doze

From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusēną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”). Cognate with German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Icelandic dúsa (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Danish døse (“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.

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• Rhymes: -əʊz
• Homophones: does, dos, doughs

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.

   • L'Estrange

     If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.

2. (transitive) To make dull; to stupefy.
   • Samuel Pepys

     I was an hour […] in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.

   • South

     They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.

3. (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.

• (sleep lightly): slumber

doze (plural dozes)

1. (countable) a light, short sleep or nap

   I felt much better after a short doze.

• See Thesaurus:sleep

• dozer
• doze off
• dozy

doze

1. Eye dialect 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!

• catnap
• nap
• shuteye
• sleep
• slumber

From Vulgar Latin *dōdeci, from Latin duodecim.

doze

1. twelve

• French: douze
• Norman: douze
• Walloon: doze

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.zɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.zi/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.ze/
• Hyphenation: do‧ze
• Rhymes: -ozi

doze m or f

1. twelve

doze m (plural dozes)

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

doze f (plural dozes)

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

doze f (plural dozes)

1. Obsolete spelling of dose

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

doze

1. twelve