Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To take a light nap; doze.
- n. A brief light sleep.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To slumber; take a short nap.
- n. A short nap.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To sleep, especially briefly; to nap.
- v. transitive To pause; to postpone for a short while.
- n. A period of sleep; a nap.
- n. Something boring.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. colloq. A short sleep; a nap.
- v. colloq. To doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber.
WordNet 3.0
- v. sleep lightly or for a short period of time
- n. sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Quietly utter the word 'snooze,' letting Manuel know he is to return in nine minutes.”
“No, it just proves that you are an idiot, since you think faux snooze is “fair and balanced””
“I think it should just be able to recognize any words because usually when my alarm clock goes off i'm not thinking of the word snooze, i'll be there like half asleep trying forever to remember to say snooze., I would just wanna wake up and say shut the f*** up.”
“Some of us are up for hours, while others simply rush out the door after hitting the "snooze" button 15 times, but either way at a certain point in our lives we've pretty much worked out our approach to starting the day.”
“There's been a few problems: the Maria/Angel "snooze" subplots, a wooden and uninvolving performance from Julia Stiles, a pedestrian killer storyline that looked like it came off an episode of Criminal Minds, to name a few, but the problem I have had is how it has dealt with Rita's death.”
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“Last week's "town hall" hosted by Tom "snooze" Brokaw being the worst.”
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“How was it decided that nine minutes was the correct length of time for "snooze" on most clock radios?”
“All I wish to comment on here is what has been referred to as the "snooze" factor in the democratic debate.”
“As you come nearer to Quattro, it detects your presence and reveals illuminated touch-sensitive controls relevant to its current function .... the radio alarm works in tandem with a teddy bear: squeezing the bear triggers various actions including a remote "snooze" operation.”
“This time instead of toying with Hamilton and applying the usual, mocking "snooze", the switch goes to "off".”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snooze’.
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The Universal Calculator
Obviates the need for other devices or calculations--it will have a button for everything, and it will solve everything.
qwerty keyboard, shift key, control, home, end, pause, log, sin, space, enter, plus, numb and 241 more...
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
related:
http://www.wordnik.co...creep, crawl, plod, slouch, idle, lumber, tiptoe, bend, amble, mosey, saunter, loiter and 117 more...
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bad memory
copper, anvil, oblique, thrust, shrine, welfare, farewell, bitter, faction, sectarian, tangible, spectacle and 134 more...
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Origin unknown
bamboozle, ballyhoo, banter, bludgeon, chad, cocktail, culvert, curmugeon, dildo, dude, dweeb, dyke and 51 more...
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snose words
Words that relate to the nose, particularly those that begin with sn-
sniff, sneer, snub, sneeze, snarl, snort, snide, snout, snob, snooze, snot, snore and 11 more...
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Rest in Please
Sorry if I don't make a bunch of words
I'm. So. Sleepy.Rumpelstiltskin, forty winks, zzzzz, repose, rest, kip, slumber, noctambulo, aestivate, pandiculation, agrypnotic, jaded and 2 more...
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The Gentle Life
Words relating to quiet, inactivity, peace.
desuetude, languor, halcyon, placidness, quiescent, elysian, relaxation, meditation, lassitude, hiatus, respite, pacific and 16 more...
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I am : tired
Tired and sleepy words!
tired, weary, sleepy, exhausted, soporific, droopy, snooze, nap, dead-beat, shuteye, rinsed, groggy and 9 more...
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words
my words. my mind. my gosh.
try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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Onomatopoetics
Words formed in imitation of a natural sound.
bumble-bee, rat-a-tat, blurt, clink, chickadee, rub-a-dub, chirr, chug, keck, flim-flam, brekekekex, thunk and 94 more...
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Bedaphors
So
very
sleepyhypnagogic, chronotherapy, clinomania, condorm, librocubicularist, matutolypea, soporific, supine, decubitus, pandiculation, oscitancy, slugabed and 169 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for snooze.
quells apparently, this is a period of time equal to 9 minutes.
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