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語源 1

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

別の表記

• suss

名詞

soss (plural sosses)

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

動詞

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

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

   Synonyms: beclart, elt, stain; see also Thesaurus:dirty

派生語

語源 2

Compare souse.

動詞

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

名詞

soss (plural sosses)

1. (obsolete) A lazy fellow.
2. A heavy fall.
   • 1828, William Carr, The Dialect of Craven:

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

語源 3

Phonetic spelling of a clipping of sausage

名詞

soss (plural sosses)

1. (slang) A sausage (food product).
   • 2012, Carl Leckey, The Very, Very, Last Moa, page 28:

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

名詞

soss (countable and uncountable, plural sosses)

1. (rare) eye-dialect spelling of sauce

参照

• “soss”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• OSS's, OSSs, SSOs