dormousen.

Brit.

/ˈdɔːmaʊs/, U.S.

/ˈdɔrˌmaʊs/

Etymology: Origin obscure: the second element has been, at least since c1575, treated as the word mouse, with plural mice, though a plural dormouses is evidenced in 16–17th cent. The first element has also from 16th cent. been associated with Latin dormīre, French dormir to sleep, (as if dorm-mouse; compare 16th cent. Dutch slaep-ratte, slaep-muys); but it is not certain that this is the original composition. (Skeat suggests for the first element Old Norse dár benumbed: compare also dialect ‘dorrer, a sleeper, a lazy person’ (Halliwell). (The French dormeuse, feminine of dormeur sleeper, sometimes suggested as the etymon, is not known before 17th cent.).

1. A small rodent of a family intermediate between the squirrels and the mice; esp. the British species Myoxus avellanarius, noted for its hibernation. striped dormouse: Pennant's name for the chipmuck, hackee, or ground-squirrel of North America.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Gliridae > genus Muscardinus (dormouse)

dormousec1425

filbert-mouse1607

nut-mouse1607

sleeper1693

rellmouse1747

muscardin1774

seven sleeper1854

c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 643 Hic glis, dormowse.

c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 700 Hic glis, Hic sorex, a dormows.

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1248 Dormiat in pace, like a dormouse.

1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome ii. f. 19 And striue the Dormowses themselues in sleeping to excell.

1580 G. Harvey in E. Spenser Compl. Wks. (1882) I. 40 Slipperye Eles: Dormise.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 233 The yong Dormice are exceeding kind and louing to their sires that begat them.

1647 J. Hall Poems i. 9 Players lay asleep like Dormouses.

1709 Brit. Apollo 30 Sept.–5 Oct. The..Toawd is as dull as a Dormouse.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 398 The Hackee of the United States..Striped Dormouse of Pennant.

1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. vi. 276 (note) Extinct fossil dormice have been found as far back as the Upper Eocene of Europe.

2. transferred. A sleepy or dozing person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [noun] > one who is drowsy

dormousea1568

drowsy-head1576

sleepy-head1577

John-a-nods1600

soporific1808

somnolent1841

somnivolent1884

drowser1887

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 44 Any lurking Dorm [o] us, blinde, not by nature, but by malice.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 65 A swashbuckler against the Pope, and a dormouse against the Devil.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. vii. 190 You..attending to our patient better during your sleep, than most of these old dormice can do when they are most awake.

3. attributive. Dormouse-like, sleepy.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. ii. 18 To awake your dormouse valour.

1795 J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation (rev. ed.) 108 Every individual, whose state of existence is not of the dormouse kind.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dormouse
释义	dormousen. Brit. /ˈdɔːmaʊs/, U.S. /ˈdɔrˌmaʊs/ Etymology: Origin obscure: the second element has been, at least since c1575, treated as the word mouse, with plural mice, though a plural dormouses is evidenced in 16–17th cent. The first element has also from 16th cent. been associated with Latin dormīre, French dormir to sleep, (as if dorm-mouse; compare 16th cent. Dutch slaep-ratte, slaep-muys); but it is not certain that this is the original composition. (Skeat suggests for the first element Old Norse dár benumbed: compare also dialect ‘dorrer, a sleeper, a lazy person’ (Halliwell). (The French dormeuse, feminine of dormeur sleeper, sometimes suggested as the etymon, is not known before 17th cent.). 1. A small rodent of a family intermediate between the squirrels and the mice; esp. the British species Myoxus avellanarius, noted for its hibernation. striped dormouse: Pennant's name for the chipmuck, hackee, or ground-squirrel of North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Gliridae > genus Muscardinus (dormouse) dormousec1425 filbert-mouse1607 nut-mouse1607 sleeper1693 rellmouse1747 muscardin1774 seven sleeper1854 c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 643 Hic glis, dormowse. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 700 Hic glis, Hic sorex, a dormows. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1248 Dormiat in pace, like a dormouse. 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome ii. f. 19 And striue the Dormowses themselues in sleeping to excell. 1580 G. Harvey in E. Spenser Compl. Wks. (1882) I. 40 Slipperye Eles: Dormise. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 233 The yong Dormice are exceeding kind and louing to their sires that begat them. 1647 J. Hall Poems i. 9 Players lay asleep like Dormouses. 1709 Brit. Apollo 30 Sept.–5 Oct. The..Toawd is as dull as a Dormouse. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 398 The Hackee of the United States..Striped Dormouse of Pennant. 1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. vi. 276 (note) Extinct fossil dormice have been found as far back as the Upper Eocene of Europe. 2. transferred. A sleepy or dozing person. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [noun] > one who is drowsy dormousea1568 drowsy-head1576 sleepy-head1577 John-a-nods1600 soporific1808 somnolent1841 somnivolent1884 drowser1887 a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 44 Any lurking Dorm [o] us, blinde, not by nature, but by malice. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 65 A swashbuckler against the Pope, and a dormouse against the Devil. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. vii. 190 You..attending to our patient better during your sleep, than most of these old dormice can do when they are most awake. 3. attributive. Dormouse-like, sleepy. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. ii. 18 To awake your dormouse valour. View more context for this quotation 1795 J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation (rev. ed.) 108 Every individual, whose state of existence is not of the dormouse kind. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1425
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