Doze vs Sleepy - What's the difference?
doze | sleepy |
To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap.
* L'Estrange
To make dull; to stupefy.
* Samuel Pepys
* South
(slang) To bulldoze.
Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
* Dryden
Suggesting tiredness.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
Tending to induce sleep; soporific.
Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
* William Shakespeare
Quiet; without bustle or activity.
(informal) The gum that builds up in the eye
* 1964 , Ken Kesey, Sometimes a great notion
* 1991 , Martin Amis, London fields
As nouns the difference between doze and sleepy
is that doze is a light, short sleep or nap while sleepy is the gum that builds up in the eye.As a verb doze
is to sleep lightly or briefly; to nap.As an adjective sleepy is
tired; feeling the need for sleep.doze
English
Verb
(doz)- I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
- If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
- I was an hour in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
- They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.
Synonyms
* SeeDerived terms
* dozer * doze off * dozySee also
* catnap * nap * shuteye * sleep * slumber ----sleepy
English
(wikipedia sleepy)Adjective
(er)- She wak'd her sleepy crew.
- At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorationsas the tree had recovered from the collision.
- a sleepy drink or potion
- 'Tis not sleepy business; / But must be looked to speedily and strongly.
- a sleepy English village
Synonyms
* tired * See alsoNoun
(-)- "Did he always leave the sleepy in his eyes?" "Never removed it; let it build up in the comers of his eyes over the weeks until it was heavy enough to fall...
- But the nightdress was heavy, the sleepy in her eyes was heavy, her hair (she made a mustache of one of its locks) was heavy and smelled of cigarettes...