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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



... it, I guess—they all do!" said the unabashed Spider. "Anyway, if you didn't snore exactly, you sure had a strangle hold on the snooze business, all right. Here's me crawled out o' me downy little cot t' put ye wise t' Bud's little game, an' here's you diggin' into the ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol

... I might stay till four, and give the Monk a chance of a sleep. That fellow can always snooze away off hand, and he is as sound as a top in the next room; but I was to give you this ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge

... and get something to eat and a snooze, if you like. I'll look after this youngster. I'll call you ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various

... himself the task of putting to bed all who might apply at his soap box on the nights of Wednesday and Sunday. That left but five nights for other philanthropists to handle; and had they done their part as well, this wicked city might have become a vast Arcadian dormitory where all might snooze and snore the happy hours away, letting problem plays and the rent man and business ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry

... life is a ring of delight, In frolics I keep up the day and the night; I snooze at the Hummums till twelve, perhaps later, I rattle the bell, and I roar up the Waiter; 'Your Honour,' says he, and he makes me a leg; He brings me my tea, but I swallow an egg; For tea in a morning's a slop I renounce, So I down with a glass of good right cherry-bounce. With—swearing, tearing—ranting, ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan


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