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Doze vs Sleepy - What's the difference?

doze | sleepy |

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)
  • To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap.
  • I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
  • * L'Estrange
  • If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
  • To make dull; to stupefy.
  • * Samuel Pepys
  • I was an hour in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
  • * South
  • They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.
  • (slang) To bulldoze.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) a light, short sleep or nap
  • I felt much better after a short doze .

    Synonyms

    * See

    Derived terms

    * dozer * doze off * dozy

    See also

    * catnap * nap * shuteye * sleep * slumber ----

    sleepy

    English

    (wikipedia sleepy)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
  • * Dryden
  • She wak'd her sleepy crew.
  • Suggesting tiredness.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
  • 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.
  • Tending to induce sleep; soporific.
  • a sleepy drink or potion
  • Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
  • * William Shakespeare
  • 'Tis not sleepy business; / But must be looked to speedily and strongly.
  • Quiet; without bustle or activity.
  • a sleepy English village

    Synonyms

    * tired * See also

    Noun

    (-)
  • (informal) The gum that builds up in the eye
  • * 1964 , Ken Kesey, Sometimes a great notion
  • "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...
  • * 1991 , Martin Amis, London fields
  • 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...