different between soss vs sosh

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s/

Etymology 1

From Middle English sosse, sos, soos (“hounds' meat; a mess of food”), of uncertain origin. See sesspool.

Alternative forms

• suss

Noun

soss (plural sosses)

1. (Britain, dialect) Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.

Verb

soss (third-person singular simple present sosses, present participle sossing, simple past and past participle sossed)

1. (Britain, dialect) To soil; to make dirty.

Etymology 2

Compare souse.

Verb

soss (third-person singular simple present sosses, present participle sossing, simple past and past participle sossed)

1. To fall suddenly into a chair or seat; to sit lazily.
   • 1723, Jonathan Swift, Stella at Wood Park

     sossing in an easy chair

2. To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss.
   • May 24 1711, Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella – Letter 24

     the coach sosses up and down as one goes that way

Noun

soss (plural sosses)

1. (obsolete) A lazy fellow.
2. A heavy fall.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Anagrams

• OSS's, OSSs, SSOs

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German sus. Cognate with German sonst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zos/
  • Rhymes: -os

Adverb

soss

1. otherwise
2. usually
3. elsewhere

Conjunction

soss

1. otherwise, or else

   Du muss dech fläissen, soss verpass du den Zuch.

   You must hurry up, or else you will miss the train.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /so??/

Etymology 1

Noun

sosh (plural soshes)

1. (slang) Abbreviation of various terms beginning "social"; used especially in compound terms.

   • In Hoover's second year there rose a prophet of the "barbs" or non-fraternity men whose appropriate name was Zion. His constant tilting against things as they are gave him the nickname of "Sosh" short for Socialist.

   • This, more than anything else, was the true sign of a high school social climber known as the “sosh.” The teeth-baring sosh (long o) began as a glimmer in the eye.

   • Both had taught at different times in the Military Academy's Social Sciences Department […] “Sosh,” as the academic department was called […]

   • In the face of Reid's prominent ‘anti-Sosh’ campaign (in reality an attempt to wedge Deakin's supporters), Labor held its ground in the 1906 election […]

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sosh.
   1. (slang) A social security number.

      • He handed her a paper with Erik Last's DOB and Visa card number. "This guy wouldn't give me his sosh." His social security number.

Etymology 2

Short for association store.

Noun

sosh (plural soshes)

1. (Scotland, slang) A co-op.

   • Weddings were celebrated among the Auld Lichts by showers of ha'pence, .... Willie Todd, the best man, ... slipped through the back window ... and making a bolt for it to the "'Sosh," was back in a moment with a handful of small change.
     Barrie's usage is annotated in Hammerton, cited below.

   • An' as I thocht that a wee hair o' pepper would help to gie the gruel a gude flavour, I opened ane o' the wee bits o' pockies that had been brocht by Marget on the Saturday frae the Sosh an' put in a grain o' its contents.

   • Maggie, rin you to the sosh for a peck o' saut.

   • In many Scottish villages, the Co-operative Store is known as the “Sosh[.]”

References

• Joseph Wright, editor (1904) The English Dialect Dictionary, volume R-S, page 625

  (Entry on sosh, including verbal and adverbial meanings.)

Anagrams

• Hoss, Sohs, hoss, shos, sohs