Also snoose. [Cf. next.]
1. colloq. A sleep; a nap, a doze.
α. 1793. W. Roberts, Looker-On, II. 315. That Shuter’s self might heave his head From drunken snoozes.
1813. Sir G. Jackson, Diaries & Lett. (1873), II. 177. I … had not had my snooze half out, when a courier arrived.
1845. W. H. Maxwell, Hints Soldier, I. 51. I question whether I could manage to obtain a snooze.
1886. J. R. Rees, Pleas. Book-Worm, v. 178. Then, with a warm ejaculation on his tongue, the interrupted sleeper returns to his snooze.
β. 1812. H. & J. Smith, Rej. Addr., Tale Drury Lane, 51. Starting from short and broken snoose, Each sought his pond’rous hobnail’d shoes.
1869. Daily News, 8 Oct., 5/4. Seals like nothing better than a snoose on the sand.
2. slang. (See quots.)
1812. J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., s.v., A snooze sometimes means a lodging; as, Where can I get a snooze for this darky, instead of saying a bed.
1839. Slang Dict., 34. Snooze—a bed. Ibid. (1864) (Hotten), 239. Snooze-case, a pillow-slip.
