Dosser

Definition: Dosser

Dosser

Noun

1. Someone who sleeps in any convenient place.

Etymology: Dosser \Dos"ser\, noun. [from Late Latin expression dosserum, or French dossier bundle of papers, part of basket resting on the back, from the Latin expression dorsum back. See Dorsal, and compare to Dosel.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Dosser One who sleeps in a low or cheap hired dormitory. The verb doss = to sleep. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Dosser

Synonym: street person (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Receptacle	Vessel, vase, bushel, barrel; canister, jar; pottle, basket, pannier, buck-basket, hopper, maund, creel, cran, crate, cradle, bassinet, wisket, whisket, jardiniere, corbeille, hamper, dosser, dorser, tray, hod, scuttle, utensil; brazier; cuspidor, spittoon.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dosser

English words defined with "dosser": Dorser. (references)

"Dosser" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dosser" is used about 6 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%	6	143,867

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "dosser": lobby-dosser.
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Language		Translations for "dosser"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		tulák (beachcomber, drifter, gadabout, hobo, itinerant, landloper, landraker, prowler, rambler, Ranger, rogue, rover, stroller, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wayfarer), pobuda (bum, rogue, straggler, vagabond, vagrant), bezdomovec (displaced person, homeless, stray). (various references)

Finnish		rappioalkoholisti (meths drinker). (various references)

Hungarian		hajléktalan (homeless, houseless, roofless, to be without a roof to one's head, unhoused), éjjeli menedékhely lakója. (various references)

Korean		게으름뱅이. (various references)

Pig Latin		osserday

Romanian		locuitor al unui azil de noapte. (various references)

Russian		бродяга (bum, derelict, drifter, drummer, gadabout, gadder, hobo, landloper, landlouper, maverick, nomad, prowler, rambler, rogue, runabout, runagate, stroller, sundowner, tramp, tramper, vagabond, vagrant), бездомный (bench-warmer, homeless, houseless, outcast, roofless, stray, strayer, unhoused, waif). (various references)

Thai		คนขี้เกียจ (lazybones, ne'er-do-well, ne've-do-well), คนจรจั�" (hobo). (various references)

Turkish		ucuz pansiyonda kalan kimse, serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, varmint, wandering, yob), nerede olsa yatan kimse, küfe (basket, crate, pannier), avare (dawdler, drifter, good-for-nothing, idle, idled, rover, straggler, straggling, straggly, strayed, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering, yob). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dosser": dosseret, dosserets, dossers. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: dosers, resods.
	Words within the letters "d-e-o-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: doers, doser, doses, dress, dross, redos, resod, rosed, roses, sords, sores.
	-2 letters: doer, does, dore, dors, dose, doss, eros, odes, ores, oses, redo, reds, rode, rods, roes, rose, sers, sods, sord, sore.
	-3 letters: doe, dor, dos, eds, ers, ess, ode, ods, oes, ore, ors, ose, red, res, rod, roe, ser, sod, sos.
	-4 letters: de.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-o-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: crossed, desorbs, dorsels, dorsers, dossers, dossier, dousers, dowsers, drosses, drowses, grossed, rodless, sarodes, solders, sonders.
	+2 letters: assorted, bedsores, cordless, defrosts, deposers, desirous, destroys, devisors, disposer, disrobes, doorless, dosseret, dossiers, dourness, dropsies, droseras, droskies, drossier, endorses, fordless, frosteds, hidroses, indorses, lordless, lordoses, misdoers, odorless, oersteds, oldsters, outdress, oversuds, resounds, responds, roadless, rosebuds, scolders, scowders, serfdoms, smolders, soldiers, sordines, sounders, steroids, torsades, wordless, worsteds.
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