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I'm thinking that the perfect time for a nap is around 3.

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  1. noun A brief sleep, often during the day.
  2. intransitive verb To sleep for a brief period, often during the day; doze.
  3. intransitive verb To be unaware of imminent danger or trouble; be off guard: The civil unrest caught the police napping.
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  • If the nap is already within the napper, how could the napper create the nap?
  • I'm thinking that the perfect time for a nap is around 3. —  MetaChat
  • Reporting in the Guardian, writer Jennifer Ackerman reports that if you are an early-riser type ( "lark") the best time for your nap is around 1. 30pm. —  Management-Issues : News
  • If you're an "owl," the best time for your nap is 2. 30pm or 3pm. —  Management-Issues : News
  • It was then teazelled; that is, a nap or rough surface was raised all over it by scratching it with weavers' teazels or thistles. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
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stroll ·  siesta ·  slumber ·  snack ·  sleep ·  chat ·  snooze ·  lunch ·  luncheon ·  respite ·  walk ·  netsh

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nap:   naps ·  napped ·  napping
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Etymologies (12)

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  1. Middle English, from nappen, to doze, from Old English hnappian.
  2. Alteration (perhaps influenced by obsolete French nape, tablecloth) of Middle English noppe, from Middle Dutch.
  3. French napper, from nappe, cover; see nappe.
  4. Short for napoleon.

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  1. from Middle English nappen, from Anglo-Saxon hnappian, hnæppian (cf., with added formative, Old High German hnaffezen, naffizan, Middle High German nafzen), slumber, doze; cf. hnipian, bend, bow the head, also nipian (in preterit plural nipeden), nod, slumber; Icelandic hnīpa, droop, hnipna = Gothic (Moesogothic) ga-nipnan, droop, despond. The Cuban negro napinapi, nap, sleep, is perhaps from English
  2. from nap, v.
  3. Var. of nop, from Middle English noppe (the Anglo-Saxon *hnoppa, in Somner, is not authenticated) = Middle Dutch noppe, Dutch nop (later Old French nope, noppe, French dial. nope) = Middle Low German noppe, Low German nobbe, nubbe (cf. German noppe) = Danish noppe, nap of cloth: usually explained as orig. knop or knob, but the forms cited forbid this identification.
  4. from nap, n.
  5. Middle English, also nep, from Anglo-Saxon hnæp, hnæpp, once irreg. hnæpf, a cup, bowl, = Dutch nap = Middle Low German nap = Old High German hnapf, napf, naph, Middle High German naph, napf, German napf (later Middle Latin hanapus, nappus, later Italian nappo = Old French hanap, later English hanap, and hanaper, hamper, q. v.), a cup, bowl, beaker.
  6. A simpler spelling of knap, but in part perhaps from Icelandic hnappr, a button, bevy, cluster, a variant of knappr, a knob, button: see knap.
  7. from Swedish nappa = Danish nappe, catch, snatch at, seize. Prob. in part a simpler spelling of knap: see knap, and cf. nab. Hence, in comp., kidnap.
  8. A simpler spelling of knap, pernaps involving also ult. Anglo-Saxon hnæppan (rare), strike. See knap.
 

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