doze

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[ichard] Sare, […], OCLC 228727523:

     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.

3. (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.

Synonyms

• (sleep lightly): slumber

Translations

to sleep lightly or briefly

Aromanian: nsumnedz Belarusian: драма́ць impf (dramácʹ), падрама́ць pf (padramácʹ), задрама́ць pf (zadramácʹ) Bulgarian: дремя (bg) (dremja) Catalan: endormiscar-se (ca), abaltir-se (ca), adormissar-se (ca) Crimean Tatar: yantaymaq Czech: dřímat impf Dutch: dommelen (nl) Esperanto: dormeti Finnish: torkkua (fi), nuokkua (fi) (lightly); torkahtaa (fi) (briefly) French: somnoler (fr) Galician: durmiñar, dormexar, dormentar, moquear (gl), trasvaiar, topenear (gl), tutar, cochar, sonetar, botar (unha) soneca Georgian: თვლემს (tvlems), სთვლემს (stvlems), ჩათვლემს (čatvlems), ჩასთვლემს (častvlems), წაუძინებს (c̣auʒinebs) German: dösen (de) Greek: νυστάζω (el) (nystázo) Ancient: νυστάζω (nustázō) Ido: dormetar (io), somnolar (io) Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Italian: sonnecchiare (it), dormicchiare Latin: dormītō Luxembourgish: dösen Malay: please add this translation if you can Maori: turehu, kānewha, kānewhanewha, hāmoemoe, newha, nenewha, hāmoemoe, kurehu Norman: haûter Old Church Slavonic: дрѣмати (drěmati) Polish: drzemać (pl) impf, podrzemać pf Portuguese: cochilar (pt), tirar (uma) soneca Romanian: dormita (ro), ațipi (ro), moțăi (ro) Russian: дрема́ть (ru) (dremátʹ), прикорну́ть (ru) pf (prikornútʹ), подрема́ть (ru) pf (podremátʹ), задремать (ru) pf (zadrematʹ), (poetic) грезить (ru) impf (grezitʹ) Scots: dover Scottish Gaelic: dèan dùsal Serbo-Croatian: drijémati (sh) Slovak: driemať Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: drěmaś impf, pódrěmaś pf Upper Sorbian: drěmać impf Spanish: dormitar (es), cabecear (es) Swedish: slumra, dåsa (sv) Ukrainian: дріма́ти impf (drimáty) Vietnamese: ngủ gật

to make dull; to stupefy

Finnish: typerryttää

bulldoze — see bulldoze

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

short sleep or nap

Bulgarian: дрямка (bg) f (drjamka) Catalan: becaina (ca) f, capcinada f Finnish: torkut (fi) pl, unet (fi) pl Georgian: თვლემა (tvlema), ჩათვლემა (čatvlema), წაძინება (c̣aʒineba), მირულვა (mirulva) (archaic) Portuguese: soneca (pt) f, cochilo (pt) m Russian: дрёма (ru) f (drjóma), грёза (ru) f (grjóza) (poetic, usually in pl.) Scottish Gaelic: dùsal m

See also

• catnap
• nap
• shuteye
• sleep
• slumber

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!

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Aragonese

Aragonese cardinal numbers

<  11	12	13  >
Cardinal : doze

Alternative forms

• dotze
• doce

Etymology

From Latin duodecim.

Numeral

doze

1. twelve

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Old French

cardinal number

12	Previous:	onze
	Next:	treze

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

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Portuguese

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

←  11	12	13  →
Cardinal: doze     Ordinal: décimo segundo, duodécimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 12.º     Multiplier: duodécuplo     Fractional: duodécimo, doze avos

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.zi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.zi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.ze/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.z(ɨ)/

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

Adjective

doze m or f

1. twelve

Noun

doze m (plural dozes)

1. twelve (the numerical value 12 or something with the value of 12)

Noun

doze f (plural dozes)

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

Noun

doze f (plural dozes)

1. Obsolete spelling of dose

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Walloon

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔs/

Numeral

doze

1. twelve