DOZEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusāną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”).

Cognate with Old Frisian dusia (“to be dizzy”), German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Danish døse (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Icelandic dúsa (“to doze”), 古期英語 dysiġ (“foolish, stupid”), Scots dosnit (“stunned, stupefied”), Icelandic dúra (“to nap, slumber”), also compare Dutch doezelen (“to doze”). More at dizzy.

別の表記

• dose (archaic)

動詞

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.

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

     If he Happen'd to Doze a little no and then in a Morning, the Jolly Cobbler Wak'd him.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 357:

     She dozes, too. Lies there for a minute or two, all these thoughts going through her head.

2. (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.

同意語

• (sleep lightly): nod

派生語

名詞

doze (plural dozes)

1. A light, short sleep or nap.

   I felt much better after a short doze.

   • 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:

     Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.

   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 43:

     At the mention of money Mrs Dibble was overcome with great debility, and wheezed, "I don't feel up to talking about money, matters just now, dearie. I think I better have a bit of a doze."

同意語

• See Thesaurus:sleep

派生語

• dozer
• doze off
• dozy

参考

• catnap
• nap
• shuteye
• sleep
• slumber

語源 2

Clipping of bulldoze.

動詞

doze (third-person singular simple present dozes, present participle dozing, simple past and past participle dozed)

1. (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.

語源 3

限定詞

doze

1. 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!