Snooze
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- snooz (US, informal)
Etymology[edit]
Unknown. Compare Dutch snoezelen (“to snooze”) or Swedish snusa (“to snore lightly”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
snooze (third-person singular simple present snoozes, present participle snoozing, simple past and past participle snoozed)
- (intransitive) To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.
- The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.
- (transitive) To pause; to postpone for a short while.
- 2003, Ken Slovak, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, page 110:
- It enables you to dismiss the reminder, dismiss all reminders, open the highlighted item in the Reminder dialog, and snooze the reminder. Snoozing a reminder is similar to hitting the snooze button on an alarm clock […]
- 2007, Sue Mosher, Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming, page 359:
- Let's say you want to see all your reminders, but you don't want it to be too easy to snooze the ones for important items.
- 2011, Dan Gookin, Bill Loguidice, Motorola ATRIX For Dummies, page 40:
- To snooze the phone, press and release the power button.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
To sleep, especially briefly; to nap — see also nap
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Noun[edit]
snooze (plural snoozes)
- A brief period of sleep; a nap.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sleep
- The cat enjoys taking a snooze on a sunny windowsill.
- (informal) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- (informal) Something boring.
- The whole movie was a snooze.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
A period of sleep; a nap
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