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ˈsnoozer
[f. snooze v.]
1. a. One who snoozes.
1878P. Robinson In Ind. Garden 32 A bird—perhaps the middle one of a long row of closely-packed snoozers. 1887Pall Mall G. 20 Sept. 2/3 The non-workers..may be divided into two classes—the snoozers and the talkers. The snoozer, if he reads at all, is an aimless reader.
b. As a vague appellation: a fellow, a chap. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1884[see bank v.2 4 b]. 1891‘E. Perkins’ Thirty Years of Wit 296 I'm the snoozer from the upper trail; I'm the reveler in murder and in gore. 1903‘O. Henry’ in Ainslee's Sept. 116/2 She knows what a wild kind of a snoozer I've been. 1916Anzac Book 99 The chaps of the 16th Battalion Are not easy snoozers to beat. 1923R. D. Paine Comrades of Rolling Ocean iv. 65 Do you mean to say that the wonderful old snoozer had the grit to cruise out to your country at his age? 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 174 They had cornered him about until there was not a snoozer among them but was utterly undeceived. 1946Sunday Sun (Austral.) 20 Oct. (Suppl.) 15 They'd have lamped a snoozer rigged up as an army skipper clop⁓clopping along on a nag just behind them. 1966H. Marriott Cariboo Cowboy v. 52 Zim was a tough old snoozer. I know that he cut his knee open with an axe and sewed it up with some worsted yarn and his wife's darning needle.
†2. A thief who steals from the hotel or house in which he is staying. Cf. snooze n. 2. slang. Obs.
1862H. Mayhew London Labour Extra vol. 242/1 Some two years ago a robbery was committed by a ‘snoozer’ or one of those thieves who take up their quarters at hotels for the purpose of robbery. 1882Sydney Slang Dict. 8/1 Snoozers, men and women who sleep at hotels and boarding-houses and decamp with other people's effects in the morning. 1889Farmer Americanisms 501/2 Snooser, an hotel thief who lives in the place, and thus seeks for opportunities to carry out his depredations. |