dozingn.
The action of sleeping drowsily.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > action, fact, or state of sleeping or falling asleep > for a short time or lightly
nappingeOE
dozing1692
snoozing1811
winking1862
zizzing1942
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. i. 9 With an eternal laziness and dozing.
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 179 That border-world Of dozing, ere the sense is fully locked.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
dozingadj.
Drowsily sleeping.
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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
1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 6 In a dozing state.
1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur vii. iv. 451 Within arm-reach of the dozing camel.
Derivatives
ˈdozingly adv. drowsily, sleepily.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [adverb]
drowsily1581
sleepily1607
somnolently1615
sleepingly1638
oscitantly1645
slumberously1816
dozingly1831
comatosely1859
dozily1861
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son cxvii Trees, under groves of which they dosingly lay.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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