Meanings
verbsnoozle (third-person singular simple present snoozles, present participle snoozling, simple past and past participle snoozled)
present singular third person snoozles · participle present snoozling · participle past snoozled · past snoozled
- UKrareTo nuzzle affectionately.First known use earlier 19th c.
She […] seemed absorbed in her occupation; desisting from it only to […] push away a dog, now and then, that snoozled its nose overforwardly into her face.
1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC
Origin
Perhaps blend of snooze + nuzzle.
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APA
snoozle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snoozle
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “snoozle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snoozle.
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