zzz

intj
/zːːː/

Etymology

Conventionalized sound of snoring.

Definitions

  1. A snoring sound, implying that somebody is asleep.

  2. To sleep or snore.

    • He lay back on his pillow, made a faint zzzing sound that ceased, and presently and quite quietly he died — greatly comforted by my assurance.
    • He zzzed for a long time, bobbing back and forth, and then he let us go, pointing to two empty seats across the aisle and motioning for us to sit down.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for zzz. 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