Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

soss

/sɒs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English

Syllables: soss
IPA: /sɒs/

4

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

2

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.

British usage

verb

To soil; to make dirty.

British usage

verb

To fall suddenly into a chair or seat; to sit lazily.

verb

To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss.

noun

Obsolete

noun

noun

A sausage (food product).

Slang

noun

eye-dialect spelling of sauce

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"sossing in an easy chair"
"the coach sosses up and down as one goes that way"
"wi a soss aboon the claiths Ilk ane their gifts down flang"
""Where's Bozz? He never misses a soss sizzle.""

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: sosse

Usage

Inflected Forms

sosses (plural) suss (alternative) sosses (present, singular) sossing (participle, present) sossed (participle, past) sossed (past)

Derived Forms

cesspool sossle sozzle

Synonyms

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

Rhymes With

across loss cross sauce cos toss moss dos gloss mos lacrosse ros

Questions

How do you pronounce soss?: The recorded pronunciation is /sɒs/.
What does soss mean?: Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.
Where does soss come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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