zizz

/ zɪz /

noun

1. a short sleep; nap

verb

1. to take a short sleep, snooze

Word History and Origins

Origin of zizz¹

C20: of imitative origin

Example Sentences

As she spoke, the gnat-like zizz of an Israeli drone circling overhead grew louder.

From Los Angeles Times

And now, having reached the end of the alphabet, I think I shall go off and have a quiet zizz.

From The Guardian

But they must also learn that a school of shrimp sounds like fish frying, that sea robins cluck, that the white whale creaks like the lid on Davy Jones's locker, that the eel makes a zizz like water on a hot stove, and the whistling, jocular porpoise makes enough noise to give any sonarman a headache.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inheriting a university that stood second only to Harvard in scholarship, Hutchins has made Chicago preeminent in another quality�intellectual zizz.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is thought that the vibrations are felt rather than heard, in the sense that we use the word “hear”; if one has ever had a cicada zizz in one’s hand, the electrical shocks which seem to go up the arm help the belief in this idea.

From Project Gutenberg