A lazy or sluttish woman. Provincial in Connecticut.
Mr. Todd gives this word, which he defines as a lazy fellow, on the authority of Cotgrave and Sherwood. In the south of England, a soss-brangle is a slatternly, lazy wench. This is precisely the sense in which sossle is used with us.
TO SOZZLE
To loll; to lounge; to go lazily or sluttishly about the house. A term used by housekeepers in certain parts of Connecticut. 'This woman sozzles up her work.' To sozzle is provincial in England, and means the same as lo soss; i. e. to lounge, to loll.
A sandpiper glided along the shore; she ran after it, but could not catch it; she sat down and sozzled her feet in the foam.--Margaret, p. 8.