zee

Meanings

Noun

• Something Z-shaped.
• Sleep.

Verb

• To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
• To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.

Related

Similar words

• zed
• izzard

Origin

• 1670s: variant of British English zed, by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee, and standardized by Noah Webster; from Middle French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα, from Hebrew ז.