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Definition of snooze in English: snoozenoun snuːzsnuz informal 1A short, light sleep, especially during the day. 打盹，（尤指日间的）小睡 he settled in the grass for a snooze 他舒舒服服地躺在草地上打了一个盹。 Example sentencesExamples - So I stayed another half hour and had a little snooze.
- I discovered him easily enough, but he was having a snooze, so I took myself off for a short stroll around Parkville for half an hour.
- And often he would try to sleep or at least to take a snooze,
- In between gardening sessions, and after lunch, the whole establishment settled down in various places for a light afternoon snooze.
- Plus I find when I wake up after a short snooze I'm usually in a bad mood.
- The light snooze was interrupted by a huge thump on the car.
- So they haven't been dozing off for long snoozes, but you have actually seen people fall momentarily asleep?
- When it's not your turn to watch you can catch a snooze.
- So we all headed back to our respective homes and/or places of rest for the night and had a snooze.
- For most of us, it's a place for a sandwich, a snooze or a sunbathe - but Princes Street Gardens now offers a more civilised way to lunch.
- All wrongs in the world can be fixed by an afternoon snooze - I went to sleep and woke up thinking that England had been knocked out of the world cup by Wales in the semi final.
- I collected a whole load of supplies - a good range of drinks and snacks were all available free of charge - and I settled down for a snooze.
- It is mid-afternoon and the orangutan goes for a snooze in the shade.
- All of these individual restaurants have their own toilets and washrooms, and if one so desires, one can even retire to a rest room for a snooze after a hearty meal.
- That'd be more useful than being woken up by all those flashing lights while you're trying to have a snooze in the traffic jam.
- He took a three-hour snooze in the afternoon and showed signs of mental fatigue because he slurred his way through press conferences, stumbled to the podiums and fell asleep in cabinet meetings.
- How do they know how many minutes a snooze should be?
- Plans for a gentle walk followed by lunch, a snooze in the library then afternoon tea are quickly thwarted when I discover we are all off for a spot of abseiling at Neiste Point.
- So we celebrated with a little feast of bilberries and then sank on to the comfortable cushions of these shrubs for a celebratory snooze in the sunshine.
- Even when I awoke from a snooze, I still felt as if I'd not slept for a week.
Synonyms sleep, nap, doze, rest, siesta, drowse, catnap beauty sleep informal forty winks, a bit of shut-eye British informal kip, zizz literary slumber 2North American Something boring or tedious. Example sentencesExamples - Some really super film-makers can get away with that, if what they have to offer is sufficiently compelling, but his repeated use of the same actors and the same story elements is getting to be a snooze.
- Unfortunately, he is a snooze in the lead role.
- If the exciting weekend at the beach turned out to be a total snooze, thank your hosts for inviting you for some rest and relaxation in such a beautiful corner of the world or for the opportunity to get some unpolluted air into your lungs.
- It was a pleasantly sung song, if a bit of a snooze.
verb snuːzsnuz [no object]informal Have a short, light sleep. 打盹 the children play beach games while the adults snooze in the sun 孩子们在海滩上游戏玩耍，大人们在阳光下打盹。 Example sentencesExamples - Jess is still snoozing, how on earth could she sleep through the phone ringing?
- He's snoozing on his perch on the back of my easy chair right now.
- Between slightly grumpy and reluctant moves towards the study and my notebook I spent as much time snoozing in the sun as I could manage.
- All was relatively quiet when a loud bang is heard from outside and the dog that had been happily snoozing on my lap suddenly jumps up and scares me half to death.
- You think snoozing through one little review session won't make a bit of difference?
- Within ten minutes I was snoozing guiltlessly once more… and I didn't wake up until 11.30.
- I snoozed off and on but Dawn can't sleep in coach.
- You lie back in the sleek black-and-grey pods, snoozing in semi-privacy while wearing sound-blocking earphones.
- But little Joseph, who was sleeping near the window, when the accident happened, just kept on snoozing.
- As the rest of the family snoozed in a post-dinner stupor, I sneaked into the front parlour and helped myself to another glass.
