dogsleepとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From dog +‎ sleep.

名詞

dogsleep (uncountable)

1. Light or fitful sleep; a nap that is easily interrupted. [from 17th c.]
   • 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Barnaby Rudge:

     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.

   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 65:

     [M]any of the convicts made up for their lack of rest by snatching a dog-sleep in the bared bunks.

2. (obsolete) Feigned sleep. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1711 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “MONDAY, October 1, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 184; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     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 sleep

     The spelling has been modernized.

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