snooze

Unknown, attested since 18th century. Compare Dutch snoezelen (“to snooze”) or Swedish snusa (“to snore lightly”). Confer also Ancient Greek νυστάζω (nustázō, “to doze, drowse”) and Russian сон (son, “sleep, dream”).

• 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
• tiger snooze

• catnap
• nap
• shuteye
• slumber

• noozes, ozones

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnuːzə/

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snooze

1. inflection of snoozen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative
2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of snoozen