- They scurry across the marble floors, perch snoozing on the railings and snuggle into holes low down in the walls, their long tails poking out.
- Most of the day, though, Dolly's been snoozing, taking over the bed and demanding to be left alone to get on with some serious nap time.
- One of my cats had obviously been snoozing at the edge of my bed without me noticing.
- And the garden fell silent for a while, with an old grey poet and his cat snoozing softly in the sun.
- The first two weeks involved me in the back row with one hand shielding my forehead, pretending to write but actually snoozing.
- We spend the rest of the afternoon eating, chatting, snoozing and preparing for a party later in the evening.
- He would be sleeping on the ground and we would be snoozing in our vehicles next to him and he would get up so quietly that we were not aware that he was moving away.
- I peered in and saw five men snoozing in their undershirts.
- The rest of the household is snoozing more or less quietly away, and I'm sitting up all on my own in a few precious moments of private time before I'm ready to sleep.
- Divers disperse about the boat, toasting on the sun deck, snoozing in the shade, chatting to the crew as they fish off the stern with handlines.
Synonyms sleep, be asleep, doze, rest, take a siesta, nap, take a nap, catnap, drowse sleep like a log/top informal snatch forty winks, get some shut-eye, be in the land of Nod British informal kip, have a kip, get one's head down, zizz, get some zizz, doss (down) North American informal catch some Zs literary be in the arms of Morpheus, slumber
Derivativesnoun informal Rudy, hand me the smelling salts - we got a snoozer. Example sentencesExamples - It involves the simple yet highly effective placing of a spiky-bristled hairbrush under the duvet of an unsuspecting snoozer and waiting for the oh-so-satisfying shriek of pain.
- I think this is outrageous and think all snoozers should unite.
- Last thing I remember, as the warmth of my fellow snoozers crept through the duvet, was the wish that Graham had remembered that hot water bottle.
- The rest alternated between pinching each other, aesthetically arranging their bags and throwing science pamphlets at the snug snoozers.
adjectivesnoozier, snooziest informal Little more than a village a century ago, Palm Springs is proud of its snoozy, sun-baked reputation. Example sentencesExamples - It's too darn hot for such dusty work just now in snoozy old Somerset.
- A cobalt blue sea buffers snoozy Norfolk Island against the tumultuous world beyond it.
- My suite is a tasteful creation with wooden louvres and adobe walls, plus seductive lounges that offer equally snoozy lagoon vistas.
- Picture the scene, a snoozy Sunday afternoon in Edinburgh's Trinity district.
OriginLate 18th century: of unknown origin. Rhymesabuse, accuse, adieux, amuse, bemuse, billets-doux, blues, booze, bruise, choose, Clews, confuse, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, lose, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, ruse, schmooze, suffuse, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse Definition of snooze in US English: snoozenounsnuzsno͞oz informal 1A short, light sleep, especially during the day. 打盹，（尤指日间的）小睡 he settled in the grass for a snooze 他舒舒服服地躺在草地上打了一个盹。 Example sentencesExamples - It is mid-afternoon and the orangutan goes for a snooze in the shade.
- Plus I find when I wake up after a short snooze I'm usually in a bad mood.
- When it's not your turn to watch you can catch a snooze.
- For most of us, it's a place for a sandwich, a snooze or a sunbathe - but Princes Street Gardens now offers a more civilised way to lunch.
- Plans for a gentle walk followed by lunch, a snooze in the library then afternoon tea are quickly thwarted when I discover we are all off for a spot of abseiling at Neiste Point.
- So we celebrated with a little feast of bilberries and then sank on to the comfortable cushions of these shrubs for a celebratory snooze in the sunshine.
- That'd be more useful than being woken up by all those flashing lights while you're trying to have a snooze in the traffic jam.
- So I stayed another half hour and had a little snooze.
- So they haven't been dozing off for long snoozes, but you have actually seen people fall momentarily asleep?
