Soss

//sɒs// name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle. UK, dialectal
  2. 2
    A lazy fellow. obsolete
  3. 3
    A sausage (food product). slang

    ""Where's Bozz? He never misses a soss sizzle.""

  4. 4
    eye-dialect spelling of sauce countable, rare, uncountable
  5. 5
    A heavy fall.

    "wi a soss aboon the claiths Ilk ane their gifts down flang"

Verb
  1. 1
    To soil; to make dirty. UK, dialectal
  2. 2
    To fall suddenly into a chair or seat; to sit lazily.

    "sossing in an easy chair"

  3. 3
    To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss.

    "the coach sosses up and down as one goes that way"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms
assoilbeclartbedaubbedirtybedizenbefile

Example

More examples

"the coach sosses up and down as one goes that way"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Compare souse.

Etymology 3

Phonetic spelling of a clipping of sausage

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