snooze

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He was very sleepy, and now, as he came to the conclusion that it must be close upon daybreak, and Dale had risen to light the fire and make coffee so that they might start for the ravine as early as possible, he determined to lie perfectly still and feign sleep till the last minute, and a sharp summons bade him rise It is that last bit of snooze which is so enjoyable.

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  1. intransitive verb To take a light nap; doze.
  2. noun A brief light sleep.

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  • Through the hospital library I was able to catch up on the events that had taken place during my epic snooze--the wars, revolutions, and massacres, the scientific discoveries and adventures in space, and the vast accumulation of trivia that had filled the last five-and-some-odd decades All this was dumped randomly into my head, like odds and ends of nutriment thrown into a hobo's cookpot--large events and small equally hard to comprehend. —  FSF - March2006
  • Sesame settled down for a snooze or two of her own. —  Up In A Heaval
  • The Yena curled up and went into a snooze, his tail twitching contentedly across her fur. —  Harpy Thyme
  • You meditate and I'll snooze, and we'll both do ourselves good. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • He had settled down under a tree for a snooze, but now he was alert. —  Golem in the Gears
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snooze:   snoozing
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Prob. imitative, ult. identical with snore (cf. choose, Anglo-Saxon past participle coren; lose, Anglo-Saxon past participle lore or lorn), perhaps affected by the form of sneeze.
  2. from snooze, v.
 

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