different between coss vs doss

English

Alternative forms

• koss

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ??? (kos), from Sanskrit ????? (kró?a, “cry, yell; measure of distance”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

coss (plural cosses or coss)

1. (South Asia) A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘In Flood Time’, In Black and White, Folio Society 2005, pp. 410-11:

     A full half koss from bank to bank is the stream now – you can see it under the stars – and there are ten feet of water therein.

Anagrams

• CSOs, SCOs, Socs, socs

Old English

Alternative forms

• cos

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /koss/, [kos]

Noun

coss m

1. kiss

Declension

Derived terms

• cyssan

Descendants

• Middle English: cos, cus, kis, kys
  • English: kiss
  • Yola: kesse

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /d?s/
• Rhymes: -?s, -??s

Etymology

Perhaps from Latin dorsum (“the back”), i.e. what one lies on when sleeping; perhaps from English dialect doss (“a hassock”).

Verb

doss (third-person singular simple present dosses, present participle dossing, simple past and past participle dossed)

1. (intransitive, Britain and Ireland) To avoid work, shirk, etc.

2. (intransitive, Britain, slang) To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless

Noun

doss (countable and uncountable, plural dosses)

1. (slang, Britain and Ireland) The avoidance of work.

2. (slang, Britain and Ireland) An easy piece of work.

3. (slang, dated, Britain and Ireland) A place to sleep in; a bed.
4. (slang, dated, Britain and Ireland, by extension) Sleep.

Adjective

doss (not comparable)

1. (Scotland) Useless or lazy. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt.

2. (Scotland) Good, desirable.

See also

• doss about
• doss around
• doss down
• doss-house
• doss off
• dosser

Anagrams

• DSOs, SDOs, dsos, sods