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Doze

//doʊz// det, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Determiner
  1. 1
    Pronunciation spelling of those. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

    "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!"

Noun
  1. 1
    A light, short sleep or nap.

    "I felt much better after a short doze."

  2. 2
    a light fitful sleep wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. intransitive

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

  2. 2
    To bulldoze. intransitive, slang
  3. 3
    sleep lightly or for a short period of time wordnet
  4. 4
    To make dull; to stupefy. transitive

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusāną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”). Cognate with Old Frisian dusia (“to be dizzy”), German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Danish døse (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Icelandic dúsa (“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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusāną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”). Cognate with Old Frisian dusia (“to be dizzy”), German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Danish døse (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Icelandic dúsa (“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.

Etymology 3

Clipping of bulldoze.

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