hues, odes, ohed, oohs, oses, ouds, shed, shes, shod, shoe, shoo, sods, sous, suds, sued, sues, suss. | |
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