snooze

Unknown. Compare Dutch snoezelen (“to snooze”) or Swedish snusa (“to snore lightly”). If there is some ancient origin, perhaps compare entry for Ancient Greek νυστάζω (nustázō, “to doze, drowse”).

• IPA^(key): /snuːz/

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /snʉːz/
• Rhymes: -uːz

snooze (third-person singular simple present snoozes, present participle snoozing, simple past and past participle snoozed)

1. (intransitive) To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.

   The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.

2. (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.

snooze (plural snoozes)

1. A brief period of sleep; a nap.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sleep

   The cat enjoys taking a snooze on a sunny windowsill.

2. (informal) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
3. (informal) Something boring.

   The whole movie was a snooze.

• snoozapalooza
• snooze button
• snoozefest

• catnap
• nap
• shuteye
• slumber

• noozes, ozones