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Doze vs Sloom - What's the difference?

doze | sloom |

As verbs the difference between doze and sloom

is that doze is to sleep lightly or briefly; to nap while sloom is (scotland|obsolete) to sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.

As nouns the difference between doze and sloom

is that doze is (countable) a light, short sleep or nap while sloom is a gentle sleep; slumber.

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 ----

    sloom

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Compare slumber and (etyl) sloom.

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gentle sleep; slumber.
    • Derived terms
    * sloomy

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) slumen, slummen, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland, obsolete) To sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.
  • *
  • * Jane Ermina Locke, "Elia", in The Recalled: In Voices of the Past, and Poems of the Ideal , James Munroe and Company (1854), page 193:
    • To his castle’s portal, / At the morning gloaming, / Bore they all the mortal / From the battle’s foaming, / Of the white bannered warrior knight, / Cold in his armor slooming !
  • * 1900 , Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Maid of Maiden lane , Dodd, Mead and Company, page 181:
    • Then the doctor was slooming and nodding, and waking up and saying a word or two, and relapsing again into semi-unconsciousness.
  • * 1936 , Esmond Quinterley, Ushering Interlude , The Fortune Press, page 66:
    • The afternoon sun painted amber patterns on the Turkey red hearthrug: the only splash of colour in the dun room. Potter sloomed in the arms of the chair.
  • * 2001 , Gemma O'Connor, Walking on Water , ][http://www.amazon.com/Walking-Water-Gemma-OConnor/dp/0515135976 Berkley Publishing Group (2003), ISBN 978-0-515-13597-8, page 205:
    • He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tuesday afternoon.
  • (of plants or soil) To soften or rot with damp.
  • * unidentified young farmer, letter to his father, printed in Edinburgh Farmers’ Magazine'' 1807, reprinted in ''The Farmer’s Register , Volume 7, Number 9 (1839 September 30), page 540:
    • He adds, that one hundred bolls, or fifty quarters of wheat may be thrashed in a day of eight hours, unless the grain has been sloomed or mildewed;
  • * 1824 August, “Remarks on Captian Napier's Essay on Store-Farming”, in The Farmer’s Magazine , Volume XXV, Archibald Constable and Company (publishers), page 329:
    • no other spot over their whole pastured offered as much verdure at this time as these seemingly sloomed places.
  • * Alexander J. Main, “Experiments with Special Manures”, in Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland , W. Blackwood & Sons (1855), page 17:
    • It must be explained, however, that in the latter case the “slooming ” of the crop had an injurious effect on its yield;

    References

    * Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language (1867) [http://books.google.com/books?id=EXgKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA494&dq=slooming+, +slooms+, +sloomed+, +sloom&as_brr=3&ei=pu5uS5uFOIyaMqCFsI8P&cd=10
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    • * * Dictionary of the Scots Language, “ sloom”

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