dogsleep means light or fitful sleep; a nap that is easily interrupted. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Etymology
From dog + sleep.
noun
- Light or fitful sleep; a nap that is easily interrupted.“This was Gabriel Varden's state as, nodding in his dog sleep, and leaving his horse to pursue a road with which he was well acquainted, he got over the ground unconsciously, and drew nearer and nearer home.”
- Feigned sleep.“Juvenal, indeed, mentions a drowsy husband, who raised an estate by snoring, but then he is represented to have slept what the common people call dog's sleep”