nooned

Verb

noon (third-person singular simple present noons, present participle nooning, simple past and past participle nooned)

1. (intransitive) To relax or sleep around midday.
   • We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long...1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle

   Synonyms:

   sleep

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