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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



... if it doesn't turn up soon, we are gone goslings, just as sure as you're a foot high," and Lieutenant Anderson threw himself down on one of the evil-looking mattresses, remarking: "Might as well take a little snooze, anyhow." ...
— The boy Allies at Liege • Clair W. Hayes

... about the 15teenth of Dec. and comes out about the middle of March, as is usually supposed he comes out poor. But this is a bit of missinformation. On the other hand he usually crawls out after his long snooze fat ...
— Black Beaver - The Trapper • James Campbell Lewis

... too early, mother dear," Toby was heard to say, half to himself, "for to-morrow won't be the first of May, and I'm not to be the queen of the occasion either. So please let me have my snooze out, everybody." ...
— Afloat - or, Adventures on Watery Trails • Alan Douglas

... me quizzically and subjected me to a searching cross-examination to discover where I had been. But he secured no satisfaction, beyond the sly hint that he had not noticed me for the simple reason that he had been stealing a snooze. I know he did not believe the answers I vouchsafed, but I was on safe ground. Had he hauled me before the Commandant for attempting to escape he knew very well that I should have retorted with the countercharge that he had been sleeping at his post, in which assertion I should have been ...
— Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben • Henry Charles Mahoney

... you mustn't look grave like that, and scold me. I ordered a fly to call for me at a quarter to seven, and I shan't be gone much more than an hour, I daresay. And you can have a good long snooze by the dining-room fire while I'm away. I know how you ...
— True to his Colours - The Life that Wears Best • Theodore P. Wilson


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