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▪ I. soss, n.1 Now dial.
Also 5 sos, soos, 6 sose, 6–7 sosse.
[? Imitative of the sound of lapping.]
1.
†a. (See quots.) Obs. rare.
In many English dialects soss is used as a call to dogs and pigs at feeding-time.
c1440Promp. Parv. 465 Sos, howndysmete,..cantabrum. 1530Palsgr. 273/1 Sosse or a rewarde for houndes, whan they have taken their game, hvuee.
b. Sc. and dial. A sloppy mess or mixture; a dish of food having this character.
1691Ray N. Co. Words (ed. 2) 66 A Soss, a mucky Puddle. a1728Kennett MSS. (Halliw.), Of any one that mixes several slops, or makes any place wet and dirty, we say in Kent, he makes a soss. 1802Sibbald Chron. S.P. IV. Gloss., Soss, a large dish of flummery. 1842J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 128 Tea sosses ought not to be endured in the manse kitchen..: porridge is infinitely preferable. 1847Chambers Tradit. Edinb. 164 Lucky could furnish forth a soss—that is stew. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss. 137 You mak such sosses, for all the world like pigs.
2. A sloven, slut, or slattern.
1611Cotgr., Halebreda,..a luske, a slouch; a sosse. 1901in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., A bonny soss o' a wife Nancy Taylor 'ud mak'!
▪ II. soss, n.2 Chiefly dial.|sɒs|
[Imitative: cf. soss v.2 and sosh.]
1. The sound made by a heavy, soft body falling upon or otherwise coming in contact with a surface; a heavy, awkward fall. Chiefly in the phr. with a soss.
1718Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. iii, And wi' a soss aboon the claiths, Ilk ane their gifts down flang. 1796W. H. Marshall Yorksh. (ed. 2) II. 346 ‘To fall with a soss,’ to fall plumb. 1802Sibbald Chron. S.P. IV. Gloss., Soss, noise made by the fall of something heavy and soft. 1825–in northern glossaries, etc. 1901A. Trotter Earl Galloway Sk. 59/2 Sandy came and sat down with a ‘soss’ on a chest by her bedside.
2. The sound made by impact upon water.
1885Pall Mall G. 5 May 4/1 The soss, soss of her bows as she ‘punches’ the waves asunder.
▪ III. soss
variant of sasse Obs.
▪ IV. soss, v.1 Now north. dial. and Sc.
[f. soss n.1]
1. a. trans. To make foul or dirty.
1557Tusser 100 Points Husb. lxxii, Their milke slapt in corners, their creame al to sost. 1573― Husb. (1878) 106 Her milke pan and creame pot, so slabbered and sost.
b. ? To drench, soak.
1587Mirr. Mag., Brennus ix, The cause why so God Neptune did me tosse: Why boyling Seas with surges so me sosse.
2. intr. To splash in mud or dirt.
Also Sc., to make or use sloppy food or other messes.
1575Gamm. Gurton i. iv. 26 Cham faine a-brode to dyg and delue, in water, myre and claye, Sossing and possing in the durte. 1876C. C. Robinson Mid-Yks. Gloss. 131/2 Soss, to..tread heavily—implying a forceful yielding to pressure, as when..the feet plash through it [sc. mud]. 1951Auden Nones (1952) 39 The three wise Maries come, Sossing through seamless waters.
3. trans. To lap or lick up. Also with up.
1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Eunuch v. iv, They will slabber & sosse up browne bread in pottage. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray, Sosse, v., [a word] proper to dogs. 1781–in northern dial. glossaries. 1892M. C. F. Morris Yorksh. Folk-Talk 375 T' dog 's sossin all t' cat milk.
Hence ˈsossing vbl. n.
1824Scott St. Ronan's xxxii, A wheen cork-headed, barmy-brained gowks! that wunna let puir folk sae muckle as die in quiet, wi' their sossings and their soopings.
▪ V. soss, v.2 Now dial. and Sc.
[Cf. soss n.2]
†1. trans. To put up so as to rest softly. Obs.
1711Swift Jrnl. to Stella 10 March, I went to-day into the City, but in a coach and sossed up my leg on the seat.
†2. intr. To move gently; to lounge lazily. Obs.
1711Swift Jrnl. to Stella 7 June, Yes, yes, I remember Berested's bridge; the coach sosses up and down as one goes that way. 1723― Stella at Wood Park Misc. 1735 V. 209 Poor Stella must pack off to Town:..From whole⁓some Exercise and Air, To sossing in an easy Chair.
3. To fall with a thud or heavy impact. Also spec. in Mining.
1789Davidson Seasons 100 Providence oft gets into one scale, To keep the proper poise, when easfu' bliss, Into the other, sosses, overpond'rous. 1825Jamieson Suppl., To Soss, to fall down as a dead weight, to come to the ground as it were all in a piece. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-m. 230 Sos, to sink into the floor under great pressure from over⁓lying strata. 1898C. J. C. Hyne Capt. Kettle 294 Looks like as if they were going to soss down slap on top of us.
b. To sit down heavily.
c1790A. Wilson in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 100 We'll hotch awa'..And soss down on yon sinny stane. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-Bk. 399 'Er sossed down i' the cheer all at wunst.
4. trans. To cast or throw heavily.
1855–in dialect glossaries, etc.
▪ VI. soss, adv. Now dial.
[Cf. soss n.2 and v.2]
With a heavy fall or dull thud.
1760Sterne Tr. Shandy iii. xxiv, Mrs. Bridget..fell backwards soss against the bridge. 1862–in northern glossaries. |