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Definition of Snoozing
1. snooze [v] - See also: snooze
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snoozing
Literary usage of Snoozing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Green Hand's First Cruise ...: Together with a Residence of Five Months in by Josiah Cobb (1841)
"... losing, losing; Out your lazy bodies haul; Not lay snoozing, snoozing, snoozing.
The starboards now on deck are weary, For you waiting, waiting, ..."
2. The Amateur Fisherman's Guide by Charles Thackeray (1895)
"A series of half hitch snoozing similar to that already described, with this
difference, that the snoozing is worked from the barb end, thus giving a ..."
3. Travels in the United States, Etc.: During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"Sammy, have done snoozing there." Poor Sammy snoozing, indeed ! If ever he had
been wide awake in the world, old or new—in either hemisphere—he was so then, ..."
4. Travels in the United States, Etc.: During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"Sammy, pork-steak. Sammy, have done snoozing there." Poor Sammy snoozing, indeed !
If ever he had been wide awake in ..."
5. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1843)
"Are ye snoozing ? Why, man alive ! your horse has been standing saddled at your
... Ben, are you snoozing?" which words proceeded from the mouth of old Ned ..."
6. Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected ...by Francis Grose by Francis Grose (1823)
"snoozing KEN. A brothel. The swell was spiced in a snoozing-keu of his screens;
the gentleman was robbed of his bank-notes in a brothel. SNOOZY. ..."
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