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soss¹

  • /sɒs/

Rhymes with -ɒs

Where it comes from

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

noun sosses · suss

  1. UK, dialectal Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.

verb sosses · sossing · sossed · suss

  1. UK, dialectal To soil; to make dirty.

    Similar: beclart, elt, stain, assoil, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul, begrime

soss²

  • /sɒs/

Rhymes with -ɒs

Where it comes from

Compare souse.

verb sosses · sossing · sossed

  1. To fall suddenly into a chair or seat; to sit lazily. sossing in an easy chair
  2. To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss. the coach sosses up and down as one goes that way

noun sosses

  1. obsolete A lazy fellow.
  2. A heavy fall. wi a soss aboon the claiths Ilk ane their gifts down flang

soss³

  • /sɒs/

Rhymes with -ɒs

Where it comes from

Phonetic spelling of a clipping of sausage

noun sosses

  1. slang A sausage (food product). "Where's Bozz? He never misses a soss sizzle."

noun sosses

  1. countable, rare, uncountable eye-dialect spelling of sauce

Soss⁴

proper noun

  1. A surname.

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@misc{soss_2026,
  title = {soss},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/soss},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}