subs. (vagrants’).—One who frequents a DOSS-HOUSE (q.v.).
’APPY-DOSSERS, subs. (vagrants’).—Houseless vagrants who creep in, sleep on stairs, in passages, and in empty cellars.
1880. G. R. SIMS, How the Poor Live, p. 43. A ‘APPY DOSSER can make himself comfortable anywhere. I heard of one who used to crawl into the dust-bin, and pull the lid down.
1883. Referee, 15 July, p. 7, col. 2. The Lazaruses of to-day don’t lie exactly at Dives’s front door—the police are too active to allow such HAPPY DOSSING as that.
THE DOSSER, subs.—The father of a family.
