Other forms: snoozing
To snooze is to silence an alarm for a few more minutes of sleep. Hit snooze, snooze for ten minutes, the snooze button.
The snooze button is one of the most-pressed controls anybody owns, and sleep researchers are broadly against it, since the extra minutes are too broken to be restful. More generally, to snooze is to doze lightly. You snooze, you lose is the fixed American phrase for missing a chance. Note snoozing; and that the word's origin is unknown.
1verbsnoozeTo silence an alarm for a few more minutes of sleep.
“I snoozed my alarm three times and missed the bus.”
2verbdozeTo doze lightly.
“Grandpa snoozed in his armchair after lunch.”
snooze is a light sleep.
The word appears in the eighteenth century with no certain origin, possibly imitative. Swedish snusa, to snore lightly, may be related.
unknown, attested since 18th century. Compare Dutch snoezelen (“to snooze”) or Swedish snusa (“to snore lightly”). Compare also Ancient Greek νυστάζω (“to doze, drowse”) and Russian сон (“sleep, dream”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Time & Calendar