doze

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -əʊz
• Homophones: does, dos, doughs

Etymology 1

From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusēną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”). Cognate with German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Icelandic dúsa (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Danish døse (“to doze”), Old English dysiġ (“foolish, stupid”), Scots dosnit (“stunned, stupefied”), Icelandic dúra (“to nap, slumber”), also compare Dutch doezelen (“to doze”). More at dizzy.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.

   I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.

   • (Can we date this quote by L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.

2. (transitive) To make dull; to stupefy.
   • (Can we date this quote by Samuel Pepys and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     I was an hour […] in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.

   • (Can we date this quote by South and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.

3. (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.

Synonyms

• (sleep lightly): slumber

Translations

to sleep lightly or briefly

• Aromanian: nsumnedz
• Belarusian: драма́ць impf (dramácʹ), падрама́ць pf (padramácʹ), задрама́ць pf (zadramácʹ)
• Bulgarian: дремя (bg) (dremja)
• Crimean Tatar: yantaymaq
• Czech: dřímat impf
• Dutch: dommelen (nl)
• Esperanto: dormeti
• Finnish: torkkua (fi), nuokkua (fi) (lightly); torkahtaa (fi) (briefly)
• French: somnoler (fr)
• Galician: durmiñar, dormexar, dormentar, moquear (gl), trasvaiar, topenear (gl), tutar, cochar, sonetar, botar (unha) soneca
• German: dösen (de)
• Greek: νυστάζω (el) (nystázo)

  Ancient: νυστάζω (nustázō)

• Ido: dormetar (io), somnolar (io)
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: sonnecchiare, dormicchiare
• Latin: dormītō
• Luxembourgish: dösen
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• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: turehu, kānewha, kānewhanewha, hāmoemoe, newha, nenewha, hāmoemoe, kurehu
• Norman: haûter
• Old Church Slavonic: дрѣмати (drěmati)
• Polish: drzemać (pl) impf, podrzemać pf
• Portuguese: cochilar (pt), tirar (uma) soneca
• Romanian: dormita (ro), ațipi (ro), a moțăi
• Russian: дрема́ть (ru) (dremátʹ), прикорну́ть (ru) pf (prikornútʹ), подрема́ть (ru) pf (podremátʹ), задремать (ru) pf (zadrematʹ), (poetic) грезить (ru) impf (grezitʹ)
• Scots: dover
• Scottish Gaelic: dèan dùsal
• Serbo-Croatian: drijémati (sh)
• Slovak: driemať
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: drěmaś impf, pódrěmaś pf

  Upper Sorbian: drěmać impf

• Spanish: dormitar (es), cabecear (es)
• Swedish: slumra, dåsa (sv)
• Ukrainian: дріма́ти impf (drimáty)
• Vietnamese: ngủ gật

to make dull; to stupefy

• Finnish: typerryttää
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

bulldoze — see bulldoze

Noun

doze (plural dozes)

1. A light, short sleep or nap.

   I felt much better after a short doze.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sleep

Derived terms

• dozer
• doze off
• dozy

Translations

short sleep or nap

• Bulgarian: дрямка (bg) f (drjamka)
• Finnish: torkut (fi) pl, unet (fi) pl
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• Portuguese: soneca (pt) f, cochilo (pt) m
• Russian: дрёма (ru) f (drjóma), грёза (ru) f (grjóza) (poetic, usually in pl.)
• Scottish Gaelic: dùsal m

See also

• catnap
• nap
• shuteye
• sleep
• slumber

Etymology 2

Determiner

doze

1. Eye dialect spelling of those.
   • 1987, Don Rosa, Recalled Wreck

     Donald Duck: I'll give you $20 for those old license plates on your fence posts!

     Other man: Hah? No chance! I bought dis house 'cause it has dis address! It's me lucky number! […] It was me prison number at Leavenworst and de winning number in de weekly parole lottery! I wudn't never sell doze plates!

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Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdud͡zə/

Numeral

cardinal number

12	Previous:	onze
	Next:	treze

doze

1. twelve

Descendants

• French: douze
• Norman: douze
• Walloon: doze

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Portuguese

Portuguese cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : doze     Ordinal : décimo segundo
Portuguese Wikipedia article on Doze

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese doze, from Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.zɨ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.zi/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈdo.ze/
• Hyphenation: do‧ze
• Rhymes: -ozi

Adjective

doze m or f

1. twelve

Noun

doze m (plural s)

1. twelve (the numerical value 12 or something with the value of 12)

Noun

doze f (plural s)

1. (Brazil, colloquial) shotgun (gun which fires loads consisting of small metal balls)

Etymology 2

Noun

doze f (plural dozes)

1. Obsolete spelling of dose.

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Walloon

Etymology

From Old French doze, from Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

Numeral

doze

1. twelve