Chiefly dial. [Imitative: cf. SOSS v.2 and SOSH.]

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  1.  The sound made by a heavy, soft body falling upon or otherwise coming in contact with a surface; a heavy, awkward fall. Chiefly in the phr. with a soss.

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1718.  Ramsay, Christ’s Kirk Gr., III. iii. And wi’ a soss aboon the claiths, Ilk ane their gifts down flang.

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1796.  W. H. Marshall, Yorksh. (ed. 2), II. 346. ‘To fall with a soss,’ to fall plumb.

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1802.  Sibbald, Chron. S. P., IV. Gloss., Soss, noise made by the fall of something heavy and soft.

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1825–.  in northern glossaries, etc.

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1901.  A. Trotter, Earl Galloway Sk., 59/2. Sandy came and sat down with a ‘soss’ on a chest by her bedside.

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  2.  The sound made by impact upon water.

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1885.  Pall Mall Gaz., 5 May, 4/1. The soss, soss of her bows as she ‘punches’ the waves asunder.

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