单词 | adoze |
释义 | adozeadj.adv. Chiefly poetic. That is in a doze. Also as adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adverb] > for a short time or lightly lightlyOE at noddy1667 adoze1837 noddingly1872 1837 J. Jones Spartacus iii. iii. 26 Many nights of late, I've enter'd Rome, and fell adoze the while. 1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 66 23 Lying on banks a-dose or poetising. 1868 R. Buchanan Wallace in Tragic Dramas i. ii I hoped to find them, Drugged with the Gallic potion, all adoze. 1912 Cent. Mag. Feb. 555/1 The countess sat in a Bath-chair at a little distance from us, half adoze in the sun. 2001 S. Heaney Electric Light 4 They're bluntly holding the pass, Under the water-roof, over the bottom, adoze. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.adv.1837 |
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