A hassock stuffed with straw; a bed—properly, a straw bed; whence the cant word for a lodging-house is a dossingken. Dossel is an old word for a bundle of hay or straw, and dosser for a…
(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…
to whom Burns has addressed several of his songs, was Miss Fleming, daughter of a farmer in the parish of Tarbolton, Ayrshire. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
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One who sleeps in a low or cheap hired dormitory. The verb doss = to sleep. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Do-the-Boys' HallDoss-house A B C D E F G…
A promise-maker and a promise-breaker. Antigonos, grandson of Demetrios the besieger, was so called. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894DossDositheans A B C…
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