• IPA^(key): /doʊz/

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

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.

• dose (archaic)

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,  Took, M Gillyflower, A & J Churchil, and J Hindmarsh.">…], →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.

• (sleep lightly): nod

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.

   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 43:

     At the mention of money Mrs Dibble was overcome with great debility, and wheezed, "I don't feel up to talking about money, matters just now, dearie. I think I better have a bit of a doze."

• See Thesaurus:sleep

• dozer
• doze off
• dozy

• catnap
• nap
• shuteye
• sleep
• slumber

Clipping of bulldoze.

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

1. (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.

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!

doze

1. superseded spelling of doce and dotze

Inherited from Latin duodecim.

doze (invariable) (ORB, broad)

1. twelve

• douze in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• doze in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

From Old Galician-Portuguese doze, from Latin duodecim.

doze (reintegrationist norm)

1. twelve

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

From Latin duodecim.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.d͡ze/

doze

1. twelve
   • 15th century, Codex del Palau:

     Et Jesus dix a ells vn dels doze sera qui la ma met en la scudella ab mi.

     It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish. (KJV)

From Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

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

doze

1. twelve

• 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)
    • → Old Czech: tuzen
      • → Polish: tuzin

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

• (São Miguel, Azores) IPA^(key): /ˈduz/
• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ozi
• Hyphenation: do‧ze

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

doze m or f

1. twelve

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

doze f (plural dozes)

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

doze f (plural dozes)

1. obsolete spelling of dose

doze m (plural dozi)

1. (non-traditional) alternative spelling of doxe (“ruler of Venice or Genoa”)

doze f (plural doze)

1. (non-traditional) alternative spelling of doxe (“dose, quantity”)

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

• IPA^(key): /dɔs/

doze

1. twelve