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snooze

verb
/snuːz/

Etymology

Unknown, attested since 18th century. Compare Dutch snoezelen (“to snooze”) or Swedish snusa (“to snore lightly”). Compare also Ancient Greek νυστάζω (nustázō, “to doze, drowse”) and Russian сон (son, “sleep, dream”).

  1. derived from сон — “sleep, dream”
  2. derived from snusa — “to snore lightly”

Definitions

  1. To sleep, especially briefly

    To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.

    • The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.

  2. To pause

    To pause; to postpone for a short while.

    • It enables you to dismiss the reminder, dismiss all reminders, open the highlighted item in the Reminder dialog, and snooze the reminder. Snoozing a reminder is similar to hitting the snooze button on an alarm clock[…]
    • Let's say you want to see all your reminders, but you don't want it to be too easy to snooze the ones for important items.
    • To snooze the phone, press and release the power button.

  3. A brief period of sleep

    A brief period of sleep; a nap.

    • The cat enjoys taking a snooze on a sunny windowsill.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The snooze button on an alarm clock.

    2. Something boring.

      • The whole movie was a snooze.

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Derived

snooze off, snoozer, you snooze you lose, snoozapalooza, snoozeathon, snooze button, snoozefest, snoozetime, snoozeworthy, snoozle, snoozy, tiger snooze

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for snooze. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA