Crossword clues for snooze
snooze
- Catch 40 winks
- Real bore
- Major bore
- Catch some Zs
- Alarm button that gives you a few extra minutes
- You might hit it if you're tired
- Make zzz's
- Loser's fatal mistake?
- Clock radio button
- You might miss your bus if you hit it too often
- Take a brief light sleep
- Popular bar in the morning?
- Not get up just yet
- Not be attentive
- Make the alarm stop, momentarily
- Loser's mistake?
- It's often pushed while in bed
- Go back undercover?
- Clock radio "Shut up!" button
- Certain time-out
- Catch some winks
- Cat nap
- Button on many a radio
- Bar that's frequently hit in the morning
- Bar that isn't alarming
- Catch some Z's
- Big bore
- Drop off for a bit
- Clock-radio button
- Alarm clock button
- Nap kin
- Siesta, say
- Button on an alarm clock
- [What a bore]
- Not pay attention
- A short sleep (usually not in bed)
- Grab some shut-eye
- Catnap
- One's agitated about small amount of sleep
- Short light sleep
- Drop off tin with leak
- Forty winks
- Take a siesta
- Nod off
- Take a nap
- Go out for a while?
- Short sleep
- Kind of button
- Day break
- Go undercover?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snooze \Snooze\ (sn[=oo]z), n. [Scot. snooze to sleep; cf. Dan. & Sw. snus snuff.] A short sleep; a nap. [Colloq.]
Snooze \Snooze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Snoozed; p. pr. & vb. n. Snoozing.] To doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1789, cant word, of unknown origin, perhaps echoic of a snore. Related: Snoozed; snoozing. The noun meaning "a short nap" is from 1793. Snooze-alarm is from 1965.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A period of sleep; a nap. 2 Something boring. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To sleep, especially briefly; to nap. 2 (context transitive English) To pause; to postpone for a short while.
WordNet
n. a short sleep (usually not in bed) [syn: nap, catnap, cat sleep, forty winks, short sleep]
v. sleep lightly or for a short period of time [syn: drowse, doze]
Wikipedia
Snooze may refer to:/
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Sleep, a naturally recurring state of reduced consciousness and inactivity, especially:
- Nap, a short period of sleep
- "Snooze" (The Goodies), an episode of The Goodies
- Snooze (musician), Dominique Dalcan, French electronic musician and composer
- Snooze button, a common feature of an alarm clock
"Snooze" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series The Goodies.
Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie.
Usage examples of "snooze".
Some babies are so sleepy during their first weeks of life that a feeding tires them out and they will fall asleep midway, more content to snooze than to eat.
The corpulent, red-faced officer occupied a cushion across from them, and Neem, the black dalf, snoozed at their feet.
I had chicken korma, a currant square and tea, followed by a short snooze in an armchair.
Henry bolted out of his mid-morning snooze and sent out a furious spate of throaty, threatening barkseven as he slunk behind Laine and tried to hide his bulk in the crook of her arm.
And with that Lowrie pulled his cap over his eves and settled in for a snooze.
Stepping over the snoozing thief, I charged toward the door, slipping the microdrive into the inner pocket on my jacket and stopped right before Eddie.
But there seemed only to be a snail snoozing at the end of its pathlet, having grazed its fill.
While the others lay under the trees, taking a postprandial snooze, Spencer Maynard persuaded Comfort to accompany him a bit farther down the arroyo to a secluded spot not far from the stream that flowed by its mouth.
They drained the cups and dropped to the grass for a postprandial snooze.
Blakely wakened, hours later, the sight that met him, dimly comprehending, was that of a blue-coated soldier snoozing in a reclining chair, a blue-blanketed Indian girl seated on the floor near the foot of his bed, looking with all her soul in her gaze straight into his wondering eyes.
The rest of the time they were fastened on Rupert, now and then jumping apprehensively to the snoozing bronze-haired infant carried by the third unliveried adult who trailed behind both King and Queen.
Some babies are so sleepy during their first weeks of life that a feeding tires them out and they will fall asleep midway, more content to snooze than to eat.
So I said nothing and just sat there with my mickey snoozing on my thigh smoking fags and reading about Matt and all the saints.
Fat Lady was snoozing and not pleased to be woken, but swung forward grumpily to allow them to clamber into the mercifully peaceful and empty common room.
The two swans were still snoozing in the shade of one of the pondside trees.