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Doze vs Zonk - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between doze and zonk

is that doze is to make dull; to stupefy while zonk is to make (someone) sleepy or delirious.

As verbs the difference between doze and zonk

is that doze is to sleep lightly or briefly; to nap while zonk is to make (someone) sleepy or delirious.

As nouns the difference between doze and zonk

is that doze is a light, short sleep or nap while zonk is an unfavorable card or token, or undesirable or worthless item used as a prize in a contest or game show (such as Let's Make a Deal).

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 ----

    zonk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unfavorable card or token, or undesirable or worthless item used as a prize in a contest or game show (such as ).
  • * 2003-10-1, Gregory Arthur Baer Life: The Odds (And How to Improve Them) , Penguin, ISBN 1592400337, page 237
    • There will always be two doors that hold zonks', so regardless of whether you initially chose the grand prize or a '''zonk''', Monty will always be able to show you a ' zonk not chosen.
  • * 2003-12-30, Jerrilyn Farmer, Mumbo Gumbo: A Madeline Bean Novel , HarperCollins, ISBN 0380817195, page 204:
    • A live, mane-embellished, SAG-card-carrying lion, I should point out, who was likely being staged for a few minutes off to the side before he would be used as a freaking “Zonk !” on a freaking game show, for crying out loud.
  • * 2004, Jay Mechling, On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth , University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226517055, page 124
    • A zonk' was way overdue, yet the boys knew that the Seniors knew they would think this was a ' zonk and would trick the boys by making this another real prize.
  • * 2004, Timothy V. Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Effective reading strategies: teaching children who find reading difficult , Pearson/Prentice Hall, ISBN 0131121863, page 150
    • I have three empty coffee cans, two with prizes and one with a slip of paper that says "Zonk ."
  • * 2006-05-09, Bruce Frey, Statistics hacks , O'Reilly Media, ISBN 0596101643, page 208:
    • Avoid the Zonk / On the TV show Let's Make a Deal, contestants often had to choose between three curtains.
  • * 2008, Max H. Bazerman, Don A. Moore, Judgment in Managerial Decision Making , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0470049456, page 53:
    • Once a contestant picked a door, Monty would often open one of the other two doors to reveal a zonk , ...
  • * 2009, Victor Shoup, A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521516447, page 217:
    • Behind two doors is a “zonk ,” that is, something amusing but of little or no value, such as a goat, ...
  • (slang) A feeling of a drug taking hold.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (someone) sleepy or delirious.
  • To become exhausted, sleepy or delirious.
    • After two hours of studying, I zonked out.

    Derived terms

    * zonk out * zonked