snoozingn.
The fact of dozing or sleeping. Also attributive.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > action, fact, or state of sleeping or falling asleep > for a short time or lightly
nappingeOE
dozing1692
snoozing1811
winking1862
zizzing1942
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Snoozing ken, a brothel.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xl. 190 Grand snoozing to-night, maty.
1867 B. Brierley Marlocks of Merriton 39 Old Makapenny had made several journeys from his ‘snoozing crib’ to the door.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
snoozingadj.
Dozing, sleeping, slumbering.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > asleep > lightly or half-asleep
slumbering1390
connivent1644
nappinga1650
snoozing1836
semisomnous1873
1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet I. 245 What snoozing hum Ascends to thee?—what pæans, what adorings?
1887 R. L. Stevenson Treasure of Franchard v, in Merry Men 260 The same snoozing, countryfied existence.
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