Lexicographical Neighbors of Sossing
Literary usage of Sossing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"To Lift'y's stinking tide at Dublin; From wholesome exercise and air, To sossing
in an easy chair ; From stomach sharp, and hearty feeding, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"... The little bairn seemed sorely on it;" " Oh, I've been sorely on it." SOSS, v.
and 5.—To slop, mess ; a slop or mess. You're sossing about for ever. ..."
3. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1904)
"... Cham fain abroad to dig and delve, in water, mire, and clay, sossing and
possing in the dirt still from day to day. ..."
4. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1903)
"What devill had you els to do ? ye kept, ich wot, no sheepe ! Cham faine abrode
to dyg and delve, in water, myre, and claye, 25 sossing and possing in the ..."
5. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1903)
"What devill had you els to do ? ye kept, ich wot, no sheepe ! Cham faine abrode
to dyg and delve, in water, myre, and claye, 25 sossing and possing in the ..."
6. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"A hundred things that be abroad cham set to see and clay, sossing and possing in
the dirt still from day to them well: And four of you sit idle at home ..."
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