catnapper means one who takes a short sleep or nap. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From catnap + -er or blend of cat + kidnapper.
noun
- One who takes a short sleep or nap.“Besides, I reflected, Joe might easily have become a catnapper, as so many millions of other Americans had become since Sarah Perkins, during the campaign, had made it so widely known that although the incumbent President slept in a bed with the covers over him for three and sometimes four hours a night, she herself never slept at all except for the catnaps.”
- The kidnapper of a cat.“Mr. Harding was contacted by the catnappers, and arrangements were made for him to pay a ransom and recover the animal.”