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词汇 dosser
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Definition of dosser in English:

dosser

noun ˈdɒsə
British derogatory, informal
  • 1A person who sleeps rough; a tramp.

    随处栖身的人;流浪汉

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He could have chosen to do other, less famous people, and has done that on many occasions, such as dossers and other working-class figures.
    • Who else would buy up 6250 cans, only to give all the cans away to dossers?
    • The bus skirted the town, passing a cluster of dossers drinking out of brown paper bags.
    • Alighting from a shuttle bus, the merry band of revellers spot a dosser lying prone and fully concealed under a blanket inside a bus shelter.
    • He knew that the ruling class are in some ways as much outsiders as vagrants and dossers, which is why the landowner has a sneaking sympathy for the poacher.
    Synonyms
    poor person, pauper, indigent, bankrupt, insolvent
  • 2An idle person.

    懒散的人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was a joker, and I was a dosser - always having a laugh, not taking it seriously either.
    • I sat there fearing the worse on day one and envisaged all the stereotype dossers sitting in my class.
    • There had been an exchange of insults between them with allegations of each being a dosser.
    • For incompetents and dossers prosper only at the expense of good workers.
    • Now it turns out I have to co-ordinate strikes and represent these dossers.

Rhymes

Barbarossa, embosser, fossa, glosser, josser, Ossa, Saragossa
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