- And often he would try to sleep or at least to take a snooze,
- In between gardening sessions, and after lunch, the whole establishment settled down in various places for a light afternoon snooze.
- The light snooze was interrupted by a huge thump on the car.
- So we all headed back to our respective homes and/or places of rest for the night and had a snooze.
- Even when I awoke from a snooze, I still felt as if I'd not slept for a week.
- I collected a whole load of supplies - a good range of drinks and snacks were all available free of charge - and I settled down for a snooze.
- All wrongs in the world can be fixed by an afternoon snooze - I went to sleep and woke up thinking that England had been knocked out of the world cup by Wales in the semi final.
- How do they know how many minutes a snooze should be?
- He took a three-hour snooze in the afternoon and showed signs of mental fatigue because he slurred his way through press conferences, stumbled to the podiums and fell asleep in cabinet meetings.
- I discovered him easily enough, but he was having a snooze, so I took myself off for a short stroll around Parkville for half an hour.
- All of these individual restaurants have their own toilets and washrooms, and if one so desires, one can even retire to a rest room for a snooze after a hearty meal.
Synonyms sleep, nap, doze, rest, siesta, drowse, catnap - 1.1North American A boring event or person.
months go by and the job's a snooze Example sentencesExamples - It was a pleasantly sung song, if a bit of a snooze.
- If the exciting weekend at the beach turned out to be a total snooze, thank your hosts for inviting you for some rest and relaxation in such a beautiful corner of the world or for the opportunity to get some unpolluted air into your lungs.
- Some really super film-makers can get away with that, if what they have to offer is sufficiently compelling, but his repeated use of the same actors and the same story elements is getting to be a snooze.
- Unfortunately, he is a snooze in the lead role.
verbsnuzsno͞oz [no object]informal Have a short, light sleep. 打盹 the children play beach games while the adults snooze in the sun 孩子们在海滩上游戏玩耍，大人们在阳光下打盹。 Example sentencesExamples - The rest of the household is snoozing more or less quietly away, and I'm sitting up all on my own in a few precious moments of private time before I'm ready to sleep.
- You lie back in the sleek black-and-grey pods, snoozing in semi-privacy while wearing sound-blocking earphones.
- He's snoozing on his perch on the back of my easy chair right now.
- We spend the rest of the afternoon eating, chatting, snoozing and preparing for a party later in the evening.
- I peered in and saw five men snoozing in their undershirts.
- Divers disperse about the boat, toasting on the sun deck, snoozing in the shade, chatting to the crew as they fish off the stern with handlines.
- Between slightly grumpy and reluctant moves towards the study and my notebook I spent as much time snoozing in the sun as I could manage.
- Jess is still snoozing, how on earth could she sleep through the phone ringing?
- Within ten minutes I was snoozing guiltlessly once more… and I didn't wake up until 11.30.
- One of my cats had obviously been snoozing at the edge of my bed without me noticing.
- I snoozed off and on but Dawn can't sleep in coach.
- As the rest of the family snoozed in a post-dinner stupor, I sneaked into the front parlour and helped myself to another glass.
- All was relatively quiet when a loud bang is heard from outside and the dog that had been happily snoozing on my lap suddenly jumps up and scares me half to death.
- The first two weeks involved me in the back row with one hand shielding my forehead, pretending to write but actually snoozing.
- He would be sleeping on the ground and we would be snoozing in our vehicles next to him and he would get up so quietly that we were not aware that he was moving away.
- You think snoozing through one little review session won't make a bit of difference?
- And the garden fell silent for a while, with an old grey poet and his cat snoozing softly in the sun.
- Most of the day, though, Dolly's been snoozing, taking over the bed and demanding to be left alone to get on with some serious nap time.
- They scurry across the marble floors, perch snoozing on the railings and snuggle into holes low down in the walls, their long tails poking out.
- But little Joseph, who was sleeping near the window, when the accident happened, just kept on snoozing.
Synonyms sleep, be asleep, doze, rest, take a siesta, nap, take a nap, catnap, drowse
OriginLate 18th century: of unknown origin. |