colloq. [app. a cant or slang word of obscure origin.] intr. To sleep; to slumber, to doze.
1789. G. Parker, Life’s Painter (c. 1800), 138. The cull with whom she snooz’d.
1795. Potter, Dict. Cant (ed. 2), Snooze, to sleep.
1813. Moore, Diary, VIII. 136. If … I had nothing to do but put on my nightcap and snooze quietly by their side.
1842. Mrs. Gore, Fascination, 37. She withdrew, leaving him to snooze beside the fire.
1887. Pall Mall Gaz., 20 Sept., 2/3. A swarm of literary drones, who go there to lounge, snooze, and gossip.
Hence Snoozer, one who snoozes.
1878. P. Robinson, In Ind. Garden, 32. A bird—perhaps the middle one of a long row of closely-packed snoozers.
1887. Pall Mall Gaz., 20 Sept., 2/3. These [the non-workers] may be divided into two classes—the snoozers and the talkers. The snoozer, if he reads at all, is an aimless reader.
