TO DOSS (or SNOOZE) IN HEDGE-SQUARE (or STREET), verb. phr. (vagrants’).—To sleep in the open air.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS.—To skipper it; to doss with the daisies: to be under the blue blanket; to put up at the Gutter Hotel; to do a star pitch.
FRENCH SYNONYMS.—Coucher à l’hotel de la belle étoile (pop. = to sleep at the Star Hotel); manger une soupe aux herbes (popular); fuer la comète (popular = to nose the comet); coucher dans le lit aux pais verts.
1877. GREENWOOD, Under the Blue Blanket. The vagrant brotherhood have several slang terms for sleeping out in a field or meadow. It is called ‘snoozing in HEDGE SQUARE,’ etc.
