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doss-house

noun

Etymology

From doss + house.

  1. inherited from husen
  2. derived from *(s)kews-✻
  3. inherited from *hūsą✻ — “house”
  4. inherited from *hūs✻
  5. inherited from hūs — “dwelling, shelter, house”
  6. inherited from hous
  7. compounded as doss-house — “doss + house”

Definitions

  1. A place where homeless people can sleep for the night.

    • W. Besant They [street Arabs] consort together and sleep in low doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA