the stem of SOSS sb.1 used attributively in a few combs., with the sense ‘fat, dirty, slatternly, etc.,’ as † soss-bangle, † -belly (see quots.).
1554. Bale, Declar. Bonner’s Articles, xxix. (1561) 113 b. What is thy idolatrous mas and lowsye Latine seruice, thou sosbelly swilbol, but the very draf of Antichriste and dregges of the deuil?
1691. Ray, S. & E. Co. Words, 115. A Sosse-bangle, a sluttish, slattering, lazy Wench; a Rustic word, only used by the vulgar. [Hence soss-brangle in Grose (1788).]
