different between doze vs doss
doze
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do?z/
- Rhymes: -??z
- Homophones: does, dos, doughs
Etymology 1
From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dus?n? (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *d?ew- (“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 dysi? (“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)
- (intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
- I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
- (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.
- 1666, Samuel Pepys, diary dated 13 October, 1666
- (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.
Synonyms
- (sleep lightly): slumber
Translations
Noun
doze (plural dozes)
- A light, short sleep or nap.
- I felt much better after a short doze.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:sleep
Derived terms
- dozer
- doze off
- dozy
Translations
See also
- catnap
- nap
- shuteye
- sleep
- slumber
Etymology 2
Determiner
doze
- 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!
- 1987, Don Rosa, Recalled Wreck
Aragonese
Alternative forms
- dotze
- doce
Etymology
From Latin duodecim.
Numeral
doze
- twelve
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *d?deci, from Latin duodecim.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dud?z?/
Numeral
doze
- 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
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Old Portuguese doze, from Vulgar Latin *d?deci, from Latin duodecim.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?do.z?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?do.zi/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /?do.ze/
- Hyphenation: do?ze
- Rhymes: -ozi
Adjective
doze m or f
- twelve
Noun
doze m (plural dozes)
- twelve (the numerical value 12 or something with the value of 12)
Noun
doze f (plural dozes)
- (Brazil, colloquial) shotgun (gun which fires loads consisting of small metal balls)
Etymology 2
Noun
doze f (plural dozes)
- Obsolete spelling of dose
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French doze, from Vulgar Latin *d?deci, from Latin duodecim.
Numeral
doze
- twelve
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doss
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /d?s/
- Rhymes: -?s, -??s
Etymology
Perhaps from Latin dorsum (“the back”), i.e. what one lies on when sleeping; perhaps from English dialect doss (“a hassock”).
Verb
doss (third-person singular simple present dosses, present participle dossing, simple past and past participle dossed)
- (intransitive, Britain and Ireland) To avoid work, shirk, etc.
- (intransitive, Britain, slang) To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless
Noun
doss (countable and uncountable, plural dosses)
- (slang, Britain and Ireland) The avoidance of work.
- (slang, Britain and Ireland) An easy piece of work.
- (slang, dated, Britain and Ireland) A place to sleep in; a bed.
- (slang, dated, Britain and Ireland, by extension) Sleep.
Adjective
doss (not comparable)
- (Scotland) Useless or lazy. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt.
- (Scotland) Good, desirable.
See also
- doss about
- doss around
- doss down
- doss-house
- doss off
- dosser
Anagrams
- DSOs, SDOs, dsos, sods
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