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dog-sleep

dog-sleep is the alternative form of dogsleep.

Meaning of dogsleep

Noun

dogsleep (uncountable)

  1. Light or fitful sleep; a nap that is easily interrupted.
    • This was Gabriel Varden's state as, nodding in his dog sleep, and leaving his horse to pursue a road with which he was well acquainted, he got over the ground unconsciously, and drew nearer and nearer home.1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Barnaby Rudge
  2. (obsolete) Feigned sleep.
    • Juvenal, indeed, mentions a drowsy husband, who raised an estate by snoring, but then he is represented to have slept what the common people call dog's sleep1711 October 11 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “SUNDAY, October 1, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 184; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume...

Questions about dog-sleep

What is dog-sleep the alternative form of?
Dog-sleep is the alternative form of dogsleep.

Words near dog-sleep in the dictionary

  1. dog-shotted
  2. dog-shotting
  3. dog-sit
  4. dog-sits
  5. dog-sitting
  6. dog-sleep
  7. dog-slow
  8. dog-stone
  9. dog-stones
  10. dog-teeth
  11. dog-tired

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