Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

doss

/dɒs/ verb, noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of dos

Forms dosses dossing dossed

verb (intransitive, UK and Ireland) To avoid work, shirk, etc. “I am going to doss tomorrow when the match is on.”
verb (intransitive, UK, Australia, slang) To sleep, especially in the open or in a makeshift bed, commonly in a derelict building because one is homeless. “I normally have to doss in shop doorways or on park benches.”
noun (slang, UK and Ireland) The avoidance of work. “I am going to have a doss tomorrow.”
noun (slang, UK and Ireland) An easy piece of work. “Circumnavigating the world in a canoe is no doss.”
noun (slang, dated, UK and Ireland) A place to sleep in; a bed.
noun (slang, dated, UK and Ireland, by extension) Sleep.
adjective (Scotland) Useless or lazy. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt. “Get a hauld o yersel, ya doss cunt!”
adjective (Scotland) Good, desirable. “The place is pure doss, like.”
proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

Perhaps from Latin dorsum (“the back”), i.e. what one lies on when sleeping; perhaps from English dialect doss (“a hassock”).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “doss”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details