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Snooze   /snuz/   Listen
Snooze

verb
(past & past part. snoozed; pres. part. snoozing)
1.
Sleep lightly or for a short period of time.  Synonyms: doze, drowse.
noun
1.
Sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed).  Synonyms: cat sleep, catnap, forty winks, nap, short sleep.






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"Snooze" Quotes from Famous Books



... to walk as straight as a harrow; on'y, I must confess, I should like to have a snooze a'ter my pipe; I'm used to it, d'ye see, and look for it as nat'rally as ...
— The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Complete • Robert Seymour

... week I never slept in bed. I sometimes had a snooze on a form in the 'Robin Hood,' and sometimes a nap in a chair during the day; but regular sleep ...
— J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

... little belongings of wife or child to make a prudent man of me, you see," returned the surgeon. "At worst it's but a knock on the head and a longish snooze." ...
— Paul Faber, Surgeon • George MacDonald

... invariably been followed by some form or other of occult demonstration. I spent some weeks this summer at Worthing, and, walking one afternoon to the Downs, selected a bright and secluded spot for a comfortable snooze. I revel in snatching naps in the open sunshine, and this was a place that struck me as being perfectly ideal for that purpose. It was on the brow of a diminutive hillock covered with fresh, lovely grass of a particularly vivid green. In the rear and on either side of ...
— Byways of Ghost-Land • Elliott O'Donnell

... Winds took a little snooze in his cave, and then everything was quiet. But when he woke up he would go out of his cave, raisin' ructions ...
— Seven O'Clock Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson


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