different between dosser vs bosser

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s?(?)/

Etymology 1

doss +? -er

Noun

dosser (plural dossers)

1. (Britain, Ireland) Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work.

   Synonyms: shirker; see also Thesaurus:idler

2. A homeless and jobless person.
3. One who lodges in a doss-house.

Etymology 2

Late Latin dosserum, or French dossier (“bundle of papers, part of a basket resting on the back”), from Latin dorsum (“back”). See dorsal.

Alternative forms

• dorsel, dorser

Noun

dosser (plural dossers)

1. A pannier or basket.

   • To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers.

2. A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.

Anagrams

• Sedors, Soders, dorses, dosers, resods, rossed, soders, sordes

English

Etymology

boss +? -er?

Noun

bosser (plural bossers)

1. (Britain, dialect) A large marble.
   • 1953, Arthur Beckett, The Sussex County Magazine (volume 27, page 60)

     […] the ultimate winner is the man with the greatest number of marbles when play comes to an end. The games at Battle at the present time are played with glass marbles and locally made “bossers” of concrete.

   • 1997, Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie, Children's games with things (page 54)

     Modern children, having only machine-made glass marbles, are restricted to names describing their size, or the names under which they are sold, or fanciful names of their own inventing. Thus big marbles are big 'uns, bossers, bulls or bullies […]

Anagrams

• Bosers, Sobers, broses, sobers

Bavarian

Noun

bosser ?

1. (Sauris) water

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?.se/

Etymology 1

bosse +? -er; cf. bossoir

Verb

bosser

1. (nautical) to raise an anchor over the davit(s)

Etymology 2

boss +? -er

Verb

bosser

1. (France, slang) to work (to do a task)

Conjugation

Further reading

• “bosser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• brosse, brossé