doze

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doʊz/

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• Rhymes: -əʊz
• Homophones: does, dos, doughs

Etymology 1

From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusāną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”).

Cognate with Old Frisian dusia (“to be dizzy”), German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Danish døse (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Icelandic dúsa (“to doze”), Old English dysiġ (“foolish, stupid”), Scots dosnit (“stunned, stupefied”), Icelandic dúra (“to nap, slumber”), also compare Dutch doezelen (“to doze”). More at dizzy.

Alternative forms

• dose (archaic)

Verb

doze (third-person singular simple present dozes, present participle dozing, simple past and past participle dozed)

1. (intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.

   I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: , London: R Sare, , →OCLC:

     If he Happen'd to Doze a little no and then in a Morning, the Jolly Cobbler Wak'd him.

2. (transitive) To make dull; to stupefy.
   • 1666, Samuel Pepys, diary dated 13 October, 1666:

     I was an hour […] in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.

   • October 29, 1693, Robert South, a sermon preached at Christ-church in Oxford before the university

     They left for a long time (as it were) dozed and benumbed.

Synonyms

• (sleep lightly): slumber

Translations

Noun

doze (plural dozes)

1. A light, short sleep or nap.

   I felt much better after a short doze.

   • 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:

     Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sleep

Derived terms

• dozer
• doze off
• dozy

Translations

See also

• catnap
• nap
• shuteye
• sleep
• slumber

Etymology 2

Clipping of bulldoze.

Verb

doze (third-person singular simple present dozes, present participle dozing, simple past and past participle dozed)

1. (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.

Etymology 3

Determiner

doze

1. Pronunciation spelling of those.
   • 1987, Don Rosa, Recalled Wreck:

     Donald Duck: I'll give you $20 for those old license plates on your fence posts!
     Other man: Hah? No chance! I bought dis house 'cause it has dis address! It's me lucky number! […] It was me prison number at Leavenworst and de winning number in de weekly parole lottery! I wudn't never sell doze plates!

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• dotze
• doce

Etymology

From Latin duodecim.

Numeral

doze

1. twelve

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese doze, from Latin duodecim.

Numeral

doze (reintegrationist norm)

1. twelve

Further reading

• “doze” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (early) /ˈdo.d͡zə/
• IPA^(key): (late) /ˈdu.zə/

Numeral

doze

1. twelve

Derived terms

• dozaine (“dozen”)
  • French: douzaine (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle Dutch: dosine
    • Dutch: dozijn (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle English: dozen, dozein, dozeyne
    • English: dozen (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle High German: totzan, totzen
    • German: Tutzet, Dutzet (archaic); Dutzend (see there for further descendants)

Descendants

• French: douze
• Norman: douze
• Walloon: doze

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ozi
• Hyphenation: do‧ze

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese doze, from Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

Numeral

doze m or f

1. twelve

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of calibre 12 (“12-gauge”).

Noun

doze f (plural dozes)

1. (Brazil, colloquial) shotgun (gun which fires loads consisting of small metal balls)

Etymology 3

Noun

doze f (plural dozes)

1. Obsolete spelling of dose

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French doze, from Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔs/

Numeral

doze

1. twelve