English
Noun
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Plural uncountable |
- A shallow sleep; a pretended sleep. Dogs seem to sleep with "one eye open."
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Chapter 3, Barnaby Rudge:
- nodding in his dog sleep
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Chapter 3, Barnaby Rudge:
References
- Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898.
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