snooze

English

Alternative forms

• snooz (US, informal)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snuːz/

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /snʉːz/
• Rhymes: -uːz

Verb

snooze (third-person singular simple present snoozes, present participle snoozing, simple past and past participle snoozed)

1. (intransitive) To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.

   The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.

2. (transitive) To pause; to postpone for a short while.
   • 2003, Ken Slovak, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, page 110:

     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 […]

   • 2007, Sue Mosher, Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming, page 359:

     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.

   • 2011, Dan Gookin, Bill Loguidice, Motorola ATRIX For Dummies, page 40:

     To snooze the phone, press and release the power button.

Derived terms

• snooze off
• snoozer
• you snooze you lose

Translations

To sleep, especially briefly; to nap — see also nap

• Arabic: غَفَا (ḡafā)
• Bulgarian: дремя (bg) (dremja)
• Catalan: dormitar (ca), dormitejar
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打盹 (zh) (dǎdǔn)

• Dutch: doezelen (nl)
• Finnish: torkkua (fi), torkahtaa (fi)
• French: faire une sieste, faire un somme, (informal) piquer un roupillon (fr)
• Galician: durmiñar, tutar, sonetar, moquear (gl), trasvaiar, dormentar, dormexar, cochar, topenear (gl)
• Georgian: წაუძინებს (c̣auʒinebs), თვლემს (tvlems)
• German: dösen (de), nicken (de), ein Nickerchen machen
• Greek: λαγοκοιμάμαι (el) (lagokoimámai), παίρνω έναν υπνάκο (paírno énan ypnáko)
• Hungarian: durmol (hu), szunyál (hu)
• Japanese: 居眠り (ja) (いねむりする, inemuri suru)
• Maori: hāmoemoe, kānewha, kānewhanewha, newha, nenewha
• Polish: zdrzemnąć się (pl)
• Portuguese: cochilar (pt), dormitar (pt)
• Romanian: dormita (ro), ațipi (ro)
• Russian: дрема́ть (ru) impf (dremátʹ), вздремну́ть (ru) pf (vzdremnútʹ), подрема́ть (ru) pf (podremátʹ), прикорну́ть (ru) pf (prikornútʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèan dùsal
• Spanish: dormitar (es)
• Swedish: ta en tupplur

Noun

snooze (plural snoozes)

1. A brief period of sleep; a nap.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sleep

   The cat enjoys taking a snooze on a sunny windowsill.

2. (informal) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
3. (informal) Something boring.

   The whole movie was a snooze.

Derived terms

• snoozapalooza
• snooze button
• snoozefest
• tiger snooze

Translations

A period of sleep; a nap

• Arabic: غَفْوَة f (ḡafwa)
• Bulgarian: дрямка (bg) f (drjamka)
• Catalan: becaina (ca), becada (ca), capcinada, migdiada (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小睡 (zh) (xiǎoshuì)

• Finnish: torkut (fi), nokoset (fi)
• French: roupillon (fr) m
• Georgian: ხანმოკლე ძილი (xanmoḳle ʒili)
• German: Schläfchen (de) n, Nickerchen (de) n
• Greek: υπνάκος (el) m (ypnákos)
• Japanese: 居眠り (ja) (いねむり, inemuri), うたた寝 (うたたね, utatane)
• Ottoman Turkish: اویقو (uyku)
• Persian: چرت (fa) (čort)
• Polish: drzemka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cochilo (pt) m, sesta (pt) f
• Russian: коро́ткий сон m (korótkij son), лёгкий сон m (ljóxkij son), дрёма (ru) f (drjóma), дремо́та (ru) f (dremóta)
• Scottish Gaelic: dùsal m, norrag f
• Spanish: siesta (es)
• Swedish: tupplur (sv) c

Something boring

• Finnish: unettava
• Spanish: lata (es) f, fastidio (es) m

See also

• catnap
• nap
• shuteye
• slumber

Anagrams

• noozes, ozones