| 词汇 | doss |
| 词源 | doss. A British word hardly used by Americans in conversa- tion but encountered fairly frequently in literature. It means 1) a bed, 2) to sleep outside as homeless people do, and 3) some- thing that is easy, not very difficult. Doss house refers to what Americans would call a flop house, and to doss about means “to goof off.” |
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