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dosser
· noun · irish
A skiver. Someone who'll do anything except work.
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A lazy article. A work-dodger, a class-mitcher, someone who treats effort as optional. 'Dossing' = skiving, messing about instead of getting on with it.
“He's a complete dosser — three hours late and straight on the phone.”
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A vagrant or rough sleeper — the older British sense. Mostly faded in Ireland, where the lazy-skiver meaning dominates.
“There was an old dosser asleep in the doorway.”
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dosser In A Sentence
He's a complete dosser — three hours late and straight on the phone.
There was an old dosser asleep in the doorway.
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What does dosser mean?
A dosser is a skiver — someone who'll do anything to avoid actual work.
How do you use dosser in a sentence?
"He's a total dosser, leaves the rest of us to do all the heavy lifting."
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