簡易宿泊 / 寝床
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
英国のくだけた名詞で、豪華な宿ではなく「一時的な寝床・安い簡易宿泊」を指します。フランス語 dos「背中」と結び付け、背中を横たえるだけの場所という像で覚えましょう。doss house は安宿・簡易宿泊所。動詞では doss down「適当な場所で寝る」と使います。
Remember doss as informal British vocabulary for a basic place to put your back down and sleep. Its history is commonly connected with French dos, “back,” which supports that physical image without requiring an invented sound association. A doss is not normally a comfortable hotel stay; it suggests a cheap, rough, temporary bed or lodging. Learn it with doss house, an old term for a cheap lodging house, and with the related phrasal verb doss down, meaning to sleep somewhere makeshift. This distinguishes it from the neutral words bed, lodging, and accommodation.
doss の類義語・関連語
doss の語源・成り立ち Etymology
英俗語dossは、ラテン語dorsum（背中）からフランス語dos（背中）を経て「背中をつけて寝る場所」→「簡易宿泊所」の意味に。endorseも同語源で「背面に署名する→承認する」。背中を預ける場所、と覚えると自然。
Doss is British slang whose history is commonly traced to French dos, “back,” ultimately from Latin dorsum with the same meaning. The semantic development is understood through the idea of putting one’s back down to sleep, producing senses connected with a bed, a night’s lodging, or sleeping in rough accommodation. The precise route into English slang is not completely certain, so the broader back-to-sleep connection is the safest account.
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