dormouse.
Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
Meaning & usage
Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae. Glis glis (edible dormouse).
Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae. Muscardinus avellanarius (hazel dormouse).
A person who sleeps a great deal, or who falls asleep readily (by analogy with the sound hibernation of the dormouse).
Where this word comes from
From Middle English dormowse, of uncertain origin. Possibly from a dialectal *dor-, from Old Norse dár (“benumbed”) + mous (“mouse”). More at doze, mouse. The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of Old French dormir (“to sleep”) (as *dormouse (“tending to be dormant”), with second element mistaken for mouse), but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed.
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