zee
To sleep or napTo sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
» I really need to go home and catch some zees.
darinmex · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(Newfoundland, US, informal, intransitive)To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
(Newfoundland, US, intransitive, rare)To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
Examples
4 sentencesI really need to go home and catch some zees.
Do you pronounce it "Zed" or "Zee"?
My name is Ziri. You can call my "Zee" for short.
In many dialects of English, the letter Z is pronounced "zed", not "zee".
Origin
Likely an alteration of zed (which see for more), by analogy with other letters such as beLikely an alteration of zed (which see for more), by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee. Fell out of usage in England by the 17th century, and made standard in the U.S. in American Dictionary of English Language by Noah Webster in 1828, though usage varied for decades afterwards.
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Forms
zees, zeeing, zeed, zeedWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.