dozedadj.
/dəʊzd/ a. Stupefied; drowsy, sleepy.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [adjective]
winkinga1000
slummy?c1225
anappedc1300
sleepya1325
heavy1382
slumberyc1386
sleepful1398
peisant1484
slumberous1495
drowsy1530
sleepish1530
sleepery1535
slumberinga1538
somnolent1547
heavy-headed1552
drowsy-headed1576
narrow-eyed1607
soporiferous1607
oscitant1625
nodding1631
Morphean1641
dormious1656
somniculous1656
dozed1659
drowsed1667
peeping1673
dozy1693
peepy1699
somniferous1798
noddy1801
dozing1820
head-nodding1832
snory1837
soporific1841
somnolescent1845
swodder1847
adrowse1848
snoozy1877
slumbersome1884
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα 306 While they were dozed or asleep.
1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. ii. 96 It is no strange thing..to continue dozed, and stupid for this space.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. v. 33/1 The dozed Conscience of the Thief.
1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 76 Slowly raising Your dozed eyelids.
b. Of timber, etc.: Having lost its tenacity of fibre, as by dry rot; doted.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > decayed
druxy1589
dozed1776
punky1803
doty1821
pecky1848
dozy1872
punk1902
1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 86 Bog Oak Timber is always found to be frushey, dozed and short grained.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Doz'd, in an un-sound state; as, ‘doz'd timber’, ‘a doz'd raip’.
Derivatives
ˈdozedness n. drowsiness, sleepiness.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [noun]
somnolencec1386
sleepingness1398
slumberness1495
sleepiness1580
soporiferousness1598
somnolency1623
dozedness1671
doziness1679
swother?c1730
sleepfulness1818
somnolescence1831
sleepy-headiness1841
slumberousness1842
nappishness1851
sleepy-headedness1884
snooziness1887
1671 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa i. xxx. 216 My soul falls into a kind of dozedness.
1724 T. Nettleton in Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 38 Vomiting, dosedness, startings, and sometimes Convulsions.
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